In the poem “The Odyssey” by Homer, Odysseus has too face many problems and challenges through his life. Odysseus journey’s through many difficult challenges that change him and build him into a better person because he gets experienced, courageous, and stronger in many ways. Odysseus suffers many pains and hardships during his challenges but yet always overcomes them. The Odyssey is an outstanding book that shows acts of courage, endurance, pride, and vengeance. Odysseus gets wiser more and more every time he lives through a dangerous life experience.
Huck risks being caught traveling with a runaway slave and the consequences are that river travel was very dangerous. Another stage is when Jim has been captured by the Phelps' in chapter 31. Huck decides to go and free Jim. Back then freeing a slave was considered a horrible crime, but Huck didn't care and decided to take any punishment or humiliation as long as his friend could be free. 4.
Wes was a sheriff. It is his job to lock up criminals like Frank, Frank even openly admitted to his actions, a confession, and straight to the sheriffs face ‘He’s guilty as sin. He told me as much.’ Wes has no choice but to lock up Frank, Although Wes feels too guilty to lock up his brother. But when Frank couldn’t give a damn, and shows absolutely no remorse, Wes’s decision becomes an easier one. Lock him up, let him serve his sentence.
For example, he says to Dick he killed a ‘Negro’ called King with a bicycle chain, which isn’t true (see page 112). Then, Perry does not want to go in the house and kill the Clutters with Dick, but does not want Dick seeing him as a coward (see page 235). Also as a child, he was very sensitive. For Dick, killing represented easy money, or steeling without witnesses. For example, he first started steeling in small place like supermarkets event if he had money,, then, it trills him to kill, he was expecting from six to twelve person in the Clutters’ house (see page 234), and as he repeats over and over, no witnesses (see page 233).
When one is passionate about something, the choices one makes throughout their lives are, on a most basic level, a matter of choosing to pursue one’s passion, or choosing not to. At some point in one’s life, they will come to a challenge; something to overcome; however if one has compromised the pursuit of their passion they will also have the choice to compromise again. Sometimes this challenge is to survive the ordeal and continue to live in line with one’s passion after the boulder, or the hurricane. In 127 Hours, Aron Ralston describes his challenge as also being the blessing of his life. This is because Ralston had an acute passion for searching for self-understanding.
As a southern white boy, Huck has an obligation to turn Jim back in; when he does not he is essentially turning his back on society.”’People would call me a low down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum - but that don’t make no difference. I ain’t a-going to tell . . .’” (50). Huck is aware that by not turning Jim in he is not only putting himself at risk for ridicule from his peers but, also breaking the law.
His importance has lead to him ordering his hunters to forget about the beast so that they wouldn’t have any nightmares. This is illustrated when he says ‘Jack paused cradling the conch’ This suggests that he wants to have things his own way and is mostly concerned about himself Jack is presented as a violent and impulsive character. He tries to assert power and authority over the boys with threat and violence and he is selfish, only thinking about what he wants at
When Amir want to make Hassan become a theft, baba turns him to shock “Except Baba stunned me by saying, “I forgive you” (Hosseini 112) Baba is a strictly person. He does not like any one do something bad and especially that is stealing. When baba says “I forgive you”, it makes Amir feel jealous to them. In the beginning of the novel, when Amir asks his father about which sin with baba is the biggest and baba answer that is stealing. This is the reason that makes him get shock.
In the end of the book, Huck loses Jim to the dauphin who sells Jim to a farmer. Huck writes a letter to Miss Watson asking for forgiveness for losing Jim but Huck realizes that Miss Watson would sell Jim anyway. So Huck tears up the letter and realizes that he must betray his beliefs (“go to hell”) in order to save his friend Jim. This action at the end of the book symbolizes a huge step for Huck from inhumanity towards man to actual humanity towards man. At the end of the book, Huck not only realizes that black people are human beings, but he also realizes that he saved one of his best
Mr. Richard Eugene Hickock is the other main character in this novel. He is the one who plans the robbing of the Clutter’s and says that they cannot leave any witnesses. One of the conflicts that he faces is that he starts to waver when it comes to carrying out the plan to actually kill the Clutter’s and he leaves it all to Smith and becomes a bystander to the murders. His strengths are that he is smooth-talking, always plans on making a buck, and that he is very self-assured. His weaknesses are that he has insecurities like he cannot support his first wife and children, that he has a sexual interest in young women including Nancy Clutter, and that he has not been able to achieve financial stability.