Why would you kill a dog? a) Because you hated the dog…” (p.42) This quote demonstrates Christopher’s thought process. In my opinion, Christopher tends to think illogically when he feels frightened and more clearly when he is not. Throughout the novel you see Christopher as being quite insensitive to other people's emotions, nonetheless, if you look deeper into some of his actions, you will see his he is also hypersensitive to certain things. One of Christopher’s biggest demonstrations of sentiment is with when he finds Wellington “I
She states multiple times that the children within the education system are being cheated every day because they are not being forced to read more difficult books. “Such benefits are denied to the young reader exposed only to books with banal, simple-minded moral equations as well as to the student encouraged to come up with reductive, wrong-headed readings of mulitlayered texts” (Prose 97). The reader can blatantly see that Prose thinks negatively of the high school curriculum that today's students face. It seems clear that Prose does not want to hide her personal view or feelings, so she starts her essay out in a way that we do not have to read between the lines to get a sense of how she feels about what she is writing. She uses more emotional language when she says, "The intense loyalty adults harbor for books first encountered in youth is one probable reason for the otherwise baffling longevity of vintage mediocre novels, books that teachers may themselves have read in adolescence"(Prose
Finding Biff In the dramatic play, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, there is an interesting mix of rounded and flat characters. Linda, the mother, and Happy, one of the sons, were among some of the flat characters in the story. Even though they were flat their reactions to the more rounded characters certainly had an effect. One of the most well rounded characters is Biff Loman. The character of Biff develops and grows immensely by searching his past and examining relationships with himself and others to find his true self.
People are tempted and forced to do things that they could never imagine or believe themselves doing. Believe it or not, it can change your overall demeanor and personality. In order to relieve stress, people will do crazy things such as disobeying the law, drugs, or killing one another, adults especially. We would not want death to be a solution in any situation. In conclusion, In the novel “A Long way Gone, memoirs of a boy soldier” by Ishmael Beah, told a story about how adults broke down a dramatical time of crisis which commonly related to the way the children represented themselves and their overall social aspect which lied within their hands.
Yet I believe that this book, “The Chocolate War” by Robert Cormier, should be kept in schools to be read by teenagers. Many people believe that this book should be banned for the fact that it talks about bullying and violence. In a couple parts of the story, Jerry is beaten up. There are also multiple parts where the Vigils or Janza bully a kid. But that isn’t so bad that we should ban it.
At several points in the story, he all but addresses us directly, imploring us, for example, to notice how bad Aylmer looks in comparison even to an animal like Aminadab. The narrator can also be characterized as a moralist who condescends to his readers. Rather than trusting us to figure out the symbolism of the birthmark, for example, or allowing us to draw our own conclusions about the soundness of Aylmer’s experiment, the narrator rushes to explain every metaphor and symbol as if we might miss his point. The strong narrative voice of “The Birthmark” epitomizes a key difference between modern American short stories and nineteenth-century American short stories. Modern stories are often told in an objective, distant, even ironic voice, whereas nineteenth-century stories were usually told by passionate narrators who infused their own strong opinions.
It was indeed a paradise, compared to the bleak forest, my former residence, the rain-dropping branches and dank earth”, I had a thought that the monster is too frustrated and timid at the reactions of people and already withdrew his hospitality from the attacks of human beings. But in this way, he would not be able to be integrated in the human society. He must be more dignified at himself and making some different approaches towards people although they might throw stones at his appearance. Another characteristic that I would like to write about is the monster’s lack of self-esteem. We have talked about a similar topic in class on why the monster was isolated from the society, and while the discussion I thought that it was the monster’s lack of self-esteem that eventually caused his exile from the society.
With such hostility aimed at those who do read, others simply do not wish to be the victim of such negativity. Children today are much happier being accepted by their peers than they are expanding their own literary prowess. Consequently, we have a declining literary vocation in our own society. The pinnacle of this declination is starkly presented in Bradbury's novel. Troublingly, the bleak populist movement of today's youth against literature is frighteningly similar to that which led to the eventual total banishment of books in Fahrenheit 451.
Similarly we can see that the quotation ‘some eyes can eat you’ links with the grievous harm quotation from ‘The Erl-king’ which is an anaphoric reference throughout. This suggests that ‘The Erl-King’ can cause serious harm, which suggests that his personality is quite aggressive. Secondly, in the extract taken from ‘The Erl-King’ we can see Carter’s use of modifier ‘delicately’ to suggest that the ‘Erl-king’ has a gentle side to his nature. ‘He handles them as delicately as he does pigeons’ eggs.’ This suggests that the use of the modifier ‘delicately’ conveys the way he handles his ‘treasures’ is with care. So even though earlier on in the extract we learn by the personification of his eyes being able to eat you suggested him being aggressive, we now see through the use of the modifier that he has a gentle side to his personality which could suggest that the ‘Erl-king’ can be very controversial as he can have two very different traits to describe him.
Character Analysis Essay “The mentalist” Patrick Jane is the protagonist in the show “The Mentalist” the performance of Patrick Jane is eccentric and wild. He possesses a very gifted mind and powerful eye for detail he is also a big dynamic person, which he uses for his clever tricks. He is capable of amazing feats of observation and induction and although he says he is not a psychic, come people maintain he must be. Patrick Jane is not afraid of taunting others although after the deaths of his wife and daughter he is more cautions and knows that his actions can have terrible consequences. Although he generally shows a happy face, he feels guilty over the deaths of his wife and daughter as well as a determination to kill red John, the serial killer that murdered them.