Becomes more malicious and gains more power, controlling the group. The group largely follows Jack in casting off moral restraint and embracing violence and savagery(except Ralph,Piggy and Simon); influential Jack’s love of authority and violence are intimately connected, as both enable him to feel powerful. How Golding wanted to make Jack look: Golding had very clear intentions for Jack Merridew. From the first moment we see him, he comes across as a very dominant and angry child. The way he brings across "his" kids towards all the meetings and the way they are dressed make him seem as the leader or dictator.
Both George and Lennie aspire to someday achieve the American dream, George is an average man and, much like his co workers, lives a life of routine, hoping for something greater. Although George is characterized as being an everyday man, he displays that he is heroic when he shoots his best friend Lennie. Lennie is a large man with a nieve, childlike mind. This gets Lennie into trouble when he pets things because he does not realize his own strength.For example, when Lennie strokes Curley’s wife’s hair, Lennie accidentally kills her.Knowing that Curley will murder Lennie, George reveals that he is heroic when he shoots Lennie. George does this so that his best friend can have a peaceful death.
Happy has lived in the shadow of Biff his whole life, he feels that to get the attention he deserves he must strive to be more successful than his brother. When Willy was talking about Biff, Happy kept hinting that he was losing weight, but Willy seems to ignore him. “He is a marked-down version of his father, with not even a grand dream to cover his grossness. His only redeeming aspect is an easy-going fondness for his family” (Koon pg.37). Happy shows
To have pride in the way you look or act is an absolutely wonderful trait, but a point in time can come where you could have so much pride that you look down on others and set conditions for others to be able to be proud of them. The pride that Brother possesses is exactly this, being ashamed of someone and trying to change them into something he can be proud of. Brother narrates this story as an adult, remembering the life of his little brother, Doodle. As Brother tells of his adventures with Doodle, Brother decides to teach Doodle how to walk, but only out of his own embarrassment of the poor boy. He begins to speak about how everyone has to have pride in something, and that Doodle was now his source of pride.
At first glance, it may be a joyous occasion but it is anything but that. Jake, the ever mercurial brother of Arthur, got Laura pregnant. He's always had his destiny under his control but that didn't seem to be enough for him. Jake just had to mess with Arthur's life too; manipulating him, stealing the girl that he liked and then tossing her back to Arthur when she got pregnant. Nothing is redeeming about him but fate has been good to him, at least compared to his brother.
As he is saying this, his hubris is beginning to creep up on him because he thinks he is the best person ever after tricking Polyphemus. His crew is seeing this and begins to warn him of what is happening (Homer 769) yet he disregards their warnings. His hubris then takes full control as he says, “Cyclops, / if ever mortal man inquire / how you were put to shame and blinded, tell him / Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye: / Laertes’ son, whose home
Dear George, I am writing to you to express my views about your decision to shoot your good friend Lennie. Firstly, I know you had a very close friendship but I don't think you had any other choice but to shoot Lennie. If you hadn't shot him he would have carried on getting you both into trouble, like that time with the soft red dress in weed. Remember you said to Lennie, “You can’t keep a job and you lose me ever' job I get”. If you didn't shoot him what do you think you would be doing right now?
(b) The threat of violence is present in Of Mice and Men really from the first moment we meet Curley. He is an uptight little man who doesn’t like big men. Lennie is big, so this is a disaster waiting to happen. Even when Curley first meets George and Lennie we read that ‘his hands closed into fists’ and he goes ‘into a slight crouch’ like a boxer, which he is. Candy explains that he is ‘handy’, meaning he is a good boxer and has won prizes for boxing.
All these observations are similarities between the two which shows that the Scarlet Ibis’ death foreshadowed Doodle’s death. Doodle and his brother; Brother, had a very close relationship. Doodle loved his brother which blinded him of his physical limitations. Another example from “The Scarlet Ibis” connecting to the quote by Geoffrey Chaucer, is when Brother pushes Doodle. Brother meant no harm by the mental forces he used to push Doodle.
At the beginning Pumblechook was cruel to pip but as soon as Pips status rose, he called him 'dear friend' and repeatedly asked 'may I?' to shake Pips hand. Not only does he try to befriend Pip because of his new found money but he also tells everyone that he was the benefactor because he wants the attention and popularity, he says 'I have been the humble instrument leading up to this', making him an imposter. After Pips downfall, Pumblechooks behaviour changes again towards him and accuses Pip of not having 'common human gratitoode'. So Dickens portrays Pumblechook as a man who changes his behaviour towards someone according to their status just for his own benefit.