Amir stands up for Sohrab by fighting Assef for him. When Amir returns to Afghanistan to find Sohrab proves to be the solution to his quilt towards Hassan, it also is the source of the redemption he so desperately wants to seek. He chose to find Sohrab and tries his hardest to give him a better life even if that does mean sacrificing his own safety. Therefor throughout “The Kite Runner” Amir is portrayed as a boy who is always trying to make up or redeem himself for the mistakes he made, but does redeem himself towards his father, Sohrab and especially Hassan. As Hassan’s and Amir’s father would say “a boy who can’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything” but Amir indicates he can
In “The Pie”, Soto uses religious allusions and tone to revive the theme of guilt, regret, and nervousness that he felt as a six-year-old boy stealing a pie. The author used tone to convey his feelings of guilt and remorse towards stealing the pie. “But boredom made me sin…I stood before a rack of pies, my sweet tooth gleaming and the juice of guilt wetting my underarms…I nearly wept trying to decide which to steal” (Soto 55). Soto’s exaggerated tone towards choosing which pie to steal and “the juice of guilt” wetting his underarms reveals his apprehensiveness. Since he was apprehensive, he knew exactly what he was doing, but he was using poor judgment.
A person like Chris McCandless who has everything in the world is still unsatisfied on what is around him. He has family, money and a great education that will soon be his great future but he thinks that everything related to wealth is sinful. Chris made a journey to search for the true meaning of life and escaped it pressures. He also tried to travel by using his instincts in life by living naturally without other's aide. Whereas he helped people suffering of hunger by donating all of his college money, he forgot to help himself.
Both protagonists are blinded by their illusions of success, and both of their experiences are akin to one another. Willy's experience with achieving the American Dream is similar to Troy's will to survive because Troy tries to be on the same level as Whites by overcoming racial barriers. Willy Loman, a traveling salesman, believes that one must be well-liked in order to achieve the American dream. However, Willy does not realize that the value of hard work and devotion plays the most important role in achieving success. Willy tries to teach his falsified ideology of the American dream to his sons, Biff and Happy.
Mama Elena’s similar experience of love, with José Treviño, kept suppressed all her life, builds an emotional barrier around her heart. The “bitter poison” of denied romance destroys Mama Elena’s capacity to be loved or to allow Tita to love. Her rejection of food gives the reader the key to understand the driving forces behind Mama Elena throughout the plot. This literary effect can also be seen in Rosaura in the opening of the novel. While Tita dazzled her sisters with a cooking display, “Rosaura was cowering in the corner” .
Chris McCandless’s actions can be categorized as selfish due to his extreme stubbornness and unpreparedness. In attempt to find his own happiness, Chris didn´t realized the impact his journey would cause on others. McCandless’s adventure shifted from being seen by the public as a self-encountering adventure, to a spoiled rich boy’s over exaggerated measure when dealing with the natural roughness of life. Regardless of the popular opinion
Biff and Cory get different vibes as Willy gives support where Troy does everything to put it in a negative light. Willy believes Biff can have a future as a successful athlete but his aspirations of his son’s success becomes destroyed as Cory because of the fact that Biff becomes consumed of his father’s cheating (Casper1010,
When he was transported to New Orleans he was beaten he was forced to conceal his identity as a free man and accept that he is a runaway from Georgia named Platt. He was soon sold to plantation owner William Ford in which he easily got along with because of carpenting skills and great musical talent. William Ford even gave Solomon Northup a violin as a gift, but the head carpenter on the plantation John Tibeats shows great resent towards Solomon because of his intellegence and makes it his job to harass Solomon at any chance he could. John Tibeats harassment really challenged Solomon's faith, there was even one instance when Paul Tibeats began to beat Solomon but Solomon not only resisted but he retaliated and began to beat John. Because of this Solomon was hanged on a tree and the only thing keeping him alive were the tips of his toes, but Solomon's faith remained strong and he tried his best to
For example, when Antigone asks Ismene to break the law Ismene replies in fear saying "Think of how terrible than these deaths, our own death would be if we were to go against Creon." (Line 42). The power that Creon has over his people plays an important part in the play. When Creon makes a decree saying that Polyneices will not have a proper burial, his life starts to spiral out of control. This action leads to him being considered a tragic hero.
According to Brown, “The dramatist depicts incidents which arouse pity and fear for the protagonist [Antigone], then during the course of the action, he resolves the major conflicts, bringing the plot to a logic and foreseeable conclusion (Brown, para 5). The tragic hero in Antigone is Creon. Tragic heroes are not all good and not all bad. Creon suffers a great deal due to his tragic flaw and destructive pride. Creon believes the gods make him suffer the loss of his wife and son as punishment for his pride.