During the story it also describes their attempts to converse with an A&W employee, but no one will offer them consolation. O’Brien himself realizes that if he didn’t have writing to work through his trauma, he might be in wretched into a place as Bowker. Both stories also talk about the tragedy of the deaths that were occurring. In The Things They Carried Kiowa was an loved member of the alpha company and O’Brien friend. Although O’Brien is unclear about whether or not he actually threw a grenade and killed a man outside My Khe, his memory of the man’s corpse is strong and recurring, symbolizing humanity’s guilt over war’s horrible acts.
Through Steinbeck’s literary techniques he explains the causes of Lennie’s death through the theme, characterization and foreshadowing. Although Steinbeck was able to leave his readers with many thoughts to think about from the story, one of the themes that clearly show the cause of Lennie’s death is sacrificing. Even though by killing Lennie, George lifts a heavy burden off his chest for he no longer has to take care of Lennie and deal with all the troubles Lennie keep on making for him. However, George has to sacrifice his friendship and love because by shooting Lennie he loses a friend whom had always been keeping him company and shares a dream with him, to have their own farm where they would share and live together. Other than that, it was not easy for George to shoot Lennie but he had to do it because if he didn’t he knew that Curley would and in a more painful way.
Back to The Mighty, Kevin and Max realized that they had something in common. They were outcasts and were always being bullied because they were “freaks”, but they were proud. Also, they were both abandoned by their fathers at a young age. When Kevin died because of his illness, Max became very sad, but later on, he wrote his own book and realized that their relationship still exists, because he ended his book drawing a picture of a grave at the bottom of the lake, and on the grave, it said “Here lies King Arthur, Once and Future King”, and that King Arthur story was a symbol of Kevin. That picture was also a symbol of Kevin because at the beginning of the movie, Kevin said, “Every word is part of a picture.
3.05 Fascination with Fear Part A The theme I developed from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Premature Burial” is Man must ignore the darker possibilities in life in order to survive. Examples from the text include the narrators experience he told about in the story. He awoke to the smell of dirt, nothing but darkness, the feeling of wood all around him, and silence of a sea that overwhelms. Since he cannot open the coffin he thinks he is in, he realizes that he must have fallen under an attack catalepsy in the presence of people who knew not of his condition. He screams, then to be shaken by four people, making him realize he is really in the tiny sleeping berths of a ship.
When Ophelia dies Laertes is Distraught and isn’t afraid to show this whereas Hamlet loved her but his lack emotion left him without a connection to her at the end of the play. Laertes feels so sad from not only his father’s death but then Ophelia dying that breaks down acting without any use of his brain going to the king and accusing without any proof. Hamlet however reacts very different to death for when his fathers is murdered he has “A little more that kin, and less the kind”. This meaning he suspected someone (the king) but didn’t do anything for he
On The Sidewalk Bleeding A short story we have read is 'On The Sidewalk Bleeding' by Evan Hunter is about a boy called Andy, who is in a gang called The Royals, has been stabbed and is slowly dying, but he doesn't know it. Over the time he was lying on the sidewalk, people do come past but do not help, while Andy is lying there, he is thinking about the girl he loves, Laura who finds Andy, but he is dead by then. We wouldn't normally have sympathy for someone like Andy because he got himself into this mess by joining a gang, so he paid the price for being in a gang. This story is similar to the Good Samaritan story because no one helps Andy because he is a Royal, and they don't want to get involved in that stuff. The first person to come is the drunk man who makes the story more tragic because he says 'I gotta a good mind to call a cop' which gets Andy’s hopes up that he is going to be found but then the drunk man says 'You don' wanna cop to fin' you all drunk an' wet in an alley, huh; Okay, buddy.
This chapter is counted into a climax and a turning point of the novel. Due to the effect of alcohol and ignorance from Sally and the bar singer, Holden made himself of a fool with collapsing sense of security. When he was in the park, he was overwhelmed by depress and miserableness. Tape, ducks and pond triggered his depressing memory of his brother Allie’s death and the fear of his own funeral, thereby revealing the root of his previous manic behavior: Holden was troubled by unexplained disappearance and he was in deep anxiousness that all the things that were related to his pure, innocent childhood would suddenly vanish. This echoes one of the themes of this novel—adolescent confusion on the way to the adult world and the pain of growing up.
This feeling of fear is similarly felt in “Anthem For Doomed Youth” which is about the differences in how the men are treated when they die for example when they are left to rot in the mud instead of being buried in a church yard. The feeling of fear is shown when Owen says “Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,” This quote shows the fear of the families back home more than the men (soldiers) fighting and it is an important quote as well as it reminds the reader that war wasn’t all about the men dying on the front line because for each man that died that meant one less son to treasure and love, one less farther to comfort their child, one less brother to stand side by side, A main theme in this poem is to remind people that war effects everyone. The word ‘patient’ also implies how the families are waiting
However he may have also regretted his choice of leaving the palace in the first place, he had such a wonderful life but then he went outside and saw all the bad things in life. One of the reasons why the Buddha may have left the palace in the first place is because he got bored. Even though he had everything he wanted, because he had done everything already, he wanted to go outside to try something new. He may have also felt like he was trapped inside the castle and felt as if he had nowhere to go, like a prisoner. Another reason why he could have left the palace is because he was wanted to go against his dad for once to see what would happen.
The poem shows the strength the person that died and the pain he or she had to go through. The poem Epitaph, also deals with an unjustly act that was done. This act that was done was on a Clement morning and left sorrow in the hearts of the fellow onlookers of the man that died. This poem also promotes oral history. This poem also mentions children playing but they did not know they were to know they were to stop and pay their respect to the dead.