The finger starts to bleed and her mother says it is bad luck, Esperanza starts worrying. F. Her father is not home yet and begins to think something bad has happened. G. She goes inside the house to talk with Mama, Abuelita (grandmother), Hortensia (maid) and Miguel (her servant). H. They all hear someone coming from outside and Alfonso, who is friends with Esperanza’s dad looks down with a grieving face. I. Esperanza sees that her father’s lifeless body in the wagon and was killed by the bandits.
As the Jewish children rode the trains to their death they saw a plethora of grapes and were blinded by the sun. The speaker again mentions the children in the poem most likely because he was a child as the war occurred. The speaker can imagine what the starving children were seeing as they passed vineyards. The speaker says “The tireless Lorelei / can never comb from their hair / the crimson beards of the murdered rabbis” (lines 9-11). The Lorelei in the poem are the Nazis that murdered millions of rabbis and they will never be able to wash the blood off their hands.
Vardaman (ch 15) Vardaman runs out of the house and begins to cry. He sees the spot on the ground where he first laid the fish he caught, and thinks about how the fish is now chopped up into little pieces of “not-fish” and “not-blood.” Vardaman reasons that Peabody is responsible for Addie’s death and curses him for it. He jumps off the porch and runs into the barn. Still crying, Vardaman picks up a stick and begins beating Peabody’s horses, cursing them and blaming them for Addie’s death, until they run off. He shoos away a cow that wants milking, and returns to the barn to cry quietly.
Chapter 2: Fears and ideas Meanwhile in a little village, near the coast where no one had caught the plague, a bunch of people were debating what caused this dreadful illness. “How many times do I have to tell you? Why else would people be dying if it wasn’t a punishment from God?” shouted a muddy, dirty farmer named Peter. “But babies are dying and they’re too young to of done anything wrong,” mumbled a shy, young woman cooking her some dinner in a small black pot over a fire. “It’s got to be the got to be bad air, there’s so much dirt and mess on the street” “ I agree with her Peter, how can so many people be punished by god?” questioned her husband, a tall, strong man.
You are an ogre. Let me go, or I will tell my papa." (Shelley 127) When the creature approaches William he screams and runs away in terror. This makes the monster feel very alone and he becomes enraged and eventually ends up strangling William to death. He then takes a picture of Caroline Frankenstein that the boy has been holding and places it in the folds of the dress of a girl sleeping in a barn—Justine Moritz, who is later executed for William’s murder.
Depression sets in on Hulga, she begins to cry, to think of her family. She begins to imagine suicide; she’s already lost everything, and thinks she has no reason to live. She punches out the glass of the window, and pulls herself up so that her stomach rests on the window frame. She looks down, spotting a double sided axe, used for chopping fire wood, which was stuck firmly in a tree stump. All she has to do is land on the axe, she thinks to
Clara immersed herself in church work to “keep busy” and help the community around her but never had “deep religious feelings” towards Universalism. She had trouble in the idea of the joy there should be in life with the amount of grief that was present in the lives of those around her. Although Barton never claimed to have no faith, she described herself as being more of a “well-disposed pagan”. By Barton’s own standards of living up to her religious morals, I believe that she did as she thought was right. The words of her father while on his deathbed seems to be what I felt Barton lived by in her life; “As a Patriot he bade serve my country with all I had, even my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason, he bad me seek and comfort the afflicted everywhere, and as a Christian he charged me to honor God and love mankind”.
The lives of the people in the town are basically jeopardized due to this yearly ritual, the “lottery”. The people of the town, are obsessed with tradition that they forget their purpose of action and the effects it may contain. “Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.” The Lottery, page 71 line 221. The villagers are blinded by tradition that they do not see the cause of their actions. Tradition and rituals are basically stoning a human to death and in this case Tessie Hutchinson who is chosen among the villagers.
Weil says that when you perform an action you should not do it seeking to be crowned hero but because heroism can be performed without desiring to prove to anyone that you have done something good for someone else without them asking. The difference between Weil’s view and the grandmothers actions is that the grandmother is looking for the approval of other’s whereas Weil isn’t interested in any earthly gift or reward. However, Weil receives something much greater and more powerful by acting upon the will of God. He grants us the gift of eternal salvation; a gift given to us by God when we obey him. Never considering God before in her life, the grandmother turns to God in prayer as
After Candy has brought George to the barn to show him Curley’s wife, George leaves and Candy cries. What is the true source of Candy’s sadness and why? Compare the killing of Curley’s wife to the night Candy’s old dog was shot and killed by Carlson. 2. Death is the beginning and the culminating event in the chapter, but the killing of Curley’s wife is regarded with a lack of emotion by the characters, even less than the killing of the puppy or the shooting of Candy’s dog earlier in the book.