The gang crowds threateningly around Jim’s car while he and Plato are watching from balcony above. Jim fights so hard to gain respect in front of his peers who test him by calling him “chicken”. Jim is not only fighting to become accepted but he is also rebelling so that he doesn’t become more like his father. Jim is frustrated with what he sees as a lack of masculinity and strength in his father. He is ashamed and embarrassed by him and finds that he cannot confide in him or ask for advice and understanding.
As a result, the inability to balance time between his job and family led to the failure of his first marriage. Another source of conflict was his inability to trust his staff members, supervisors and foremen . There were heads of departments that should have provided him with reports and feedback about the work progress since he is the vice president, but he preferred to do everything by himself. He was strolling around the organization. During his strolls, he was listening and looking and keeping in
His opinions stayed strong threw the whole story until the end when he revealed is true feelings about his teenaged son who causes him to be hateful and opinionated about everything. He used every bit of evidence to prove he was guilty but a lot of the other jurors did not change their minds about the defendant being guilty or not guilty. Juror #3 is very rude and everyone knows it, he expresses himself as a loud mouth who has no manners. He loud mouths all the jurors and causes them to think negatively towards him. He also picks fights with all the other jurors, he even threatened to kill juror #8 after he called him a sadist.
Nippers had a problem of indigestion due to which he used to be very inefficient till the noon and he used to commit many mistakes in copying the legal documents. Also, the lawyer complained that Nippers had a continual discontent with the chair and table used for copying, which, to him felt like Nippers wanted to get rid of table altogether (p. 104). Nippers, after noon though, was very efficient at copying the legal documents. This shows that the lawyer was always discontent somehow of his workers whatever they used to do.
It was very confusing to understand the motives and spirit of Bartleby because it remained a mystery throughout the story. I could not understand the nature of Bartleby through the psychological description that the lawyer gave him in the story. The story of Bartleby depicted the relationships between the employees and the old lawyer which was significant in understanding the original theme of the story. The details given by the lawyer about his employees’ bad habits, food and behavior certainly
His character is first portrayed to us in the first paragraph when he has the secretary respond to Charlie’s request to meet up for lunch instead of taking the time to respond himself, after all it had been three long years. Charlie’s fathers’ character is once again portrayed at the train station when he first approaches Charlie and merely strikes him on the back and gives him a hand shake, once again another way of demonstrating his selfishness. It seems to me that Charlie idolizes his father; he describes him as a big, good looking man. The use of figurative language is used by the author when Charlie describes his father’s smell as a rich compound of whiskey, after shave lotion, shoe polish, woolens, and the rankness of a mature male. In this short story there was very little dialogue between Charlie and his father.
He then gets arrested for assaulting the policeman and his father lectures him when he picks his son up. Christopher does detective work and explains how he finds it confusing when people tell h 3. Christopher wants to prove to everyone that he is far from stupid by taking the A levels math and achieving an A, in which is something extraordinary that no one in his school has done. Therefor he thinks that the other students are stupid. This is important because it shows his ambition to so to a University and get a high paying job.
However, as the movie progresses, a few inner problems come into light. For example, Will sees a boy who bullies him in kindergarten, so he and his friends jump the guy. Watching the fight, one can see that there is a lot of bottle up emotions inside of Will, and he really resents this person from his childhood. When the police catch up to him, the viewer finds out that this is not the first time Will has been in trouble with the law; he is a felon who uses his good people skills and public speaking to get out of jail time. Even later on in the movie, we also see that Will is a chain smoker, violent, and has extreme trust issues.
The main character, Troy, shows the audience how being a stubborn individual can damage your life. Stubbornness and how Troy deals with the problems his ideals have caused him have sometimes aided him, but the majority of them have plagued him until his death. There were two major improvements to Troy’s life because of his stubbornness. Early on in the play Troy stands up to his boss challenging the idea that only white men could only drive trucks and the black men had to do all of the heavy lifting. He protested this even though he is unable to read or drive a car.
At his high school, Jack is frequently ridiculed and tormented Cohen 2 by a bully who makes several attempts to get into a fight with Jack. Each time, Jack backs off from the bully and uses his words and wit to get the bully to subside. After Tom killed the two men at his diner, the bully cracks a mean comment about Jack’s father and that was the final straw for Jack. Jack beat the bully up very badly. Up until this point in the movie, the audience would never have guessed that Jack