Sarty wants to be loyal to his father but knows that the truth must be told. When Sarty is called to testify against his father for the crime of barn burning, he becomes filled with “frantic grief and despair.” His father expects Sarty to lie on his behalf, and Sarty knows that he will have to in order to please his father which is all Sarty wants to do. Later that night, knowing that Sarty was in conflict and was
1) The title of the novel I have chosen is “inventing Elliot” and the title already gives an idea or impression what the story is about. The main character or protagonist of the story, Elliot Sutton, a traumatised and bullied 14 year old teenager is determined not to be a victim or target again. He is sick and tired of being a victim so he decides to reinvent himself – to create a new Elliot by changing his outer appearance but also the manner of his behaviour. He tries hard not to be noticed in the wrong way. 2) The author of the novel is Graham Gardner, an academic researcher and author.
Tim O’Brien, having experienced the Vietnam War, addresses the violence of war and its hellish, inherent effects on the people’s mind through portraying Paul Berlin as fearful and mad. Throughout the story, Paul was always seen expressing fear. At the beginning of the story, as Paul and the other soldiers were on their way to the ocean, he became too fearful and started regressing Paul pretended he was not a soldier, but an innocent boy doing a campfire while chatting with his father (page 131). Another example would be the time Paul started counting his steps and pretending they are dollar bills to fight fear, which shows he was fearful (page 134). The fact that Paul regresses and starts counting his steps, which shows before entering the war he was carefree and wasn’t used to fear, explains how the violent war poses such inherent effects on Paul’s mind by turning him from such a carefree, to a fearful person.
Snatched from their families, with guns pointed at their heads, they are forced to kill. Beaten and drugged, they lose all moral values. They are brainwashed into believing that killing is required to survive. These people are children, innocent victims, who need rescue. First of all, child soldiers are treated very poorly - like machines - to perform one task: kill.
Although what does it mean when Forrest’s journey was abruptly cut short when Jenny died? He began a new one with the life of his son, teaching him to grow into a selfless young man. Skrzynecki, upon reaching his destination, found only bitterness and anguish when he had to pack up and leave his home at the orders of another. Until he becomes his own hero, Skrzynecki will not complete his journey fuelled with rage and despair that is emphasised in “Leaving Home”, as shown by his use of the words “Swore that Head Office, Would not see my face again, Unless I become my own Scipio
After Blockalteste told Elie that he is in a concentration camp, he shouldn’t care about anyone else except himself even his old father. Elie began to thinks about what Blockaltest had told him, “Too late to save your old father----You could have two ration of bread, two rations of soup----“(111). When the SS officer was beating his father in front of Elie. Normally human been would protect his father getting hurt, but he chose to do nothing and just watched his old father getting whipped, because he was afraid to get hurt. Next morning when Elie found out his father got took away, he didn't weep anymore.
Finally his ability to tell people what they want to hear allows him to topple Ralph as chief. In the course of events Jack is responsible for the deaths of two boys. One is killed because he and his enfuriated tribe members cannot see clearly anymore. They cannot see Simon coming out from the forest, but an enemy who they think they must kill. The second murder he also allows to happen.
He obviously likes to spend time with his son. Just before Christmas they were going to ski, and I suppose that his father wants to pull the boy out of his orderly life to show that life can be pleasure. Of course, we can see that the father doesn’t obey the rules. For instance, when the trooper says, “The road is closed”, he still travels to the closed and dangerous road and forces his son to participate in this. Although he seems irresponsible, we can find him an excuse because he tries to return the boy in time.
Dad wants his boys to think the way he does. When dad is then killed in the line of duty and by a black man, this clears the way for Derek to become recruited by the vulture named Cameron. Cameron preys on weak kids like this so that he can bring them into the white power movement. From there, the family begins to deteriorate and continues until Derek is released from prison. Their living arrangement is quite dismal.
The poem “After Wiryamu village massacre by the Portuguese” is written to tell the world what actually happened on the 16th December 1972 in Mozambique. The poem “Not my business” is written to tell people that unless they stand up for themselves and their friends they are going to live in fear of the army who would come for them at any time. “After Wiriyamu….” is about the violent killing of 400 helpless villagers by the occupying Portuguese military and the fact that the leaders of Mozambique did nothing to help the villagers. Instead they fled their country and would return when they felt that it would be safe to do so. The poem “Not my business” is about what life is like living under the military rule in Nigeria and the restrictions it placed on the people living in Nigeria and the constant fear of knowing that the military could come and take the villagers away at any time without any warning.