Peneueta T Amituana’i October 05, 2011 English 11 Period 2 Through civilization, religion, and inexperience Chris McCandless and Allie Fox shared similarities and display differences. In comparison. Both Chris and Allie with his family went away from the world to escape. In “Into the Wild” , Chris McCandless left his old life and the many great opportunities because he loved it too much he didn’t want to see it go away. He was so stubborn, he didn’t want to except any offers from anyone.
Gene’s jealousy really goes out of control and harms his best friend. He felt that was the only way he would out-compete Finny athletic abilities. Now he would considered to be the overall student athlete with a good academics and athletics. Lastly, When Finny is dead, Gene realizes that the only person that he was out to compete was dead and it was all because of him. During Finny’s funeral he says to himself, “I did not cry then or ever about Finny.
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.
First of all Gene’s first sight of jealousy of Finny was when he realized that Finny got away with everything he did. Finny got away from skipping class and dinner and would never get in trouble. Gene was also jealous of the fact that Finny was an amazing athlete. He invented his own game called Blitzkrieg. There was no point of the fame, there was not winner either.
In Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”, Faulkner tells the story of a young boy named Colonel Sartoris Snopes who was driven against his own dogmatic loyalty that his father, Abner Snopes, instilled in him by an innate sense of justice. In the closing passage Faulkner provides a resolution for the story, though he leaves the story of Sarty only partially resolved as he has overcome his father by his actions but not entirely as the sense of loyalty that he feels towards Abner as a result of his family ties being all he knows. He is now left alone on the crest of a hill, facing the dark ominous forest, with his back turned to glare of his home he knows he must move forward. Faulkner depicts Sarty in a state of transition, caught between the injustices of his past that have dominated his entire life and reconciling these injustices with an uncertain a future that he must face alone. Faulkner employs spatial imagery within the setting to illustrate the different stages in personal development Sarty must undergo.
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.
Breanne Gray Characterization Paper October 24th, 2013 Period 9 A True Gentleman “He had announced in the schoolyard that day before that Scout Finch’s daddy defended n-words,” Cecil Jacobs (Lee 74). In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch plays the role of the protagonist who fights through Maycomb’s thick racism. Finch demonstrates a very strong sense of justice and teaches his children the same. No matter what the situation is he maintains his integrity. His character is so sterling in nature that he could have been boring or irritating if Harper Lee had not written him so beautifully and believably.
However, the creature is even more alone and abandoned than these creatures and never committed any wrongdoing in his life. The monster has encounters with humans in other ways as he helps the De Lacey’s in the background, being ‘enabled to assist them’ by helping collect firewood. Shelley presents the creature understanding and learning as he realises ‘stealing a part of their store’ from the cottagers was wrong. He instead attempts to live
‘Big Two-Hearted River’, by Ernest Hemingway, focuses on how Nick, the main character of the whole story, attempts to rediscover and restore his identity as a free man through the reconnection with nature and wildness in upper Michigan. Unlike the rest stories in IN OUR TIMES, this short story never refers to any grim scenes of war or death. Yet, certain glimpsesof story still imply that the aftermath of war have profound influences on Nick. In the other words, nick like Hemingway himself is continually haunted by snarled flashbacks of his pastsuffering and grief despite the fact that he physically gets rid of the war. Nick’s soul has been removed by war, and he numb to his life.
“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.