The second part will be about Luckys relationship with his parents and whether or not it was alright that they kicked him out like they did. The third and last part will be about life as an addict. ”Trash Walks” is a short story about a guy named Lucky. He’s only fifteen years old and already an addict. Because of his addiction, he is thrown out of his home by his parents.
Outline Throughout the story of Greasy Lake, the main character has an epiphany, or a sudden insight into the reality. This young teen, the protagonist, who narrates the story, is roughened up throughout the night with different events leading up to the event where he no longer cares to embrace the bad side of him. He just wants to survive and go home. TS 1.) The gang of friends believes that they are all “bad characters” and because of this have the right to do anything as they please.
It is also about loss of innocence and coming of age. What these kids do not know is that they are not as bad as they think. They face major consequences that will irreversibly change their lives. Whether it is in 1963 or 2011, kids will be kids and everyone thinks they are bad when they are teens, until they get hit with a large dose of reality. The characters in “Greasy Lake”, no doubt had intensions of causing some type of trouble.
But at the start he got bullied and he was scared to join in with some of the boys. Coincidence and parallel incidents are used in the story to make it seem that the course is controlling everything. Stanley is able to break the family curse because he carry’s zero up the mountain and drank the water from the hole he dug and sang the song. Another coincidence is that Stanley drops the spade back down the mountain and has to waste time by going down to get it. In this story Stanley had behaved really well.
This chapter is counted into a climax and a turning point of the novel. Due to the effect of alcohol and ignorance from Sally and the bar singer, Holden made himself of a fool with collapsing sense of security. When he was in the park, he was overwhelmed by depress and miserableness. Tape, ducks and pond triggered his depressing memory of his brother Allie’s death and the fear of his own funeral, thereby revealing the root of his previous manic behavior: Holden was troubled by unexplained disappearance and he was in deep anxiousness that all the things that were related to his pure, innocent childhood would suddenly vanish. This echoes one of the themes of this novel—adolescent confusion on the way to the adult world and the pain of growing up.
Looking weak in front of surrounding gang members can be humiliating for Steve, so he acts tough. Basically, Steve a normal kid who is influenced by bad stuff that surround him, contributed to making him bad. Being influenced by bad or good concepts can make a person good or bad. Like any other kid, who upon notices that they made a mistake due to their reactions to sudden, rash questions which can make any teenager land in big trouble due to bad influences around them can later start regretting, wishing they never agreed to the deal because they were afraid
The character Jamal reminds me of someone who is hard or tough. He has to deal with his mother not being able to look at him. He reminds her of his father who beat her and left the family. Another example of Jamal being tough is that his friends want him to do drug deals for him. After a while of holding drugs for his friends, he told his friends it wasn’t worth it and so he stopped.
Likewise, he also feels that their fans are bringing them down constantly. People don’t realize even with peer pressure they can always find a better option as to what they can and should do. These points in his song serve the purpose to encompass his feelings towards today’s society’s lack of empathy. Dissecting The Lyrical Aspects of “Beautiful by Eminem A young man growing up in the crude streets of Detroit, Marshal Mathers, or as he is more commonly known as Eminem, has to live under the influence of drugs, alcohol and violence. He finds himself addicted to drugs.
For far too long the American mantra has been “Hip hop causes violence!” Presidential candidates, senators, even our current president has placed blame on hip hop for staining the moral fabric of our country. School shootings, domestic violence, children being lost in a world of drugs is all placed on the shoulders of hip hop musicians and their soul deep lyrics. Studies have shown that those prone to violence do listen to a heavier style of music than adult contemporary and light jazz, but their home life was lacking. Their parents were either already into drugs and drug dealing, they always witnessed violence in their home and surroundings and they were never guided down the right path. Their parents took little to no interest in them as they were seen as a “mistake” and most came from single parent homes.
The Catcher in the Rye – Character Sketch: Holden Caulfield Holden Caulfield is the troubled and unreliable narrator of The Catcher in the Rye. The 17 year old and unintentionally hypocritical protagonist has a unique and profound vision of the world, influenced by 2 traumatic incidents that occurred earlier in his life. The death of his younger brother Allie and the suicide of one of his schoolmates could very well be the cause of his current concerned emotional state. Many teenagers can relate to Holden’s opinionated and emotional personality, as well as the issues he faces, which include sexually related encounters and desire for independence. As a symbol of independence, he wears a red hunting hat, which he grows fond of during the course of the novel because it displays uniqueness and individuality.