They found out it was an angel from a neighbour who advised them to club the angel to death; but chose to lock him up in a chicken coop like an animal instead. As word spread of this mysterious angel being housed at Pelayo's house, people from all over the country clamored down to come take a peek at the angel much to the objection of the priest believing he is a false angel. Shortly after, a carnival arrives in town, where a talking Spider-Girl regales her story to anybody who is willing to listen. The interest in the angel declined in favor of Spider-Girl due to the simplicity of the story. The cage soon collapses, resulting in the angel residing in Pelayo's house.
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Summery Ender, a child of six, has been monitored carefully to see if he qualifies for Battle School. The monitor was attached to neck so that the officials of the International Fleet, specifically Colonel Graff, could effectively "be inside Ender's mind." After Ender's monitor is removed, several boys in his class, led by the bully Stilson, corner him and abuse him, knowing that the officials can no longer watch what happens. But Ender tricks Stilson into fighting him alone, and Ender beats him badly. Ender cries, showing his remorse at being so ruthless, being more like his sadistic brother Peter than his compassionate sister Valentine.
Athletic people are forced to have their bodies weighed down, beautiful people are forced to cover up and smart people have their thoughts interrupted periodically with large blasts of noise. The title character is a “superman” who is so exceptional that he cannot be properly handicapped by the government. He is jailed, but escapes and attempts to interrupt a government television broadcast before being shot dead in a comical fashion. The entire narrative of the story unfolds around Harrison’s parents, who watch the story unfold via their television set. Welcome to the Monkey House portrays a future where over population is a major problem.
Or friendly to strangers, god- fearing men?” (9.195-196) When Odysseus meets the Cyclops he is scared at first but then he gets some nerve and explains to the Cyclops who they are. The Cyclops does not spare their lives and they get trapped in his cave. Odysseus is angered by this and also because the Cyclops ate some of his men. He says, “he left me there, the heart inside me brooding on revenge: how could I pay him back? Would Athena give me glory?” (9.354-355) Odysseus’s character is very clever and he devises a plan to get revenge on the Cyclops and also to escape the cave they are in.
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of British school boys who become stranded on an island after a plane crash. They live in paradise until human nature takes over and democracy fails which makes many of the boys turn savage and fight amongst each other. Golding uses literary elements to show “It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, which lures him to evil ways.” The first literary device that proves this quote true is motif. Jack and his hunters became obsessed with the act of killing the pig because they were obsessed with the act of savagery and brutality. They weren’t just killing for the survival and/or by the fact that they felt threatened by the pig.
They find an old man with wings in their courtyard and are told that he is an angel who is there to take their sick child away. They lock him in the chicken coop and present him as an amusement to the community charging fee to see him which bring them a lot of money. The society doubts about angel’s origin and tries to answer their questions, “the most merciful threw stones at him, trying to get him to rise so they could see him standing. The only time they succeeded in arousing him was when they burned his side with an iron for branding steers, for he had been motionless for so many hours that they thought he was dead”(554). Then there is a new amusement appears in the town a woman who was changed into the spider for “disobeying her parents”.
“The Large Ant,” Howard Fast, 1960 — A writer tells Lieberman, a curator, Hopper, a senator with an interest in entymology, and Fitzgerald, a government man, the story of how he encountered an ant-like alien while fishing in the Adirondacks. Somewhat unnerved, he tries to explain the overpowering fear and revulsion he experienced at the sight of the foreign creature, a fear which led him to immediately bash its body. “Whatever kind of a man I am, I react as a man does. I think that any man, black, white or yellow, in China, Africa, or Russia, would have done the same thing.” Yet, he is clearly disturbed by his reaction and struggles to talk it through with the three investigators. Hopper asks him if the creature made a move to harm him and he responds that it did nothing but look at him.
Prepare study questions for review. Students who e-mail me a full essay by Friday 1pm will receive 5 points towards their midterm grade. The behavior of the inmates and guards were very horrifying. They saw the guards treat others as if they were despicable animals, taking pleasure in cruelty, while others like the inmates became servile, dehumanized robots who thought only of escape, of their own individual survival, and of their mounting hatred for the guards(Philip E. Zimbardo). The sociologically impact it had on them were by separating them from human society.
The POWs and German guards alike hide in a deep cellar; because of their safe hiding place, they are some of the few survivors of the city-destroying firestorm during the Bombing of Dresden in World War II. Billy has come "unstuck in time" and experiences past and future events out of sequence and repetitively, following a nonlinear narrative. He is kidnapped by extraterrestrial aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. They exhibit him in a zoo with B-movie porn starlet Montana Wildhack as his mate. The Tralfamadorians, who can see in four dimensions, have already seen every instant of their lives.
Curley doesn’t dare fight Slim or Carlson, and Candy is too old, so he takes it out on Lennie who he thinks is laughing at him. Steinbeck uses violent words like ‘slashed’, ‘smashed’ and ‘slugging’ to make the fight vivid, as well as describing the blood. He also makes it seem wilder by making PHILIP ALLAN LITERATURE GUIDE FOR GCSE © Philip Allan Updates 1 OF MICE AND MEN Sample essays George yell. He also makes us feel sorry for Lennie and his ‘terror’, which makes Slim get up, as if the fight is going to spread and involve all of the men. (b) The threat of violence is present in Of Mice and Men really from the first moment we meet Curley.