“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better its not” This famous quote by Dr. Seuss said in the movie “The Lorax” perfectly sums up the whole movie. The Lorax takes place in Thneedville with a young boy Ted who wants nothing more than to find a real tree to impress his crush. With helpful information from his grandma he visits a man named Once-ler, who once betrayed the Lorax, in the journey to find a real tree. This is when the Once-ler tells Ted the story of betraying the Lorax in the process of his invention called a “thneed” by cutting down all of his truffala trees. After the thneed fad disappeared because there were no more trees to cut down, the Once-ler distanced himself from the society because of the guilt he held.
But Daisy not wanting to look like a West Egger didn’t come to any of Gatsby “gaudy, glittering parties” (Witkoski 2) for a while because she was afraid of having “wild, improbable rumors circulate” (Witkoski 2) about her. This reveals a little glimpse of how daisy thinks and how she is a product of the social classes. Nick is the most rational character in the novel, and by the end he lets the reader know how he truly feels about each of the other main characters. After Nick holds a small funeral for Gatsby he moves back to the Midwest. He “relinquishes his creative role and his work becomes the object of his contemplation” (Bevilaqua 54) he reflects over all the main characters and tell us “they were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness…” (Fitzgerald 170) this shows us how Nick truly feels and relates us to him more.
In the selection of Wilfred Owens poems compare the ways he suggests the war is futile? Wilfred Owen was born in March 18 1893. He had written poems that was against the idea of young men going to war and the people agreed with what Owen was describing “the terrible conditions of war”, unfortunately, Owens poems weren’t published until the war had finished so it would not affect the way people felt about going to war which could have led to the German’s winning the war because men the English men would have been too scared. Owen wrote his poems while he was in care in the Craig Lockhart hospital after getting shellshock (as reporters have said) writing phenomenal poems such as, Dulce et decorum Est, the sentry and futility. Wilfred owens most remembered poem was ‘dulce et decorum est’.
Unsure of what to do with the enemy soldier, Little Jess’s moral compass is tested. The young man tells Little Jess he owns no slaves and his perception of whom the enemy is alters. Even though he believes helping Roy is making him into a traitor, he continues because he likes the young soldier who never laughs at the wonderments and wishes Little Jess could never tell his older brothers. After Roy is healed and had left to travel back home, Little Jess feels as if his sins are going to make him combust. Thinking that if he goes to a Methodist meeting his sins will be washed away and he would be revived, Little Jess attendees the meeting only to just look in then leave.
One of those situations being the betrayal of Finny to Gene when he causes him to flunk his first test. Another being how betrayed Gene felt when Leper accused him of deliberately hurting Finny and causing him to fall out of the tree, shattering his leg. The most influential betrayal of the whole novel was when Gene jounced the limb and broke Finny’s leg. Although finny forgave him, he still couldn’t help but feel a little bit betrayed by him. He had always thought they were best friends and that they were always there for each other, when Finny never realized Gene only saw the competition between them, and that really shows how completely different types of people they are.
I had clothes, and they had none. I decided [this] was what it meant to be a slave…you had no claim on [your] future” (pg.192). I think that Lindo is a good man. He tried to save Aminata from Appleby and he swore he tried to buy her baby too but Appleby didn’t want that to happen. I honestly think his intensions are good, but the people around him are not.
Additionally, Gene makes an effort to do what is morally right in several cases in order to rival Phineas’s natural goodness. For instance, Gene attempts to tell Phineas that is was he who caused Phineas to fall out of the tree when he visits Phineas at his home. He thinks about what Phineas would do in a case where he has harmed a friend, and decides that the morally correct thing to do would be to confess. Another example of Gene’s attempts at doing what is right occurs after Phineas falls down the stairs and Gene goes to visit him in the infirmary. Here, Gene feels obligated to be there for his best friend because this is what he feels Phineas would do for him.
Also, he does not want other children to ‘grow up’. This is presented through his misinterpretation of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ poem. He says that he wants to ‘catch’ children who ‘start to go off the cliff’, when the poem is actually about the sex. Holden can’t move on from childhood and can’t change his innocent mindset. Holden distains adulthood because of its superficiality and ‘phoniness’.
Another example of how Bruno was avoiding thinking about what was happening around him was when he said, “I expect we’ll have to wait here till it eases off and then I’ll get to go home” (Boyne, page 212). He was ignoring the reality, the facts, instead he is thinking ahead, about going home. This book has definitely showed me, we need to be more aware of the circumstances we are in. Innocence leads to tragedy. Before I read your book I often thought of the cruelty of the WWII and I could hardly imagined the world with people not protesting
This makes no sense to continuously try to end violence with violence. This only incorporates in others the idea that “killing already incarcerated criminals can somehow solve the problem of violence in American Life” (Bessler). Many may not realize this, but capital punishment has only a corrosive influence on any society. Although many people feel that the death penalty is the solution to punishing criminals, it is not moral. Thus, nobody should ever turn to the death penalty as an alternative to punish these infamous criminals.