Each of these characters shows their will to survive in their own ways throughout the novel. For example, Lina is forced to draw the NKVD officer attractively and smuggle an owl for her and her family’s survival. She goes against what her favourite artist showed her to draw like and shows her will to survive by hiding a dead bird in her jacket. On the other hand, her mother Elena shows her will to survive in another form. Elena firstly trades her father’s pocket watch to bribe the NKVD officer to not take her son.
His first premise is, death and suffering due to starvation and malnutrition are very bad. Famine is prominent in many third world countries, and as people living on the same planet it is horrible to know that those less fortunate do not have the amount of food needed to survive. This is a fact, not an argument. Moving on to the second premise which states, if we can prevent something bad from happening without sacrificing something of equal moral importance then we ought to do it. I previously stated death and suffering from malnutrition are bad, therefore if we can prevent famine without harming ourselves we ought to do it.
By living with the DeRosier’s April was taught to hate her people, her family, but she also learned to stay strong. Living with the DeRosier’s made April fully realize that people view Métis as “second class citizens”. Living with them was what sparked her desire to be white. She even plotted that “When [she got] free of [that] place, when [she got] free from being a foster child, then [she]would live just like a real white person"(34). The DeRosier’s were also the ones who shattered her dreams of a perfect family by saying “We take you in because your parents don’t want you"(35).
They know that they are both fighting to survive and so katniss can go back home to take care of prim mostly and her mother. And the capital doesn’t like it and right at the last minute before they take their lives, they change the rules of the games to show everyone that they are still in power and not anything can happen in the hunger games, so be scared, very scared. In the book, katniss father gets killed in a mining explosion and can no longer provide for them, so katniss has to step in and become the household income of the house. The mother is out and no one’s home, katniss’s seen this and has to do something. She can’t let her sister die from starvation, so she hunts for food, and becomes a good hunter at shooting arrows.
Useless Bucks In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald most of the relationships between the characters are pretty similar to our society today. The novel and its themes relate to our society; we are actually mimicking their styles, lifestyles, and struggles. The settings in the novel are pretty realistic and all have meaning. For instance, The Valley of Ashes is setting in the novel that symbolizes death, and poverty. The Valley of Ashes, is described the opposite of a wealthy town.
The ranch girl should considered her self lucky that she was an outsider because the people that she wanted to fit in with lives changed in the worst ways. Andy died, Rick is paralyzed, Carla has a baby and now stay back home with her father, and her parent now needs her to care after
Another example of sacrifice in the novel is when katniss and Gale sacrifice their life when they secretly enter the woods. This shows how much they value their life and are willing to risk themselves and their families by hunting prohibited animals. The hunting of course not only to provide their families with better alimentation, but to trade in the black market for better things in
She will do what has to be done in order to preserve the endangered species that are unique to the Channel Islands. But through all that dedication Alma has a lot of self-doubt because she has so much power over these animals but even with all that power she doesn’t know what to do with it. We see her dedication when Alicia, Alma’s assistant questions her ways, “I don’t know why we have to kill everything” Alma loses hope that she hasn’t explained herself, “But that’s exactly wrong, don’t you see? Because we’re the ones who put the animals there, the sheep and cattle and pigs on Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa, the rats on Anacapa and cats and rabbits on Santa Barbara, and it’s our obligation, our duty [to return these places to their original state by killing off the interlopers]”(103-104). But even with all the power she holds she still questions her motives and that is very ironic.
You and your hunting! We might’ve gone home- “(Golding 93). This quote is about how Jack goes off on his own, knowingly going against the rules for his short-term goal of hunting, and due to his actions, the group paid the ultimate price and missed their chance to be rescued. Due to the childish actions of the boy’s, and the inability to work with one another, it is impossible for them to establish a functional form of democracy. Rebellious kids are not only in works of fiction, they occur every day in modern society, according to Abby Ohlheiser’s article “Woman called ‘Mom of the Year’ After Beating a Young Man out of Baltimore Riots” posted in the Washington Post, she states that “I wish I had more parent’s take charge of their kids tonight”(n.pag.
All the evidence is there and it proves why this tale is one of caution. The story warns the reader that if you were mean and greedy, no one would like you. Also, the book shows how a man like Scrooge would not leave a positive impact on the world. One of the biggest fears in life is to die alone without leaving some sort of positive impact on the earth, or at the very least in one persons life. People should take caution in these facts, so that they can live their lives happily and not obtain the same unfortunate fate as