The Justice of Women “A Jury of Her Peers”, by Susan Glaspell, shows two women solving a murder because of their ability to pay attention to little details. Their husbands, who are important men in a small town, by ignoring women’s “trifles” – pans, dirty towels, sewing baskets – are not able to solve the case and even so the men mock the details observed by the women. While women talk about small details like dirty towels and sewing baskets, the men laugh at them and do not see the evidences. The female characters find the strangled bird, killed in the same way as the deceased (John Wright). The strangled bird symbolizes the miserable life of Mrs. Wright because she did not have kids, she possibly treated the bird as her child to sign
In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Liesel Meminger shows that stupidity can easily be mistaken for courage. She exemplifies this when she tries to read in front of her class, when she steals, and when she and Rudy give bread to the Jews. Leisel thought it would be courageous, to read in front of the class, but ended up being called names for trying.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain I. Discover Moses and the Bulrushers (pg 1) Huckleberry Finn is kept by a widow who provides for his schooling and life necessities but he hates being mannered and wants to runaway all the time. The widow’s sister – “a tolerable slim old maid” – teachers him the Bible and Huck soon finds it pointless to learn about “dead people” but would only stand all these miseries because he wants to join Tom Sawyer’s gang in the robbing business (2). II. Our Gang’s Dark Oath (pg 4) Tom Sawyer calls Huckleberry Finn out and they are almost caught by the slave Jim, who is famous “because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches” (6).
Elena firstly trades her father’s pocket watch to bribe the NKVD officer to not take her son. She also trades wedding gifts for mail and other sundries in hope to help her and her family survive one more day. Finally, Andrius abuses his close relationship with the NKVD in order to obtain food to help himself and others to survive. He also helps Lina survive by returning her file which could have gotten her killed. As these characters survive they are constantly being broken by the NKVD, the environment, and the lack of nutrition.
The Holocaust ruined numerous lives, including that of Evelyn Roman, who wrote “Aftermath”: a sorrowful poem that described her feelings about the concentration camps. Wiesel and Roman both share different and insightful outlooks about their experiences in the toughest part of their lives. They still remember a great deal of details “fifty years after the fact…” that they wish could vanish in an instant (1). Wiesel and Roman wondered every minute why they endured those experiences: no human deserves the horror they survived. Knowing that someone actually lived these stories made it almost unbearable to
When she goes to the leader of the group Ann Putnam to ask about joining the group she is rejected. She wants to go back to ask again but she does not want to act desperate and be made fun of. While delivering goods to the poor of Salem for her parents shop she visits a reverend’s slave, Tituba. She visits Tituba to learn more about what the other girls have been discussing. She asks Tituba if she knows what the girls have been up to and all she says is that the girls have been doing devil worshiping.
4. The possibility of never-ending darkness changes many of Lina’s friends and many of the townspeople. She discovers that her friend Lizzie has begun to accept things from Looper, who is stealing things from the storerooms. Why does Lina turn down the gifts that Lizzie offers her? Do you think that she was right to do so?
Another reason their relationship is dangerous is that if John Procter were to prosecute against Abigail Williams saying that she is in fact a witch, Abigail Williams could very easily tell the entire town that she and Procter have been having an affair to get revenge on him. It wouldn’t really affect her too much, but on the contrary, it would ruin his reputation in the town and his relationship with his wife. Later in Act I, Abigail is being “interrogated” by Reverend Hale and she claims “I never sold myself! I’m a good girl! I’m a proper girl!” (Miller 40) in this statement, Abigail is defending herself that she never sold herself to the devil.
In the novel of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the characters most responsible for the death of Curley’s wife are Candy and Curley. Candy is one of the characters responsible for the death of Curley’s wife because he gossips about her and he rejects her. For example, when George and Lennie first arrive at the ranch, they meet Candy in the bunkhouse who tells them that he saw Curley’s wife, “…give Slim the eye” (28). Candy gives the new workers, George and Lennie, information about Curley’s wife being flirtatious to other ranch workers even though she is married. Due to Candy’s bad impression of Curley’s wife to George and Lennie, George became paranoid and gave Lennie strict rules to follow, which eventually caused Curley’s wife to die as a result.
Pride in Bleeding Hands Down on your knees, scrubbing the bathroom floors inside an airport; standing on a street corner selling the berries that you just spent all day picking, blood and scabs still on your hands. This work is below most and the people who do it should be ashamed. At least that’s what many Americans seem to think when they see someone doing these jobs. It’s about social class and the perception of people in lower classes than our own. Two poems, “Blackberries” by Yusef Komunyakaa and “Singapore” by Mary Oliver give an insight on these “shameful jobs” and how they mean more to the people that do them.