White Jade Tiger By Cameron McDermid Mrs. Rigg Chapters 17-22 In Chapters 17-22 Jasmine and Keung are still running away from Blue-Scar Wong and are determined to find Keung’s father. They go to have dinner when an elderly man that is beat up and hurt has dinner with them. Keung realizes it is his father and they are very happy. Chan Sam gives Keung the White Jade Tiger and tells him to return it to China. When they go to sleep Chan dies and Keung was very sad.
They are considered rich, spoilt and lucky. Most of the Socs go to college and seem to have a perfect life but they too have problems. Bob got himself killed because he had no rules and his parents would let him get drunk and get into trouble. Cherry Valance, a Soc, and Ponyboy, a Greaser are also good examples of how stereotypes aren’t always true. Cherry teaches Ponyboy that Socs and Greasers aren’t that different like when she says “All Socs aren’t like that, Ponyboy”.
Innocence is shown through the characterisation of Boo as a harmless man, he lives with his brother and leaves the house rarely he has little protection from the outside world, this can be related to a section of the book where Atticus says to scout and jem "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." This symbolises the destruction of innocence in that killing a mockingbird is in a sense killing innocence as the birds are innocent, this can be related to Boo radley, he is
He probably didn’t have his numbers up for how many flowers he had needed to pollinate that day. Or his nest had been destroyed. Better yet his wife ate all of their wasp kids even his favorite most agile son. Many would disagree and argue that wasps don’t have a frontal lobe, so out of natural selection you were at the wrong place and the wrong time and unfortunately got stung. What were you even doing wrong?
Jewel ends up with very little because he sacrificed life and limb for his already deceased mother and also gave up his hard earned horse for a father that was shameful and unconcerned with his whole family. Jewel gave up his body and earnings for the trip while Darl only became filled with envy and grief from the struggles of the trip to Jackson. In the beginning of the novel, Jewel seemed kept to himself and Darl seemed like the natural leader of the Bundren family. As the novel progressed Jewel became the one who could put more weight on his shoulders and support the family. Darl transformed into an unstable and non-vital part of the Bundren family, barely
Diaz describes her brother as the leader of "dirty breasted women" who feed him "crushed diamonds and fire" metaphors for hookers and smoking Meth (Diaz 12). Her parents crying, watch from their window as her brother deals drugs from their front yard. She describes him like a king, "and like all bad kings he wore a crown, a green baseball cap turned backwards" an indication that he had "all the jewels [meth]/ a king could eat or smoke or shoot" (Diaz 30, 34-34). In the last stanza she describes her parents as helpless victims without legs ,arms or fingers to pray with or "to climb out of whatever dark belly my brother , the Aztec, their son, had fed them to" (Diaz 45-46). This last stanza depicts the depth of their pain and despair through metaphors.
Guilty or Not Guilty Sometimes pride can reason in life and death. In the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, there are two brothers from a family that live in the South. One of the brothers is named Doodle, who was born disabled. Doodle was an embarrassment to the older brother, so the older brother sets out to teach him how to walk, to climb, to swim, etc. One day while eating, the family spots a scarlet ibis on a tree but later it dies because of the environmental change.
In chapter eleven of A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park, Tree-ear had suffered from two robberies, but he didn’t give up on the journey to Songdo. As Tree-ear looked at the Rock of the Falling Flower, he imagined that the women were falling off the cliff like thousands of flowers. At that time, the poor guy suddenly came to Tree ear. He urgently picked up the “jiggeh” , to continue his journey to SongdoBut the poor man didn’t allow Tree ear to go back, and the other guy also came. They beat Tree-ear many times and they plundered the jiggeh.
Not for a few pages did she reveal that the birds had killed the Triggs and the mailman. Then, Nat realizes there are no signs of life from any of his neighbors' homes because they have all been attacked and eaten by the birds. After that, the reader is left wondering if Nat and his family will remain safe. The author does not tell us, however. The story ends when Nat smokes his last cigarette, and the birds are still attacking.
Then Charles Foster Kane died alone. He was destroyed by a lust for power by too much ambition. Kane once told Thatcher years before money led to his downfall: “If I hadn’t been rich, I might have been a really great man.” Although, he was flawed and self-serving, Kane was a very strong man who had power to control American citizens’ thoughts and very wealthy to live in a giant house that looks like a castle with numerous servants, ridiculously expensive statues, and a private zoo. Even when he was a child, Kane was a strong