Esch comments that Skeetah never named the puppy, so he tells her to give it a name. She chooses Nella. Manny says that they should kill the puppy now to save it from suffering. Skeetah grabs the puppy’s head and twists, swiftly breaking its neck the way his mother used to kill chickens. Afterward, Skeetah takes off his clothes and gets into the water of the Pit to wash the contamination off him.
Recklessness is the opening scene of the story as Wolf immediately lays the foundation with Kenny giving no thought to Tub as he drives at Tub on a whim. He establishes Kenny as the leader by placing him in the driver’s seat of the truck and making the destination for the hunt his choice, in spite of Tub not liking the location. Wolf uses the cold woods setting to symbolize lack of caring, and Kenny has unknowingly chosen the location where he is killed; he has set the moral compass for the group and it kills him. Wolf supports this focus of the plot when he foreshadows Kenny’s death by placing the brick through the window. There is no other reason to explain why we are told it went through the driver’s side, or that it was caused by juvenile delinquents.
But at the start he got bullied and he was scared to join in with some of the boys. Coincidence and parallel incidents are used in the story to make it seem that the course is controlling everything. Stanley is able to break the family curse because he carry’s zero up the mountain and drank the water from the hole he dug and sang the song. Another coincidence is that Stanley drops the spade back down the mountain and has to waste time by going down to get it. In this story Stanley had behaved really well.
In the flashback, Willy gives his sons a punching bag. He also condones Biff’s stealing of a football and doesn’t encourage them to study as much as they should. He emphasizes being well liked. After the flashback, Happy talks with Willy and asks him why he didn’t go to New England for his business trip. Willy explains that he almost hit a kid in Yonkers.
One night when Jem, and Scout were walking home from a Halloween party, he attempted to stab Jem. But Boo Radley stopped his plans and turned the knife to Mr. Ewell stabbing him instead and won justice for his name he seeks revenge on the judge and Atticus for making a fool out of him. Bob tries to stab Jem when they were walking home from a Halloween party, but Boo Radley saves them and stabs Bob him. Jem and Scout are o shocked that they almost forget that they were just attached. Boo walks the kids home, right before Atticus arrives Boo disappears back into the
Carolyn Jones tells us in her critical insight of To Kill a Mockingbird that “Atticus allows himself to be the target of an irrational force and its violence as he acts to protect innocent people” (147). The reader sees this protection of the innocent in three key scenes: shooting Tim Johnson, defending Tom Robinson, and an altercation with Bob Ewell. First, in chapter ten, the reader sees Tim Johnson, a rabid dog, heading straight for the neighborhood in which Atticus lives. Though he has not shot a gun in many years, Atticus steps up and shoots the rabid dog in order to protect the innocent people in the neighborhood. Next, the reader sees Atticus begin to defend Tom Robinson against the Ewells’ rape accusations.
Steinbeck deliberately highlights how easy it is for a character to be overlooked to show how Candy uses it to his advantage by getting the men’s secrets. Steinbeck effectively uses the character, Candy and his relationship with his dog to portray the dull and dismal society of 1930s America and the harsh effect it had on migrant workers across America. Their disabilities result into their un-acceptance of their being in society. Candy's dog is killed and candy realises he is no longer of any use and will soon get the sack, 'when they can me, I wisht someone shoot me, I won't have no place to go.' This idea of survival of the fittest
While he is no longer the victim, he finds himself fast being pulled into the dark world of the Guardians, a secret society of older boys who are orchestrating a reign of terror at his new school. When the Guardians summon him, he thinks that his disguise must have failed. The truth, however, is that the Guardians are so impressed by the new persona Elliot has created that they want him to become one of them. The book follows Elliot's struggle to find a way out of his dilemma. Whilst he has escaped his traumatic past, his future seems to be that he will join the Guardians, and become one of the bullies that he once despised.
The two children believe, from much observation of the strange happenings around the house, that it’s actually a monster waiting for its chance to strike. Mr. Nebbercracker’s strange behavior only intensifies their theory. After an unfortunate event where Chowder’s new basketball ends up in Nebbercracker’s yard, DJ is brave enough to try and get it back. He narrowly escapes as he ends up being chased around the yard by Nebbercracker, who is surprisingly agile for someone so old, but ends up sending him to the hospital because of a heart attack. With Nebbercracker gone and Halloween getting ever closer, DJ and Chowder decide that the house is going to have an early Thanksgiving dinner – with Trick or Treaters as all courses!
As the murderers were preparing to kill everyone, Tom attempted to talk to them and alleviate the situation to avoid anybody getting hurt. But as time progressed, nothing could be done to stop the mad men from robbing the diner and killing everyone in it. Tom had no choice but to end the lives of those two men. Tom’s son Jack is portrayed as submissive teenager that has a calm, friendly, non violent demeanor to him. At his high school, Jack is frequently ridiculed and tormented Cohen 2 by a bully who makes several attempts to get into a fight with Jack.