Though Eliezer and his father have arrived to Buchenwald safely, it seems as though his father has given up on life. He refuses to move and spends the night in the snow as Elie sleeps inside. The following morning Eliezer searches for his father, but in his heart, wishes that his father had passed during the night so he can worry about his own survival. When Elie does find his father, he feels very guilty as he tries to take care of him. When he is struck with dysentery, Elie begins to lose hope in life for his father.
_________________________________________________________ Mark Haddon’s novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a remarkable novel exploring the world of Christopher, a fifteen-year-old boy with Aspergers Syndrome. As a consequence, this condition, leaves Christopher’s ability to emotionally connect with people scarce. Haddon explores Christopher’s many behavioural problems, along with the emotional and physical journey which takes place in his life to discover truth – who killed Wellington? As the story unravels we discover a lot more than just Wellington’s murderer, resulting in the novels mysteriousness and immensity until the very end. The gulf which separates Christopher from his parents and the rest of us makes him unconditionally unique as a result of his disability, resulting in him to be considered as an ‘unsolved mystery’.
Because this isn’t a fairy tale, and there is no actual ‘adventure’ taking place, this can be viewed as the protagonist refusing to take on the quest he is being presented. Realizing this allows the reader to understand that the story is then moving on to the second stage – the struggle, or initiation. Usually during the struggle/initiation of a monomyth archetype structure in a story, the hero figure being presented is exploring their unconscious self, and realizing their deepest fears and concerns. In ‘The Step Not Taken’, the narrator expressed that he is haunted with a sense of regret for not doing anything to help the man in the elevator. In his own way, this is him
As he is starting his process he neglects his family friends and any other social areas. Now since he has been lonely and avoiding people he decided to stay in his apartment and create a powerful experiment. Once he brought the monster to life he got very terrified and afraid of it. After going to sleep wishing the monster wasn’t there he woke up with its laying across its bed with a big smile on its face. Later that day victor left because he thought his apartment was hunted and ended up running into a old friend.
Holden is chasing a dream that he cannot accomplish. He sets his goals to high and realised he couldn’t stop the loss of innocence. Holden want to be isolated from other people and wishes to get away, “Just so people didn’t know me and I didn’t know anybody. I thought what I’d do was, I’d pretend I was one those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn’t have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody” (Salinger 198).
The story begins with Royal being kicked out of his hotel room and having nowhere else to go, hatches a plan to gain entry into his old apartment by saying he has cancer. Royal’s main goal throughout the movie to deceive his family shows the flatness of Royal’s character, but transforms into a round character by the end when coming to the realization that these days spent with his family were the
When he wakes up, he finds that his father is not in his bed. Elie regrets for his whole life that he did not watch his father until his very last moment he feels that he hasn’t passed what he call his “test”. Soon after the Russian there allies come and liberate the concentration camps. Just three days after him being freed he falls very sick and is forced to be hospitalized. When he has the strength to get out of bed he takes a look at himself and thinks that he looks like a corpse and doubts that it is him.
The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our heart. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in war” (87-88). Paul was living life as a civilian for eighteen years, not knowing the horrors of the world, and as a young adult in the war, he witnessed his first horror, such as his first bombing, his first explosion, first exposure to numerous of dead bodies etc, which will traumatize him in future civilian life since one does not simply forget the first raw, gory images. The age of eighteen can be considered the age of a young adult that is still growing and experiencing life, and when teengaers are thrown into the abyss of war, it prevents young soldiers from striving and progressing; as being an adult is heavily weighed on an adolescent
Richard Ford’s “Optimists” tells the story of Frank, the protagonist, who is learning to realize that the most important things in life can change suddenly without notice and without recovery. Frank is a boy of fifteen years old whose father, Roy Brinson, works for the Great Northern Railway. One day Roy comes home from work unexpectedly after he sees a man get caught under the train and hopelessly watches him die. His wife comforts him while one of the guests that are over their house scorns him for not trying harder to save the man’s life. Roy is aggravated and ends up killing the man with a hard hit to the chest, changing his and his family’s lives forever.
English Assignment Part B On the far outskirts of the Empire, a small village sits silently on a hillside surrounded in an eerie cloud of fog. In one of these houses, while everybody sleeps, a boy of only twelve, was on his knees. He was praying, to whom it was unknown, but he was praying for a better life. For he was the runt of the family, wretched and tiny. He was beaten by his father daily due to his mother’s death, when giving birth to him.