Simic is not afraid of exploring violence in his poems and this can be justified by his early days. His imagination has the scenes of what he witnessed during the Nazi regime and he seems to be scared of it. However Simic himself justifies his use of violence in the poems, he once said in the interviews, ““Violence is a kind of pathetic, perverted attempt to feel. The poems try to understand its origins, to see its consequences, to exorcise its demons”. (The Michigan Press, 1985) He adds to this, “My subject is really poetry in times of madness.
Jess isn’t safe at school, nobody wants to talk to him and he was terribly raped by school football players. Jess wasn’t safe while working in the factory, because everybody wanted to find something from him and tease him as a joke. The time they found he had “close relationship” with another female worker, Jess was asked to leave the factory. Jess was always the target of police men when they wash up gay bars. He most likely got beaten up or his life can be at risk.
The lighting, costumes or settings can make ur think about a character differently. Edward is on the light side but he is almost stuck on the dark side because that is where almost all of the townspeople think that he belongs. Edward is stuck in the middle. His costume, hairstyle and his scissors for hands, which people perceive them to be weapons, make him look like a gothic demon but really he would never intestinally hurt anyone. In the last scene he tries to save Kevin, and does by pushing him away from the van but in the process cuts his face, everyone thinks that Edward is attacking Kevin and Jim beats him up.
Lord Capulet told him to leave Romeo alone hearing that he was a good boy and this angered Tybalt. He exposed Romeo in a matter of minutes and his friends. He always riminded Lord and Lady Capulet about how much he hated and didnt trust the Montagues. Even when he was alone he cause trouble with them. In the streets when Romeo and his friends were walking he couldn’t stand his pride being hurt at the party so he started a fight by making fun of Mercutio.
When the boys are dancing and chanting around the bonfire, they mistake Simon for the beast and brutally kill him with “no words…but the tearing of teeth and claws. In all the excitement at the bonfire, the boys show that they have become undomesticated since when they first got to the island. Their obsession with the beast has led to development of animal-like instincts, causing them to react in violent behavior in order to protect themselves. Lastly, the third death in the novel is heartless and intentional murder, proving that the boys have lost all sense of sympathy and have turned to killing to maintain power over each other. After Roger pushes Piggy down the mountain knocking Piggy to his death, Jack steps forward and begins “screaming wildly” and warns Ralph that if he doesn’t join his tribe, that “that’s what [he’ll] get”.
In this speech Colonel Sheburn attacks the cowardice of the mob, for they don’t have the courage to attack him one on one. In this scene Twain Depicts how people behave more drastically when they can hide behind a crowd. Also, in another scene the King and the Duke are impersonating the Wilkes brothers, so they can receive money from Peter Wilkse will, but the real Wilkes brothers end up showing up. The whole crowd starts to get exited yelling things “like, Le’s duck’ em! Le’s drown’ em!
They confided in one another after the shooting, about the things Kenny was joking about. Throughout the story Kenny is randomly releasing fire on things he ‘doesn’t like’. First the sign, then the barn, then the old man’s dog. At that point Tub was so irritated by his constant shots and the mouth and shot of the gun that he decided he had no choice but to shoot him. To show him he can’t keep being a bully.
He tried to teach them logic, for which deed he had to endure resentment and blows.The mathematicians were amazed at his mathematical prowess, but they got furious when he tried to impart his knowledge of advanced extraterrestrial math. When he tried to share the Master-Plan of the Universe with the priests, they called him wicked. When his jailers tried to force him to crawl on all fours, he refused. He was then sold to a circus where he tried to teach visitors, but they jeered at him. Despite his fear of fire, he was compelled, with the cracking of whips, to jump through fire hoops.The alien was then sold to a touring animal-show, where he finally became sluggish and demoralized.
Gary would be at the pub with his older mates and they will throw a racist joke around about aboriginals and gary would laugh and laugh like he was never heard of a joke in his life. Racism is a key factor in this novel and Gary is part of it but really doesn’t realize. His friendship with Duncan makes him aware not to laugh at the jokes, the next time he went to the bar with his older mates and the racist were thrown around he didn’t laugh at the joke. Presentation night the night of fun and laughter but this was no laughing matter. Dumpy was Cleary the best played on the grand final match but yet he didn’t het best on ground because he was aboriginal.
‘An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, for promise’d joy!’ Burns’ word choice ’us’ shows he understands the mouse’s pain and vulnerability as he has also experienced similar pain. He shows how the mouse’s plans and the poor people and also his own plans do not go as he expected and all the expectations of happiness he had imagined do not always work out as they have been planned due to circumstances that cannot be controlled by vulnerable creature or even most human beings. Robert Burns’ ’To a Mouse’ successfully and efficentally conveys the themes of this poem through both the poetic techniques and the clever use of the charecter of the mouse. Burns by using both these features takes a seemingly unimportant incident, and conveys to readers his personal and emotional connection with the themes which makes the poem powerful and moving . This also evokes feelings of sympathy from the reader making the poem an overall