E\Essay on Montana 1948 In Montana 1948 it explores the sense that David believed to have a positive role model in uncle Frank until he true colours were revealed and he realized later what a great role model he had in his father. Watson it showed that David's rite of passage was based on Frank's negative impact on him and the awareness that there is evil in the world. The hardest thing that David had to go through was coming to terms with seeing his uncle in a different way; this was made known when David said "too frightening for me to continue thinking of my uncle in the way I always had." Watson shows that people eventually become cynical and disillusioned with the world when they discover that their role models are in fact corrupt and immoral. Confirmation to support this is when David reveals "did I wonder what might happen if I killed my uncle".
Yasamin Roozbeh English 081 May 21, 2012 Wesley Hayden In the novel Montana 1948, Larry Watson tells the story of the struggles of a family torn between loyalty and justice. The identity of Wesley Hayden is explored and the different points of views of his brother, Frank’s sexual assault case add a new perception to the story. Wesley grows as a person because of the circumstances and misfortune he undergoes throughout the novel. Watson portrays Wesley to be a weak and brittle man, making him seem as though he cannot defeat anyone or anything that comes his way. Wesley lives under the shadow of his brother Frank and as the story progresses he is slowly escaping it.
While volunteering to serve for his country he fought with skill and courage in many campaigns during the American Revolution, not many people know that the description above is for the man Benedict Arnold, who is best known for betraying his country. This book really showed him growing up, going off to war, and what influenced him to make one of the most historic decisions of American history. When Arnold was young his father didn’t manage the family’s money well, and they were financially ruined when Arnold was thirteen. This was a foreshadowing of things to come in Arnold’s future. As a young man Arnold volunteered for the French & Indian War.
The Egoist- Commentary (by MusloDePollo) The main idea behind this excerpt from The Egoist is the characterization of the main character, Willoughby Patterne, a snobby, narcissistic, 19th Century nobleman. In addition, the author, George Meredith, is also introducing the theme of social caste and Pattern’s ego. The author uses metaphors to describe Willoughby’s childhood, and starts shaping him up as not only a character but as the 19th Century nobleman that he is. “For if an oak is to become a stately tree, we must provide against the crowding of timber”, refers to how the Patterne family’s desire of keeping the lineage of their family prestige, and how they’d just get rid of those lesser or not worthy of being a Patterne. This also implies how from the beginning of his life, from his childhood, he’ll be pressured into fitting the job of his social class, and in the future, adapt to this new found ‘price’ that is being a nobleman, as well as keeping the family line secluded from lesser so called ‘nobodies’.
He had come from a family of “shiftless and unsuccessful farm people,” (Fitzgerald 99), and was determined to gain greater things. At this time, he was known as James Gatz, a man who he was not proud of. He then decided that changing his name would assist him in focusing on the improvements he wanted to make in his life. The narrator comments, “He invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end,” (Fitzgerald 99). Gatsby was very ambitious, and knew what he wanted from a young age.
J.P. Morgan John Pierpont Morgan was born in Hartford, Connecticut on April 17, 1837. His father, Junius Spencer Morgan was a very wealthy and well off financier, it was his father who had taught J.P. about the family’s finances and business, which he was going to inherit as he became older. J.P. was a very talented young individual and was willing student who was educated at Boston’s English High School and then had enrolled in the University of Gottingen, in Germany. When he was in high school J.P. had already traveled and explored much of Europe and had sparked his love of art, which would stay with him throughout his life. After he had graduated from Gottingen at the age of 20, he had traveled back to New York to pursue a career in finance.
While in his hometown Guigemar is a great knight , the best of the best, but he is seen as the young man who has not entered manhood. Guigemar’s journey to manhood is in a liminal state, and is enhanced by his killing of the deer and learning that he must find a true love to become a man. Guigemar has to be “cured by a women who will suffer for your love more pain and anguish than any other women has known” (Page 44). The forest represents the in between, a part of the journey that Guigemar must go on in order to mature and move from his liminal state in life. The woods represents nature and how it is wild and untamed not bound by any laws of the ruling class.
Consequently, he has come to regard himself as ‘a kind of fraud’ not the man that Salem assumes him to be. Proctor’s conversation with Abigail in Act 1 reveals his determination to distance himself from the girl, while highlighting his ambivalence. The residual tension between Proctor and Eliz is an on going reminder of his guilt. Act 2 reveals just how strained relations between the couple have become. The sustained conflict between husband and wife does nothing to alleviate Proctor’s conscience.
Corina Cojocari Starks-Winn English III August 30,2012 Little Mischief As I am walking through the woods I notice my father is working again trying to get the tribe back in order. The tribes in the village have been battling for years and my father doesn’t want to disappoint our tribe so all we have to do is work. My father, Powhatan, is the chief of our tribe. All my father cares about is about making our tribe the strongest tribe in the village. Our tribe is located in a small village in Jamestown, VA. My name is Matoaka, but you can call me Pocahontas.
He loved Allie then he died so now Holden subconsciously relates love with death, disappointment, and despair. While people without PTSD relate love with happiness, beauty, and stability. Also he has trouble forming basic relationships with people. With his roommates, Stradlater and Ackly, he admits to not liking them. He dislikes ackly for the simple reason that he has bad hygiene and it annoys Holden.