Emmett Shumaker Mrs. Kenyan Psychology 5/21/12 Cool Hand Luke Some people in this world simply refuse to change, refuse to conform to the rules beset upon them. The story of Cool Hand Look gives one a great example of such a person. In Cool Hand Luke, Luke Jackson, the main character, is arrested for cutting off the heads of the town's parking meters while drunk. When asked why he cut the heads off the parking meters, Luke answers, "You could say I was settling an old score." This is perhaps a sentiment to his mistrust of authority.
Not just in this lousy little town. In general. My life, I mean. It’s almost like I got killed over in Nam… Hard to describe. That night when Kiowa got wasted, I sort of sank down into the sewage with him… Feels like I’m still deep shit.”(Page 150) Bowker is also intelligent and is well supported by his parents, but he did not see any meaning in getting a job or even going to school.
Friendly to everyone but wasn’t very close to any of the other men. It was clear that being a platoon leader was too much for him. He tried to act confident and sure, but as later seen the real soldier falls. After Lavender’s death, Jimmy Cross couldn’t live with the fact that he had brought his soldiers to danger. He felt quilt and shame.
Analysis essay Don’t Be Afraid to Complain Why don’t people complain? Is it the fear of being labeled a troublemaker by others? Is it the fear of being retaliated or discriminated against for speaking your mind? So many people will sit idly by and never say anything on an uncomfortable train ride for fear of being the one to stand out in the crowd. In “Why Don’t We Complain,” William F. Buckley Jr. leads us through his life of not complaining.
Furthermore, Absalom befriended “bad companions” and became a criminal (Paton 132). He stole, broke into houses, and even murdered Arthur Jarvis. Although Absalom broke away from the chain of his Zulu family and culture, he later found himself trapped in another type of chain, prison. Overall, a broken chain link represents the numerous South African natives like Absalom who made the trip from the homes of their tribes to Johannesburg and cut off contact with their relatives. During the 1940s, many South Africans made their way to the city for jobs in the mines.
Also, he is afraid for his family here and their reputation. After everyone has been questioned, Arthur says this: “It doesn’t matter much now, of course, but was he really a police inspector?” “Well, if he wasn’t, it matters a devil of a lot.” He says this after the Inspector has left and shows that even if the Inspector was a fake and tricking him then it did not happen and everything could go back to normal. This showed that if the Inspector was not real, he felt he did not have to take any responsibility for Eva’s death and Arthur felt relieved. Arthur also says that if it was more than one girl, it makes a difference as well because he may have only sacked one of
A Chilling Transformation Chillingworth, the name alone evokes ideas of coldness, darkness, wickedness, loneliness, and this idea is no different from the man who carries this name, Roger Chillingworth, a man incapable of human love. Yet he had not always been this evil or wicked, and in fact he seemed to be quite the opposite. The reader learns that Chillingworth was an intelligent physician, a man dedicated to helping others, who would spend hours alone studying diligently, and one cannot feel sorry for him when he arrives at the colony to see his wife upon the scaffold. But what could drive a man to become the cold, distant, shell of his former self? It seems to be the age old story of love and heartbreak.
At the start, he does not really care for Jim because he was brought up to think that he was better than Jim because Jim was black. This is shown while they are travelling together. He sees Jim as unintelligent. For example when Jim tells him the story of how he lost all of his fortune, Huck listens intently but does not really show interest when he comments. After Tom hears the whole story, all he says is “Well it’s all right, anyway, Jim, long as you’re going to be rich again sometime or other.” He gives him the sarcastic response to change the subject and it also means that he does not believe Jim’s story.
The Tell-Tale Heart Before beginning his account, the unnamed narrator claims that he is nervous and oversensitive but not mad, and offers his calmness in the narration as proof of his sanity. He then explains how although he loved a certain old man who had never done him wrong and desired none of his money, the narrator could not stand the sight of the old man's pale, filmy blue eye. The narrator claims that he was so afraid of the eye, which reminds him of a vulture's, that he decided to kill the man so he would no longer have to see it. Although the narrator is aware that this rationalization seems to indicate his insanity, he explains that he cannot be mad because instead of being foolish about his desires, he went about murdering the old man with "caution" and "foresight." In the week before the murder, the narrator is very kind to the old man, and every night around midnight, he sneaks into the old man's room and cautiously shines a lantern onto the man's eye.
Fahrenheit 451 is a novel by Ray Bradbury about a society where the people don’t have any concerns for others. Everyone is only after the materialistic things in life, which supposedly brings them happiness. However, if everyone is so happy, why do voluminous people try to commit suicide every night? By portraying many figures who never even wonder about their lot in life, Fahrenheit 451 seems to imply that apathy is a very important element in the decline of Montag’s society. Fahrenheit 451 is a novel about a society in which people like materialistic things, fireman burn books, and people are dying just about everyday.