Section1 & 2 In the beginning, a furious and crazy dictating monster was heard growling impatiently. Everyday music was playing about “The ancient beginnings of us all” (Raffle, 21). Hrothgar’s men lived in a great friendly environment until the mean and Evil monster; Grendel came and haunted the warriors. He was conceiving by a pair of monsters, who were the blame for the death of Abel. The almighty kept the demons out, but soon split into different forms of evil.
Mockingbirds are innocent in the sense that they do nothing wrong, but yet they are destroyed by vicious gossip and painful actions. Tom Robinson was seen as guilty and destroyed by false accusations, leading him to an early death. Boo Radley is seen as a fearful, dreadful person through town gossip and put through years of torment from Maycomb citizens. In the end, Boo finds the courage to leave his house to save Jem, only making rumours start again. Tom and Boo are both social outcasts, yet live in completely separate worlds.
On your precious flesh injecting its’ stinger releasing its poison into your body, yet the worst part is as your are about to vigorously swat it away it is already flying away laughing preparing the epic story to tell its wasp friends. As for yourself, you’re sitting in the shade embarrassed because the girl you have a huge crush on has run over to deal with the situation to only realize that the only reason you screamed like her five year old sister was because you got stung by a wasp.
One thought that Dillard spends a lot of time describing in her writing is the image of the dead insect corpses left from the spider in her bathroom. The corpses seemed so insignificant and unneeded, especially because even the spider saw no value in them (it only wanted what could keep it alive). These corpses seem to represent what a life would be like to die without accomplishment. They are like forgotten souls who failed to leave a mark on the world. "Yet under the web are sixteen or so corpses she has tossed to the floor," is a significant line because although they aren't recognized as anything greater than a dead bug, they served a purpose to keep another life (the spider) alive.
We know this as the boys, instead of feeling the adventure and thrill of something, stood their static, trying to comprehend this revelation of death that has come onto them. “We talked about the mule for weeks...Death dramatized, something of unbelievable importance being revealed right in front of us.” [29] The fact that the sight of the mule dramatized death really shows that this find was no ordinary carcass. It was so significant in changing their views on life and death that they talked about it for weeks ahead. The boys saw death in a completely different light before. “If we saw a king snake...we'd break off a pine branch and kill it, smashing the small head till the blood
The soldiers were often infested with lice. “Lice were a never-ending problem, breeding in the seams of filthy clothing and causing men to itch unceasingly (Duffy).” The soldiers also had to deal with rats that would often carry and spread disease and infection. The rats were larger than the typical rat and often ran free throughout the trenches. “Men, exasperated and afraid of these rats (which would even scamper across their faces in the dark), would attempt to rid the trenches of them by various methods: gunfire, with the bayonet, and even by clubbing them to death (Duffy).” Another problem that soldiers faced was trench foot. This resulted from the foot being left in water, which often accumulated at the bottom of the trenches, for long amounts of time and could sometimes cause the skin to fall right off the bone.
Last but not least Boo Radley was another character from to kill a bird that helped Scout learn her lesson. The town of May Comb all thought that Boo Radley is some kind of crazy, guy who kills people. Jim and Scout even though so. They were always scared to go on his porch or in his grass, even though Boo always stayed inside his house. Towards the end of to kill a mocking bird, Scout realizes that Boo Radley was never crazy to begin with.
You will not believe the conditions I have been living in. They are somewhat cruel, disgusting, dreadful and fearful. Something even I am to disturbed to look at is the rat infestation, mom you know how much I hate rats, well now I basically live with them, like they’re my pets. Millions of rats would gorge themselves on human remains. Other pests that are available here are frogs, they’re found in shell holes and in the base of our trenches.
Moreover, he kindly irons and mends Jem’s pants, which get stuck in the fence while Jem is escaping and he tells no one about Dill and Jem’s attempt to give him a letter or of the “Boo Radley game”. Last, Mr. Arthur faces maltreatment from the citizens of Maycomb. Many false rumors are spread through town about him: “Radley pecans would kill you”, “Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg,” and “[Boo] dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch” (11, 13, 16). Being influenced by others, Scout also envisions Boo to be a rotten toothed, yellow-eyed, scarred monster. These callous generalizations and Boo’s innocent gestures combine to prove that Mr. Arthur Radley is represented by a
The scene is during the red ant siege on the land. Every so often the red ants come out of the jungle like a plague, eating everything (and everyone) in sight. Ms. Kingsolver had me at the edge of my chair, barely breathing while reading this chapter. I still get scared thinking about the scene today and have never looked at a red ant the same way since. I think the reason this scene is so significant is because it brings out elements of each character's personality that until this moment had been hidden from others and I think from the character herself.