She asks him whether he’d shoot a lady. He never actually says he would or wouldn’t, he just says “I would hate to have to” (190). The grandmother considers being a lady moral and the Misfit’s answer proves that he doesn’t have the same morals as she does. She fiercely calls him a “good” man, hoping he wouldn’t deny it. Her use of “good” is bias since she states he is not common.
Scout wants to brag about it but jem tells her to keep it a secret because if Atticus wants to know he would have told him. Scout: Eager, tempted, easily embarrassed, And proud of her dad jem: proud of his dad, good listener miss maudie: friendly, clever “He did not do the things our schoolmate’s fathers did” “This is cal. I swear to god there is a mad dog down the street…” “I reckon if he wanted us to know it, he’d da told us” Chapter 11: P.g 110-124 On the way to the business district in maycomb there is Mrs. Dubose, an old lady who always seems to shout at jem and scout. Atticus warns jem to be gentleman because she is old and sick but one day she tells the children that Atticus is not any better than the ‘niggers and trash he works for’. Jem takes a baton from scout and destroys all of her camellia bushes.
As she refuses to talk to anybody, the child created her own imaginary world being unwilling to look at the reality: “Why couldn't he understand that if he kept quiet, if all of them kept quiet, her parents would hear her and come to take her home?” (47). Through the story, her illusion state changes and tend to become a realistic one. Step by step she has no choice but to find in herself enough courage to accept and to surpass the situation. Nandana can be considered a hero because, as it painful, she finally accepts and begins to talk. Secondly, there's Nirmala, Nandana's grandmother, who was binged back to reality.
She was being unfair because ray had taken some time for her to work, while he watched the kids. This is an example of supportive behavior and defensive. Defensive because Ray made an accusation about her putting her career before the family and she came back with your are just jealous, which she tried to defend her reasons why she needed to meet with her client. Supportive because at the end Shawna supported her partner by realizing she was being unfair to her partner and
Steinbeck deliberately highlights how easy it is for a character to be overlooked to show how Candy uses it to his advantage by getting the men’s secrets. Steinbeck effectively uses the character, Candy and his relationship with his dog to portray the dull and dismal society of 1930s America and the harsh effect it had on migrant workers across America. Their disabilities result into their un-acceptance of their being in society. Candy's dog is killed and candy realises he is no longer of any use and will soon get the sack, 'when they can me, I wisht someone shoot me, I won't have no place to go.' This idea of survival of the fittest
Moreover, because of their selfishness, they are rude and disregard the traditions and cultures of the villagers around the school. Hearing of her husband’s promotion, Obi’s wife, instead of thinking more about the improvement and good she and her husband can do for the school, is more concerned over how popular and above she would become compared to the other wives. “She began to see herself already as the admired wife of the young headmaster, the queen of the school” (176). When she is described to have “…become completely infected by his passion for…his denigration of ‘these old and superannuated people in the teaching field who would be better employed as traders in the Onitsha market” (176), this proves Obi’s rude personality and disregard for the villagers. Instead of learning from the wisdom that these “old people” may give him, he looks down on them because he believes his knowledge is far beyond theirs.
She trusted Tom too much that the life she once dreaded, was where she wanted to be. The second form of irony Hugh Garner portrays in The Yellow Sweater is through Tom. Toward the beginning of the short story, Tom was complaining why the government was not doing anything to stop hitchhikers from mooching car rides from tax paying citizens. After his thoughts, he came across Marie, but instead of complaining about what she is doing like he had with the others, he picked her up. Tom picked Marie up because he thought she was attractive and he could have fun with her.
They have developed imagination and Scout is indulges in intelligent discussion with her father. This further alienates Scout and Aunt Alexandra from each other. Scout has been taught by Atticus to ‘walk around in their skin’ to see how it feels to be another person and why they make the choices that they do. She has a questioning mind for so young a child and Aunt Alexandra’s racist attitude and obvious distain for Scout is doubtless a reason for Scout’s anger and frustration towards her. Aunt Alexandra may have been brought with ‘genteel’ values and restrictive codes of conduct but with all this she is a forceful personality and manages to impose her will on Atticus by announcing her move, without consultation, to the Finch family home.
Candy, like Crooks, also tried to reach out, yet he does it by trying to defend Crooks. Crooks and Curley's wife get into a climactic altercation, and Candy, acting on his loneliness, angrily discloses that they aren't "afraid of getting canned...because they got their own land". (Steinbeck 79) This reflects his reaching out because he put himself on the line for a man he had just met. Before the altercation with Crooks, Curley's wife uses her appeal to reach out. In a desperate attempt to make small talk with the men, she states
This further suggests her need to overcompensate in her image as an attempt to impress the ranch workers and her husband. The reader may infer that Curley’s wife succeeds in her attempt for their attention when slim addresses her as “good-lookin” in a friendly manner, however we notice George stays constantly wary of her and treats her with a similarly brusque air “well he aint now.” Steinbeck uses this short and abrupt sentence to perhaps highlight George’s intolerance of her, and her dangerously flirty personality. Steinbeck prefigures the death of Curley’s wife, later in the novel, also through his physical description of her. This is shown through use of the colour red in her; “rouged lips”; “little bouquets of red ostrich feathers” and “red mules” perhaps meaning her association with the colour red holds connotations of danger and death. Her death is also prefigured in the very first introduction of her entering the bunkhouse “the rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off” Steinbeck presents the sunshine as being part of Curley’s wife’s’ ‘dream’ and perhaps being used as a metaphor for the freedom and happiness she longs for, however when the light is “cut