What does the café represent for the two of them? • The older waiter is reluctant because he is obviously living with the guilt or shame of either committing something wrong or going through something bad/wrong when he was younger. The refrain expresses that the waiter does not believe in God and is not deeply religious. The older waiter understands the need for the café because he and the old man are both lonely people, so he empathizes with him. The café represents them both.
Justin Egan Professor Engler EngWr 301 7-9-12 The Black River: A Literary Analysis on the Theme and Supporting Elements of Ernest Hemmingway’s Short Story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” The short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” written in 1933 by Ernest Hemmingway, starts in a well-lighted café late at night with two waiters talking about a recent suicide attempt made by the old man sitting in their café. Through heavy use of dialogue, key characteristics of each character are developed. The older man has a background story of his own. The younger waiter is just that; young, impatient, and arrogant. And the middle age waiter, who is the most detailed of the three, has a darker understanding of both of the other two characters.
“The Drunkard” Questions 1. The humor in this story appears when the son is thirsty and gets drunk off of his father’s drink. The humor arises because of the situation and because of the boy’s drunken observations of life. While drunk, the little boy seems to overreact to the situations, a problem that results from intoxication, and his overanalyzed perception of the occurrences are what is funny. It is funny when the boy begins to sing and sings even louder because he believes his father missed the point of his singing, and the fact that the boy is doing everything the drunken father would have done is humorous too.
Rick is the Hemingway Hero in this movie because he truly is a man’s man. He owns his own bar and and is able to drink a lot and in large amounts. Drinking shows some of the disillusionment of the men during and after the war. They don’t have sense of what to do and their ideas have the world have changed to fit what they believe will work. Rick drinks and has his bar away from the war and turns to a sort of aloofness and only looking out for himself.
In the fourth paragraph of his speech, Elie Wiesel asks of indifference, “Is it necessary at times to practice it to keep one’s sanity, live normally, enjoy a fine meal and a glass of wine, as the world around us experiences harrowing upheavals?” This question suggests to the audience that he is not completely against indifference. However, he then goes on to say that while indifference is certainly easier than action, it is not necessarily right. This contradiction makes the audience begin to realize that indifference is wrong. Elie Wiesel’s word choice for the speech is meant to horrify, anger, and otherwise arouse the audience into action. Many words used in his speech were used to cause feelings of anger and empathy.
The author makes it feel as if he is a caring man by the way he acts towards the boy in the dinner. He shows his concern for the boy when he asks the counterman how many meals he has had, where he has slept and where he is from. “I mean, where did he sleep? It gets awful cold, nights,” says the salesman. This shows a lot of concern for the boy.
Drown Draft #1 In the book Drown, the narrator says “You watch anything long enough and you can become an expert at it. Get to know how it lives, what it eats…when I’m fifty this is how I’ll remember my friends: tired and yellow and drunk.” These quotations were used by the narrator to describe the relationship between him and his friends. In the first chapter of the book the narrator Yunior spends most of his time with his older brother Rafa. Their relationship in this chapter is not friendly at all. On page 5 of the page the narrator describes how things were back in the capital and how Rafa only hung out with his friends and barely paid any attention to Yunior.
Still unaware of his role as the hero, he begins to gather visual information that further proves to him the need for change in the world. Iris, a prostitute no more than thirteen years old, briefly gets in his cab before being pulled back out to the “dark side” by Sport, her pimp and boyfriend. The audience is uncomfortable with the fact that Travis just sits there,
No one really cared about him, so he built up walls with drinking and now Katniss and Peeta break them down and help him. On the train ride over to the capitol he is drunk when he should be giving advice to his tributes on how to stay alive in the games. Once he realizes they had a fighting chance this year and were not automatically written off as usual, he managed to focus on helping them instead of drinking. This helps Haymitch by giving him something to focus on as well as focusing on people who care for him. In the film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire his drinking is not as prevalent because he now has Katniss and Peeta who care enough about him to try and help him stay sober.
He gets very selfish and his relationship with his family starts to get very bad. He begins to argue with his sister Beneatha more about the money thinking that he’s all a sudden biggity and their mother steps in and makes them come to their senses . His personality changes and he becomes this man with dreams of getting rich and hanging with the whites in bars downtown, sitting outside on their restaurant patios. “mama when im downtown and I pass them cool ,quiet looking restaurants where them white boys are sitting back talking bout things…sitting their turning deals worth millions of dollars… sometimes I see guys don’t look much older.”Pg.74 Walter is thinking of all these plans and things he wants to do but does he know that some places are segregated and that him sitting talking about millions of dollars and deals isn’t gonna get him nowhere in life. He looks at everything different now that money is involved, he even thought about