He and his impresario tour through Europe with “thrilling performances” (Garrison, 1981) and gather crowds of people who want to look at the person who can fast forty days (Mairowitz, Crumb, 2007, p.144-145). Usually, impresario pays several people to keep watch over starving artist. But the artist himself feels insulted when watchers or guards doubt his honesty and ability to starve. He wants his fast to last longer than forty days, but public interest wanes after thus very term. After forty days his impresario organizes a great ceremony and the artist is literally withdrawn from his cage and spoon-fed some meager light dinner.
He is almost always at odds with the union leader, John Dubonnet, who dated Elsie when they were all in high school together. Homer Sr. seems to not care about Sonny's affairs as much as he does Jim's; Sonny points this out in the book much to Homer Sr.'s chagrin. He has a spot on his lung that is the common miner's disease, black lung (Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis), but refuses to quit work, although most men who are discovered to have this illness are forced into retirement, but allowed to stay in Coalwood. Quentin Wilson: is an intelligent member of the Rocket Boys and the person who does the most math out of the entire group. Quentin carries around a suitcase stuffed with books wherever he goes and finds excuses to get out of gym class.
If Zalman had made the right decision and kept going, it could have been possible that Zalman would live another day, but his own decision prevented it. Throughout the whole novel, Ellie had to watch mankind slowly become uncivilized as the smallest things turned people into animals, “And the spectators observed these emaciated creatures ready to kill for a crust of bread… I decided not to move. Anyway, I knew that I would not be strong enough to fight off dozens of violent men”(101, Wiesel) Around the end of the novel, Ellie and the rest of the starved survivors had to go through another long train ride with only bread that the spectators threw at them. The people in the cargo went crazy for the food like wild animals, making it seem like they had no control over their actions. However, Ellie’s resistance to getting the food proves that each person has their own ability to control what they do, and acting like animals for food
Landon constantly has to be seen as the “tough guy” persona that, ultimately forces him in to bad situations. In the beginning of the Film Landon, constantly defied societal norms and had a complete disregard for authority. Landon displayed disregard for authority by running away from the police when they were clearly after him. He also is disrespectful towards authority when he is in the Principles office. Landon shows disrespect towards his Principle through his body language and tone of voice, instead of sitting up politely, he slouches and talks back.
Their deaths and Lennie’s eventual death result in the unfulfillment of the dream, leaving everyone lonely and without purpose. Dogs, both old and young, are a comfort to those with otherwise very lonely lives. Candy, the ranch worker, had grown attached to his old sheepdog, which he had had raised from when it was a puppy. His fellow ranch workers despised the dog, as it was useless and smelled bad, and eventually convinced Candy to have it shot. The dog, while of no working value, was a faithful companion to Candy.
“A man stood at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth Street the other day, looking gloomily at the carriages that rolled by, carrying the wealth and fashion of the avenues to and from the big stores down town. He was poor, and hungry, and ragged. This thought was in his mind, ‘They behind their well-fed teams have no thought for the morrow; they know hunger only by name, and ride down to spend an hour’s shopping what would keep me and my little ones from want a whole year.’”(How the Other Half Lives 233). This story of course doesn’t end happy. The man was taken over by rage and began lashing out at people on the streets with a knife and was sent to the crazy house.
He makes up a metaphor about a hotel having food and him politely singing for food everyday and they tell him they do not have any even though he has seen it. He stands outside singing his way “we are hungry please let us in!” After time goes by of begging the song is going to change to “we hungry we need some food!” After weeks go by of no food the song changes to “give me some food I'm going to break down the door!” He than says after years it changes to just picking the lock and getting what you need to survive. In the interview Tupac gives this metaphor as his reasoning to why he is so full of rage. That is a metaphor for black people “asking” for equality. Tupac says “we asked with the panthers and we asked with the civil rights movement now it is time to act.” Even though Tupac was so “pro black” and not many white people who be caught dead listening to his music, now in the twentieth century it is common for any one to listen to any artist from any race.
But in the end the father says, “if there had only been time to go up to my club” which tells us that the father is very self-centered and that the only thing he thinks of is him self and his life instead of getting to know his son. The son is getting more and more ashamed of his father, because of the way he behaves at the restaurants. In the beginning he was proud and he had high expectations to this meeting but know only an hour and a half later, he know that he will never see his dad again. While standing at a newsstand the father is doing it all over again. He is being rude to the seller and he is shouting at him.
The night of the fight came and the tiger and the leopard were very hungry because they hadn't gone out and done any hunting at all; they wanted to get the fight over as soon as possible and eat some of the freshly killed wild boars which all the animals would bring to the fight. But when the hour of the combat came none of the animals at all showed up. "The way I look at it," a fox had told them, "is this: if the leopard can't help winning and the tiger can't lose, it will be a draw and a draw is a very dull thing to watch, particularly when fought by fighters
When he returned home, age was only a number. He was forced to grow extremely fast because he was exposed to real life morale dilemmas between right and wrong. O’Brien uses the illustrates symbolism that in the scene with of the baby water buffalo to illustrate misplaced anger. Rat had lost his best friend in Curt Lemon, and wrote a heart felt letter to Lemon’s sister describing the role her brother had played in his life. It was not really a war story at all, it was more of a love story as described by O’Brien.