The father is a round character, he was complicated. He did not have the will power to kill his son. His belief was that his son was the only remaining sign of God’s existence and without his son the man really had nothing to live for. At the end when the father is dying, “he thought he could hold his son in his dead arms” (279) but he couldn’t because he did not have the will power to do so. Throughout the book the father does not have any will power to harm his son and he succeeds in making his son live.
Emma Meany Out of Class Assignment-Ironweed Daddy Big was a ghost that entered Francis’s life during the novel. Billy, Francis’s son had saved Daddy Big’s life one night when he was drunk and had vomited. Billy had turned Daddy Big on his side so he would not choke on his vomit. Although Daddy Big did die eventually, he left Francis with a piece of advice “never inhale your own vomit”. Francis says in the novel he did not need Daddy Big’s advice for he knew how to drink, he did it all the time and never vomited.
He has no remorse for killing, and no compassion for other human beings, but he strictly abides to a moral code; he believes that he, himself is an instrument of fate, and that every decision leads to a certain path, and that nothing can alter that. A lot about Chigurh’s character is revealed early on in the novel when he goes to the gas station. By offering the gas station attendant (and later on, other potential victims) the call of the coin toss, he brings the idea of luck into the situation. Their fate is now up to the side the coin lands on, and he does not feel morally responsible for his actions; whether or not he murders them based on their call of the coin. The gas station attendant does not realize that he is betting on his life until after Chigurh leaves, narrowly sparing him.
Invisible Man Chapter 20 The Narrator- The essential person to the story. McAdams- A man in the bar who causes a commotion. Other Man- The friend of McAdams Barrel: The owner of Jolly Dollar Bar Clifton: The missing person of Brotherhood, the person the narrator to Harlem looking for. Police officer- A police officer at the scene of Clifton’s death. Act 1 Scene 1 ( The Narrator makes it to Harlem, he goes to the Jolly Dollar Bar.
After the Parker Lynch Case, John decides to go to Mississippi. He gets the hate stare at the bus station. When he was on the bus, an annoying man named Christophe gets on the bus. John learns that the Negroes in Mississippi are friendlier because the white men are so mean. The Negroes on the bus warn John about Mississippi.
He was self built from the ground up. Whitman was self educated, independent, intelligent, and unique in many ways. Although most of his life he was alone, he left a mark on American by his writs of poetry which were influenced by Emerson himself. He struggled through life, desperately looking for an alternative to becoming a farm boy. This in turn, led to a failure in teaching, personal failure of his newspaper, and going through a fictional writing phase.
The old man had nothing of value that the narrator wanted. The narrator stated that he even loved the old man. “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult.”However in his mind the old man’s evil eye had provoked him for a very long time and he finally had to kill him to get rid of the eye.
Mahatma Ghandi lived his entire life resisting the British oppression of India peacefully, but in the end he was killed. Mahatma Ghandi never meant to throw away his life or cause violence. That sort of martyr is a rare thing, and most people intentionally choosing to die are hypocritically wasting their
Justin Egan Professor Engler EngWr 301 7-9-12 The Black River: A Literary Analysis on the Theme and Supporting Elements of Ernest Hemmingway’s Short Story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” The short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” written in 1933 by Ernest Hemmingway, starts in a well-lighted café late at night with two waiters talking about a recent suicide attempt made by the old man sitting in their café. Through heavy use of dialogue, key characteristics of each character are developed. The older man has a background story of his own. The younger waiter is just that; young, impatient, and arrogant. And the middle age waiter, who is the most detailed of the three, has a darker understanding of both of the other two characters.
Although he became a licensed physician, Abe never practiced medicine. Instead he began writing professionally upon his father’s death once his family obligations were absolved (Lamont-Brown, 31 pp.1). Abe’s writing was strongly influenced by a number of factors including: a lack of patriotism, medical school, and famous writers of the time. He strongly opposed the war and the strong sense of nationalism that many of his countrymen held during end of the war. Abe felt that he had no obligations to his country for he was “rootless” (Lamont-Brown, 33 pp.2).