Analysis: Flight of the Phoenix The film Flight of the Phoenix begins in the Gobi Desert, where a failed oil rig is being closed. Pilot Frank Towns is sent to shut it down and fly the workers back home. However, they run into a sandstorm as they fly over the desert. Towns tries to fly through the sandstorm, but the storm causes the plane to blow two hundred miles off course and crash. The crew and people aboard the plane are all stranded together in the desert.
Both of them believe that they are doing the right thing for two totally different reasons. Richard Strout kills Frank Fowler because he is in love with Mary Ann, Richard Strout’s ex-wife. Matt Fowler does not find it difficult to kill Richard Strout because it would give his wife peace; “It’s the trial. We can’t go through that, my wife and me…” (Dubus 111). Even though the major theme of this story is revenge, actually no murder can be justified under any circumstances.
It should have been me who was killed!” (Stand by Me, 1986). Later though, he finally comes to terms with the death by crying about it and understands that his parent’s neglect is unrelated to his actions but instead their mourning. Through this internal realization, Gordie is able to sort through his emotions and come to terms with both death and neglect, displaying a development of self identity. Unlike Gordie though, Kate in Crow Lake struggles with what she perceives to be the tragedy of her brother Matt’s lack of education, yet shows no growth in her thinking as she carries a similar mentality into adulthood. Gordie’s determination to overcome other’s expectations for him, leading to his success, is something which Kate never experienced, subsequently strengthening Gordie’s maturity but not Kate’s.
The main conflicting scene which acted as a narrative tool to help the story move on was the rape scene in chapter 7. Amir is finally in realisation of the extent of how cowardly he is “I just watched. Paralyzed.” This being significant as it even the rape consisted of only men which emphasises the inequity of gender in Afghanistan and in this novel. However some would disagree - For Amir's mother Sofia - Even though she was a well-known literature professor, her death almost completely eliminates her influence from Amir's life. Baba never discusses her with Amir, and he doesn’t appreciate the qualities she passed down to her son “That was how I escaped my father's aloofness, in my dead mother's books” this being a disgrace to baba as he wished for a masculine son "Real men didn't read poetry-and God forbid they should ever write it!” this effectively showing baba’s disinterest in Amir as Baba believes a real man is interested in sports.
The reason why we do not feel sympathy for these characters is because they have harmed other innocent people through their actions. We are unable to empathize with Willy’s feeling of unsuccessfulness or Hamlet’s unfortunate defeat because both characters did nothing to prevent their downfall. Fate is inevitable, it is not preventable, but it can be manipulated in our favour; we have the power to control our destiny—but we must control it wisely because every move counts in the game of fate. We have control on our fate; each thought from the time we take birth rules us towards the future. Willy Loman’s downfall was his perspective on life; he died because he no longer saw a reason to live.
If the grandmother stopped preaching about how the new world has fallen from the Christian faith, and opened her eyes to her real life, she would have saved the whole family from the misfit. Garo 2 The grandmother’s son, Bailey, seemed exhausted of having to take care of his own mother. He doesn’t bother raising his head when his mother is trying to get him to read the paper about “the misfit.” This creates Foreshadowing and a bit of irony to the story because in the end the misfit is what brings him and his family to his demise. Not only does he ignore his mother, but when she wants to take the children to see the old plantation, he sighs, gets aggravated and didn’t want to be bothered. Although her tired son may have a good soul, he is not a good man in the sense he seems tired and lifeless in the story.
Being related to a Hazran would have meant suffering for all of them, so Baba did the righteous thing and kept it to himself in order to keep his reputation in the community. This was utterly selfish of Baba, but he had no other choice because if he told, his reputation and his life would have been ruined. Hassan would have been Hazaran no matter what, as it would not have mattered if he was part Pashtun. He still would have been categorized the same, which makes Baba's decision to not tell the secret unrelated to Hassan's
Also he “scoffs openly at any talk.” This means that he doesn’t talk about his problems and he would prefer to keep things bottled up then to express how he is really feeling. He is also always “going into town for more serious cases.” This is another way in which John deals with his problems, he runs away from them. He also avoids the actual subject by calling his wife a cute name like, “bless her little heart,” and, “my blessed little goose.” These quotes just make it so he
imagine if you are facing the endless suffering and excruciating pain but can do nothing to end it. You are desperate need of terminating your agony but you will not ask your beloved ones to help you, because it would likely to put them into serious troubles that will destroy their lives. It is stunning that when people are facing death, in their darkest and most desperate moment of life, nobody could offer a little help because of the law bans the help. Doctor assisted suicide should be legal because it protects people who do not want to suffer lingering, painful deaths. Some terminally ill patients are allowed to end their lives by refusing medical treatments; in all fairness, those who don't have that option should be allowed to choose death.
Bailey’s cowardly response to the crash climatically reveals who he really is. His awkward attempt at remaining in control of the situation is to no avail. Saying whatever shocking thing he says to his mother, stating the obvious, “We’re in a terrible predicament,” and the fact that through all of this he remains perfectly still, proves only that he is not an invincible or heroic man (170). Bailey’s shirt will not be torn open with a large “S” proclaiming his secret super power. He will not finally spring into action and save his family from this terrible predicament.