High Noon is a western movie about loyalty and betrayal. The movie opens up on Will Kane’s wedding day. He handed in his marshal’s star to start a new chapter in his life. This is also the day he has to make one of the most difficult decisions of his life. Will Kane must decide if he is to leave town and the town he loves or stay and defend the town.
This is itself marks a symbolic happy ending. However, Odyssey is worried that the news about him having killed all the suitors will reach the town. What he did to achieve this happy ending in the end, might haunt him. Therefore at the end of Chapter 23, he goes off to town with his son. If this were to be the end of the book,
No matter what way John chooses there is going to be guilt, regret, and consequences. After John decides that losing his family name is not an option, and will be hanged instead, many of his close friends try to stop him, but surprisingly Elizabeth does not. Right before his hanging she says, “‘He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him’” (145)! Here Elizabeth is well aware how much it is hurting and how hard it will be without him, but the one thing she will not do is take away his dignity.
He realizes if he stays in this dead beat town for the rest of his life, he may not have the marvelous future he always hoped for. Details reveal the driving force causing Sammy to quit his job; he wants to move on to bigger and better chances in his lie. The story reflects that Sammy quit because Lengel embarrassed Queenie and her followers, and that Sammy wanted to seem heroic, but underlying details reveal he already had intentions on quitting, but finally stumbles upon a reason that is seemingly legitimate. The sheep represent the idea of boredom in the story. The town, being so complacent and closed off have a daily routine, and they have no desire to change.
English; period 4All Quiet on the Western FrontIn the film, "All Quiet on the Western Front" directed by Lewis Milestone, it shows how the war has many brutal affects and it isn't worth fighting for your country and in the end dying, not a hero but as a forgotten angel. In the beginning of the film, the young men are being talked into going to war by a professor. The men are, at first, unsure of going to war but the professor feeds them lies about how war makes you a hero because you fight for your country. But throughout the movie each one of these men dies; and as they die, they are no longer remembered just forgotten; their bodies lying in the middle of nowhere. At one point in the movie, as Paul comes across a French man he gets frightened and he cowardly stabs him.
The belief that people should not have to lie is one which comes up a lot in Proctor’s life. As the story comes to an end, Proctor is ready to face his death and throw away his reputation in front of the town. As the accused prepare for their death, a resonating sound of hope rises from Rebecca Nurse. “Let you fear nothing! Another judgement waits us all.” (Miller 133).
The protagonist, Krebs is starting story with his typical life. After war is over, he does not want to come back to his home. When Krebs comes back, he wants to share the war experience to people in town but no one want to listen to him because the war is already end a year ago and the stories that been told by other soldiers are more exciting, more thrilling. To grab their attention, Krebs has to lie to them to make his story more interesting. In the story, narrator mentions that, “Krebs acquired the nausea in regard to experience that is the result of untruth or exaggeration...” (118).
One of Huck Finn’s major lies, is the one that set the stage for this story of adventure. After living with Ms. Watson, he goes on and lives with his dad but does not like the way he is treated, so he decides to run away. He doesn’t want to be “sivilized” and he does not want to hit by his “Pap.”Huck creates a plan that will lead people to believe that he is dead so if he runs away no one would suspect that and won’t look for him and sure enough. According to everyone he had been killed either by Jim or by his dad.
After almost being killed, Huck cannot take it any longer and takes matters into his own hands. Huck fakes his own death just so he can get away from his father and the town he lived in. Later on, when Huck realizes that the thieves are stuck on the boat and they might die, even though they’re bad people, Huck knows he should do the right thing, so he tries to have them rescued. Throughout the journey, Huck never pays attention to society’s thoughts but towards the end, he begins getting mixed thoughts. When he almost turns Jim into the slave catchers, he realizes that Jim is his best friend, and when he thinks he is doing the right thing by writing the letter to Ms. Watson, he then realizes that Jim does not deserve that.
Notwithstanding, he already knew he was fighting a war with no gun, and had "after losing the case, which he surely should have won, Maycomb still chose to put him down quoting, “he's turned out a nigger-lover we'll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb again. He's ruinin' the family, that's what he's doin’,” (96). Even after dealing with nothing but setbacks, Atticus continued to manage the aggregation having enough courage to fight the case with force, persevering until what really happened is said. An alternate adventure of Atticus' courage is when the lynch mob argument occurred. When he was approached by a gang that included Mr. Cunningham.