And when asked for the reason as to why he was beaten, Winifred stated that he was never made aware of a reason. According to another defendant, Roger, Jack threatened the other boys into doing whatever Jack wanted them to do. He threatened them with beatings and other ways of humiliation. For example he also told the other boys to use the “liluns” as pigs in their dances depicting their hunts, as stated by Roger. Also, according to defendant Ralph, Jack was hungry for power and control.
Response Paper: An Anthropologist on Mars [The Last Hippie] According to the story, I think Greg’s parents, Hari Krishna or Greg himself should take responsibility for Greg’s misfortune, First, Greg's parents neglected to care of their son. From the beginning, Greg became irritable, started questioning things, and hating people. Later, he dropped out his school, and came into contact with the drugs. As parents’ role, his parents did not use tougher measures to educate and correct him but just blindly indulge him. This lead to him took advantage to take drugs and get his brain injury.
He once said, that it wasn’t ‘easy’ for him to send a boy off to die ‘without thinking about it first’. His approach of keep questioning were viewed as unknowledgeable and illogical, as all the evidences were against the defendant. ‘Facts’ were being thrown around the room without much thought. For 10th Juror, he kept using ‘facts’ to attack groups of people, claiming they were ‘born to lie’. But nobody knows if they really are.
Her father caught in the act and without even asking Lily what happened told her, “You act no better than a slut” (24). He then proceeded to, “[Pour] a pound of grits the size of an anthill onto the pine floor” and told Lily, “Get over here and kneel down.” (24). The ramifications of a parent, especially a father figure to call their kid a slut causes so much emotional damage. Not only did her father ignore Lily, which also added to her trust issues, she developed self confidence and self image issues due to this. She only saw herself as an inadequate woman, and never as a beautiful, intelligent, woman who deserved better than she had.
When on land, Huck's father, Pap kidnaps Huck in order to keep Huck from being “better [than] him [and to keep Huck from] fooling around [in] school” (19) because he never went to school, illustrating a very poor example of parenting and a closed-minded way of thinking. As a parent, he should want what's best for Huck, wanting him to be civilized and be a decent human being. Like the land, which is physically slow-changing, Pap doesn't want Huck to surpass him. When Huck is imprisoned within the shed, Pap beats him and suppresses him, keeping him unchanged and unable to improve physically or mentally. Huck escapes suppression by fleeing to the river, where he finds his ticket to freedom; “a canoe... riding high like a duck” (30).
ENG 102 24 April 2013 De Willy Loman's misconception of the American dream becomes an obsession that eventually ruins his life and effects his families in "Death of a Saleman". Willy Loman believed and taught his children, like much of society today, that looks and likeability will take one to the 'top' and hardwork and perservance seem to be a little less important. This way of thinking gives Mr. Loman nothing near success and money as he so badly desired along with two unsuccessful sons. It seemed like a 'dog eat dog' world in "Death of a Saleman" much like it is in reality world today. And while everyone lives to chase their dreams, only few actually make it there.
If the boys weren’t trapped on the island, they would not be forced to grow into a slaughterer. Furthermore, another conflict that acts upon the boy’s tremendous transition is lack of authority. The boys set rules and restrictions when they make their presence on the island; “We’ll have rules… lots of rules!” (33) The boys eventually learned to manipulate their freedom: “You’re breaking the rules!”(91) “Who cares?” (91) The lack of authority made it impossible to keep the rules enforced. Things worsened due to lack of restrictions: “Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever… the rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee…” (181) Lack of authority severely triggers the boy’s transition. Hence, if there were more authority the boys could not stand a chance for such dreadful change.
I hate Mark Twain. It is not so much him as an individual I strongly dislike, but rather his inventions. One particular invention called the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn gave me the worst possible time a teenage boy could ever have. When my teachers began assigning projects to torture my classmates one last time before the summer, I started, quite literally, cavorting around the classroom. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not the type to win over a teacher's affection by expressing an implausible amount of geniality.
Victor’s action to run away caused William’s death and made Justine look like the killer when the evidence was planted from the blood. I see it as Victor was never going to be truly happy because there was so much he really didn’t know and could not handle the whole situation. People during the Enlightenment tried to handle many things on their own but certain things should just not be touched or you will find out the hard way. It was like finding a million dollars in the street and keeping it thinking no one would ever trace back to finding you because it was something that huge. He paid his price and it was a great one, the role of God is not to be played
I thought he is the youngest so I let him play first. A few moments later when I wasn’t looking, the younger boy’s back was punched by the older boy. I think/feel: • I did not have time to patiently listen to their story as I was rushing to my next lesson. • I did not look for witnesses or think carefully of the consequence of my judgement and thoughtlessly judged that the younger boy was innocent because of his age and his tears. • I felt very sorry for both of the children although the older one made an inappropriate act of revenge.