In the book hatchet written by Gary Paulson an important character is Brian Robeson. Brian is a 14 year old boy who is lonely, depressed and angry because his parents are divorced. He is a city boy used to being looked after and pampered in everything he does. He cannot cope in the wild but learns to survive. When Brian crash lands in the canadian rain forest he is unable to cope and he feels resentful and scared.
As he continues enroute to the cabin, he chooses to ski down a slope. Once again a bad decision as he falls and breaks through ice. He decides to move along toward the cabin once again but becomes physically exhausted to the point where he had no choice but to rest. Upon resting, he falls asleep on snow and the sun is now up. With no energy left in his body he eventually dies.
Hatchet In my book "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen, The main character Brian Robeson is stuck between his parents divorce which leads him to a event that makes him fight for survival. Brian Flies over to canada to visit his Father, but the piolet suffers a heartattack during the flight whichs causes them to crash into a lake. Brian has to forget everything about home and fight for survival. Picture #1 represents Brian's Anger and Furstraion at the beggingig of the story caused by all the events happening to him and his family. Picture #2 symbolizes the stragal for survival that Brian had to face while trapped in the canadian wildness.
Reading Umberto Eco’s “Role of the Reader” in college, Ricky states that, “The reader completes the text, that the text is never finished until it meets this voracious and engaged reader.” Although there are critics who believe there is a right and a wrong way to ready books, Moody says, “I believe there is not now and never will be an authority who can tell me how to interpret, how to read, how to find the pearl of literary meaning in all cases.” Part 2. Response I really enjoyed reading this article about how the author really has a passion and understanding for reading. This is probably the most in depth piece of writing I have read about the philosophy of reading. Ricky Moody uses very educated language and supports his claims with quotes from well-known people, one being Nietzsche. He ends his essay with a strong quote that uses personification, “I believe in the freedom to see literature, history, truth unfolding ahead of me like a book whose spine has just now been cracked.” With this quote said, it is very apparent that the author has a passion for reading.
It was a massive undertaking but well worth the time and effort for the future of the states and for the knowledge that was able to be given to the world. Ambrose did a fantastic job of explaining what seemed to be every detail of available information in order to create this masterpiece. Ambrose put his all into every page to try to make it flow and be as exciting as he could make it. Even though there were a few pages I would completely stop paying attention too as I read over the page, there were others parts that really grabbed my attention. This book was required to be read and reviewed, and I only finished the first 200 pages, since I’m a huge procrastinator (shocking I know) but I do plan on finishing this book.
After believing that his race is inferior for so long, Mike Pedro has finally discovered that being Filipino is not so bad after all. Ever since his friends mocked him at school for packing “Asian” food for lunch, he started feeling insecure about his ethnicity and even his own identity. Who is he, really? That is the question he asked himself every day from then on. The thoughts of his friends degrading him for eating “Asian” food for lunch dwelled in his subconscious for months, or perhaps even years.
Wesley lives under the shadow of his brother Frank and as the story progresses he is slowly escaping it. However, despite Wesley’s wilted physique and lack of superiority in the Hayden family hierarchy, he possesses a great deal of moral virtue and mental strengths. First of all, Wesley’s leg injury leads to other factors to develop Wesley as a better and stronger man. In his life he goes through many obstacles, such as his failure to go to war, and thus becoming the underdog of the Hayden family. This is discovered when the patriarch, Julian Hayden, says to his son Wesley “Ever since the war…Ever since Frank came home in a uniform and you stayed home, you’ve been jealous” (118).
Those who survive carry guilt, grief, and confusion, and many of the stories in the collection are about these survivors’ attempts to come to terms with their experience. In “Love,” for example, Jimmy Cross confides in O’Brien that he has never forgiven himself for Ted Lavender’s death. Norman Bowker’s grief and confusion are so strong that they prompt him to drive aimlessly around his hometown lake in “Speaking of Courage,” to write O’Brien a seventeen-page letter explaining how he never felt right after the war in “Notes,” and to hang himself in a YMCA. While Bowker bears his psychological burdens alone, O’Brien shares the things he carries, his war stories, with us. His collection of stories asks us to help carry the burden of the Vietnam War as part of our collective
When he returned home, age was only a number. He was forced to grow extremely fast because he was exposed to real life morale dilemmas between right and wrong. O’Brien uses the illustrates symbolism that in the scene with of the baby water buffalo to illustrate misplaced anger. Rat had lost his best friend in Curt Lemon, and wrote a heart felt letter to Lemon’s sister describing the role her brother had played in his life. It was not really a war story at all, it was more of a love story as described by O’Brien.
The Parable of the Sadhu The Parable of the Sadhu is a story of men coming from different cultural backgrounds, climbing the Himalayas that run into a moral dilemma. In summary, the author had been beating himself up for years because on a trip to Nepal to climb in the Himalayan Mountains where he came across a nearly naked freezing Indian holy man that is near death and they revived him and left him in a hut, last seeing him throwing rocks at a dog. For years the author suffered from guilt, feeling that he should have helped carry the Sadhu down to a village on a two-day walk. By looking at the situation and what the men did, it is definite that the men acted out of egoism and social contract. Egoism is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to do what is in their own self-interest while social contract theory is the view that persons’ moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live.