* “Binding her thoughts to it, making it a screen between her and the surrounding snow and silence.” Ann is struggling to overcome the isolation. * “The brute-tired stupid eyes he turned on her if ever she mentioned town or visiting.” * “It was something of life she wanted, not just a house and furniture; something of John, not pretty clothes when she would be too old to wear them. But John of course couldn’t understand.” * “There was in his devotion a baffling, insurmountable humility that made him feel the need of sacrifice. And when his muscles ached, when his fee dragged
He felt abandoned because he also knew himself that he was only taken in by family for his work ethics but not for the caring and love of a child. The lack of love that he received at a young age for him influenced his decision of running away and living out into the dessert at the age of fourteen. This situation of having no one to depend on or depending on him has given him freedom and independence but has also betrayed his caring and loves towards others. Nat Swanson is ushered by a stray dog through his lonely journey. The impact of the dog accompanying him shows the lack of communication that Nat Swanson has.
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George is a modern classic for the middle to upper elementary age group. The author skillfully crafts a believable protagonist in Sam Gribley, a young boy who runs away from home. Sam is a nuanced character. At times he struggles with his decision to live in the woods, but mostly he embraces it. He always looks to the future in his quest for freedom and adventure and refuses to quit.
This is portrayed through the quote “Evenings are very quiet, all round the forest is there”. The technique used is personification, by giving the forest human qualities, showing that there is no one else only the forest smothering the town’s people. This links the issue of isolation that is also shown in Sean Doherty’s “Bra Boys”. Similarly in Sean Doherty’s “Bra Boys” there is a sense of isolation, from the gang being separated from the broader community. This is shown through the quote “we are not like them, we are different, they wouldn’t understand”.
In Faulkner’s story, Emily is completely isolated within her home. The house plays a big role because the town rarely sees her because she refuses to leave her home. She feels safe within those walls and believes her world inside that home was reality. Emily had a sense of security in her home and one can also relate to this feeling. Faulkner was trying to depict a person who was completely out of touch with reality and did not want to face it.
Ironically, Crabbe’s inner struggle is revealed through running away, learning survival skills, and Keeping Mary’s secret. First of all, Crabbe decides he canot handle his parents making all the decisions for him. Crabbe hates going to school
George on the other hand is just a typical farmhand, not as strong as Lennie, but not nearly as dumb either. After Lennie's aunt Clara passed away George took the responsibility of looking after Lennie who was an animal lover, and couldn't take his hands off anything soft and fuzzy. Sadly he didn't know his own strength so he most often ended up killing them. Lennie and George weren't like other farmhands. They had each other, and therefore didn't live the life of solitude and isolation like many other farmhands.
The journey to self understanding these two young boys follow is incomplete yet significantly vast through events that they encounter. The narrator of “Greasy Lake” is a nineteen year old boy who likes to believe that he and his friends are “bad”. He intricately describes what he does and explains why he is bad. In his perception, being
In the novel the forest is representative of natural law and authority and this allows each character to act as they wish while in it. In the case of Chillingworth it represents his darkness and his friendship with evil. He is often seen walking through the woods collecting weeds, plants and other herbs to make remedies and medicine. This shows that his medicine to help Dimmesdale was always filled with bad intentions and that he only kept him alive in order to continually torture him. There is a correlation between Chillingworth and the Black Man because both are said to dwell in the woods.
But Emerson and Thoreau both have looked past the materials in their lives and took it upon themselves to live independently, spiritually, with solitude, and without the materials, but the bare minimum in life. Emerson, the man that had made his life without luxury, as he lived in the woods away from the population, he began to find out what life was meant for and why he was placed here to see it, without the materials that were extra in his life. Emerson had talked about building a home from nothing more than his own hands and nature itself. Thoreau had been an anti-materialist as well as Emerson. When Thoreau read Emerson’s writing he began to live that life himself and started to build his home.