I felt angry about how Kress' irresponsibilities that caused his pets died in a famine because owners have the duties to feed their pets well. Since the beginning of the story told me about Kress was such irrepressible of making his pets suffered from starving, I think he would feel no guilty when he stopped feeding his sandkings to entertain his guests as he showed off to them in the parties. I think Kress was admirable as a human because everyone should not strew up animals' living areas as forcing fish to live on the ground. In the story of "Sandkings", Kress refused to listen to the sandkings' seller - Wo's warning about letting sandkings had wars by their own conflicts, and he didn't treat his pets nice. With what he treated the sandkings, they started behaving displeasures by twisted his sculptures on the castles.
So he turned around and came back. Once returned, he found that three more monkeys had died. He began to keep a diary, but all he could tell was that the monkeys would just stop eating and die. He could not explain he enlarging of the spleen. One day a monkey died, his name was “O53”.
Why’n’t you shoot him, Candy?’” Another man, Slim, also agrees with Carlson’s beliefs. “‘Carl’s right, Candy. That dog ain’t no good to himself. I wisht somebody’d shoot me if I got old an’ a cripple.’” (Steinbeck, 44-45) The men all agree that the dog is old and has suffered enough, living through the last days of his life. They all want to end the dog’s misery by killing him.
Death, something we will all meet at one time or another weather its personally caused or not, one way or another we will all meet the grave one day. For the book Of Mice and Men this is apparent as animals and people are killed and or murdered. The first to go is Candy’s dog, he is taken out by Carlson because he was old, blind, and ridden with arthritis, the dog was killed out of mercy not because he was a trouble maker, or that he was bad but because the dog was at the end of his time and it was time to put him down this hits Candy hard, he has owned that dog since it was but a pup and now they were telling him it was time to put him down on page 25 of the online book it says, “A shot sounded in the distance. The men looked quickly at the old man. Every head turned toward him.
Lennie believes that George is just going to yell at him for what he has done. George recites the story of the farm once more, but lacking the normal emotion. George knows that he must kill Lennie to save him from what the other men might do. 43. The impact of Curley's wife's death was about the same as that as the death of the puppy.
These feeling are expressed in the story about Rat Kiley's letter, with which the chapter is started - with his feelings of grief about loss and final «cooze», because he was not written back and he could not cope with his loss. His pain is shown in the shoking story of shooting baby buffalo. However, all these stories might have never happened, the soldiers were fighting the war and facing blood, troops and losses, struggling because of their youth and immaturity, fear that cannot be ignored about war. This terrible experience of war is the only truth that author wants to make the readers understand in his
PERIOD 3 – KALEIDOSCOPE Melissa & Brittany Rodwell’s suicide • Rodwell is assigned with men whose morals and consciences have been broken by war • “he found them slaughtering rats and mice–burning them alive in their cooking fires” • “they’d forced him to watch the killing of a cat” • Rodwell wasn’t able to change his morals and character, war didn’t break him/ change his beliefs • Rodwell wasn’t content being passive while watching others (the animals) suffer, watching the men torture them • animal rights? • war affects everyone • his letter to his daughter urges her not to despair, but to have faith in life • killing of animals represent savageness in human, the innate evil
Like George, Candy only wanted his dog dead to prevent it from enduring the suffering that they both face from oppressors. “You seen what they did to my dog tonight? They says he wasn’t no good to himself nor nobody else. What they can me here I wisht somebody shoot me. But they won’t do nothing like that.
“At one point, I remember, we paused over a picture of Ted Lavender, and after a while Jimmy rubbed his eyes and said he’d never forgiven himself for Lavender’s death. It was something that would never go away, he said quietly, and I nodded and told him I felt the same about certain things” (Obrien 27). Another theme is fear of shame as motivation. Tim O’Brien experiences this himself when he is on the boat with Elroy. He decides to go to war because he is ashamed of running from it.
The narrator seems to note the boys transformation by referring to them as savages and how the hide their shame “[they were] safe from shame or consciousness behind the mask of [their] paint”(pg.154). The final result of their savagery was the deaths of Simon and Piggy these events happen in the heat of the moment due to an overflow of emotion. In the killing of Simon they were performing their infamous chant and enactment of the hunt of the hunt when Simon runs out tries to warn them about the false beast but the group was in the heat of the moment and ended up killing him even Ralph and piggy the level headed boys were caught up in this superfluous of emotion. In the killing of piggy the groups were at castle rock and in the midst of the confrontation piggy was hit with a