Quentin carries around a suitcase stuffed with books wherever he goes and finds excuses to get out of gym class. He is excitable and often confounds the other members and townspeople with his advanced vocabulary when jumpy. Jimmy "O'Dell" Carroll: is small and excitable, the most emotional member of the group. His father drove the town garbage truck, allowing O'Dell access to many useful items, frequently scrounged to further the group's efforts. He is always scheming ways of making money, from the failed iron scrap attempt—which took an entire summer, yielded a net loss of one dollar, not counting the destruction of borrowed equipment, and almost killed Sonny—to the profitable harvesting of ginseng.
Power Power is shown in many different forms within the novel; physical, mental, coercive and legitimate. I think that Lennie shows the most physical power in the novel, as Curley threatens Lennie and punches him numerous times Lennie just takes the hits until George tells Lennie to “get him”, Lennie doesn’t have any mental power, it is George that thinks for Lennie and Lennie protects George physically. Curley demonstrates legitimate power in the way that he uses his position of being the bosses son (second highest position on the ranch) to threaten people with a canning (firing). He has a very prominent insecurity, he hates men who are bigger than him, because he is small. He tries to prove himself by picking fights with the bigger men
Whenever daisy does something wrong he goes and beats her. At one of Gatsby’s parties early in the book, Tom punches myrtle in the face. So he is almost an abusive type character. Tom is very racist and sexist to top it all off. Jay is more of the laid back follower.
Daisy had a history with Gatsby, she and Gatsby had been in love five years ago. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s purpose in writing this book is to show how true love does not fade, because even after five years and Daisy having a husband she still had feeling for Gatsby. The parties were very extravagant there was loud music, people dancing and laughing. “At seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low high drums.” (Fitzgerald 40). Chapter three gives people an idea of what the glamorous life was like, how the wealthy lived.
His core belief throughout his whole life is “A man without land is nothing (2)”. As a result, he lets his goals of wealth get in the way of many friendships, such as that with Virgil. Similarily, Macbeth lets his desire to be the most powerful get in the way of many relationships within the novel. He truly believes in the witches prophecy that “Fair is foul and foul is fair (1.1.32)”. His sense of over-entitlement led him to be easily manipulated into killing his good friend and leader King Duncan.
Sykes, on the other hand, is as evil as Delia is good. This is never more apparent when he answers Delia's question as to why he enjoys making her suffer: "'If you such a big fool dat you got to have a fit over a earth worm or a string, Ah don't keer how bad Ah skeer you'" (883). Unempathetic to the hardships and fears his wife endures, Sykes sees sport in all aspects of life, including frightening his wife. Abusive and unfaithful, Sykes doesn't care how his infidelity is seen not only by his wife but by the townspeople as well. His lack of morality and faith, his rejection in the belief of the same moral equanimity that Delia fosters in, frees him from the constraints of personal or communal responsibility.
Section1 & 2 In the beginning, a furious and crazy dictating monster was heard growling impatiently. Everyday music was playing about “The ancient beginnings of us all” (Raffle, 21). Hrothgar’s men lived in a great friendly environment until the mean and Evil monster; Grendel came and haunted the warriors. He was conceiving by a pair of monsters, who were the blame for the death of Abel. The almighty kept the demons out, but soon split into different forms of evil.
This “bad boys” will do whatever it takes to keep their rebellious reputation. As the boys are about to get into a fight with a boy they mistook as their friend Tony, the narrator goes for “the tire iron [he] kept under the driver’s seat” in order to fight. (398) The narrator admit she hasn’t been in a fight since the sixth grade yet feels the need to prove his masculinity by grabbing the tire iron and hitting the greasy characters in the head. As soon as he lays the greasy character out, the narrator feels on top of the world. All three boys begin to develop a higher sense of pride knowing they defeated this guy when at first it looked like they were going to lose.
The Great Warrior There are many great warriors, but like any great warrior we all have weaknesses. Odysseus was a great warrior but had flaws. Odysseus is very clever. He tricked the giant and poked him in the eye and was able to escape. Another example of his cleverness is when he killed all the people that were threatening his wife to marry him and thought up a way to get rid of them.
“Come on, ya big bastard get up on your feet. No big son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me. I’ll show you who’s yella.” Suddenly Curley gets closer to Lennie and his left hand swings at full speed slashing Lennie and then he punches down Lennie’s nose with his right. Lennie’s nose drools with blood while, he lets out a cry of terror. Things start to get out of control.