Ironically, Smurch survived his plane trip around the world. Even then, the authorities were hoping he would drown. Even his mother hpoed he would drown: His mother, a sullen shortorder cook in a shack restaurant on the edge of a tourists' camping ground near Westfield, met all inquiries as to her son with an angry, "Ah, the hell with him; I hope he drowns." Smurch was a terrible person with terrible manners and a crude disposition. After the great leaders, including the President of the United States, tried to teach Smurch the correct manners for an interview, Smurch just mocked them and insisted on getting money for his great feat.
Coping responses are partly controlled by personality, but also by the social context, particularly the nature of the stressful environment. The movie, “Cast Away” is an exploration of human survival about a man, Chuck Noland, a FedEx employee who devotes most of his life to his troubleshooting job. His girlfriend Kelly is often neglected by his dedication to work, and his compulsive personality shows a conflicted man. On Christmas Eve, Chuck proposes marriage to Kelly right before boarding on a plane for a large assignment. During the job, the plane crashes during a storm stranding Chuck on a remote island, and his fast-paced life is slowed to a crawl, as he is miles removed from any human contact.
With a crippled hand, Johnny cannot find sufficient work and he allows himself to feel sorrowful. Almost giving up all his hope, Johnny almost commits a crime. Yet, with his new job with the Boston Observer, the Whig newspaper, and his friendship with Rab, the Lornes, and the leaders of the revolution, Johnny takes a more truthful path. Inspired by their generosity and dignity, Johnny finds himself changing from a selfish boy into a dedicated man. On a conscious level, he models himself after his new best friend, Rab, trying to copy Rab’s quiet, meek confidence and mild temperament.
He enjoyed reading because it ‘’cured most things short of school’’; meaning that reading books allowed him to escape to another world. Reading was valuable to him as he stated ‘’it was worth ruining my eyes’’. Reading books provided a sense of coolness to the speaker (Line 3 ‘’to know I could still keep cool’’). Lines 4-5 reveal that through reading the speaker could picture fighting (‘’deal out the old right hook’’) and standing up to his bullies (‘’ dirty dogs twice my size’’). In the second stanza, the speaker is at the stage of adolescence.
Hatchet In my book "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen, The main character Brian Robeson is stuck between his parents divorce which leads him to a event that makes him fight for survival. Brian Flies over to canada to visit his Father, but the piolet suffers a heartattack during the flight whichs causes them to crash into a lake. Brian has to forget everything about home and fight for survival. Picture #1 represents Brian's Anger and Furstraion at the beggingig of the story caused by all the events happening to him and his family. Picture #2 symbolizes the stragal for survival that Brian had to face while trapped in the canadian wildness.
Speeding over the Queensborough Bridge in Gatsby’s vehicle, Nick feels like an explorer setting eyes on New York for the first time. Again and again, automobiles give Fitzgerald’s characters a sense of excitement and possibility. But Fitzgerald repeatedly shows that these awe-inspiring cars are dangerous, misleading, and destructive. Soon after his wedding, Tom endangers his life by getting into a heavily publicized car accident. (By noting that there is a young female hotel employee in the passenger seat, Fitzgerald suggests that the accident also endangers Tom’s marriage.)
English 095 26 November 2011 Hatred and Forgiveness In The Special Prisoner, Jim Lehrer well describes the hatred that will always be in the back of one’s mind. John Quincy Watson, a young fighter pilot in World War II, lived with hatred for a Japanese man that captured him, after he had been shot down in his B-29 airplane just over Tokyo. Watson dwelled on the events that happened to him while he was a prisoner of war. Could he ever forgive Tashimoto, or the man that tortured him while he was a POW? The day Watson was shot down in his B-29 fighter plane he had to make a choice of burning in the crash or escaping the fire mess.
. You can break a leg with that downhill stuff” (Knowles 95). For Leper skiing is a way to escape the anxiety of the war. His fear of skiing fast and possibly breaking a leg is indicative of his fear of getting hurt in the war. However, after a recruiter shows the senior students at Devon a film from the United States ski troops, it reveals to Leper, “a friendly face” (Knowles 117) to the war.
The fact that Milkman even wants to leave his home represents the gradual maturation and understanding of his identity and his choice to stray from his father's example and leave town to obtain his inheritance and to become a self-defined man. He realizes when he needs to leave when he is on a plane, flying above the land, looking at his life in the ‘big picture’: “In the air, away from real life, he felt free, but on the ground, when he talked to Guitar just before he left, the wings of all those other people’s nightmares flapped in his face and constrained them. Lena’s anger, Corinthian’s loose and uncombed hair, matching her slack lips, Ruth’s stepped up surveillance, his father’s bottomless greed, Hagar’s hollow eyes–he did not know whether he deserved any of that, but he was fed up and he knew he was fed up and he knew he had to leave quickly”(220-221). Morrison suggests that flying makes Milkman ponder his decisions and clear his mind, as well as “[feel] free” which equates to letting go of what keeps him tied down: Lena, Corinthians, Hagar, Ruth, Macon Jr., and Guitar. Although Milkman is unsure whether he deserves the weight of his family, he is sure that he needs to escape it by leaving and literally flying away, which signals his yearning for independence and weightlessness.
Chris believed that money made people cautious and that we live in a very consumable society. Things weren’t perfect in the family, Chris and his sister didn’t have an easy time and this is one of the sources that developed Chris’s inferiority complex. He didn’t like to be around people, but when he was, he was good at it. At one point, Chris says that he would maybe consider writing a book after his adventure to the wild. Chris loved books and found company in the characters in the books he loved, his favored author was Jack London who also hoboed around the country and returned to school at the age of 19.