He thinks of building shelters to protect them and to start a fire for their rescue. He becomes friend with Piggy, the fat boy that receives taunts and teases from the other boy, and gets used to rely on Piggy's intellectual reasoning. Ralph is brave when the occasion presents it, but he really miss for the secure world of adults, especially when order starts to break down on the island. He dreams about a rescue and insists that the signal fire always has to burn so that they can be seen. Ralph considers that the main reason for the disorder on the island is Jack, the antagonist and representation of evil in the novel.
In the ironical short story, “Little Jess and the Outrider” written by Jessamyn West, Little Jess has a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” kind of situation. He thinks he is committing a sin but in actuality he is helping a wounded young man, Roy, live. Little Jess is a Methodist and is opposed to any kind of war, but living in a time of civil war his belief of who the enemy is, is shaken. He finds a young wounded confederate soldier; though he detests war but he loathes slavery more, hence the confederates are his adversaries. Unsure of what to do with the enemy soldier, Little Jess’s moral compass is tested.
Amir, the main character of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, is a boy who longs for the admiration and acceptance of his father. Baba and Amir cannot have the relationship Amir desires because of the characteristics and expectations of each other. Amir wants to have Baba all to himself, Amir is weak in Baba’s eyes and Amir is not how Baba envisioned his son. All in all, Amir just wants to be respected by his father. Amir wishes to have his father all to himself, he wants to spend time with Baba without anyone else.
This childish theme continues with Amir asking baba about eating eggshell and if you would have to pee it out, he then says he thinks he has cancer, attention seeking, but it doesn’t work. This shows that Amir is desperate for a relationship and love from/with his father and is willing to do or say anything to get it. This contrasts with a section later in the passage about Baba’s hat flying off, Amir then gets asked to hold it. This is a way of baba marking out his son, letting people know he is his, if baba wasn’t proud of his son he would have held it himself or given it to a friend. Amir is chuffed.
Unfortunately the deterioration of democracy starts very early on when Ralph lets Jack become in charge of the choir “The choir belongs to you, of course.” they become savages at the end of the novel: and try to take over using Ralph’s inadequacy to lead and think straight against him: “There was something he wanted to say; then the shutter came down”. Ralph needs Piggy to guide him and Piggy has all the best ideas. Piggy and
when Prospero first came to the island, Caliban taught him how to survive on the island, and in exchange, Prospero taught him and to speak. This might explain Caliban’s use of sometimes good language. But Prospero’s decision to teach him speech might not have been a wise one as explained by Caliban on lines 351-364 act 1 scene 2 “ You taught me language, and my profit on’t is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you for learning me your language!”. In contrast sometimes Caliban’s language can be good, for example in act 3 scene 2 lines 131-136 he says “Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
It just didn’t seem to stay on track in order for me to grasp a good tone. In (paragraph 61) Sykes is back up to his scaring tactics again but this time he actually found a rattle snake to scare his wife with. The tone he sets is very confident. I say this because he really thinks that all of a sudden he is a snake charmer. He thinks that he can control the snake that he has caught.
I have also used the family angle because of the well documented relationship that Kafka had with his own father. The most obvious change that occurs within Metamorphosis is Gregor becoming a monstrous vermin at the beginning of the novella. Even though he has changed beyond recognition he does not panic, there is an uncomfortable calm, he thinks he can still function normally. He is worried about catching the next train and getting the samples ready but then ironically being the boss’s creature, stupid and spineless. His physical change as far as he can see will not change his enjoyment of life, there will be no difference as he was a bug before, towing the line for the boss.
This explains his bravery presented when he hears of the violent crimes committed by the evil demon Grendel. Beowulf hurriedly commands a bout fitted out to sail across the sea to Hrothgar. In lines (109-119), when Beowolf does decide to go to Hrothgar to help the Danes, he is encouraged by the Geats to go with the adventure. “None of the wise ones regretted his going, much as he was loved by the Geats.” I would consider Beowulf to be an arrogant character, because when he battles Grendel he doesn’t use a sword claiming it to be an “unfair advantage” due to Grendel not having a weapon. Throughout the poem, Beowulf is considered an honorable hero.
Socializing is more important to Charlie, than being a thief. Charlie bounces from the way of being an adult, between the ways of being a child. He keeps telling himself if he gets caught, then he might as well have his smoke. He sees himself brave and a step closer to be an adult. But he is also frightened of getting caught, and doesn’t dare to move, or switch the light on.