People like Ron Frantz who was like a dad to Chris while he away from home, tried to give Chris advice about how to have a better life. “When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines upon you.” A similar connection was made with Jan and Rainey where Chris shared good times with them and he got a taste of people that love him. Before his death, he has regrets and writes “Happiness only real when shared”after everything , he realizes that there is no happiness without human relationships. Everything is worthless unless shared with with his dearest friends and
He scribbles a letter to Anne with the words “Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved no one but you” (p238). Wentworth learns to distinguish “between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind” (p244). Anne’s unselfish behaviour persuades him to overcome his “angry pride” (p243), “put himself in the way of happiness” (p245) and to declare his love for
He feels better after doing the right thing. After contemplating whether to help free Jim for a second time, Huck thinks about all the times Jim has been there for him and helped him and been selfless and cannot bring himself to not help free his friend. Furthermore “[Huck] struck the time [he] saved [Jim] by telling the men [they] had small-pox aboard, and [Jim] was so grateful” (223), making it almost impossible for Huck to
With this final fearless statement, John Proctor indicated he had found peace within himself. “I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs.” Proctor realises that his own soul, his honour and his honesty were worth more than his own life. ‘He have his goodness now.” Elizabeth Proctor states that her husband has given his life for morality and has finally cleansed himself from his past adulterous
In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Sometimes it takes a certain situation or problem to occur in life, that makes an individual realize what really matters in life. A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others and their loved ones. There is nothing in the world so wonderful as to love and be loved; there is nothing as devastating as losing a loved one. A relationship that has turned sour is very difficult, both emotionally and mentally. A failing relationship can take away the energy to move forward in life.
Andrew Eyres 14/2/2013 Question: Explain the ways that aspects of a text construction are used to explore ideas. In the short story, Big World, The author, Tim Winston is able to promote the idea that friendship should be built out of respect and loyalty and not the thrill power and intelligence through his use of characterisation; namely through the unnamed narrator and his “best friend” Biggie Botson. Through out the story, it starts become clear that these two have an unstable friendship. This first becomes noticeable when the narrator says ‘I suppose we are wrong for each other, Biggie and me.’ Secondly becoming concrete as the narrator
With amusement, Strunk admits to have taken Jensen’s jacknife. In “Friends,” the opposite of “Enemies” is played out. Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk get over their past encounter by learning to trust one another. They make a pact that if one were to be severely wounded, the other would kill him to be put out of misery. Jensen is faced with this moral conflict
Winthrop explains in his third reason that “Thirdly, that every man might have need of others, and from hence they might be all knit more nearly together in the bonds of brotherly affection. From hence it appears plainly that no man is made more honorable than another or more wealthy etc., out of any particular and singular respect to himself, but for the glory of his Creator and the common good of the creature, man.” This idea fully embraces the Puritan concept of neighborly affection and no creation or need for enemies, that Puritans, in a community together, must peacefully coexist, not only for one another, but to appreciate the community and brethren that God has provided them with. This also provides reasoning for maintenance in the gap between rich and poor in Puritan society: that it is kept to respect how God created each individual and that each individual respect how God has created them and that by attempting to remove oneself from their role, they are going against their God and withdrawing faith in why God created them in that
Nichole Reynolds D. Tantalo ENG 101 – M, W 25 March 2013 Essay 2 Diversity and Joe: A Literary Analysis of “Joe Stopped By” Reflecting on his essay, "Joe Stopped By," Andrei Codrescu comments that part of the pleasure of writing this piece was "finding some tolerance for the strangeness of people I couldn't help being related to;" he judges the success of his writing on whether or not he is able "to achieve empathy for [his] subject, or even (in the best of cases) sink below the subject, in humility and abjection" (317). Are Cordrescu's depictions of his wife's family, particularly Joe, empathetic? How does he create empathy for a character with many offensive characteristics? Does he express humility or abjection in this essay? The answers will reveal whether or not the author fulfills his own standards of success in this essay.
He also explains principles of friendship and enmity as shared pleasure and pain. He discusses how to create in readers a sense of fear and shame and shamelessness and kindness and unkindness and pity and indignation and envy and indignation and emulation. Then he starts all over and shows how to create such feelings toward ideas in various types of human character' of "people" of virtue and vice; those of youth, prime of life, and old age; and those of good fortune and those of bad fortune." Aristotle warns us, however: knowing (as a good willed writer) how to get your readers to receive your ideas by making readers "pleased and friendly" or "pained and