The workers are unable to get government relief because they have not lived in the state for a year. Weakened by hunger, many resort to begging and stealing. The pity of the townspeople for the starving workers soon turns to fear. The only person in town who is busy is the
“I’m nearly dead of it,” (Tolkien 104) Bilbo said a little upset after Gandalf told The Great Eagle that they were starving. Victor suffered after the horrible murders and deaths of each and every one of his loved ones. This happened several times in the book so he was also miserable quite a bit. Another time was while he was on his journey to find the monster. He stated, “I have endured misery,” (Shelley 206) because he was travelling over dangerous grounds with little food.
Thomas runs away from the Mission School and returns to his mountain home. When he arrives he expects to find his brother the bear and the rest of his animal family, but instead he finds a “charred circle” (70) where his lodge used to be. Tom then “…stood among the ashes and whispered the sorrow chant…For small griefs you shout, but for the big griefs you whisper or say nothing. The big griefs must be borne alone, inside” (70.) He knows that it was Blue Elk who did it because there is not one item of worth left behind, not even the knife Tom’s mother gave him.
George is the dominant male in the relationship , because of Lennie’s disability it causes they both very much trouble back in Weed and on the ranch they arrive too after escaping. Also Lennie’s disability causes himself to be put aside from others on big events. While all the other ranch hands go to town, Lennie, Crooks, Candy, and Curley’s Wife are left behind. They’re left behind because to all the other strong and healthy men they’re outsiders. Lennie is considered as an outsider because of his mental disability.
He also writes "an ash-pile made by many fires". This shows that many men must have walked through this road to enter a lonely and miserable life, moving from ranch to ranch finding useless work. I think all the people living in the ranch are lonely. There are particular people in the ranch who have lonelier lives than others. The loneliest person on the ranch has to be Crooks, who suffers from extreme loneliness because he is black and he is living in a ranch and the surrounding area which is very racist.
When they came for Chief Sitting Bull, he was murder by gunshot. Chief Big Foot and his tribe tried to escape, but surround by the Army. During the night the Army billed up the attack positions. They demand the weapons of the tribe, which left the tribe defenseless. During the round up, a shot was fired and the Army senselessly shot at the tribe until almost all were massacred.
I tell ya," he cried, "I'll tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick" (Steinbeck 72). Crooks does not have anyone to talk to, this shows another side of him. While he talks about men in general feeling lonely, he really is talking about the way he feels. Crooks is mostly affected because he is shut down from activities and the workers in the ranch mistreat him because he is black. While talking to Candy he says, ".
Later that night, a few of the high class kids harass Ponyboy and Johnny. The group of Socs out-numbered the two boys by a lot. They tried to drown the young, defenseless, Ponyboy. In his defense, Johnny came up behind the head Soc, and killed him with his blade. After the rest of the Socs realized what had happened, they fled, so Johnny and Ponyboy went to Dallas Winston to receive help.
In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorrain Hansberry conflict is in the drama by the face the Youngers live in a decade of poverty and have to live by pay check to pay check. Walter Lee and Ruth fight over the simplest things like Walters liquor store that he has dreamed about, but no one approves of because they will lose money that they do not have. They argue so easily because of the stress of not having any money. For example, in Act 1 line 27, Travis asks Ruth for fifty cents and Ruth could not give it to him. He was so stressed out about the money that he needed for school that he asked to go to the local grocery store and help carry groceries to cars.
Before the arraignment is even begun, Carl Lee shows up at the courthouse and opens fire. Influenced by the tremendous pain of his loss, he slays the two accused of the crime and injures one police officer. This was a passionate retribution, and Carl Lee is then charged with two counts of murder in the first degree. Unfortunately, Carl Lee is trapped in a world where justice is not the focus and skin color is the issue. Since, Carl Lee can not afford an attorney of his choice, he is assigned the young and ambitious Jake Brigance.