Look like all they want to do is knock you down.” Enoch tells Haze about his abusive father and this mean lady he lived with before he came there. It really makes me wonder if Enoch ever had anybody to talk to and that is why he is so strong on Haze; because Haze is listening. Enoch tells Haze that he has “wise blood”. “When he realized that today was the day he decided not to get up. He didn’t want to justify his daddy’s blood, he didn’t want to be always having to do something that something else wanted him to do, that he didn’t know what it was and that was always dangerous”(135).
Name: Ting Yan Siu (Carissa) Class: ESOL 840 Subject : October Sky Journal 3 Date: 03/22/2012 Before Sonny saw the Sputnik, he felt lose in his hometown. His hometown Coalwood, West Virginia, was built for the purpose of coal, so all the people even children are surrounded by coal mining or football. Sonny knew he is different for other people because he is not good at football, also not interested work at coal mine, he can’t see his future. After he viewing the Sputnik soar over his hometown, help change his personality. It put him in complete awe and opened his eyes to human possibilities.
Graff takes Valentine to a lake house where Ender has been living, and she tells Ender about Peter's plan to essentially take over the world. Ender tells Valentine that he hates himself, because in order to beat his opponent, he has to understand him, and in understanding his opponent, he eventually grows to love him, and that it is in that moment, when he loves his enemy, that he destroys him. Valentine eventually convinces Ender to continue with his studies; the Earth and Valentine are worth fighting for. Still, he worries that because he never beat Peter, perhaps he cannot beat the buggers. Ultimately he wants love, not victory; he wants Peter "to love me."
One of the reasons to Landon’s misconduct is that he completely and utterly disrespects and loathes his Father figure. When a child has no respect for their family (which is where they learn to obey and venerate society’s rules) how can the child possibly respect those outside of the family? Landon’s disobedience not only is disrespectful to the authoritative figure but also to
(22) Soon after leaving home he would have to abandon his beloved Datsun. This should have been devastating considering the fight that he put up over his parents trying to buy him a new car, but actually a huge weight had been lifted off of him. At last he felt free. In Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild describes Chris as being exhilarated. That he saw this as a chance to be free.
For example, at the end of his journey, McCandless decides it was time for him to go home but the frozen river he had crossed had now melted and it made it difficult for him to return. Ultimately, this would lead to occurrences causing his death. This aspect of McCandless journey is what caused people to believe he was mentally ill or had a suicide wish, when it is very possible that neither is true. Chris was simply determined to do what it was he set out to do. When seeing someone else with this drive and determination, for example someone who wants to become a doctor or if McCandless would have committed to becoming a lawyer, people form a type of admiration.
Chris obviously overcompensated with this trip to the wilderness of Alaska. Because Chris had this strong inferiority complex, he overcompensated it with something that caused him to lose his life. He went too far with his believes, he could of stopped right before Alaska and go home and write about his traveling around the country with no money and explain how he did to survive, but this was not Supertramp style, he went all the way
Gary wants to break away from poverty and keep the next generation out of working in the fields or factories. The thought of having such a life like his parents made him scared and he overcame all of it as he explains in his book. Gary also, writes about the power television had on his siblings and on himself helps him to be where he is now. He is poet and enjoys life with his wife and
It all started with Ethan’s humanly desire to find a partner and marry. He married Zeena not out of deep passion, but out of fear of being alone when his mother had died. “He was seized with an unreasoning dread of being left alone on the farm; and before he knew what he was doing he had asked her to stay there with him.” (Wharton 59) Ethan’s lonesome decisions created a catastrophic marriage in which Mattie Silver coincidently comes in to save Ethan. (White 1) Ethan’s id, according to Freud, allows him to quickly become memorized and even addicted to Mattie’s presence and the feeling of pleasure that overcomes him when he is with her. “She had an eye to see and an ear to hear: he could show her things and tell her things, and taste the bliss of feeling that all he imparted left long reverberations and echoes he could wake at will.
Reverend Parris was the opposite to John Proctor, he also feared for his name but not in the same way. Parris was a selfish man, only thinking about money. He was too scared to follow