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.
But in the end the father says, “if there had only been time to go up to my club” which tells us that the father is very self-centered and that the only thing he thinks of is him self and his life instead of getting to know his son. The son is getting more and more ashamed of his father, because of the way he behaves at the restaurants. In the beginning he was proud and he had high expectations to this meeting but know only an hour and a half later, he know that he will never see his dad again. While standing at a newsstand the father is doing it all over again. He is being rude to the seller and he is shouting at him.
Odysseus immediately thinks of a genius plan. He gets the giant extremely drunk and when asked what his name is, he tells Polyphemus that it is “Nobody.” At first this is confusing and the reader may question Odysseus’s motive, however, it turns out he was preparing for when the Cyclopes called for help. He called to his neighbors saying, “Nobody’s killing me now by fraud and not by force!” (9. 456) His neighbors did not come to help him, since they didn’t think he was in any danger. Despite his impressive actions, Odysseus also shows ignorance and a cowardly side.
Bob Jones moved to Los Angeles from Cleveland because he was tired of being passed over for work while white boys were hired. Eventually Bob Jones does find work and has an important position as a Leaderman in a shipyard. In spite of his position he deals with racism at work especially from his supervisor. Easy Rawlins moved to Los Angeles from Houston after returning from the war and encountering an old friend. Mouse burdens Easy with the fact that he has committed a senseless murder.
As shown, Holden is depressed in many ways: he fails in life, he is lonesome, and he still is affected by his brother's death. Holden is a failure because he cannot pass any classes in school, except English, and he cannot do anything right. He is lonely because he simply hates mostly everyone and, therefore, does not have any friends. Holden is depressed by his brother's death because that was his best friend. Holden's depression started with the loss of his best friend/brother and continued on with failure and loneliness throughout the rest of his
Troy filed a complaint at his job about how the white men were always driving and the African-American men were lifting. Willy was not selling as he once did and when he asks his boss to stop traveling because he is tired, he is then fired. Both characters feel trapped by their obligations, seek relief in extramarital relationships, and reap the negative repercussions. In Death of a Salesman, Willy’s son discovers his affair in Boston, altering their relationship. Troy produces a daughter with his mistress, ending any emotional relationship with his wife.
Book Report Young Ranofer is the son of Thutra, master goldsmith. When Thutra died, poor Ranofer was left to the not-so-tender mercies of his half-brother, Gebu, a hulking brute who deals out insults and beatings with little provocation. Ranofer's life is barely tolerable working in Rekh's goldsmith shop, but until he can be apprenticed, his job is a dead-end and he must turn over all his earnings to Gebu. Worse, he has noticed that his brother has been growing rich and suspects he may be stealing. But even if Ranofer manages to get proof, who will believe a boy like him against the word of a man like Gebu?
Next in the story “Jared” is about a boy who has his face burned and separates himself from the rest of the world. Then in the story “Goin' Fishing,” Lionel lost his family and all that he has left in his heart is rage. Wally is the main character in “White Chocolate,” by Robin Brancato and his parents are going through a rough divorce. His dad had left to Alaska and hasn’t written a single letter back to Wally. He of course is hurt by this and feels abandoned by his father’s
On page 53 he fantasizes about sally fox who is deceased, he poaches fish, smokes drugs and dates a woman who has a husband. He is very lonely until he meets georgie because he has no motivation, is self reliant and has a drinking problem. At this point you think he is a bad person until you see why he is like this and you suddenly feel bad for him. On page 103 Luther is telling the reader that all the actions in his life is a project of forgetting which kind of helps the point that he could not be a villain if he is trying to forget what has happened in the past. Page 104 the last sentence is really powerful as it shows that he is angry that his family died he is angry that he was the only survivor of the car crash.
He tries to explain to his father that he has blown him so full of hot air that he hasn’t been able to take orders from any employer, that all of his jobs have failed because he believed what his father told him when he said he deserved greatness. Biff finally realizes, on his own, that greatness is earned, not handed out like soup at a homeless shelter. Fortunately for Tom Wingfield, he already knew that lesson. He ran away to find his greatness and adventure, his destiny. He returns to the old apartment and it is empty, used only now by the spiders who have built themselves luxurious condos in the arches and windowsills.