Darry works two jobs and is very strict with Ponyboy. Ponyboy’s other brother, Sodapop, dropped out of school and works part-time at the gas station. Johnny has abusive parents and considers the greasers his family. Dally is the most dangerous greaser and
Weir highlights this through costuming, for example, when Book wears Jacob’s (Rachel’s dead husband) clothes. The full shot of Book wearing the ill-fitting clothes, coupled with his uncomfortable facial expression, demonstrates his unsuccessful attempts at being completely accepted in the Amish community. His intruding presence in their community is symbolised by the act of his car knocking into the birdhouse, emphasising the disruption of harmony and peace. His stay with the Amish teacher Book that violence is not the key to solving problems, and competes with his rival Daniel for the affections of Rachel. However, his supreme ordeal is defeating the enemy, which he successfully accomplishes at the end, as shown by the close up shot the group of
IX. The House of Death Floats By (pg 47) Young birds “flying a yard or two at a time and lighting” is a sign of rain later on, according to Jim’s conversation with Huck (45). The three or four foot deep flood sends houses afloat so Huck and Jim dig through them for supplies and one night, they found a dead man in the house and takes everything worthy from the house, paying no attention to the corpse. X. What Comes of Handling Snake-skin (pg 52) Jim told Huck that touching snake skin causes bad luck and Huck decides to trick Jim with a dead rattlesnake but ends up causing Jim a snake bite that takes “four days and nights” to heal.
Although all these things are horrible there is unfortunately nothing we can do about it. If McDonalds were to ever go out of business there would be another cooperation just waiting to take its place. The majority of cooperation’s out there aren’t worried about our well being, they are only worried about making money and being successful and nothing we do will change that. McDonalds is a perfect example of a corrupt and greedy cooperation. After reading about McDonalds in our reading strategy book my opinion on McDonalds has changed greatly.
Especially when he had a conversation with Nick, he said, “If we don’t look out the white race—will be utterly submerged.” (13) Even his voice was “a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed” (7) Tom wasn’t afraid to speak his opinion, but when it came to himself, he would just ignore it and keep his chin up held high. Throughout the novel it would appear Tom was very hypocritical as well. When he found out about Daisy and Gatsby’s romance, he could not handle his temper and would blow up on the both of them stating, “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that’s the idea you can count me out…Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life institutions, and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white” (130). Even though Tom himself was having an affair with Myrtle, he belittled his wife for falling for another man telling her that her actions would ruin a family, when in fact he was doing the same thing, but he was not in control of the situation also flaring his
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime... Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
“Putting America First” The two cartoons in which this paper will be written about both seem to have the same general theme going on. The first one, “America First” shows an older lady with two children reading a book titled Adolf the Wolf and the children looked frightened. The second cartoon is, “The Lucky One” showing the American in his own bed and then on the other side of the room there are about five contagious Europeans crammed into another bed. For the most part it looks like the artist is trying to portray that Germany and Europe in general are from a totem pole stance lower than the United States. Both cartoons were drawn by Dr. Seuss and it seems that he is shooting for a general audience of just U.S. citizens, not necessarily
The descriptions of the motorcycle and the “greasy character,” both produce the tough image that the narrator, Jeff, and Digby yearn for, whereas the narrator’s mother’s “whining” station wagon does not (125, 127). When the narrator, Jeff, and Digby retreat to the woods and the lake after their attempted rape, the narrator’s car is demolished and trashed by the angry greasy man, and two “blond types [wearing] fraternity jackets” that appear in a Trans-Am. The demolition of the narrator’s car symbolizes how weak and vulnerable he is, like a little school boy getting beaten up by an older, tougher bully, and takes away whatever “bad” boy image he had left. After emerging from their hide outs in the lake, the boys return to their car the next morning and are greeted by two
The author goes on to explain the diapers of the boy’s siblings that were in “various stages of anarchy” (8). The choice of words lets the readers know just how bad of a condition the diapers were, showing the readers just how that the “Kool-Aid wino” and his family were living. The figurative language used in this piece plays into the imagery of the story as a whole., When Brautigan uses a simile “ the car wobbled back and forth on the road as if the driver were having an epileptic seizure” (14) to show just how abused to car really was in town. But yet the grocer continued
This dramatic passage takes place after a betrayal occurs between Hassan and Amir. With a heavy conscience, Amir and his father escape from Kabul in an overcrowded fuel truck on its way to Pakistan. During the ride, “someone retched … heads banged against metal”, and his physical and mental states make dealing with the journey unbearable. When Baba says “think of something good … something happy,” Amir grasps at the notion. He suppresses the bitter taste of his unspeakable actions and replaces them with an idealized memory of an afternoon with Hassan.