Samuel had chased Eddie with a knife trying to stab him throughout most of the book. When Samuel goes after him with a knife he just gets away. Eddie is smarter than Samuel and he gets away but he knows that he can hurt him more than Samuel can hurt him. When Eddie goes to the hospital to see his friend that got stabbed he sees Angle and he just kind of shrugs it when he is there, but when he leaves he is suspicious of Angle maybe killing him or hurting him. Eddie was told by one of his friends that Angle was the one who killed his cousin and Eddie kind of believes her.
He is distraught to kill a man that he finds out has a wife and child. This brings the realization to Paul of the total senselessness of war. Baumer’s narrative of war is not romantic, but ugly. By late 1918, Paul is still alive but his friends are dead. The rumor was that the Germans would surrender soon.
Only certain men are able to live through the filthy conditions of the hospital. Several are too weak and die from infection. Social Darwinism is everywhere, survival of the fittest. Towards the end of the movie, young soldier Paul Baumer, must go back to tell his best friend’s mother that her child is dead. However, he can’t bear to tell her the truth of her son’s awful, painful death.
Covey, he was a professor of religion-a pious soul-a member and a class-leader in the Methodist church” (884). How can someone practice these virtues of religion and still treat the slaves with pure evil as he does. He also neglects the practice by committing adultery thus making him a hypocrite. Mr. Covey has a great forte of deceiving people which makes the slaves believe he is always around keeping a watchful eye on them.
Generals Die in Bed shows how for the narrator and his fellow soldiers, this is quite the opposite. The narrator first introduces himself and the others in the night before they leave. Most of the mean are drunk, with “a heavy odour of stale booze and women in the air.” With most of the men drinking away the thought of what is ahead, they all turn to bullying and taunting. This is mainly focused upon Anderson, a devout believer in the bible and against most of the practices the men are undertaking. He fires up at the men, telling them that they are “sinning in the eyes of the lord.” He shows courage when facing all his fellow soldiers and insulting their practices.
He proves that he is not in the quote “He remembered kissing her good night at the dorm door. Right then, he thought, he should’ve done something brave,” maybe his cowardice is what motivated him to sign up for the war and prove to Martha that he was man enough and maybe this act of his would make her love him like he loved her. Later on in the story Lieutenant Cross ends up burning the letters and photographs that he has been carrying after his platoon mate and friend Ted Lavender is shot and killed. This is a turning point for the character as he blames himself for the death of his friend. “Slowly a bit distracted, he would get up and move among his men checking the perimeter, then at full dark he would return to
Kantorek often calls them the iron youth because he describes their efforts as brave and heroic. As a member of the Second Company, Paul has doubts in his choices when his classmate Joesph Behm is one of the first to die when enlisted in war. To make matters worst, Paul’s friend Kemmerich loses his leg and has a slow and painful death. Paul then has the burden of telling Kemmerich’s mom of her son’s death, especially when she confides in him to watch over her son during the war. As the war continues, the leader of the Second Company Himmelstoss is disliked by many of the soldiers because of his harsh tactics and insensible actions.
From here, the couple proceeded to get into quite the argument, showing that their communication habits are, indeed, unhealthy because the husband continued to talk, even though he knew it would lead to a disagreement. This poor communication can transition into tension between partners. The two people in “A Song on Royal Street” by Richard Blessing also struggled with ineffective communication: “’Remember?’ ‘No’” (30). Here, the man is telling the woman about an event that happened on Royal Street many
There he meets a strange man with a staff that resembles a serpent. Goodman Brown expresses his doubts about his mission and the man, who seems to be a devil figure, accompanies him while trying to persuade him to carry through his mission. The fact that he hears and sees various supposedly upright figures of the community, including men of the cloth and his own catechism teacher, persuades him that his disillusionment with the Puritan faith is justified. However, he is truly shocked to see his own wife at the meeting. At the moment of baptism he calls her to look up to heaven and resist, at which point everyone disappears and he finds himself alone in the forest.
The eyes of T.J. Eickelberg in “The Great Gatsby”, and the Mouth in “A Complicated Kindness”, were a symbol of God. Looking down upon the Valley of Ashes, the eyes of Dr. T.J Eickelberg reminded the readers that God is watching over the people and the moral decay of the 1920’s. The only follower of religion in “The Great Gatsby” was George Wilson, who feared from God. The Mouth, on the other hand, was the newly appointed pastor of the church who was loved by all. He ruled with an “ultraconservative anti-fun ironfist”.