Never achieving her dreams paragraph quotes: Steinbeck inevitably brings out the reader’s sympathy towards Curley’s Wife when she dies in the book. In the scene where Lennie kills Curley’s Wife, we are made to understand that she is just as helpless to Lennie’s brute force as the mouse or the dog were earlier in the book. Furthermore the word “writhed”, that is used to describe Curley’s Wife as she attempts to escape
“The Gravedigger’s Handbook” is a book of a list of things to get through to achieve the goal, “A twelve-step guide to grave digging success.” It suggests to the reader that Liesel need to recover from the pain of her brother’s death step by step, which foreshadows the importance of literature had on Liesel. Through the symbolism of book, Zusak portrays the importance of word and its impact on others. “The Gravedigger’s Handbook” can symbolise the pain and sorrow of the death of her brother and the abandon by her mother which contrasts with the comfort and love relationship of Hans and Liesel develops through reading the book. It is effective as Zusak helps the reader to gain insight on the different power of words. Words can manipulate and make people suffer, but at the same time, words can be used to establish love between each other.
Though these stories are very different, there are some similarities that are inescapable because of the family friction in both stories. Both stories have to do with the death of a family member, and how the characters handle that death. In “A Family Supper,” a man returns home after running away with his “true love.” His father has lost his business, and his has mother died. He only finds out that she committed suicide after he returns home. He is completely matter-of-fact about the situation surrounding his mother’s death, and he gives her an excuse.
Many a man before you, in his dreams, has shared his mother’s bed. Take such things for shadows, nothing at all— Live, Oedipus, as if there’s no tomorrow!” (Meyer 1128). This quote shows both the blindness of Oedipus and Jocasta. Jocasta only believes what she wants to believe. When the oracle said that her son would kill his father and sleep with his mother she quickly abandoned her son to avoid that horrible fate and thanked the oracle for that.
Secrets In Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Secret Life of Bees Lily Owens is seeking to find the truth behind her mother Deborah Owens’s death. Since her mother’s death Lily’s life is incomplete, she hears stories from her father (who she calls T-Ray) about her mother but does not believe them. She has been living with guilt since that one night after killing her mother. T-Ray tells Lily that her mother ran away and left her behind, Lily believes he is just saying to punish her, and does not believe what he says. She says, “What if my mother leaving wasn’t true?
The second section describes Emily’s life after her father’s death. She actually tried to deny her father’s death by keeping her father's dead body unburied. However the terrible smell make the town people crazy: “Just as they were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly.” The third section begins with Emily’s sicking. The narrator notes that a foreman named Homer who comes from North with a crew of men to build sidewalks in Jefferson. After Emily and Homer are seen driving out on Sunday afternoons, Emily visits a druggist.
They two live a happy life after marrige. Unfortunately, Amir’s mother died when giving birth to Amir. There is always an occupation hidden in Amir’s heart that he takes his mother’s life and Baba hates him a little, “why not? After all, I _had_ killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess,
He believes the marriage of his mother and uncle is not one of love and compassion but one of lust. She could not wait to “post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets.” At the funeral she had followed his father’s body like “Niobie” a vision of grief, a woman who had lost everything yet she remarried before the shoes she had worn had gone old.
Markus Zusak successfully portrays this type of change in The Book Thief when Liesel, the protagonist, is forced to watch her brother die. She is not able to accept his death and so this event plagues her in her dreams. She is also blind to the reason why her brother has been forced to die. Only when she realises how much of a role Hitler has played in the loss of her family and in the major changes that her life has suffered does she begin to accept her reality: ‘Her starving mother, her missing father. Kommunisten.
This quote is a paradox because while reading this the reader can apprehend that the unintended meeting was not as bad as it should have been. The one thing that is keeping the true lovers apart is the family feud (Montague’s and the Capulet’s) that’s been going on for many years. But Romeo and Juliet don’t care and later on they go against their families and get married. Tybat (Juliet’s cousin) was killed and Juliet’s parents think that it was the reason she committed suicide. As soon as the nurse finds out that Tybalt is dead her reaction is very troubling and she doesn’t exactly know how to break it to Juliet so at the end result she says, “Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished; Romeo that kill’d him, he is banished.” (3.2.69-70).