An Analytical Essay on The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier This essay will analyze the emotions of courage, hatred, and senselessness from the novel The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. By evaluating these emotions displayed by the main character, Jerry Renault, we can learn if they benefited him during his high school years. Courage was reflected in The Chocolate War when Jerry opted not to participate in Trinity School’s annual chocolate fundraiser. Courage would prove to be one of his fundamental emotions displayed in this novel. Jerry stood up to the Trinity School bullies by telling them he would not sell a single box of chocolates no matter what they said or did to him.
For example, in the beginning of the selection, Laurie’s father asks, “Did you learn anything” (p.169) and Laurie responds by saying “I didn’t learn anything” (p.169). Then Laurie proceeds to tell his father that a child named Charles was the reason he did not learn anything. He also goes into details about what Charles did that day as well. Those lies are similar to that of “The Open Window” because in this selection Vera lies pathologically. For example, she stated once, “You will bury yourself down there and not speak to a living soul, and your nerves will be worse than ever from moping.”(p.172) ~she also said, “Out through that
Not knowing that their friendship was forbidden, he gives Shmuel a piece of bread while Shmuel is cleaning the glasses. When Lieutenant Koler finds out that Shmuel had eaten a piece of bread, he beats him. Because Bruno hadn’t known that the two boys were not supposed to be friends, he had gotten Shmuel beaten. Had his parents told him the truth from the beginning that he wasn’t supposed to be anywhere near Jewish people, he would not have had to see his friend hurt. The main message Ogden sends in “Hangman” is that silence is dangerous.
When Cole is banished to the island, he is filled with a whirlpool of swirling rage. In the novel, Touching Spirit Bear, by Ben Mikaelsen, Cole Mathews is a misled young man, who has a knack for getting himself into trouble. Raised by his abusive father and alcoholic mother, Cole’s personality is built upon a foundation of anger and pain. All of these unaddressed emotions cause Cole to commit crimes and bully other kids. With nobody to tell him otherwise, Cole convinces himself that neither of his parents want him.
Harry dislikes the Potions teacher, Snape, who is unfair and kind of mean. Harry learns that there was an attempted robbery at Gringotts bank, but nothing was taken. He guesses that the robbers were after what Hagrid picked up. Hagrid lets it slip that it has something to do with someone called Nicolas
The audience get the feeling that this lack of respect comes from the characters that didn’t grow up with a father figure. The audience observe that Dough Boy (Ice Cube) who is also the least responsible and is represented as a character in trouble, in and out of prison, dealing drugs is the main character that shows disrespect to females. Dough Boy’s disrespect is linked with his lack of responsibility throughout the entire production, even after his brother is killed through a confrontation created by him he still exclaims ‘I didn’t do nothin’, a catchphrase that is commonly heard coming from Dough Boy giving the audience a feeling of his unwillingness to accept responsibility for his actions. The purpose of the tension created between the male and female characters of this production is to give the audiences a feeling
The Winslow Boy Critical Essay Jamie Hall The Winslow Boy by Terrence Rattigan is a play about a young navel cadet called Ronnie Winslow who is accused of stealing a postal order. He is thrown out of the navel academy and sent home. This shames the name Winslow and his father is compelled to do fight what he calls an injustice. To do this he hires barrister sir Robert Morton which is not to Catharine’s liking as she is a suffragette and Sir Robert Morton is against Women getting The Vote. As a result these two Characters Conflict throughout the Play.
Thao has been forced to side with his cousin’s gang. The first and the last thing that the gang makes Thao do is to try and steal Walt’s Gran Torino. Once Walt finds Thao in his garage trying to steal his Gran Torino, he knows that something is wrong in his life. Walt seems like a man that is not caring and is very grumpy but he is the complete
After all bullies usually only pick on people they know they can make feel bad to make themselves feel good. Ishmael didn’t feel good about himself, he hated his name he hated hearing the story of how he was born. Ishmael squirmed every time he heard his mother and father tell the story of how he was born and where he got his name from. At school Ishmael spent most of his time, as he says “making himself as small a target as possible” to avoid the bully Barry Bagsley and all the names he called him. Names like Le Spewer, Fishtail Le Sewer and Manure.
What have paupers to do with soul or spirit? It's quite enough that we let 'em have live bodies. If you had kept the boy on gruel, ma'am, this would never have happened.” He believes that they are inherently violent, and even says they do not have souls. He and others have deluded themselves with this philosophy to excuse their abhorrent actions. Noah Claypole a charity boy, only slightly above Oliver's rank, refuses to empathize with Oliver's struggle; instead he decides to dump his pent-up emotions on him.