Alaska is often referred to when Ben, Willy’s dead brother, is present during the play. It represents the opportunity Willy passed up to live in New York and be a salesman. Willy states, “If I’d gone with him to Alaska that time, everything would’ve been totally different” (I, 45). Here, Willy confirms that he regrets not going to Alaska and that he is not as successful as he would like because he claims his life would be different. Later in Act Two, Willy asks if Ben landed his Alaska deal and Ben replies with, “Doesn’t take much time if you know what you’re doing ” (II, 84).
Other characters are the boys in Stanley’s work group at the camp, the warden at the camp and her men, Mr. Sir and Mr. Pendanski. Stanley’s family is cursed because his “pig stealing” great great-grandfather, Elya Yelnats, does not keep his promise to Madame Zeroni. Nothing good happens to the men in his family because of the curse. His grandfather made a lot of money but it was stolen from him by Kate Barlow when he kissed her. She left him in the desert to die but he lives.
This statement provides more information on Beowulf’s family history. Beowulf’s family history possibly had an effect on his braveness and eagerness to earn power and fame by taking on various battles throughout the text. Beowulf begins with the narrator telling the story of Shield Sheafson leading up to his funeral, which in my opinion foreshadows Beowulf’s funeral at the end of the poem. Early in the text we see that the narrator may be Christian, which is surprising for this piece of literature. The narrator states: “Afterwards a boy-child was born to Shield, a cub in the yard, a comfort sent by God to that nation.
He must find a way to get to Phoenix, Arizona to recover the remains of his father. Without a job and having a family as poor as he is, Victor approaches the Tribal Council for help to get him to Phoenix. The tribe is only willing to provide Victor with a check for one hundred dollars to help. I can imagine that otherness could be a factor in whether or not the Tribal Council offered him money. If he had had a greater status, maybe they would have offered him more.
The poems are narrated in first person, often from a witch or unknown creature and the prose is narrated limited from Tayo perspective. For Tayo, the stories represent the Native American understanding of the world that he grew up with but that the white schools, the army, and the doctors tried to convince him were incorrect. As he remembers the old stories, Tayo reconnects with his community. He recovers from the physical pain of the war, and returns the rain to his land. The stories teach Tayo that he is not alone.
He has been accused of stealing trainers off Clyde Livingston, but he didn’t do it. At the camp he meets up with other boys called magnet, armpit, x-ray, zero, zigzag and squid. He had never had friends before so it was a shock to him. At the end of the film him and zero run away from the campo and climb up the mountain. At the start of the novel Stanley is fat and has no friends, however when he goes to the Camp Green lake he gets friends, and he also digs lots of holes.
The narrator also has an uncle, who seems like an alcoholic small time crook. The guy talks about his family relations and how his mother don’t want him to be as his father or his uncle on page 1 line 19: I remember she cried a lot because she was always worried that I would turn out like my “stinking, rotting, lout-of-a-father.” I never could figure out who she wanted me to turn out like. Uncle Barney? The only job that I ever knew he had was working as Santa Claus once a year….. I was five and Santa pulled of his beard and asked me to get him a stiff drink.
He never knew his father so he doesn’t have a good sense of his own identity, he makes poor decisions in raising his son’s by instilling a false sense of what it takes to be successful, and allows them to steal and cheat. Willy’s father left when he was a baby and he only has one memory of his dad, “All I remember is a man with a big beard, and I was in mamma’s lap, sitting around a fire, and some kind of high music” (Miller 1232). After his older brother Ben leaves shortly thereafter to search for their father, it is assumed that Willy doesn’t have a male figure in his life during his upbringing to teach him the things that a father would teach a son, such as morals, and a sense of values, possibly helping him form a sense of identity. Because of this Willy feels a tremendous sense of loss. Willy confesses his sense of loss over his father’s abandonment to Ben.
I believe that is why the story is called “The Story of an Hour” the story is telling us, what had happened during the hour and what happen happened after the hour she finds out that he was a alive. She had her freedom, but soon after her freedom was taken away and she had died. The suspense of “After Twenty Years” was that it was a dark night and you couldn't see a thing. The story was about two men that are meeting again after twenty years of not seeing each other at all. The thing is that the Jimmy is the guy that Bob was talking about and that he had sent someone else to go arrest him, because Jimmy didn't want to arrest his friend.
Martin’s relationship to his father is also a little tense; they don’t seem to get along that well. Martin has a long braid in the back and he says that this braid is what gets to the father. Even though he failed three classes and is a bit criminal. Martin and the father don’t know what to talk about either. Martins father work a lot, so I guess they never just talk, because there isn’t time to get to know each other.