From the short story "Spanish Roulette" by Ed Vega the poet Sixto vows revenge against a local gang member who raped his sister and battles with himself to make the right choice. Although revenge may be the momentary satisfaction in times of despair, no man extracts revenge for the sake of evil, without the intent of profiting from it, and will be punished for it, regardless of reason, in this life or the next. The theme of these stories is the ability to let go of ones hate, to allow themselves the chance to heal without making the dreaded mistake of taking revenge which will ultimately destroy themselves. The message is clear through all three texts that revenge achieves nothing but gambles everything worth losing for the momentary satisfaction of vengeance. Although the three texts go about different ways, reasons, and potential gain by exacting revenge it is very clear through each story that it is never the best answer.
CHAPTER 4 QUESTIONS 1. In Chapter Four, a series of successive crises temporarily relieve David of his concern for Sophie. List these crises. david's gift -the meeting of the fringes leaders -teaching sophie about the world -the inspector's rational views 2. Why does Uncle Axel warn David about his gift?
Character Analysis In Dubious battle In the book “In Dubious battle”, the character Jim Nolan takes us on a journey, leading us throughout the whole book. Jim starts his journey by joining a “party”. He joins the “party” mainly because he wants to escape the life he had before. Jim’s parents both died recently before he made the decision to join the party, his father was killed in a riot. To me Jim’s character is very intellectual as well as brave and courageous.
He thinks of building shelters to protect them and to start a fire for their rescue. He becomes friend with Piggy, the fat boy that receives taunts and teases from the other boy, and gets used to rely on Piggy's intellectual reasoning. Ralph is brave when the occasion presents it, but he really miss for the secure world of adults, especially when order starts to break down on the island. He dreams about a rescue and insists that the signal fire always has to burn so that they can be seen. Ralph considers that the main reason for the disorder on the island is Jack, the antagonist and representation of evil in the novel.
“If you keep it don’t blame me for what happens. Pitch it on the fire again, like a sensible man.” This demonstrates foreshadowing because it shows the monkey paw is better to burn in a fire than face the consequences it brings again showing the fear of the sergeant of the power of the monkey paw leading the reader to believe the monkey paw has power. Two instances of foreshadowing in “The Monkeys Paw” are when the sergeant is ask about his wishes with the paw and his face becomes blotchy and
c) Poison, incense, plague, lose some colour. d) Contaminate, the word reflects the decaying essence of Iago, flies’ connotation is that of dirty, impure, rotten. Iago asking Roderigo to “plague” Brabantio with flies is an image of ultimate horror. 2. a) Iago: The moor is of a free and open nature,/ That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,/ And will as tenderly be led by the nose/ As asses are (1.2.381-384) b) Othello’s naïve/frank nature doesn’t make him question the truth; he is led by what he thinks is true, just like an ass’s instinct. Iago is talking to himself about his upcoming plans to take Othello down.
The theme in any work of literature is the underlying idea and main purpose (Kirszner, and Mandell 4). One such theme that has been rewritten throughout time is the idea of death and its inevitability. It is an interesting subject that has been revisited by many authors and poets, and has a great range of perception. Writers find a way to explain a concept and a truth that they believe through different forms of literature. Everything from a three line haiku to a 1000 page novel has an underlying theme.
(Act 1, Scene 1, line 65). At the end of the last scene in Act 1, Roderigo exits, and Iago delivers an impressive soliloquy to the audience devising his plan – to use Roderigo and Cassio’s naivety and weaknesses to achieve his evil. (Act 1, Scene 3, lines 383-405). Again using Iago as a confidante, Shakespeare uses another soliloquy to the audience of his intent to use Desdemona’s napkin as a device to instill her deceit in Othello’s mind. (Act 2 Scene 3 lines 321-329) Iago speaks again to the audience: “I will in Cassio’s lodgings lose this napkin And let him find it….
Blow!’ Although the play is set in a pagan setting, Lear prays to the gods to expose criminals and later throughout the play, for the wellbeing of Cordelia and it is through these cries of help that we can notice that no matter how much the king prayed for righteous justice to be served that his prayers remained unanswered. Proof of this is how he calls his daughters ‘pernicious’ in Act III Scene i and in Act III scene iii; also called ‘The Mock Trial Scene’, where Lear states: ‘I here take my oath before this honourable assembly, she [meaning Goneril] kicked the poor King her father.’ It is ironic how Lear thought that he was all-powerful in the first Act whereas now he is making an oath in the name of the gods that what he is stating is true and this shows the resignation he has towards the previous life he led. Meanwhile the gods’ injustice is also present in Gloucester’s subplot. Gloucester has always been a great believer of the gods and in the first act, when he reads Edmund’s forged letter he demonstrates this ‘these late eclipses in the sun
Narrative compositions often rely on personal experiences and it is often in the form of a story. Once a writer uses this technique, he must make sure to include all the aspects of storytelling which are plot, character, setting, climax, and ending. These aspects are used to explain, support, and give life to the story. The narrative composition offers the writer a chance to write and think about themselves. The writer can get these stories from his experiences and memories and these are the memories that he wants to share with other people.