English III A.P Cannery Row Cannery Row expresses the idea of success in many different ways. One of them are the accomplishments of the characters and how money is not required to be the most successful man on earth. Success varies in each of the characters and is shown in a financial and humanitarian way. To be successful means to interact with the community and have what not many people have in their lives. Accomplishing your goal can also make someone successful, but it all depends on what type of goals are being shot for.
For his entire life Socrates had done nothing other than examining his own life hence so he can improve himself as a human being and become wiser than he already was. Being not able to teach the entire city the knowledge which he possessed was what put Socrates to death. He helped others find meaning in their lives and pursue happiness. Never once was it his initial intension to “corrupt” anyone. It was Socrates being a good man and trying to reach out to others in making them succeed in life which is what cost Socrates own life in the long run.
Opportunities he was once possessed are now gone along with the best years of his life. It is for this reason that Flick feels the need to dribble an inner tube, not because he wishes to make people laugh, but because he longs to know that his life has not been wasted. He wants to believe that he will not fade away into the backdrop of just another stereotypical kid who had a lot of potential. As a reader one cannot help but feel empathetic towards Flick’s situation because despite the fact that his town sees him as a legend, to rest of the world he is just another gas station employee. Updike is able to communicate such in the final two lines of the fourth stanza, saying “His hands are and fine and nervous on the lug wrench./ It makes no difference to the lug wrench though”.
Grant at first was dismissive and against teaching Jefferson about school and showing him how to be a man. As the story progresses the man finally realizes the significance for Jefferson and himself, of helping him. Because of Grant’s actions and attitude, Jefferson changes for the better. He finally accepts the lessons of Grant and even starts to enjoy his company quite a lot. Jefferson soon becomes the man that he really is and starts to show it.
Not being able to do anything the hero accepts regret and wishes he had shown some action as he would appreciate someone doing the same for his own son. The hero in the story has not completed his journey in a way that he could have done something to change the outcome. This, is struggle or
Sammy is a very relatable character in that he makes a very human and juvenile choice of quitting something for no good reason. This character takes little thought into account in regards to the consequences of his actions. After he quits he is given a chance to stay with his job by his boss but his choice to follow through is driven by his ego. Ego is something that many individuals get stuck into and young people are the best examples; often they make choices because of what other people might think instead of because it is best for them. The story concludes with Sammy being alone, he is now looking in at something he is no longer a part of ,the A&P, while thinking about something he will never be a part of ,Queenies life.
The protagonist begins to question the morals of the modern world; this is where the hero reaches his epiphany. The hero’s epiphany comes some time after the incident, when he has had to think and process what happened and the way he feels about it, he listens to the thoughts of others who tell him he ’did the proper thing, the best thing, by leaving the young man alone’ but he realizes that he should have helped the man in need even if it wasn’t the society norm as he states ‘Like so many things in life, I know now what I should have done then. I should have thrown caution to the winds and done the right thing. Not the big-city thing.’ He is deeply apologetic for his actions and makes a vow to change that in the future as he would not want the ones he loves to be treated that way in their time of need, ‘The thing I would want someone to do if they ever found my son crying in an elevator. I should have given him the opportunity to unload his sadness onto my
‘Neither Paul nor Keller gets the life he expects.’ Is Maestro primarily a study of disappointment and loss? In Peter Goldsworthy “Maestro” there is the hard truth of reality that not all dreams come true but through this disappointment there is growth, happiness and learning. Eduard Keller had a life of success with a sudden loss that ruined him and caused him to escape, with this he found a new life, a new student and became happy with his achievements and relationship with Paul. Paul Crabbe doesn’t get to achieve what he aims to be but the journey and everything that happened to him during it changes him, his dream didn’t come true but who says he isn’t happy with the life he ends up with. Even though Paul and Keller do suffer disappointment they both need each other to strive through and reach their goals, their relationship drives each other and they
Gilgamesh never thought about how hard his people had it, and he would have continued to think that they had it easier than they really did. He would have never figured it out unless he had the experience, which he did thanks to Enkidu. In the end, Enkidu really changed Gilgamesh’s perspective on the world and they way things are when you’re not being waited on all the time. Enkidu made Gilgamesh realize that he had to help others out and can’t just be helped. He made him know what it was like to have a loving friend, and the devastation of loosing one.
It forced him not to be vulnerable with other people, but with himself and find the happiness he had been searching for his whole life. Many people believed it was crazy, but it was what Chris wanted that was of the most importance. And in a country where “individualism” is promoted, through his journey Chris McCandless showed that people are not as different as they consider themselves to be. Though his method of finding himself may not be popular amongst many, the importance was that he fulfilled what he had believed to be his destiny, to simply be set apart from the