It sank, the stranger told me, on the bank of my island. Disappointed, I grunted, for it seemed he had no more ship to be hunted, no more of his crew to fix for a meal, and no loot that I could steal. So I picked up a few of his crew and, just to show contempt, I didn’t boil them in stew, but rather ate them alive. Their captain’s look was horrified! That’ll teach him,’ I thought to myself.
The pain the father must have been in trying to fight for his food and then getting it taken from him and having to feel hunger and sick. An image of sadness came to me because the father couldn’t do anything for himself. He was to weak to even try to fight them. The father imagining his old life back. Were he did not have to fight for his food he had the food he wanted, whenever he wanted.
In 1605-1612, the colonists experienced the longest drought (Doc B). Because of the lack of rain, they weren’t able to grow crops (Doc B). The seasons also caused diseases to spread (Doc E). The occupations of the colonists contributed to the colonist dying. They brought gentlemen, rich men that didn’t work with their hands, and they wanted other people to build their houses and hunt for their food (Doc C).
Thus, with John Gardner’s novel, you have a different perspective of the story from the “monster’s” point of view and have a better understanding of who Grendel really is and not just what the humans think of him. One instance of how Grendel is misunderstood as a monster is by his first encounter with humans. After he accidently gets trapped in a tree, he is discovered by a group of thanes out on patrol. They had no idea what Grendel is and are cautious of him. At first, they assumed he was a tree spirit of some sort who was killing the tree because he was hungry so they wanted to get food for him.
This could be interpreted as a symbol for his dissatisfaction with Elizabeth because she is not good enough. It could also represent that their relationship lacks the spice that he craves; the spice that he received when he “sweated like a stallion” with Abby. Due to the way that he enters and decides almost immediately that he wants to taste the stew and season it, we also receive the impression that Proctor has probably done this before, therefore it is possible that he has not been pleased with Elizabeth for a long time. Elizabeth has not been present before this scene so it shows a lot about their relationship that she enters the room her first words are a question “What keeps you so late?” This shows that she is
(Part A) They forgot about there homes; they become addicted to the Lotus and the men that ate the Lotus wanted to do nothing except stay there and eat the flower they wanted to do so for the rest their lives. (Part B) I think that this episode suggests that Odysseus’ men may be strong, but are not that smart. (Part C) I think Odysseus acted appropriately because if he had
At this point the boys are getting sick of Piggy trying to be in charge of all just because of his brains. The boys couldn’t put up with it much longer. Piggy’s passing captured a reluctant on what was going to happen next in the story as well. "The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist." (pg.
The only reason they voted for Ralph was because he had the conch. This shows how important the conch was to all the kids at first, but as the boys became more and more savage the conch started to be worthless to them, along with civilization and order. The conch was originally a powerful symbol of civilization and leadership, but the boys stopped caring about it, so they stopped caring about the last bit of civilization they still had. There was still a small sense of civilization left in all the children that kept that kept them from becoming total savages. But that was lost when Roger killed Piggy and destroyed the conch.
Finally, Alexie uses words such as starve and noose. The way he uses starve is in a metaphorical scene: he was starving and hungering for a better life than what he had, an escape plan from the discrimination, and judging that outsiders were constantly doing. When he uses the word noose, he’s saying that everything looks like a noose if you stare at it long enough, meaning that many of the Indian boys would have sooner killed themselves than deal with everything they had to. They weren’t the way most people thought they were, but no one except them could
The juice was stinking too. Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.