Brandon Robert Final Essay Option #1 Many people change throughout their lives, but in the book Playground by 50 cent, the main character Butterball changes drastically with the help of his therapist. In the beginning of the book he was closed to the public or never wanted to show his true self. Once in the middle of the novel it realized that he is making small steps because he is starting to open up although immediately after he shuts down. In the end of the book butterball is making major strides of improvement by opening up to his therapist and even crying to her. In the beginning of the book Playground, the main character butterball has beaten a kid with a sock full of D batteries, and he is going to a therapist for some “help” and he wants nothing to do with it, according to this quote, “listen, lady, I’m
This is an example of how brutal people can be. Why would you kill this old man who you claimed to be an angel? The couple decided not to do so but instead they held the angel captive in a unsanitary chicken coop while it rained all night and while the chickens plucked at the angels already damaged wings. This is another demonstration of cruelty. The angel wasn’t worthy enough to stay in the house.
When he returns from the movies he mentions the magician’s trick “We nailed him into a coffin and he got out of the coffin without removing one nail. “ The magicians trick juxtaposes with Tom’s inability to escape from his family. Juxtaposition is used here to show the freedom of the magician and Tom feeling trapped. The coffin represents Tom’s life to which he is confined and the nails symbolize the emotional constraints and an obligation Tom has towards his crippled sister Laura. Laura herself “lives in a world of her own—a world of—little glass ornaments” and the breaking of the animals by Tom foreshadows his abandonment of fraternal duties towards her.
The beautiful island becomes a hell at the end of the novel. Finally, when Ralph is escaping from the hunting of other boys, he is saved by a navy officer who takes all boys back to the ship. Towards the end of the last chapter, the passage "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man' heart, and the fall through the air of his true, wise friend called Piggy" demonstrates the main theme of this novel: man is evil by nature. The three things that Ralph weeps for are the lessons he has on this island: innocent boys become savage; all human beings have evil deep inside their hearts and the fall of science and rationality before the evil of human. These three issues are developed throughout the whole novel with this passage as the conclusion of the main theme - human beings are evil by nature.
Caroline becomes almost like a guardian angel as she attends to her ill father for several months and also adopts Elizabeth to give her the lifestyle in which she deserves. She almost really does become a guardian angel, as she dies in child birth whilst giving birth to William. This contributes to the theme of birth and creation, as she takes her life to create a new one, in turn entwining the ideas of death and birth together. Victor’s wanting to create the monster stemmed from ‘the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn’ as he wanted to gain all knowledge and become almost God. Following the death of Caroline, Victor becomes engrossed in the creation and the idea of creating a monster and almost usurps the role of God by creating ‘man’, however it can be argued by many that the Monster isn’t a man at all, nor is he treated like one by many due to his looks.
At first, Victor sees the creature as an amazing breakthrough created by defiance nature, but soon after the creature’s creation, he realizes how truly awful the creature is and rejects him. Victor is in bed asleep, and suddenly wakes to see “the wretch the miserable monster”(Shelley 56) he had created. The creature opens its mouth as if to say something, but only sounds, not accurate words, come out. Frightened Victor escapes from the creature, before it can detain him with the filial grasp of a child towards its parents, and runs down the stairs still horrified by the creature. After escaping from the creature and learning the mischief the creature got into, Victor begins to realize how he must take responsibility for the creature, like a child takes responsibility for his/her puppy.
Amir’s first experience of violence is when Amir wins the Kite fighting Tournament, and Hassan, runs off in pursuit of Amir’s trophy. Hassan is gone long enough to alarm Amir, who begins to search for him and once he finds him, he sees Assef, a bully, raping him. Amir at first is scared of Assef but later convinces himself by says, “Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay to win Baba (Amir’s Father) Was it a fair price?” (Hosseini 82). As Amir never helps Hassan, this shows that Amir will do anything to get Baba’s love and intention.
When the egg industry doesn't seem productive enough for penny-pinching Mrs Tweedy, she decides that chicken pies are a better business endeavor, considering how plump most of the chickens are. With each attempted escape, Ginger earns solitary confinement in the coal bin, and when a chicken is axed for not producing enough eggs, Ginger is distraught. But when she spies Rocky, a cocky American rooster, flying through the air, she hatches an idea. Rocky literally falls into the flock of antsy hens, and believing he can fly, Ginger convinces him to teach her and the others to fly so they can finally escape. Rocky outwardly agrees, but hopes to make his escape as soon as possible, as it is soon revealed that Rocky is actually a circus performer, and his "flying" was more like falling in convenient grace.
However, his rebirth has just begun and is not complete until Lucie and Mr. Lorry nurse him back to health. Dr. Manette goes from a state of insanity and isolation, to purposeful and sane, recalling him back to life with the help of those who care. In the second book, The Golden Thread, the resurrection theme appears once again. At the beginning, Charles Darnay is on trial for treason in England. He has been traveling back and forth from France to England and is thought to be a spy.
When Willy arrives, he refuses to listen to Biff, which angers him. Happy tries to get Biff to lie to his father, which Biff slightly does. Willy falls into another flashback hallucination, one in which his son discovers his affair with a potential customer in Boston. From that moment on, Biff had never looked at his father the same. Back in the Lowman residence, Linda scolds her sons for abandoning her father back at the restaurant.