Kelsey Sewalson Professor Hoppe English 2342 November 28, 2012 The Role Responsibility plays in “Fences” August Wilson’s play, “Fences”, is about a middle aged black man named Troy who works for a garbage company. Growing up with an abusive father and constantly feeling outranked by the white man, he underestimates his potential and sets his goals accordingly. While constantly battling racism, Troy cripples his son’s dreams of playing baseball due to his own expectations of what he feels his son could potentially achieve as a black man. Troy fails to recognize his good fortune in that he has a wife who treats him well and soon finds himself tangled in an affair. Not only is he unfaithful to his wife Rose, but he also appears to have no conscious for his infidelity and his lack of nurturing towards his family.
When people are isolated from society, they can change dramatically. In William Golding’s Lord of the flies, the boys land on an island that isolates them from society, which transforms the boys from civilized school boys to savage murderers. The island creates many difficulties for the boys. Some of the conflicts are, a struggle for power, surviving on a deserted island and lack of authority. These conflicts provoke the boy’s development into savage murderers .
However, when they announced their engagement to their families, no one was supportive of it. Everyone though that they were both too young to get married. Jeremiah and Belly decided to ignore them and continued on with their wedding plans. Time passed and Jeremiah and Belly decide to go to a party a night before their wedding day. Belly left Jeremiah to get drunk and walked alone on the beach.
The reason why the narrator wouldn’t help Doodle down before he touched his casket was because he wanted to show him who was in control. On the other hand, the narrator also shows his pride in a more positive light when he encourages Doodle to keep trying even though he fails repeatedly, “‘Oh yes you can, Doodle,’ I said. ‘All you got to do is try. Now come on,’ and I hauled him up once more” (Hurst 776). The narrator does appear to be the normal supportive big brother, until he states the real reason why Doodle walked, “Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother” (Hurst 777).
Dally can be mainly terrible and a bad person around no matter what situation it is, but deep inside he is the complete opposite and he will be most loyal to his friends. “Johnny was the gangs pet and Dally couldn’t hit him.” Dally proves he is tough, mean and bad by hitting everyone but he can’t hit Johnny so he treats him differently because he loves him and cares about him and he shows that by always giving him attention and helping him get out of trouble. If it weren’t for him Johnny would be in loads of trouble. Dally expresses his love to Johnny by treating him different than the rest and Dally caring about someone doesn’t match his status, but love in your friends and family can bring out the real you. Johnny is getting beat up at home.
In the novel of Huckleberry Finn, Twain draws his characters form the lowest levels of society, a runaway slave and an uneducated homeless boy. Twain comments on the bad things of society through his development of his characters. Huckleberry Finn and his relationship with Jim, a runaway slave. The two characters both run from injustices and are distrustful of the society around them. Huck is an uneducated boy on the run from his abusive father, constantly under pressure to conform to the "civilized" surroundings of society.
This lead to Eva Smith’s death as she couldn’t afford to live and had no hopes left after getting rejected from the cancel. “Eric suddenly guffaws” (page 3) and when asked why he is laughing he replies “I don’t know – really. Suddenly I felt I just had to laugh.” This is the first thing that Eric says in the play and it suddenly tells us that he is a little immature. This quote also implies that he is the kind of character that takes things lightly. On page 9 Gerald, Birling and Eric are talking about woman and how clothes mean a lot more to them than men and then Eric says ”Yes, I remember – [but he checks himself].” This makes our curiosity turns into a suspicion.
But, what he didn’t notice was that she wasn’t as happy as he was. She liked being different. In conclusion, I felt that during the part of the novel where Stargirl returns to being “Susan” is unfair to Stargirl cause like I said before “Be who you want to be not who people want you to be.” 8) The author Jerry Spinelli plays two major events in the novel off of each other (the basketball game and the oratorical contest). Stargirl is rejected at one and accepted at the other. Stargirl was rejected by the crowd at the basketball games because she had helped an injured player on the opposing team.
He has a best friend name Hassan. Amir is the owner in other Hassan is his servant. They are friend when they are the kid but when Hassan in the dangerous situation, Amir did not help him out instead of help Hassan, he decides to run away to protect himself. Although Amir is victimized by both internal and external forces, it is mainly his own cowardice, jealousy, and shame which cause his relationship with Hassan to deteriorate and lead to their tragedy. At first, he is jealous with Hassan because he thinks baba love Hassan more than him.
Happy has lived in the shadow of Biff his whole life, he feels that to get the attention he deserves he must strive to be more successful than his brother. When Willy was talking about Biff, Happy kept hinting that he was losing weight, but Willy seems to ignore him. “He is a marked-down version of his father, with not even a grand dream to cover his grossness. His only redeeming aspect is an easy-going fondness for his family” (Koon pg.37). Happy shows