In “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”, Herman shows a form of silence when Bruno’s parents try to hide the facts about the reality of the Holocaust from him. Bruno is an eight year old German boy who is naïve about the war against the Jews. When he ventures out into the woods behind the house, he meets a Jewish boy, Shmuel. However, Bruno doesn’t know that they shouldn’t be friends because his parents have hidden the fact that the Jewish were their “enemies”. Not knowing that their friendship was forbidden, he gives Shmuel a piece of bread while Shmuel is cleaning the glasses.
They run by a young boy crying and the boy releases his father's hand and wants to help him but the father picked his boy and ran away. Later that night they are camping away from the road they are following and the boy is upset at his father for not helping the boy but his father explains on how it would end up hurting them in the long run with food and such. They go to sleep. Pg. 90 - 107 They are walking down the road early in the morning
Sam Stearns Summer Reading Assignment Chapter One of How To Read Literature Like a Professor all about a little boy named amir he is the son of baba, this took place in the winter time in Afghanistan . Amir was joining a kite runner tournament with his friend Hassan. Before this tournament meant Amir and Hassan were on the street and these men come over and take and rape him and Amir just sat here and watched and didn't know what to do and Amir feels regret for that and so know he think he need to make his father proud of him. This tournament was going to be one of the biggest tournaments held in 25 years. Amir every time he was in a tournament he always wanted to will to make his father proud.
But, Dill’s idea gets Jem shot at by Boo Radley’s older brother Nathan. Jem looses his pants trying to escape and finds them the next day sown together and hung neatly on the fence. The kids presume it was the work of Boo. Over that same summer the kids found presents sitting in a tree hole that was in between their house and the Radley Place. The presents were obviously for them, everyday there would be a different gift until Nathan Radley blocked up the hole.
English Assignment Part B On the far outskirts of the Empire, a small village sits silently on a hillside surrounded in an eerie cloud of fog. In one of these houses, while everybody sleeps, a boy of only twelve, was on his knees. He was praying, to whom it was unknown, but he was praying for a better life. For he was the runt of the family, wretched and tiny. He was beaten by his father daily due to his mother’s death, when giving birth to him.
Also, at the end of the story there is a surprising twist. Tobias Wolff portrays the men in his story with his own idea of masculinity. At the beginning of this short story, Tub, Frank and Kenny go out to hunt. Kenny shows he has control and power by almost running over Tub with his truck when they pick him up. They get to the woods after driving a while and have a very unsuccessful hunting trip.
Cather uses symbols of color in her story to build the character Paul in her short story, “Paul's Case.” When explaining Paul’s feelings toward where he lives, “he approached it tonight with the nerveless sense of defeat, the hopeless feeling of sinking back forever into ugliness and commonness that he had always had when he came home” (168). Vainness is another feature that portrayed to make the audience feel as if he were one’s own son and deserved a beating; “Paul entered the faculty room suave and smiling” (164), shows a boy often having no respect for his elders. Cather portrays Paul’s character as a daydreamer who lives in a fantasy world and cannot come to terms with reality. He wanted to live the life of the rich and famous, “he reflected upon the mysterious dishes that were brought into the dining-room, the green bottles in buckets of ice, as he had seen them in the supper party pictures of the Sunday supplement”
The two kids find shelter in the barn until morning being woken up by cowbells and the sound of animals running amongst them. They wake up to see a man “thin and tall, his neck bowed forward as if from years of ducking. The man's son has died from the war and he has lost his farm hand, and we can imply at the end of the story that the man is going to keep the youth as a slave and send Viticus far away. In this story, Ron Rash Does a great job of giving us a lot of information on what slaves went through by conveying this through the two boys. From being once a slave to escaping there workhouse and traveling day and night with little to no food, finding a new place to stay and trusting a family to take you in and allow you to live a normal life, and lastly leaving your family.
He ran back to the game of horseshoes out in front of the bunk house. "Fella's come quick. crooks is dead." He yelled. They all ran to the barn in what seemed to be a sprint.
Of Mice and Men George and Lennie, two migrant workers, have been let off a bus miles away from the California farm where they are due to start work. The two stop and camp for the night in a clearing by a pool. Lennie is a giant man with a shapeless face. George is a small, dark man with sharp, strong features. It becomes clear in the story that Lennie has a mild mental disability, and is deeply devoted to George and is dependent upon him for protection and guidance.