Although the idea appalls Mama at first, she trusts and supports her son with his decision. The night before making the investment, Walter tells his son about the business transaction he about to make while tucking him into bed. He tells the little boy that their lives will change soon and paints an elaborate and vivid picture of the future. He tells his son that when he's seventeen years old he'll come home and park the Chrysler in the driveway. The gardener will greet him and when he's inside the house he'll kiss his wife and come up to his sons room to see him browsing through brochures of the best colleges in America.
Catch-22 By: Joseph Heller Reading Journal By: ----- ----P.2 So far, Catch-22 has been a very witty novel. I don’t get why the opening line to the chapter is “It was love at first sight”. It says that Yossarian fell in love with the Chaplain the first time he saw him, but they are both guys number one, and number two, when later in the chapter they meet, nothing about him falling in love was mentioned. Also, after the first two opening sentences, the topic completely changes to Yossarian’s condition and the fact that he is in the hospital. Another question I had was, what is juandice?
My thoughts on Solomon Lindo My initial thoughts on Solomon Lindo where that he was hiding something, it was weird that he was treating her with so much kindness “I prefer the term servant... We don’t treat our servants rudely” (pg.190). When Lindo was at the market and he bought oranges from the pregnant lady I thought maybe he isn’t such a bad guy after all.” … Give me a shilling for oranges. A Negro woman with a baby in her belly and oranges piled…by her feet” (pg.190). Maybe he was genuinely a nice guy and just wanted to do some good. As “The Shape of Africa” chapter progressed I was happy for Aminata that her and her new owner could relate to each other.
Golding does not use a leader to represent Piggy, When Golding created the book he made it so that Piggy was an outcast but he knew what was right. Golding creates three main leaders in his novel Ralph, Jack, and Piggy but they did not become leaders by birth they became leaders through the circumstances they were put through, Ralph became leader by votes but why did Ralph get voted leader? The boys ended up following Jack but why did they? Piggy did not follow anybody he made his own rules, why was Piggy a real leader all
“She had clean hair./ Bouncing, shiny, clean hair./ That’s the first thing I noticed.” The positive descriptive language propose that Billy’s thoughts have changed due to the dramatic change he had in his life and the different experiences he went through. Caitlin’s reaction to Bill stealing leftover food was different. She didn’t think of him in a negative way or a thief. This proposes the idea of a relationship that could occur. “and he walked out,/ slow and steady,/ and so calm,/ so calm.” The repetition and alliteration emphasises the positive thoughts she had towards him and the connection they were sharing.
It was Christmas Eve. Hearing his clerk wish his nephew a merry Christmas Scrooge said “my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas”. Dickens is trying to express how Scrooge could not see what all the fuss was about; his clerk was paid very badly and even though he did not have much was willing to spend money on one day. Also how Cratchit was looking forward to spending time with his family. Dickens also writes how Scrooge treated his Nephew Fred, badly, his nephew and only living relative is a very cheerful man who loves Christmas.
Dickens uses Bob’s eldest daughter Martha, to represent child labour, “we had a deal of work to clear away...”, and Tiny Tim to represent the lack of help those who are sick & poor receive. (Why does he use these characters? Why represent them?) Despite this, the Cratchit family’s goodness shines through, and are “happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time”. Bob Cratchit represented the opposite of Scrooge’s morals, and embodies the invaluable qualities that Dickens admired – strength, humbleness, hope & perseverance.
He’s been doing it since his conception. Said so because he was a pleasant surprise to Nellie and Donald King, who had been told she would not be able to bear children. But, in 1947 in Portland, Maine,[3] the two were blessed with a child whom they named Stephen Edwin King. This man, now over the hill and ‘nearing the clearing at the end of the path,’ [The Dark Tower,] was not born into the fab life style of a successful author, King was born into a humble home. Though it was not humble for long, his parents had differences early in his life, which resulted in his father leaving to buy a pack of cigarettes one night and never returning, it was a home where single mother Nellie rose two young boys, David and Stephen, who didn’t turn out ‘all that bad’ after all.
The ghost takes Scrooge to his nephews house while they were playing the games and enjoying each other. Scrooge thought it was so fun that even though he wasn’t able to be seen he wanted to stay. So now you know about how characters with money don’t always use it on themselves. Throughout the novel characters without money simply find happiness in their family. Bob Cratchit is a character with little money and finds true happiness in spending time with his family.
It eventually was written down, which is why you're able to read it in a book now, but it wasn't written down first. For example, Paul Bunyan reads like a folk tale and has many folk tale elements in it, but it is not a true folk tale because it was a written story to begin with and not something passed down through the generations orally. Folk tales are instructive. They caution readers/listeners about the consequences of certain kinds of behaviors or attitudes.