The shadow self of a character is unknown and potentially troubling. The shadow tends not to follow rules, and in doing so may discover new wildernesses and chaos. It has the sense of the exotic and can be strongly fascinating. Jack Skellington shows the audience his shadow self when he first had thoughts of kidnapping Santa Claus. In the beginning of the film, Jack grew tired of the same routine and frights every year.
He starts seeking help from Billy Buck and even brings the pony blankets from his home to warm/comfort the pony through the cold weather. Carl understood this, which is why he didn't mind it that Jody wasn't handling his usual chores.When Gabilan's condition worsens to the point where it almost seems hopeless, Carl tries to make Jody feel better by telling a funny story: "He told about the wild man who ran naked through the country and had a tail and ears like a horse (…)'Isn't that funny?'" even though it did not help Jody. After Gabilan died, Carl feels Jody's lost and even made it so that he would soon be given horse to bring up. Carl
The DreamWorks animated film "Shrek" is about an ogre named Shrek who stumbles upon a situation where he is forced to work with a talking donkey to help save an unusual princess from a tower so she can marry another man. Shrek is a large, green ogre that enjoys solitude and hates the company of other people. Shrek goes along with existentialism because he is defined by his actions or what others perceive him to be. The townspeople see Shrek as an ugly monster that terrorizes humans and towns. The image that people portray him as causes just the sight of him to be frightening.
In Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, some characteristics of Asperger’s Syndrome and Autism that Christopher has is a sensitivity towards loud noises, an obsession of an incident, and sudden or unexpected touching by another people. Ways he shows his sensitivity towards loud noises is when he is in the train station he described it as “people fighting with swords.” He is also obsessed with finding out who killed Wellington. “He doesn’t do what he is told.” He doesn’t listen to other people because people confuse him. He dislikes whenever someone touches him. He didn’t like how the policeman touched him so he “hit him.” Children that have autism spectrum display many characteristics.
Throughout the story George constantly reminds Lennie how much better his life would be if he didn’t have to take care of him. While George and Lennie are lying down talking George talks about Lennie being in “a lot of trouble” (Steinbeck 7). George is always reminding Lennie how much he doesn’t like him. He seems like he’s trying to be a father-like figure but doesn’t know how. George tells the boss that Lennie got kicked in the head by a horse as a little kid and that’s why he is slow, so Lennie asks him if it is true and George says that it would be a good thing and it would “save everybody a hell of a lot of trouble.” (Steinbeck 23).
When the sergeant was asked about his wishes, “his blotchy white face whitens” (3) and when the family begins to joke about his story, the sergeant gets “a look of alarm on his face” (3). The sergeants frightening facial expressions create an eerie mood which signals the uncorrectable mistake the White family made by changing their fate with the monkey's paw. Later that night after Mr. White makes his wish, the weather becomes destructive when “the wind gets high than ever” (5). The
Piggy continue to complain about the inefficient group effort in surviving. Suddenly a nearby tree catches on fire and Piggy realize that the six year old boy who talked about the “beastie” is gone. With things going bad, the remaining boys in the group pretend nothing happened. Chapter 3: Jack attempts to hunt a pig for the second time but the pig escaped.
Sammy passes judgment on the customers for being dull and unaware: “The sheep pushing their carts down the aisle…I bet you could set off dynamite in an A&P and the people would by and large keep reaching and checking oatmeal off their lists…” (457). Sammy clearly does not view himself as one of these “sheep.” He does not want to do the same things as everyone else in his small town, to follow the rules just because everyone else does. Perhaps he has not yet decided that he will do something to get out of his circumstances, but it is clear that he has already become very unhappy with them. Sammy’s attitude toward his boss is less harsh than his attitude toward the customers, but it still is not respectful. In reference to his boss, Sammy says, “pretty dreary, teaches Sunday school and the rest, but he doesn’t miss that much” (458).
The ghost of Christmas yet to come was a quiet, scary cloaked figure and just pointed. The author gives different descriptions for the ghost to make it interesting for the reader and to show the different sides to Scrooge’s personality. Dickens wrote this book for the rich people to know that it is not good not to share with poor people. Scrooge was a selfish man; stingy, greedy and mean. Nobody likes Scrooge and poor people were scared to go near Scrooge.
This guy with giant wings shows up and he has to deal with him. At first the angel is a nuisance to his life so he just locks him up in the chicken coop because he doesn’t know what else to do. So he charges admission to help himself out financially. Then once the newness of the angel goes away everyone forgets about him and Pelayo just tries to hide him and forget about him as well, until he finally flies away. Both of the victim characters, Annie and Pelayo, get in over their heads and seek advice or help with their problems.