The man was also warned at the beginning of the story, that when it gets too cold, one must be accompanied with a partner. Ignoring the man at the creek, the main character goes off to do his own thing. The man in to build a fire, possesses great pride in himself, is ignorant of those around him, is selfish, stubborn, and has elicited sympathy from the audience since his fate was in such danger. At the beginning it may seem as if the man knew what to do and what not to do during the cold winters of Alaska. Yet, it was only pride that made him look this way.
Throughout his life, he strives to be the best he can at commanding, but he doesn’t want to kill. Ender Wiggin does not want kill anyone or anything, including the Buggers. He always wondered though, what the Buggers thought about them humans. Ender didn’t feel like killing was the right answer to things. Although he did kill a few people in the story, he never really wanted to.
However, he resolves these thoughts and continues to have perseverance and the will to survive. Paulsen descriptively demonstrates how a person can survive as Brian experiences realistic scenarios that seem near impossible. Brian realizes, throughout his brutal journey, that his family, which he was so disappointed in, was not as bad as he had thought. However, he knew, if he was ever going to see them again, that he needed to master his survival skills in the woods. Then brain found a rifle in the plane wreckage.
Priam’s heroic gesture to risk his own life for the memory of his son causes him to reflect on, and reconsider his familial relationships. Priam risks his own life to take a chance and retrieve Hectors body, he is old and frail and doesn’t have the stamina to be travelling across the country to get to the Greek camp, and he knows that he wouldn’t be able to fight off anyone or thing that could attack them “I know I am an old man, feeble in body and ill-equipped to go venturing out at this late date into a world of change and accident” However he is willing to risk his life for his dead son, no matter what the consequence. While on the journey to the Greek camp, Somax his carter talks constantly about what would be known as nothing in his palace, yet Priam realises that Somax is filling up the empty silence with pleasant talk; “Interest”. He introduces Priam to small wonders in life like the scenery, feelings of
Trying to Survive in the New World The Road by Cormac McCarthy is about a father and his son who are the “good guys,” and are trying to head South in a cold, gray, post apocalyptic world. They are traveling with very little means and struggling on a daily basis. The father had a house to sleep in; now in the New World he struggles to find a place to sleep every night on their journey. The father and son are constantly searching for food in every place they come across. Yet, they are trying to survive in this post-apocalyptic world with very little means.
But why do the boy’s efforts to create a civilisation on the island fail? ! The boys elected Ralph as the leader. However, Jack still managed to rise to power which was one of the reasons why the civilisation failed. Jack becomes very popular amongst the boys because of his ability to hunt and the courage he has to kill a live animal with his own bare hands.
Ralph upholds the responsibility as chief because he knows he has to somehow guide the boys until they were rescued. Although he is afraid of what lay ahead, he becomes brave and takes position with confidence. Apart from taking a risky position as leader, Ralph shows bravery by taking risks so the other boys do not have to. He, for example, went down to the red cliff where the boys think the beast could be hiding. “...[He] realized with surprise that he did not really expect to meet the beast and didn’t know what he would do about it if he did” (Golding 105).
Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” is a tragic story of Willy Loman, the father of what can be considered a typical American family. Willy’s father was never there to teach him the importance of tradition, values, or healthy opinions. Willy has spent his whole life chasing the American dream of wealth and posterity working as a salesman. Now in his sixty’s he is suffering from memory loss, he has lost his job, and has no financial security. He never knew his father so he doesn’t have a good sense of his own identity, he makes poor decisions in raising his son’s by instilling a false sense of what it takes to be successful, and allows them to steal and cheat.
Many times, tragic flaws cause the tragic heroes to die or face downfall and Okonkwo’s case was not any different. He never wanted to end up like his father who died a shameful death, but ironically, he kills himself and “will be buried like a dog” (191, ch.25). Things Fall Apart meets certain criteria to be considered a tragedy. Just like many other tragedies, the main character Okonkwo, who had to face an unfortunate ending, was a good person and did not mean harm to anyone. All he wanted to do was to be successful to serve his ancestors and for his children to be successful as well and have good lives.
But he doesn’t realize why his son is acting and talking in the way that he does, he still believes that it is just a reaction on his illness, which shows that there is a wall between father and son. The father also leaves the house to hunt outside. It is said that the main characters in Hemingway’s novels all embody the same spirit; the very masculine man. These are characters that enjoy the same manly passions like hunting, which fits on the character of the father. “It was a bright, cold day, the ground covered with a sleet that had frozen so that it seemed as if all the bare trees, the bushes, the cut brush and all the grass and the bare ground had been varnished with ice.