Last Questions for the Road To Memphis Abraham L. Elizondo Q1. Why does Jeremy Simms sympathize with the Logan family and why does he finally help smuggle Moe Turner out of Strawberry? A1. Jeremy sympathizes for the Logan family because he feels bad for them. He knows that discrimination is wrong and he should not take part in it.
SOTO REWRITE Gary Soto is apprehensive as he reflects on the sins of the guilty six-year-old he once was. Soto ironically portrays himself as being “holy in almost every bone” then contradicts his statement by informing “boredom made me sin”. Soto wants to be holy, he wants to be good as he’s been taught he knows right from wrong but sometimes he strayed from the good path of the lord. Soto describes a distant but well known memory of a past imperfection conceived in a German market as a young boy. Soto forgets “the flowery dust priests give off, the shadow of angels and the proximity of god” and commits the outrageous sin of stealing
Andrew Kim Mrs. Elrod 10th Grade G/AC March 6, 2012 Literary Analysis Essay In the play, “Antigone,” Creon’s view of justice is morally wrong. He lets his pride and authority get in his way of his judgment. Creon was stubborn and did seek change until the death of his family. After his downfall, he finds the understanding of justice. Creon is sorry for what he was done, he repents, but it is already too late.
The author incorporates all sorts of humor to somewhat ease the tension of revealing his life; the readers may get a real sense of self-representation while reading. He realizes his peculiar behaviors lead him to an outcast; nevertheless, he does not know what is causing him to act like that. Even his parents, his teachers are unaware of it. Additionally, he could not understand why he was the one getting laughed at his odd behaviors; even though, he tried to figure out it, “I was damned if I could find it (Sedaris, p361),” but he still “had to do these things because nothing was worse than the anguish of not doing them (Sedaris, p361).” At Sedaris first-hand account shows the audiences his struggles of disease that strange and socially
Both honest mistakes that he didn’t even know he made. The ignorance shown towards Lennie in the novel was due to the time period and the people’s lack of knowledge. People in the story like “The boss” just thought that Lennie wasn’t smart because he just didn’t talk much unless it was to his best friend George. There was ignorance in Raymond because his brother thought that he could remove Ray from his schedules at his home and take him with him. The Ignorance was that Ray needed those schedules or he will have a fit.
Voltaire shows how Candide slowly realizes this logic when he encounters constant conflict and disaster after leaving the Baron’s castle and his old “perfect world”. Candide sees how almost everyone in this world acts selfishly only to reap benefits for themselves and take away from their fellow humanity. Some people probably think that Voltaire may come off as a pessimistic, but he really is just trying to show how foolish optimistic people and corrupt religion can be when you live in a world that constantly challenges you and makes you suffer so much. Essentially Voltaire is trying to tell us that the happiness of humanity is impossible, because the only “real” life is the life where you endure good things and bad things and not the life where you live in the best of all worlds and have no problems and everything is handed to
Some twenty years earlier, he’d been molested by his then-priest; callow, impressionable, in need of love, Comes found himself in a situation he describes as “too screwed up to question,” with the result that he was “so confounded that (he did) nothing.”On the other hand, there’s Dennis Gray, the priest in question; a thoroughly repellent individual, Gray is seen in a 2003 legal deposition, evading questions on the advice of his lawyer. But Comes is far from silent. Having spent two decades racked with guilt and shame and thinking he was the only victim, Comes is
Despite Piggy's clear thinking and appraisal of their situation, his contentious manner and rude dismissal of the younger boys unfortunately causes his ideas to be dismissed. Even more importantly, he is a cynic who can do nothing to comfort the others, instead instilling in them a sense of fatalism. Piggy, whose pessimism and sadness make him a likely martyr, is established in this chapter as a prophet whose words are not heeded until it is too late. Golding uses Piggy's advice as foreshadowing: failure to heed Piggy, however absurd he may sound, leads to dire
There are other fields for him to plough” (651). With his son's happiness and love of his life on the line, Creon decides to execute Antigone. But when the prophet man, Teiresias, tells Creon that carrying out the death of Antigone will bring on more loss for him. All in all, Creon becomes very scared because those he love may be affected by his decisions. Creon is clearly not a religious figure when he approaches a towns person for advice on how to fix his situation, “Tell me what to do.
Nick’s past, his Midwestern upbringing, brings perspective and value to Gatsby's history, but Gatsby does not change because his past is based on lies. The result is a tragic end for Gatsby and this leaves Nick only able to feel “a certain shame” (170). In the end, Gatsby failed because his request of Daisy was impossible. She could not go to Tom and say, “I never loved you,” because this, like so much of Gatsby's past, would be a lie. So to his incorruptible dream, Gatsby was faithful until the