His grandkids are all over after the ceremony and he finds his grand daughter, Ashley, smoking next to his car. She asks what kind of car it is and he tells her it’s a Gran Torino. Then she asks what she can have after he dies. He gets angry and walks away. His neighbor from the Hmong family, Thao, comes over for jumper cables and Walt gets angry and insults him.
Mr. Younger had many pleasant and joyful moments stolen from him in this novel due to his irresponsible actions. For example, one evening Ruth had received a phone call. The caller was the wife of the man that Walter drives for, Saying walter had been a no-show to work for the past three days. “Mama: What you been doing for these three days, son?” (105) Walter replied by telling her he spent his work time just driving, roaming the streets of their small are, and drinking at the Green Hat.
Similarly, the title “Give” suggests an attitude. The word could be interpreted as an aggressive demand or a cry for help. In the poem the character is both hostile and pleading in a desperate attempt to get attention because of the way in which he feels he has been ignored by society. Although both poems feature characters shunned by society they are written from contrasting points of view. ‘The Clown Punk’ is written from the view point of a father who is driving “home” through the “shonky” part of town.
Gatsby takes Daisy and they leave the apartment where the argument is taking place. Gatsby and Daisy become reckless and do not pay attention when they’re driving away. Gatsby is letting Daisy drive and they become so distracted that Daisy accidentally hits Myrtle, a woman living in The Valley of Ashes. They flee the scene in hopes of not being caught. George, Myrtle’s husband, is fed false information that leads him to believe that Gatsby was the one driving the car and he walks to Gatsby’s house and shoots Gatsby in the back, killing
George, aggrieved by myrtles death, decides to track down the owner of the car. Wilson goes to Gatsby’s house, sees Gatsby lying there, shoots Gatsby then shoots himself. Goes back to west egg and sees Gatsby dead. He realises that now Gatsby’s dream for daisy is was so disillusioned without her… Chapter 8 is an important section in the novel as at the start of the chapter it builds up tension. Fitzgerald does this by using foreshadowing at the start of the chapter.
Rick agrees and hides them in Sam’s piano. Ferrari, a rival nightclub owner, comes in to try to by Rick’s club from him. Yvonne, Rick’s girl friend, comes in drunk wondering where Rick has been. Rick blows her off and sends her home. Rick joins Captain Louis Renault and discuss’ what Rick might have done in America.
He is driving his mom’s car and his friends are rolling joints and doing things they consider bad like yelling out the window. On their drive, they run into a 1957 Chevy they recognize as their friends’, Tony Lovett. They think that Tony is with a girl getting intimate and Digby decides to flash the headlights and honk the horn to make a joke at Tony. This is also an example of arrogance and misunderstanding of being bad. As they see a figure emerging from the car, the narrator realizes that this is not Tony and quickly his mindset changes to fear and
This is Paul's motivation to lie constantly and to steal from Denny & Carson's and run away to New York. Paul frequently reflects on his own death, imagining the circumstances of his father mistaking him for a burglar and shooting him, bringing or buying a gun in New York to provide a way to “snap the thread”, and finally when he resolutely plans to and actually does jump in front of a train. Paul's teachers hold him in disdain and view his “contrite spirit” is “symbolized by his shrug and his flippantly red carnation flower” which he wears in his buttonhole. When Paul is dismissed from his meeting with his teachers, they see his graceful exit bow as “a repetition of the scandalous red carnation.” The red carnation Paul wears may symbolize his desire to be unique and that he feels he is in a class above others and one who loves art and music. Carnations had before been used by the famous poet Oscar Wilde to symbolize an alternative lifestyle that included frivolity and excess.
Later he gets told by his bestfriend Banco that his manager has been stealing money from the register for awhile. After Mac hears that he goes and tells the owner of the restaurant Duncan about it and Duncan fires the manager. Mac becomes the next manager but this is still not enough. While walking home one night Mac runs into two stoners who take him to a third stoner that is an oracle. They tell him of a system that makes it so you don’t have to get out of your car to order, the drive-thru.
A Drunken Ride The article, “A Drunken Ride” brings to light many questions about the legal system of our country and its apparent leniency. In the article, a boy makes the decision to drive intoxicated with four other friends in his vehicle. As the night progresses he ends up in a collision and as a result, many people loose their lives. One of the biggest issues here is to what end do we need to punish our children when they make mistakes. Are their minds still open to change?