Jocasta isn’t really known for being deceiving or manipulative in this play, but she does try to convince her husband that all of the prophecies are not true at all. The prophecy with Oedipus is that he was supposed to kill his father and marry his mother, when Jocasta and her late husband Laius found out the prophecy of their new born son, they casted him out of Thebes to die. But in fact that baby did not die because he was taken in by king Polybus and queen Merope of Corinth. Then later on in the play Oedipus gets word of his father’s death in Corinth and then finds out in fact that Polybus was not his biological father at all. When all of the takes place and Oedipus gets back to Thebes, Jocasta realizes that the prophecies could be true and she tries to convince Oedipus that they are not because she and Laius’s son died after they got word of the prophecy that was foretold to them.
The main conflicting scene which acted as a narrative tool to help the story move on was the rape scene in chapter 7. Amir is finally in realisation of the extent of how cowardly he is “I just watched. Paralyzed.” This being significant as it even the rape consisted of only men which emphasises the inequity of gender in Afghanistan and in this novel. However some would disagree - For Amir's mother Sofia - Even though she was a well-known literature professor, her death almost completely eliminates her influence from Amir's life. Baba never discusses her with Amir, and he doesn’t appreciate the qualities she passed down to her son “That was how I escaped my father's aloofness, in my dead mother's books” this being a disgrace to baba as he wished for a masculine son "Real men didn't read poetry-and God forbid they should ever write it!” this effectively showing baba’s disinterest in Amir as Baba believes a real man is interested in sports.
Susan Smith thought she was being raised by two loving parents, but it turned out to be with a mother that was blind to the fact that her daughter was being abused by a man that played the part of daddy. Susan was forced to become the woman that everyone expected her to become but her avoidance of receiving help for her issues may have caused her to break. There is no known cure for Dependent Personality Disorder, but it is recommended that a person that is diagnosed seeks the assistance of a psychiatrist immediately. Had Susan Smith pursued help from the outside prior to her making the decision of murder, she would have been able to receive the proper guidance that she should have received as a young
Arnold is someone she had seen at the drive-in a “boy with shaggy black hair, in a convertible jalopy painted gold.” She mistakes him for one of the typical teenage boys she usually hangs out with. Unfortunately, for Connie this could not be further from the truth. One Sunday afternoon while home alone, Arnold Friend unexpectedly shows up on her doorstep. Connie feels confident that she can handle him, noting
Jordan is so eager to find out the truth, that Grace’s relationship with him produces the story he wants to hear. Grace knows that there is no concrete evidence against her as there was against McDermott; otherwise she would have been sentenced to death as he was. Instead, it is McDermott’s word against Grace’s: McDermott says that the murders were Grace’s idea, and Grace says that she had nothing to do with the murders. At some points in the book Grace seems like the innocent victim that she claims to be, and at other points the reader can see glimpses of her more manipulative side. During her sessions with Doctor Jordan, her responses are all too rehearsed, and it gives readers a sense of unreliability about her story: “But I don’t say this.
Angie and Jack would hangout at least every night if Angie got lucky,but one day Angie's friend Toni called and asked if she would like to out on a Saturday night to catch up on stuff since he was in town.Well when Angie and Toni went out to get another Coke of course since it is a small town news gets around fast and the news got to Jack.Jack is the one who introduced Toni to Angie before in highschool and Jack knows he's a fast guy.After that night when Angie went to go hang with Toni,Jack stopped calling for some odd reason.Angie got a little curious on why he hasn't called.Man,if I ever felt that way it would be like some chiseling away at my heart every time beats.After that indecent she calls up lily who is going out with Fitz(Jack's best friend) and asked "Hey do you know what's going on with Jack"?Lily answered in a Psh you didn't know?me tone saying "You didn't hear?Jane Randy has been telling everyone that her and Jack got back together and since Jack heard that you and Toni went out the other night he really didn't
Explore the presentation of the unreliable narrator in The Great Gatsby and consider how your ideas have been illuminated by your response to The Catcher in the Rye. The definition of an unreliable narrator is a story teller who cannot be trusted, either due to ignorance or motive. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the reader puts trust in the narrator (Nick) to communicate the story. Similarly, in J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, we believe in Holden to take us on the journey that he travelled in the lead up to his admission to a mental hospital. The question arises in any novel whether the narration may be trusted or whether we should rely on our own judgement.
O'Brien creates an intentional paradox for his readers when he writes the violent, but grabbing story of Rat Kiley and then at the end of the story, tells the reader that the characters and events of the story did not happen just as he described them, but that they happened in a totally different way to other people. But he insists that the story is true. With this, O'Brien challenges the reader to discover the truth of the event. O'Brien gets the reader to figure out what fiction of this book is actually worth. Firstly, did O'Brien confuse the reader when he said that the events did not happen after the reader became involved in those events?
If people would have known that Daisy was actually the one driving, the whole outcome of the story would have been different. Gatsby may have even lived. But because of his feelings for Daisy, he took the blame. Which demonstrated his true feelings for Daisy. As a reader of this book you can interpret your own views and opinions on Jay
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald When I sat down to write this presentation I had just seen the movie Midnight in Paris, which is a romantic comedy about an American couple who travels to Paris on vacation. The man, Gil, falls in love with the city and his dream is to move there after getting married. He thinks of Paris in the golden age, which were in the twenties according to him. One night when Inez goes dancing with her friends he wanders around the city alone. At midnight, an old car stops in front of him and the passengers tell him to join them, which he does.