To what extent is Amir a reliable Narrator? It is considered that Amir’s emotional state of mind may affect the way that he narrates the novel because of his emotions taking over causing his physiological mind set to alter the true events. Therefore, it could be argued that Amir’s narrative is unreliable because his emotions get in the way causing the novel to become all about himself rather than anyone else. Arguably, Amir is considered an unreliable narrator because of his bitterness and jealousy towards Hassan that is reflected in the way that Amir narrates. Baba sympathises with Hassan because he was born with a “harelip” however Amir doesn’t understand how Hassan has “earned Baba’s attention”.
Gogol is teased about his name, his parent’s want him to identify with an aspect of Bengali culture, but he resists, the parents want to visit India, and Gogol and Sonia complain and feel their summer is ruined, Gogol has romantic relationships that his parents don’t understand, and finally Gogol moves away and changes his name, and barely keeps up with his parents. All of these smaller conflicts are indicative of the bigger struggle going on
Bartleby understood what the world had offer and he was not content with doing the same thing day in and day out. Bartleby was not “essentially a safe man” and he did not want to live y the safe values of the system. Like a child Bartleby still had dreams and still had choices to make in life. The narrator could not grasp this, as he could not even put himself out there enough to take on a risky case. Bartleby was not just another bolt in the
A second part of the poem that was fascinating is when Tupac said “when all I saw was sadness and I needed answers no one heard me except…GOD”. Answers, God always has answers. His answers probably doesn’t come right away but his answer usually hits us when most of us least expects it. His answers
And ‘Do I dare?’, Time to turn back and descend the stair, with a bald spot in the middle of my hair”.The poem starts out with verses of “what not to do with your love”, yet he fails to express the person he has feelings for but also fails to recognize himself in all this. He continues on arguing to go to a certain gathering, busy worrying about what other people are going to think about him, and judge him for. This is how the story and character start out, introducing into his compassionate love, but so insecure about himself. Further into the poem, Prufrock seems to get into the party and tends to describe it in a lot of general details, by the end of the party he simply judges himself for all his actions known that night. (70) “I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas”.
What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true?” says Mr. Sengupta. (Rushdie 20) This quote shows that Mr. Sengupta believes that stories have no value and it is a waste of time to tell stories. This shows that he does not believe in the idea of expressing your thoughts freely. Rashid believes that expressing your thoughts is vital in life. “However, there were people who thought Rashid’s stories were useful.” (Rushdie 20) This quote shows that Rashid was a storyteller and that there were people really appreciated him and his thoughts.
“I am!”(Bradbury24). This means that Clarisse already knows that Montag doesn’t love anyone, and that is something that Montag doesn’t want to accept because he tries to conjure a face that shows he is in love but he fails. This matter because Clarisse opens Montag’s eyes and suggests that he is wrong he doesn’t love anyone. It shows that there is conflict within Montag because he wants to love Mildred but he doesn’t feel anything for her. Montag starts to realize that love is something that must be felt not just said.
However, emotionally, socially, and behaviorally he yearns for friendship and close relations as every human being would. He even creates imaginary friends to keep the loneliness away. He can sense the notion of love, and does so without knowing what it is, although he has no one to love him back. Grendel and the humans share a common language, but the humans’ disgust and fear of Grendel precludes any actual meaningful exchange. Grendel’s torture is even more painful because he is so close to the humans and yet always kept away at a distance.
The reason for this was the multitude of ineffective and disconfirming forms of listening that Andre practiced. One form was pseudo listening this is when someone pretends to listen but they are actually focused on their own thoughts. An example of this was during their first classes. Andre had no respect for Mrs. Gruwell so he pretended to listen when he actually had his brother on his mind. He also used literal listening, which is when you listen to messages on the content level and ignore the messages on the relationship level.
The separation stage in D’Angelo’s essay is easily identifiable due to the fact that D’Angelo becomes aware that he must help someone, but refuses to. He does not know what to do, or how to go about talking to the man, caused by the fear that if he were to talk to the man or comfort the crying man, that the man would lash out at him or turn away and go into a state worse than what was already seen. Also, in the separation stage, there is usually a guide or magical being that appears and causes the “hero” to complete his quest or journey, but in D’Angelo’s essay, he states that he was the only one in the elevator with the crying man, perhaps if somebody else was in the elevator in addition to D’Angelo and the crying man, D’Angelo might have felt propelled or convinced to help the man. D’Angelo starts to realize the crying man could be suicidal, and that he could have woes that need to be released onto somebody’s shoulders, and that maybe something as little as a shoulder to lean on and a listening ear could make all the difference in the world. D’Angelo also realizes that he should have helped, despite his fears that the crying man would lash out at him and tell him to mind his own business, he realizes that it wouldn’t have hurt him