I mean, I knew she was a manipulative bitch, I just thought she may have still had some feelings towards me. As I arrested the serpent for capital treason, I remembered the letter and called upon the helpful stranger who had opened my eyes to everybody’s treachery. Dear, Edgar was revealed to be loyal and dignified and I was very sorry that I had ever thought worse of him. I had no sympathy towards my sister’s and my wife’s death. They were evil and so were their motives.
Mama: I hope she hates you for being late on your child support. I guess that secretary of yours not keeping you abreast with what’s on your book for payment responsibilities! (Click) Guidance Counselor: Everything has to go by the book! Damn your book, you need to try mine! My book says if your eye offends you pluck it out, and if your hand offends you cut it off!
Imagine a hopeless society where everyone was brainwashed with meaningless technology, books were strictly forbidden, and the true meaning of life was long forgotten. For Montag, that is society was very real. The central idea of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, conveyed by the themes of the sections — awakening, seeking knowledge and truth, and rebirth— is that independent thought can help to overcome great obstacles, which is what leads Montag to step away from the wasteland of modern society to where he truly wanted to be. The first section, “The Hearth and the Salamander”, is where Montag begins to break away from being like an average person in society. The hearth has long been a comforting symbol of home.
She is eager to break the rules of Thebes for her own brother. Issues: Whether Kreon has the power to rule Thebes, both Antigone and Kreon show hubris. Previous History: Kreon does not follow the principles, he acts upon ugly biases. Antigone is headstrong who rather die for what she believes
Ender’s excellence brings a lot of torture for him when Stilson wants to overrule him, Bernard frustrates him and Graff uses his sister to break Ender down emotionally. To begin with, Stilson wants to hurt Ender because he thinks he was excellent if his monitor and which is taken off. “Oh, gonna fight me huh? Gonna fight me, Thirde?” (Card 7). In this quote, Stilson shows anger toward Ender who deliberately creates a situation to hurt Ender.
Winston suggests they just walk out and never see each other again, to save them from being hopelessly lonely when they are forced to separate. Julia shrugs off the thought, she tells him she’s thought about it before. She tells Winston, “I’m rather good at staying alive.” (Orwell 137) Hope is shared between them as they realize the Ministry can only physically kill them; they cannot make them believe anything. This belief that Big Brother and the state of the country are unnatural and wrong is a belief they are not supposed to have. Julia means love while Winston means betraying
Since coming back from Iraq I haven’t been able to sleep well. I go to bed late and wake up early. Some nights I have bad dreams about deployment and other nights I’m completely fine. I’m glad to have my wonderful wife next to me, she usually calms me down. Then there is my son that I look into his beautiful green hazel eyes that help me keep going.
Just like that, he blew Lennie’s only chance to survive. It proves that George never really cared about him in the first place. Despite the previous quote, you don’t even have to read the entire book to know that killing Lennie wouldn’t be a big deal to George. Some of the things he says to Lennie can state the obvious, which is that George never cared. In Steinbeck’s captivating novel, Of Mice and Men, he is able to display a story about an innocent man and an evil man, on an journey to find a piece of mind.
Wherever it is, it’s there, and it will inevitably lead to harm towards you in the same way in which you performed it. Revenge is a boomerang, always finding its way back to you. The art of revenge, however, is circulated around how one avoids that very backlash; how you obtain success isn’t based on practice, but instead the type of person you are affecting who you become. Social “So, I have this friend who is a new student this year. And I convinced her that it would be fun to mess up Regina George’s life.” – Mean Girls
147) | * invasive authority | Role of physical home in concept of belonging | ‘I knew that Old Bill was giving me more than these keys I held holding someone’s past in my dirty hands.’ (p.166) | * metaphor | Romantic commitment | ‘Caitlin and I lay in the huge bed with the moon a perfect light to show Caitlin the beautiful green emerald ring.’ (p. 194) | * surreal/magical colour * imagery | Homes are not permanent | ‘I know I’m only here for a while so I tread lightly with respect for this house and for Old Bill.’ (p. 200) | * metaphor | Trappings and requirements of belonging. Billy’s uncertainty about belonging in a school environment | ‘Irene went over to the Resource section, brought back a TAFE Handbook and a government study assistance. If they paid me maybe, just maybe, I’d go back to school.’ (p.201) | * low modality | Belonging reaches beyond boundaries | ‘and I looked up into the sky, the deep blue sky that Old Bill and I shared.’(p. 205) | * symbolism |