However, the runner in “To an Athlete Dying Young” dies at a young age even though his fame does not: while in “Ex-Basketball Player” the ex- player’s fame washes away in his growing of age. There are many similarities in these two poems. In “To an Athlete Dying Young” and “Ex-Basketball Player”, the men were famous whenever they were young because of sports. In an excerpt of, “To an Athlete Dying Young,” it states, “The time you won your town the race/we chaired you through the market place. Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high” (Housman).
Meursault is found guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced to death by guillotine. At the beginning of Meursault’s trial, the judge questions Meursault about why he put his mother in a home, and if it taunted him. Meursault states that he didn’t have enough money to provide for care for her and that they were both alright with living the way they had to because they didn’t expect anything from one another. Meursault’s relationship with his mother was loving, but very distant. The director of the home Meursault’s mother was in, claims that she complained about being put into a home by her son.
The movie is based around a young rapper called Jimmy B-Rabbit Smith, who is stuck a rut and is struggling to make a success of his life. He has been brought up with racial abuse and is surrounded my violence and drugs everyday of his life. He lives with his mum and her boyfriend in a trailer park due to his dead end job. His family doubt this potential and don’t offer him a great deal of support to achieve his dreams. Life does start to look brighter when he meets an old friend called Wink who has contacts who can get Jimmy deal to record a demo of his music that can possibly lead to a rap career.
Joe plays basketball; mainly because that’s the one thing his father cannot do well. He has gone to private schools his entire life and was hoping to go to public school in Seattle. During the summer he walks plays pickup games at Loyal High, the public school down the street from his house, and makes friends there. His parents are not impressed with his new friend, Ross, but agree to let Joe go to Loyal High until the police bring Joe home from Ross’ party after he passed out on the lawn from being drunk. Joe’s father brings home a bunch of books from Eastwood Academy’s summer reading list and Joe starts to read The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.
The officials at the NBA club expected him to be a future star even before his first official match as a national player. He made it to the news when he was eighteen and was detected for the use of cocaine after his first game. After a few years the star again became a scandal for the news when he confessed to an audience of millions that he had again failed to come clear
But Walter begins to see a new side to his great uncles when he stumbles on an old photograph of a beautiful woman hidden away in a trunk and asks Garth who she is. FFor 14-year old Walter, his great uncles’ farm in rural Texas is the last place on earth he wants to spend the summer. Dumped off by his mother, Mae, in the middle of nowhere with two crazy old men and the promise that she’ll come back for him, Walter doesn’t know what to believe in. Eccentric and gruff, Hub and Garth McCaan are rumored to have been bank robbers, mafia hit men and/or war criminals in their younger days. The truth is elusive, although they do seem to have an endless supply of cash.
A tall pale white male with pure brown hair and a beard also to Gary had had pure blue crystal eyes like his mother and brother. When Gary was only 13 when he witnessed his mother shooting herself and it was then the madness began for his life. When Gary was sent to the orphanage he lived with more than 13 foster parents but none of them wanted to keep him because everyone knows the story of what his older brother did to his family. Gary wasn’t touched or hurt by his step father only Michael was ending with Michael becoming the monster he is today. Soon Gary found of his brothers escape Gary slowly found an old feeling he once felt before and knew that his brother was killing
Here is High Noon’s plot in brief for those who didn’t see it: Marshal Gary Cooper is ready to leave the town for his honeymoon, but stays to save the town from bad guys. He goes around the town seeking deputies, but no one wants to help him. Even his brand new wife leaves him. So, he does the dirty job alone – kills the bad guys, whom he sentenced to prison a couple of years ago, after which a corrupt judge freed them. According to Hawks, Rio Bravo was made as a riposte to High Noon.
Little Kayla was killed by her classmate in Flint, Michigan. An African-American boy, who was living at a crack house- without even a bed to sleep on—because his uncle who lived there, was the only available adult to “watch over” him. The boy killed his classmate with one deadly shot from the gun He had stolen from his uncle. He had never fired a gun before. But he had played point-and-shoot video games.
The fist example is shown through his fear of commitment with Jane Gallagher. Although he was once good close friends with her, when he first finds out that she is on campus and going on a date with Stradlater he asks about her but not once goes and talks to her. He does this because he is afraid of rejection and falling in love then losing what he loved. Which is what happened with Allie. He loved Allie then he died so now Holden subconsciously relates love with death, disappointment, and despair.