In Germany at the end of World War II sixteen-year-old Gisela, her mother, brothers and grandmother flee their home ahead of advancing Russian troops. When an air raid destroys the train station, Gisela and her brothers are buried alive and must try to survive with little food or water until they can be dug out. (F) Pearsall, Shelley. ALL SHOOK UP. Josh is mortified when he has to relocate and live with his father who has a new profession: Elvis impersonator.
Caleb’s anger gets the best of him and he brings Aron to see their mother Kate, the owner of the whorehouse. Aron is so hurt by this he runs off to the army as a suicide attempt. Caleb blames himself. He only forgives himself when his father, on his deathbed, says to him the word Timshel, the “two-word translation,”…”Thou mayest.”
One particular Saturday night Jim decides to go to town and is meets his local farmer who tells him he found a slaughtered calf's remains with Jim's brand upon the hide. Jims starts worrying about his herd so he goes to check it out. After he sees everything is all good, he goes back home but finds another horse tethered in his barn. He immediately grabs his gun and sneaks in the house but finds Jelka in bed with one of her cousins. In a rage, Jim shoots Jelka' cousin in the head and runs out of the room and rides away into the night.
Bear Grylls once said “A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance". In The Lottery, the villagers have a type of lottery that results in the death of a villager every time this lottery is held, and the villagers are too proud of this tradition to actually cease these meaningless deaths. Moreover, in The Necklace, the main character, Madame Mathilde, borrows what she thinks is a very expensive necklace from her friend and Mathilde’s vanity doesn’t allow her to actually admit that she loses it and she ends up wasting a decade of her life paying off debts. These two short stories support Grylls’ words by showing how pride or vanity has damaging effects for the characters in the stories, In The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, the lottery box and the pearl necklace are symbols of human pride or vanity and show the inevitable downfall that comes
Finally, Ethan gets his way and takes her to the train station. But before they go to the train station they go sledding. They end up kissing and Mattie says Ethan is the only one for her and they should sled down the hill to the elm tree and kill themselves. They sled down and hit the elm tree and the narration ends with Ethan hearing Mattie crying and saying he needs to feed the horse. * We learn that after the accident, Mattie survived even though she almost didn’t and wishes she hadn’t.
Celie has two children by her father, both of which he takes away right after they are born. Celie assumes that he has taken the children into the woods and killed them, but actually he has sold them. Fonso eventually remarries, and Celie is a constant reminder to him of his sexual abuse. To get rid of her and the guilty feelings he has he gives her away to be married to a man that is only
Foster 1 Sidney Foster Mr. Jackson Period 1 30 January 2015 As I Lay Dying: A Novel Abstract Synopsis Addie Bundren, the wife of Anse Bundren, was sickly, and was expected to die soon. Cash, her oldest son has prepared a coffin for her. Vardaman her other son couldn’t bare to think that his mother was nailed shut in a wooden box so he made large holes in her coffin. While doing so he drilled through his mothers face. Addie’s daughter, Dewey Dell, has recently become pregnant because she fooled around with a farmhand (Lafe).
Dewey Dell for example only wishes to travel to town in order to receive an abortion. She hardly has time to grieve for her mother, more consumed by the guilt and fear of her sin being known to the rest of the world. Through the journey she transforms from an ignorant and desperate girl into a manipulative, obsessive, and traitorous figure. Knowing that Darl knows of her pregnancy because of his innate ability to look into people`s hearts and see into their deepest secrets is what compelled her to tell Gillipse that he burnt the barn down. She is one of the biggest advocates to put him in a mental institution thereby ensuring no one would believe a word he said if perhaps he was to give her away.
In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem harms Mrs. Dubose by destroying her camellias. In anger over something she said about Atticus, Jem destroys every flower or bud in her garden. Scout goes after Walter Cunningham, an unassuming youngster who inadvertently gets Scout in trouble when she tries to explain to her teacher why Walter will not accept charity. She also has it out with Cecil Jacobs once in defense of Atticus, but at another point walks away from his insults so as not to disappoint her father. Scout pays back her cousin Francis for nasty comments he makes about Atticus by punching him in the face, though the reader can sympathize with her need to punish him for his mean streak and his manipulation that gets Scout into hot water when he blames her for the entire incident.
His father, a preacher, was killed by the Ku Klux Klan for disrupting the good Negroes. Furthermore, His mother was cheated out of the insurance money and went crazy trying to keep food on the table and the state from taking her children Malcolm and his brothers and sisters were split up. As a child, Malcolm had great oratory skills, screaming until he got his way. Despite all this tragedy, Malcolm had the courage to continue living his life and became a good student in elementary and middle school. He had dreams of becoming a successful lawyer someday.