A Car and A Church Flannery O’ Connor’s novel Wise Blood (1952) is the story of a very confused man named Hazel Motes who lives in Taulkinham, Tennessee. Hazel has recently been let go from the military due to his injuries. During Hazel’s time spent in the military, he is told that he does not have a soul and believes this assumption. His grandfather was a preacher who taught Christianity from the hood of his car and also traveled. Hazel later creates his own church after he witnessed a blind man preaching about Christianity in the streets.
Larisa Albers Glenn-2 English 10H 26 November 2012 Old Man and the Sea Annotations 11/15 Pages read: 9-26 Plot points: * In Cuba * Boy is friends with the old man * Old man hasn’t caught fish in 84 days Characters Introduced: Old Man: * Salao (worst form of unlucky) * Sick * Blue eyes * Close friends with boy * Name is Santiago Boy: * Fished with old man for 40 days * Cares for old man * Loves old man * Name is Manolin Martin: * Owner of the Terrace Similes: “They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.” Other thoughts: The quote “When I was your age…” made me wonder how old the old man was. New vocab: Bodega- Spanish word for warehouse or winery Allusions: The name “Santiago” is a biblical allusion to Saint James who was also a fisherman-apostle in the New Testament. 11/15 Pages read: 27-44 Plot points: * Santiago sets out to sea * Santiago reminisces about turtle boating * Santiago catches an albacore and decides to use it as bait * Santiago sets his baits at exact fathoms * Santiago constantly thinks about Manolin and wishes Manolin was with him * Santiago hooks the giant marlin and it starts pulling him out to sea Characters Introduced: None Similes: “The clouds that looked like high snow mountains above them.” Other thoughts: It made me nervous and anxious when Santiago was pulled by the marlin so far that he could no longer see land. 11/16 Pages read: 45-54 Plot points: * The marlin tugs Santiago’s boat northwest * Santiago has to constantly convince himself that the position that he is in while attempting to hold the line is comfortable, as he is holding it for several hours * Santiago still wishes Manolin were with him * The fish can kill Santiago at any time if the fish decides to dive or jump * Santiago reminisces about a time when
Bubba, however, actually would rarely ever look at his audience at all. He would flail his arms around at times, when his brother was speaking, freaking out Admiral Akbar. He The start of this meeting already shows how poor Bubba was in his communication and tactile skills and why he was not selected for Chancellor. This is very much similar to his ancestor John Elder. As John Elder has written in his memoir, “Well, I thought, that certainly describes me.
The syphilis disease affected poor rural black men in the United States Government. These people affected by the syphilis disease were not offered any medical treatment. During the course of the study, the men were at regular intervals called in to receive “treatments” which were not actually treatments but medical tests used to determine the seriousness of their conditions, and the development of the syphilis was noted by the research team. The research team of doctors had no intention of giving treatments to the affected. The participants were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness.
(Page 272) He returned to school the following morning. His fathers disapproved of him dropping out; the fathers influence on the son was enough to make him change his decision. The mother was not pleased but this and could not believe her own son would "choose useless books over the parents they gave him life." (Page 272) This lead to influencing the narrator to join his father on the boat when his uncle left his father in order to support his growing family. He told his father that he would "remain with him as long as he lived" and continue to fish with him.
At the same time, the narrator didn’t use emotional words to express his feeling but readers could understand his pain of seeing how his brother suffered after war was already beyond explaining by words. When Henry said “it was no use”, the narrator was silent as he could do nothing. In the end, Henry jumped into the river and the red convertible demised with him. The narrator described the dead scene in a peaceful and not violent way, showing to the readers that his sadness couldn’t be explained and pretended to be nothing
On the other hand, what Troy got was only a potato with no waiter service. Clearly, this represents the unfair society at that time even I believe that the African Americans didn’t do anything that is wrong. People’s race is borned from the beginning, that is, we can’t change it. In the story, Troy didn’t even have a chance to explain his idea, his life of unjust poverty, racism, and discrimination, which prevented his chance to be a successful baseball athlete or even a successful father (“Defending Troy Maxton from Racial Discrimination in August Wilson’s Fences”). Cory, a poor boy has lived in his father's huge shadow, which the source that makes Cory need to be live under Troy’s shadow is racism too.
Suppressed conflict is on construction of windmills. These companies never involved in discussion or considered the concerns of fishermen and when fishermen approached many officials to express their concerns, they didn’t communicate back to them. Manuel Bustos is one of the officials for windmill production, he never resolved the basic issues of fishermen and he stated to his group to influence the fishermen by telling benefit of the project. In our case fishermen are ready, but government and wind organizations are still discussing and not cooperative to surface conflict. Problems occur if such situations are ignored: If the situations are ignored, it may turn even worse and employees refuse to work, poor coordination and integration.
It sank, the stranger told me, on the bank of my island. Disappointed, I grunted, for it seemed he had no more ship to be hunted, no more of his crew to fix for a meal, and no loot that I could steal. So I picked up a few of his crew and, just to show contempt, I didn’t boil them in stew, but rather ate them alive. Their captain’s look was horrified! That’ll teach him,’ I thought to myself.
‘But I will say ten Our Fathers and ten Hail Marys that I should catch this fish, and I promise to make a pilgrimage to the Virgin of Cobre. That is a promise” (65) shows this because he doesn’t discuss his beliefs. He only acts on them. He isn’t religious because he doesn’t attend a service, but in a sense that is a discussion, or a flashing of his beliefs. Instead, he merely acted in a religious manner, and prayed.