The author touched on class differences and how resentment can come from this. She also dealt with relationships between family members and how they can change over time and with understanding of each other. This last theme hit home the most with me. At the beginning of the book, Ponyboy resents Darry for being too strict. He understands the sacrifices that Darry has made to raise him and his brother.
In reading the fiction story “Killings” written by Andre Dubus, you think the two characters Matt Fowler and Richard Strout are very different. Dubus has the reader sympathetic towards Matt though the tragic death of his son Frank, and less feelings towards Richard. However, midway through the story you begin to compare Fowler and Strout and how they; love their family deeply, want revenge on the wrong that was done to them, and seek out homicidal justice. Matt Fowler’s love for his family is evident. I believe that Dubus wants us to know that Fowler loved his wife.
Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers Darry and Sodapop. Darry repeatedly accuses Ponyboy of lacking common sense, but Ponyboy is a reliable youth. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy struggles with class division, violence, innocence, and familial love. He matures over the course of the novel, eventually realising the importance of friendship and the feeling of respect. Though he is only fourteen years old, he understands the way his social group functions and the role each group member plays.
But without Lennie, George would be alone and unhappy, he realizes: "Course Lennie's a nuisance most of the time, but you get used to going around with a guy and you can't get rid of him" (Pg.41).Lennie and George love one another; they know that their lives have meaning because they are friends. When Lennie accidentally breaks the neck of Curley' wife, George kills Lennie in an act of mercy and love, knowing that Lennie could not survive in prison In addition to their similarities, George and Lennie have some important differences the first characteristic is their physical appearance. Lennie is large and strong. Steinbeck describes him as "a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walks heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws" (Pg.2). Lennie is powerfully built and his strength gets him into many sticky situations throughout the book.
A Bronx Tale Sonny is a good guy. Sometimes good people get so caught up in doing bad things and even if they want to stop, they cannot. This is what happened to Sonny. He is always telling Cologero to stay in school and not to hang around with his friends that are in the gang. Even though it does not seem like it, Sonny is protecting Cologero throughout the movie.
Despite Frank's old teachers that bully him and his alcoholic father, Frank doesn’t think of hate or bully other people because of it. Frank's battle against poverty may be seen as one of the most tragic events of this memoir, that may be so, but it's also one of the most important. When Mrs.Meagher goes down to the Dispensary, Frank's mam says, “that's the worst thing that could happen to any family”(224) Frank learns from this that there's always someone worse off than you. Even when things got awful for Frank, he learns to take the good with the bad. He admits that “It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while” (11).
These two kinds of people always despise each other on campus, but sometimes they also envy each other. Obviously, two characters like these seems could never become friends. However, they have the same goal: to get into the scare program. Because of this, they have to work together and spending time together lead them know each other well. Once they find the similar part inside their mind, they become bosom friends.
All three are happy in the rela tionship they have with one-another. However, one day, he was told, "Now look here, we don't want any more trouble from you, but if ever we see you near those girls again, you'll find yourself up before a magistrate" (57). Ernest is deprived his life, w hat makes him happy. He is deprived the only friendship he has because the unwritten social code suggests that a man such as himself befriending young girls as such means that he is a paedophile. The detectives interfere with his life.
Perhaps down in his heart, Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear… It was not external, but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father. (13) Okonkwo puts on a mask. He shows the unreasonable and irrational side that everyone in his tribe and family can see, but “in his heart, Okonkwo [is] not a cruel man”.
Through the character of Johnny Cade and his ‘Greaser family’, S. E. Hinton shows that sometimes water is just as thick as blood. Johnny Cade has difficulties with his family, his home life, and his fear of the ‘Socs’ after being jumped. Therefore, he has to rely on his closest buddies to be there for him when his blood relatives aren’t. At the end of Chapter three, after Ponyboy gets hit by Darry, he goes to find Johnny in the park, where they discuss how they relate with their families. This is the first and only point in the book where Johnny explains how much he cares about how his parents treat him and that he wishes they would love him.