Wiesel however is a young jewish boy who did not know of the horrors that the Nazis brought down upon the jews. When the Germans occupied Wiesel's town, they were nice and compassionate, which lead the citizens to believe that the Germans would not do anything to harm them. While in the concentration camps, Wiesel lost his faith and realized what the world could come to; therefore, he matured extremely quickly. At the end of The Boy in Striped Pajamas, Bruno gets gassed because of one of the gas chambers his father ran. This caused great regret in his father as he now knows that he is responsible for all the jews and his son!
He left his child in a tub of running water because his mind was elsewhere caught in his delusions and hallucinations. That is the scariest part to me, because you could hurt other people and not even mean to. He begin the struggle to regain himself towards the end of the movie where he went back to his old school and he becomes as a professor, even though he would hear the voices and see that delusion of that strange guy that followed him, his best friend and the little girl. He would continue on and ignore them. He also became a better man at home with his family.
Amir’s first experience of violence is when Amir wins the Kite fighting Tournament, and Hassan, runs off in pursuit of Amir’s trophy. Hassan is gone long enough to alarm Amir, who begins to search for him and once he finds him, he sees Assef, a bully, raping him. Amir at first is scared of Assef but later convinces himself by says, “Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay to win Baba (Amir’s Father) Was it a fair price?” (Hosseini 82). As Amir never helps Hassan, this shows that Amir will do anything to get Baba’s love and intention.
Unsure of what to do with the enemy soldier, Little Jess’s moral compass is tested. The young man tells Little Jess he owns no slaves and his perception of whom the enemy is alters. Even though he believes helping Roy is making him into a traitor, he continues because he likes the young soldier who never laughs at the wonderments and wishes Little Jess could never tell his older brothers. After Roy is healed and had left to travel back home, Little Jess feels as if his sins are going to make him combust. Thinking that if he goes to a Methodist meeting his sins will be washed away and he would be revived, Little Jess attendees the meeting only to just look in then leave.
His virtue is compassion because he loved his parent too much so he ran away from them. He didn’t want to kill his father and marry his mother but little did he know he was adopted so him running a away cause his down fall because he ended up killing his actual father and marrying his mother and having kids with her. If Aristotle’s definition could be expanded to where virtue was included then “Oedipus” would be considered a tragedy. If you put virtue into there then the hero wouldn’t have to have a tragic flaw he could have a virtue which is like compassion or sadness because a flaw is like pride or something along those lines. If virtue was included then Finding Nemo would fit his criteria.
In the end, both fails to defeat the powerful effects of past experiences. On the other hand, Goldsworthy shows how Paul overcomes his arrogant and insensitive attitude as a child and becomes more sensible individuals. Goldsworthy illustrate Keller's suffering from his painful past and how his attempt to forget it fails. He believed that he could save his family by performing for Hitler. However after his beloved wife and child were murdered in the Holocaust, he is unable to perceive life the way he did before the war.
He accidently killed Stilson in the beginning of the book without knowing until chapter 15, because he kicked him so many times. He did not mean to, he just wanted to win and make them stop harassing him. Ender always feels like a killer after he kills someone, even when it’s not on purpose. For Ender, he doesn’t want to be a killer because he doesn’t like killing people and he thinks that it will make him like Peter. Ender does not want to kill anyone because if he does, then it’ll make him like Peter.
As the murderers were preparing to kill everyone, Tom attempted to talk to them and alleviate the situation to avoid anybody getting hurt. But as time progressed, nothing could be done to stop the mad men from robbing the diner and killing everyone in it. Tom had no choice but to end the lives of those two men. Tom’s son Jack is portrayed as submissive teenager that has a calm, friendly, non violent demeanor to him. At his high school, Jack is frequently ridiculed and tormented Cohen 2 by a bully who makes several attempts to get into a fight with Jack.
This line of thinking is passed onto Robert and likely has an effect on the reasoning behind the actions of Robert in the later parts of the book. Even after Ivan and his friends call Nelson a “stinking chocolate face”, “terrorist” and an “effing gook”, Nelson believes that they are only doing this because “the war only ended three years ago” “and it can take time to forget”. When Ivan and his gang throw Nelson into the pit and throw the scorpions onto him, although Robert does not full take part in the bullying, he is a bystander
He then gets arrested for assaulting the policeman and his father lectures him when he picks his son up. Christopher does detective work and explains how he finds it confusing when people tell h 3. Christopher wants to prove to everyone that he is far from stupid by taking the A levels math and achieving an A, in which is something extraordinary that no one in his school has done. Therefor he thinks that the other students are stupid. This is important because it shows his ambition to so to a University and get a high paying job.