Next day, same deal, singing and disobeying. After the third day, Philip is sent to the principal and suspended. Saying that he sang in the act of patriotism, Philip and his father go to a reporter with this story. The story gets out all over the country; eventually newspapers are printing and radio shows are gossiping about it. The amount of telegrams sent was like when the Germans were bombing England.
However, after the 10 days were over, Jerry kept on refusing to sell the chocolate. This caused some trouble with the Vigils, so they gave him another assignment. This time they had him fight someone. The Vigils gave a variety of about 5 assignments to different students to perform. Brother Leon also tried to embarrass Jerry while they tally up the sales by asking him about his chocolate sales when he knew that Jerry didn’t sell any of the chocolates.
For example when Philip hummed along to the US National Anthem he was there this morning when we say “I pledge my allegiance to the USA…. : 6. When Philip gets transferred to his least favorite teacher’s homeroom everything goes wrong starting with Ms. Narwin, the English teacher. 7. When Philip used to hum along in his other classroom nobody cared but Ms. Narwin does so SUSPENSION.
Ponyboy does not realize why Darry emphasizes schoolwork. Ponyboy then figures out that Darry wants him to go to college because Darry couldn’t. Darry said, “ You could get a scholarship with your brains and grades” (Hinton 73). Pony just thought that Darry was just being too overpowering of him with all his nagging. Pony and Darry seem to have never gotten along ever since their parents died in a car accident.
All the other Indians just stood around and watched Victor beat Thomas up for no reason. Why nobody even tried to stop this could be because they did not care for Thomas. They treated him as an outcast. Throughout this work otherness is shown quite a bit. There are many times when it is obvious that Thomas is being othered throughout this work.
Both were treated unfairly and weren’t liked by people. They both were used in some sort of experiment. Firstly, who ever you are and whatever you lack shouldn’t hold you back from having friends. Both Charlie Gordon and the monster had difficulties appealing to people and this was very disturbing to them. For example, the monster was hated by all and he knew that he could never have someone that looked normal because of the way he was.
Procopius In The Secret History Procopius writes an extremely unfavorable account of the Emperor Justinian and his time on the thrown. He focuses his writing not only on Justinian and his wife Theodora but also his general Belisarius who Procopius accompanied on campaign and Belisarius’ wife Antonina. This account was extremely different compared with various other historical accounts and leaves the reader somewhat skeptical about the accuracy of the book. Justinian’s accomplishments far outweighed the stories that Procopius wrote about so historians like Peters and Sarris have called him and enemy of the Emperor and even a shady character and instead they focused on his accomplishments and how his laws, with some updates, were used until the end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. (Peters, 94) Procopius in The Secret History criticizes Justinian throughout the book.
Even with the lies he tells. Even though Holden often refers to other people as “phonies”, Holden himself is a phony. By the way he acts, he will classify as a phony by often lying to other people to help give out a good image of himself. Holden’s hunting hat is also proof that he is classified as a
Nick says “asked him to wait for half an hour, but it wasn’t any use. Nobody came.”(Fitzgerald, pg.174). Gatsby is also in reality proven to be an dishonorable man because he shames him family by changing his name to jay Gatsby.
Stan by Eminem 309 words The song “Stan” is about an extremely big fan of Slim who is called Stanly. Through the whole song, we hear Stan’s letters to Eminem. Stan writes about his situation, he is about to be a father, he is confused and he doesn’t know if he can handle it. He is mad all the time, and he cannot get the relationship between him and his girlfriend to work. He also compares himself to Eminem, they both had a hard childhood, and neither of them knew their father.