Scout learns this lesson that her father teaches her from three very important characters in this story (to kill a mocking bird).Scout sits and watches the racism in Tom Robinson’s trial. She notices the sadness in May Ella Ewell’s eyes and wonders
“Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District 13.” Being forced to enter in the Hunger Games is taking away a person’s right to live and taking away their futures. The people of Panem are forced to watch the Hunger Games as one of their children or classmate is being killed which is very cruel. Another way the Capital controls the people of Panem is by Reality TV.
“Saving the babies, that was not practical. They were whacked against walls and trees of they were cut right away” (pg.107 of Machete Season online version on Google Play). Another Killer Adalbert re-accounts his first murder that he truly remembered when he murdered two Tutsi children with a gun. “I out the two children side by side… I stood still I shot twice at their backs… For me it was strange to see the children drop without a sound. It was almost pleasantly easy” (pg.
Doroteo learned to ride a horse well, and shoot different types of guns with deadly accuracy. He also gained a feel for the land, and learned how to slaughter cattle and dry the meat. In 1890 at the age of twelve his father died, leaving him to take care of two younger sisters, two younger brothers, and his mother. He worked hard trying to support his family by collecting wood to sell. One day when he was 16 he returned from the field, and to his horror he found a man named Don Agustin Lopez Negrete raping his 12 year old sister.
The mother was killed, and Peter tracked down the little girl. Fearful the girl would escape and alert the king's men before the banishing ritual could be completed; he killed the girl remorselessly in the Storage rooms. Almost immediately the sight of her lifeless body crippled his psyche. Even manipulated by DaFheg he knew the girl didn't deserve to die and begged for forgiveness, filled with guilt and disgust at his actions. Peter was on the verge of insanity, realizing what he was doing, and what had become of him.
(152) This is the chant that Jack had created after their first kill. This is also the chant the group was crying out when they killed Simon. As a result of Jack getting caught up in hunting, the sight of Simon crawling out of the bushes he orders everyone to attack and kill ‘the beast’. Jack illustrates that when humans get lost in an activity,
After being attacked by Jacks tribe they went to Castle Rock to find Jack and his tribe right before Piggy was killed. Piggy acted like the father figure yet again when he said “You’re all acting like a crowd of kids!”(180). Soon after saying that and arguing with them some more Roger pulled the lever which had a rock hit Piggy and killed him. With his death one of the other good hearted guys were killed. Once Piggy died Jack got that bloodlust again and “viciously, with full intention hurled his spear at Ralph.”(181).
They have obviously lost all sense of reason and are only intent on doing one thing, to kill Ralph. They ruined the whole island which was similar to the Garden of Eden when they first landed, and turned it into the Flames of Hell. In conclusion, the events in this novel tell us that humans are savages by nature. We are all capable of becoming a beast and that the beast is within all of us. Golding shows that without rules, evil overpowers everything.
This repetition of destruction shows that the creature is no longer of sound mind. The creature being alone for so long and unwanted for so long has made him become hateful to everything. The tone then makes another shift to self pity, as the creature becomes disgusted by himself. He goes back to believing he is human for just a few lines, asking the rhetorical question: “should [he] feel kindness toward [his] enemies?” Then the final shift to vengeance takes place. The creature decides “No” he will not “feel kindness toward [his] enemies,” but instead, declares everlasting war against the species,” the species being mankind and specifically his creator.
While both women endured their brutal murders, they screamed out hoping to stop the killing and receive help from others. In “The Lottery”, Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right” (Jackson 318), and in “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police”, Catherine Genovese screamed, “Oh my God, he stabbed me! Please help me! Please help me!” and “I’m dying” (Gansberg 121). In Shirley Jackson’s story, the town people are solely responsible for killing Mrs. Hutchinson by voluntarily picking up stones and stoning her to death.