Like a true existentialist, Tarrou demonstrates three critical attributes; anguish, forlornness and despair. Because of Tarrou’s character and ideas, he can be identified as the ideal man of existentialism. When the narrator in the book The Plague first mentions Tarrou, he is introduced as an outsider who arrives in Oran on vacation who demonstrates anguish. As Tarrou finds himself in the midst the outbreak of the plague, he documents the series of events of the town as the situation digresses from bad to worse. When the first occurrences of plague are reported Tarrou remarkably, becomes “the man who involves himself and who realizes that he is not only the person he chooses to be, but also a lawmaker who is, at the same time, choosing all mankind as well as himself” (Sartre 1194).
Steinbeck creates sympathy towards Crooks by showing that Crooks has a back ailment, a crooked spine, and he has to rub ointment on it every night. He must deal with being a social outcast in addition to dealing with a physical ailment. Crooks is one who suffers yet perseveres. And being that he is often isolated, he suffers alone, seemingly with no hope. ‘His body was bent over to the left by his crooked spine,….
A Spaniard solider is grinning while shoving something in a villagers mouth. Two men are making a deal in the bottom, buying more slave perhaps because to make up for the ones killed. Rivera illustrates death and torture through this mural a lot to show severe the war impacted the
According to Baldwin who had experienced the hatred while he was living in New Jersey and the racism that he faced there in the restaurant for instance, as long as with father’s experiences of racism and his deep silence where hatred attacked his mind while allowed destroying his body as well. It turned him into a tornado of moans, hallelujas, snatches of old songs and terrors; “hating and fearing every living soul including his children.” It then transforms the person to uncharitable, unforgivable, and unmerciful one and let him live in a bitterness solely and in a difficulty to establish contact with other people until death. Therefore, hatred is a killer
I see men begging to have their feet removed, the flesh on their feet rotting away because of the chronic wet conditions in the trenches. I see the dozens of dead bodies of my fallen brethren accumulating in the trenches because it is too dangerous most times to give them a proper burial. I close my eyes today and still cannot escape the sounds of war–the constant gunfire, tank blasts, and the screams of men. I still see enemy soldiers overtaken by mustard gasses, blood streaming from their eyes and mouths and their desperate gasps for air. I remain inspired by my brothers, for we soldiers are able to keep our spirits high despite these conditions.
Another visual image is used when “many has lost their boots but limped on, blood shot” and “drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots” creates the mental image of men struggling to stay alive, half rotten and half alive and closer to death (5-7). Another sample of image is used when he begging’s to describe the terrain “dim, through the misty panes and the thick green light, as under a green sea, I saw him drowning” not only does he describe the gas gulping his fellow friends but he describes the death of a soldier when he becomes drowned from the gas and his own vomit and saliva (13-14) Owen also uses auditory image when describing the effects of the gas on one of his fellow soldiers “come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud” the auditory image of such death is compared to being ill with cancer and knowing you’re dieing (22-23). Another visual image paired with “gas! Gas! Quick boys, an ecstasy of fumbling” and but someone still was yelling out and stumbling” creates the image of chaos and confusion within the soldiers that are being attacked and infected with the poisonous gas (9-10).
Sartys constant feeling of despair and grief is sounded out through the limp of his father. Faulkner states, “the peace and joy, ebbing for an instant as he looked again at the stiff black back, the stiff and implacable limp of the figure which dwarfed by the house…” (Faulkner 149). This paints a vivid picture in Sarty’s mind of the evil traits with his father. In ‘The Myth of the “Barn-Burning”’, Volpe supports this idea by suggesting the Abner Snopes’s stiff foot symbolically relates to the cloven hoof of Satan. (Volpe 1484) Through out “Barn-Burning”, there are many descriptions geared towards the Satan-like qualities of Abner Snopes.
The tones of this piece reflect the man’s remorseful and protective qualities of fulfilling his duties. The author’s detail in “The Rattler” affects the speaker’s attitude of a pity on the man’s having to kill the snake. The man had a chore to do, and the “ominous” song of death conveys the message to
Towards the end of the book, Lord of the Flies, an officer shows up on the island where the boys were living, “Ralph looked at him dumbly. For a moment he had a fleeting picture of the strange glamour that had once invested the beaches. But the island was scorched up like dead wood- Simon was dead- and Jack had… the tears began to flow and sobs shook him… and in the middle of them with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy” (Golding 202). Ralph was snapped back to reality and seemed to fully understand what had happened and what was happening. Before he felt almost normal about what had been happening but that changed.
Here Homer has demonstrated that the soul of Elpenor is suffering and grieves very much, as its body lie without proper burial. He begs Odysseus to return and give him a proper burial and let him be in the underworld in a true peace. On the flipside, we can also see Odysseus mourn the loss of his companion, as shown in lines 28-31 of book 11: “Now when I saw him there I wept for pity and called out to him: ‘How is this, Elpenor, how could you journey to the western gloom swifter afoot than I in the black lugger?’”. It is said that Elpanor (back on Circe’s island) was left dead without the rest of the crew’s knowledge, and when Odysseus finds his soul in the underworld, we can clearly see his sorrow. But one can also argue Odysseus’ selfish side and say that he was worried for only his fate; an act such as to leave his friend’s body dead without a proper sendoff would not put him in the good graces of the