“Why don’t you keep your room cleaned like your sister? How’ve you got your hair fixed – what the hell stinks? Hair spray? You don’t see your sister using that junk (Oats 899).” Connie and her father did not have the best relationship either because her father “didn’t bother talking much to them (899).” Even to an extent Connie “wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over (899).” So it is easy to think that her personal feeling to her family and her suicidal thoughts could influence her dream in which Arnold Friend threatens to kill her family and ultimately to kill Connie. Arnold Friend was mentioned early in the book when Connie was hanging out with a boy she had just met and hooked up with for the night.
Each of these characters shows their will to survive in their own ways throughout the novel. For example, Lina is forced to draw the NKVD officer attractively and smuggle an owl for her and her family’s survival. She goes against what her favourite artist showed her to draw like and shows her will to survive by hiding a dead bird in her jacket. On the other hand, her mother Elena shows her will to survive in another form. Elena firstly trades her father’s pocket watch to bribe the NKVD officer to not take her son.
After being in an accident, the family sets along a ditch, shaken up from the wreck when The Misfit and his accomplices arrive offering assistance. The grandmother tells The Misfit that she knows he is a good man, and comes from nice people. She loses all her moral value by trying to persuade The Misfit to spare her life even after he orders Bobby Lee and Hiram to take her family’s lives. The grandmother does not stand her ground towards the escaped inmate by offering him all the money she has on her, and by saying “You wouldn’t shoot a lady, would you?” Even when she states that Jesus may have not raised the dead. The grandmother is obviously Christian and begins to pray when she learns that The Misfit may take her life.
Courtney Rausch Period 6th May 23rd 2012 Mr. Blair Lit/Comp Chapter 13: Carton asks Lucie to never forget him, to always remember hi as the person that has saved her children and her children’s children. He says this because he know that Madame Defarge is going to come after her and kill her and her children. He also tell her that he would sacrifice himself for her, and he was hoping to go talk to her that night and to know that she is the only person that cares was sad for him to know. It was sad because they have a “mother to son” bond not a “wife to husband” bond. She loved him unconditionally like a mother would do to a child.
They know that they are both fighting to survive and so katniss can go back home to take care of prim mostly and her mother. And the capital doesn’t like it and right at the last minute before they take their lives, they change the rules of the games to show everyone that they are still in power and not anything can happen in the hunger games, so be scared, very scared. In the book, katniss father gets killed in a mining explosion and can no longer provide for them, so katniss has to step in and become the household income of the house. The mother is out and no one’s home, katniss’s seen this and has to do something. She can’t let her sister die from starvation, so she hunts for food, and becomes a good hunter at shooting arrows.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain I. Discover Moses and the Bulrushers (pg 1) Huckleberry Finn is kept by a widow who provides for his schooling and life necessities but he hates being mannered and wants to runaway all the time. The widow’s sister – “a tolerable slim old maid” – teachers him the Bible and Huck soon finds it pointless to learn about “dead people” but would only stand all these miseries because he wants to join Tom Sawyer’s gang in the robbing business (2). II. Our Gang’s Dark Oath (pg 4) Tom Sawyer calls Huckleberry Finn out and they are almost caught by the slave Jim, who is famous “because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches” (6).
Antigone believes that without burying her brother he will not have a good after-life. Antigone even goes as far as burying him twice. Antigone is more admirable in that she is not selfish. She cared for her brother so much that she would go through all this trouble to give him a good after-life. She wanted to marry Haimon but sacrificed this to bury her brother.
Acquiescence, violence, and nonviolence are the ways to handle the oppressors. One way that Dr. King opposes in his essay, is acquiescence. The oppressed people are downhearted to accept and endure their lives as inferiors. King does not accept this method due to increase great self-importance to the oppressors, and end the future of the oppressed people’s descendants. The film Iron jawed Angels, the worker ignored Lucy Burns’s speech for organizing a parade to promote woman’s suffrage because she did not want her employer to be upset and fired her.
In the book, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy the world is coming to its end and the mother is put into a complex situation. She has to choose whether she wants to take her own life or to stay there and help her child through these hard times in this world. The mother kills herself in the novel, but this is a good thing because now the father and son can have more food for themselves while surviving, if they get captured she wont be raped and beat up, and she wouldn't have to live in this horrible world. Of course, suicide is never right to do to yourself. Suicide is not the answer to your problems and will only lead you to a place for eternity.
Eric: (sulkily) Well, we don't need to tell the inspector all about that, do we? Birling: I don't see we need to tell the inspector anything more. In fact, there's nothing I can tell him. I told the girl to clear out, and she went. That's the last I heard of her.