Cash was born at a time when his mother had just discovered that words are meaningless and that only through acts can people achieve an awareness of life. Thus, Cash seldom speaks in the novel and usually only after some action is performed. Furthermore, he seems to be concerned with only one act at a time. Thus, he is the natural choice for the building of the coffin because he, like Addie, knows that the finished product is more important than the words
Lennie does not know his own strength, reacts to trouble when he is scared Idioms- “old lady” (p.53), “throw a litter” (p.58), “punk” (p.62), “cut off his wind” (p.63) Allusions- Luger, phonograph, fence picket, Golden Gloves Chapter 4- 66. Crooks was alone, living by himself and able to leave his personal possessions lying around 67. Loneliness- people kept their distance from Crooks because he was black 68. Loneliness- Lennie also quite alone in the world- only friend is George and tries to make friends with Crooks 69. Lennie- a genuinely nice person, has nice smile that tempted Crooks to let him in 69.
This story has two distinct parts. The first part the author claims to have left a lot out of. She then writes a second part where she explains what she left out and it ends up being just as false as the original. The narrator is a clear example of how people leave things out and how people stretch the truth. This story shows how a few minor details being left out or added in can change a story completely.
It’s a unique privilege to be able to view the world, in all its faults and glory, as others see it. An ignorant assumption would be to think that all people relate to experiences seen, felt, heard or even read in the same manner. Christina Boufis first details this in her story, “Teaching Literature at the County Jail,” as she notices that her “Berkeley students don’t pick up on the drug connection” the same as her female prison students (69). Christina Boufis’s “Teaching Literature at the County Jail,” gives readers the insight on how ones personal experiences affect their connection with the rest of the world. Christina Boufis, an educated English and literature professor, takes the reader through her experiences as she teaches both female inmates in conjuncture with college level students about literature.
In the current day and age, people rarely pick up a book before they fall asleep, and most people probably could not explain what Aldous Huxley wrote. The way of life in Bradbury’s dystopia was to employ firemen to burn intelligence and promote mass ignorance in an act to create an equilibrium of knowledge. Montag’s wife, who was hospitalized after their house was bombed, was scrutinized by robots and robot-like humans to extract every bit of knowledge (human blood) inside of Mildred and replace it with mechanically administered blood. (Bradbury 17). This act showed society’s need for ignorance and a “don’t ask questions, that’s just the way it is” type of system.
George stated at the beginning that Lennie always gets into troubles. “You do bad things and I go to get you out,” (Steinbeck, 11). When Lennie held Curley's wife tighter and tighter we all knew whats going to happen because first he killed a mouse and he thought he will not do the same thing with a puppy. John Steinbeck used his creativity use of foreshadowing to make the book more enjoyable to read. Lennie seems to be very strong, but in reality he is the weakest character in the novel “Of Mice And Men”, because of the lack of his mentality ability and the missing characteristic to think for himself and make his own decisions.
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.
Nick and Tom also didn’t show many true feelings. “And with his doubt, this whole statement fell to pieces, and I wondered if there wasn’t something a little sinister about him, after all.”(pg. 65) This quote was from Nick’s opinion about Gatsby. Nick is a quiet guy and for some reason ends up in the middle of the situations. Nick-“I stared at him and then at Tom, who made a paralyzed discovery less than an hour before-and it had occurred to me that there was no difference between men…”(pg.124) This quote that Nick thought was on how Tom’s face looked like when Myrtle told Tom she was leaving.
! Although on the surface, the narrator in the short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, may seem like a fictional character only developed to be interesting to an audience, many comparisons can be drawn between the narrators life and the life of the author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Similarities can be drawn between the diagnosis of mental illness, the methods of treatment received, and relationships present in both her life, and the life of her character. All of the experiences of her life came to develop her feminist style of writing, which she is still well known for
Individuals can find a true sense of belonging outside the confines of a relationship in connections to ideas such as culture, place or even within themselves. Herrick expands on this idea in The Simple Gift. At the start of the novel, Billy’s school, family and hometown “Nowheresville” do not inspire a sense of belonging for him. “I throw one rock on the roof/ of each deadbeat no-hoper/ shithole lonely downtrodden house” The accumulation of negative diction highlights the feelings of alienation that such place arouses for Billy. The use of the dialogue “see ya Dad, I’ve taken the alcohol.