Eidson influenced my first impressions of Nat Swanson by persuading me to believe he was a bad and lonely character from the start of the novel. Eidson clearly demonstrates Nat Swanson as a lone ranger, a one-man gang and a loner in this story. At first Eidson reflects on Nat Swanson’s history to reflect his characteristics. Nat Swanson lost his whole family in an incident involving Comanche’s at a young age and was passed around foster homes. He felt abandoned because he also knew himself that he was only taken in by family for his work ethics but not for the caring and love of a child.
They get to the woods after driving a while and have a very unsuccessful hunting trip. When they find tracks, they ask the owner of a house if they can hunt on his property but again no luck. As they walk back to the truck Kenny is so frustrated about their unsuccessful hunting trip, he shoots a fencepost, a tree and the house owners’ dog. Tub is so appalled by the actions Kenny has taken, that he goes and shoots Kenny in the stomach, after Kenny says, “I hate you,” to Tub. Frank and Tub decided to take Kenny to the hospital.
The thesis which will be investigated and illustrated is how Paul Baumer is representative of the Lost Generation, and that his character development throughout the book reflects this change in attitudes towards war of the young men who went to fight in World War I. This thesis can be seen in one of the fist lines of the book, which states that the book “will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war” (Remarque). The plot of the book is relatively straight forward in that it follows this small group of young soldiers from their initial impressions of the war, through their changing opinion on what is happening, until the end of the war when there is no one left. The book begins with a small group of young men including the protagonist Paul Baumer who have been persuaded to join the military through the use of patriotic sentiment, and through a sense of duty and honor to fight for their country. Their initial impressions of training do not reflect any of the real horror of war, indeed when told to use communal
For 14-year old Walter, his great uncles’ farm in rural Texas is the last place on earth he wants to spend the summer. Dumped off by his mother, Mae, in the middle of nowhere with two crazy old men and the promise that she’ll come back for him, Walter doesn’t know what to believe in. Eccentric and gruff, Hub and Garth McCaan are rumored to have been bank robbers, mafia hit men and/or war criminals in their younger days. The truth is elusive, although they do seem to have an endless supply of cash. But Walter begins to see a new side to his great uncles when he stumbles on an old photograph of a beautiful woman hidden away in a trunk and asks Garth who she is.
As time goes on he reminisces of the time he left his father in the snow. As he sat there awaiting his fate, he is surround by a pack of wolves. At first he fights them off, then he just gives up. “All men must die… It was the way of life” (12), so he just sits there and accepts his fate. London uses the plot of the story, the character, and the setting as a great example of the naturalism worldview James Sire talks about in his book, The Universe Next Door.
Thomas runs away from the Mission School and returns to his mountain home. When he arrives he expects to find his brother the bear and the rest of his animal family, but instead he finds a “charred circle” (70) where his lodge used to be. Tom then “…stood among the ashes and whispered the sorrow chant…For small griefs you shout, but for the big griefs you whisper or say nothing. The big griefs must be borne alone, inside” (70.) He knows that it was Blue Elk who did it because there is not one item of worth left behind, not even the knife Tom’s mother gave him.
After the incident of him trying to burn down the barn, his family decided to send him to a mental institution. “It was either send him to Jackson, or have Gillespie sue us….” (Faulkner 232). The family had no choice but to send Darl away because he began to show a different side to him and started having split personalities. Darl’s name may have meant to be short for darling, but through his actions, he did not represent someone who was a
Protagonist The protagonists are Ty and Gemma. Ty's farther decides to make a uncertain deal with “The Drifts” and Ty and Gemma figure out that the trade off becomes a trap and “The Drifts” take Ma and Pa hostage, leaving Ty and Gemma to save them in a risky rescue adventure. Antagonist The antagonist(s) is “The Drifts”. Ty and his family were grown up with teachings about how The Drifts should be avoided. Pa reveals to Ty that he is going to sell some seaweed to The Drifts and that it will be risky.
Lot’s wife, as noted in the text, perishes, because she does not trust and obey. These stories act as corrective tales to guide behavior. Popular stories might include folk tales, fairy tales, fables, etc. For example, in Aesop’s “The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf” (popularly known as “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”), the boy told the same lie three or four times about a wolf killing the sheep. When a wolf did threaten the lives of the sheep, no one believed him.
He abuses Huck verbally as well as physically and soon shows that he is a brutal drunkard. After his father keeps him locked inside a cabin in the woods, Huck decides to escape and uses a pig’s blood to fake his own death. This act indicates that Huck’s moral development is still at its beginning and that he doesn’t care about the emotions of other people. This attitude will change later when he plays a trick on Jim on the river. But for now, while he is carrying out his plan, he doesn’t even think about what all his friends and family will go through when they hear about his death.