On the other hand, there is Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights, which begins with secondary narrator Mr. Lockwood’s arrival at his temporary home where he meets his “solitary neighbor that [he] shall be troubled with”, Heathcliff in “a perfect misanthropists heaven”. Heathcliff acts harshly and coldly towards Lockwood, piquing Lockwood’s curiosity of Heathcliff’s past and pushes him to question primary narrator, Nelly Dean. From here, the story begins in the form of a flashback, which accentuates the tragic events that occur during Heathcliff’s life, all continually moving towards present day. Many things play a role in
Chapter One: "Nightmare" The Autobiography of Malcolm X begins with Malcolm Little telling about his years as a trouble-making but clever child in the 1930s. His father, Earl Little, is a Baptist preacher who advocates the "back-to-Africa'' philosophy of black activist Marcus Garvey. Once, their house is burned down, and another time it is damaged—both times by groups of white men. His mother, Louise, is made a widow when Earl is murdered; then the state welfare agency tries to break up the family. Eventually, fighting against the state and struggling to keep her children fed becomes too much for Louise, and she is committed to a mental asylum.
This downfall started the path of him becoming a tragic hero. The fact that he knows what he did and that he realizes his mistakes is what makes him a tragic hero. He also confessed to his wife, and the court about Abigail, and how he had committed adultery with her. This was the major action that made him become a tragic hero. Atticus is the main character in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, introduces and explores the extent to which compassion can stretch, in the trying times of the Great Depression. Mayella Ewell, a caring character, is reviled for her untruthful and hurtful accusations against an innocent black man. When looking at Mayella’s family life, as the oldest of eight children, caring for her poor, unprivileged family becomes her sole responsibility, a burden she must bear on her own. Mayella’s lonely lifestyle later leads her to kissing, Tom Robinson, an African who took pity on her situation. To Kill a Mockingbird, published during the Civil Right’s Movement, illustrates the pitiful life of Mayella Ewell, a character worthy of compassion, despite her immoral actions.
Good Night, Mister Tom is written in omniscient third person point of view. The main character is a thin young boy named William who is physically and emotionally abused by his violent mother. Everyone calls him Willie with the exception of Willie's friend Zacharias Wrench who chooses to call him 'Will' because he thinks it's more dignified. He is also friends with other village children:George an remember. He arrives at Mr Tom's house thinly clad, underfed and covered with painful bruises, and believing he is full of sin, as he has been brought up by a mother who regularly lashed him with a belt and was extremely religious, with strong opinions such as that people who copy go to hell when they die.
King sets these distant parameters to let you know just how alone our protagonist was which actually heightens the intensity of the drama and fear through his words. Gramma is a short fiction story about a boy left alone at home to care for his gramma while is mother is away in town on an emergency with his brother. The protagonist in the story is George an eleven year old boy which we will soon learn has many fears. The antagonist is Gramma, an elderly sick woman who George is fearful of. There is a history of possible witch craft and in the end she is possessed.
This satiric novel is one that uses irony, and humor to ridicule society in order to bring about change, it begins on the Mississippi river town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, and continues down the Mississippi into Arkansas. Huckleberry Finn is the thirteen year old son of a local drunk who fails to properly raise Huck, because of this for a portion of time Huck raised by widow Douglas and miss Watson who volunteered to care for him in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. While under their care they attempt to formally civilize Huck, this means teaching him about religion, sending him to school, and taking regular baths which for a boy from the woods is a big deal, however as soon as Huck’s abusive, and drunk father gets back in the picture he tries to stop Huck from having a civilized upbringing, and attending school. Huck’s father forces him to live in a cabin in the woods, and often beats him because of his Huck wants to runaway but to him that doesn’t mean returning to civilization “I didn't want to go back to the widow’s any more and be so cramped up, and sivilized as they called it” (TAOHF 29) therefore Huck decides to fake his own death, and using a canoe runaway to Jackson’s Island an uninhabited island in the middle of the river (pg 38). Huck thinks he’s alone on the Island until one day he stumbles upon Miss Watson’s slave Jim who’d ran away after overhearing Miss Watson planning to sell him to New Orleans, which would have separated him from his family.
In the novel ‘Blood Pressure’ by Alan Gibbons we follow Aiden from the suburbs of Surrey to downtown Liverpool. Aiden believes he is going to visit his sick granddad, but is thrown into a world of gangs and crime. Aiden finds out many family secrets that he usually in any other circumstances would not think were true. In the novel we also meet Deegan, a gangster and drug dealer, who has returned from Spain to fight for his turf. We also meet Jade a tough girl, with a hard exterior , but on the inside shes vulnerable and craving to be loved.
A path through old age, eroticism, enlightenment, and dissatisfaction, brings the reader to a field a fragile truth that reveals the starry sky of an aged master’s hopeless wisdom and desire. Before delving into the discussion of the collection at hand, we must illustrate a brief history of the author. Leonard Cohen was born on September 21st, 1934. He grew up in Westmount, the upper-middle class neighborhood of Montreal. Though born into a privileged community, his childhood was tragically abrupt with the death of his father in the winter of 1944, thrusting a nine-year-old boy into the psychological responsibilities of, “the chair at the head of the table.” This central event of his youth bequeathed a rationale for his art, as he states that, “deprivation is the mother of poetry.” Raised a Jew, Cohen grew up in the presence of, or lack-there-of, G-D, and this struggle influenced his creativity through to his more recent interest in the study of Buddhism.
"The Children of the Poor" written by Mervyn Thompson in 1990 was based on a true story about John A.Lee's (Albany) 1934 autobiography about his Mother, Brother Douglas and Sister Rose. His Mother struggled to build a better future for her family, whilst his Sister sold herself on the streets and his brother stole goods for money and food. Despite the Bleak poverty that Lee lived in and the circumstances surrounding his family, education and job opportunities, he later on became a successful author, Politian and social spokesman of the New Zealand society in the 20th century. However, the text shows a "social and racial discrimination" which is shown throughout the text in contrast to discrimination in the past as well as discrimination in today’s society. The text was set in the early 1900's in Dunedin, where there were a lot of new immigrants moving within the areas of Dunedin and Christchurch.