In Rudy’s case in was not his fear of failure that drove him, but his constant failings and people telling him he couldn’t do it because he was too small, not smart enough or had no athletic skill. In high school his teacher calls him a “dreamer not a doer.” When he tries to take a tour of his dream school, Notre Dame the same teacher says to him, “The secret to happiness in this life is to be grateful for the gifts the good lord had bestowed on us, Rudy not everyone is meant to go to college.” After Pete’s death Rudy then decided he could no longer wait to follow his dream. The more Rudy failed at something the harder he worked. While attending Holy Cross he was denied entry into Notre Dame three times. With each failure he would pick himself back up and work even harder.
* Characters: List of main and minor: Main characters | Minor characters | George | Crooks | Lennie | Curley’s wife | Slim | Carlson | Candy | Curley | * Characterization: (protagonist – antagonist) * George: George is the story's main protagonist, a small, quick man with well-defined features. A migrant ranch worker, George dreams of one day saving enough money to buy his own place and be his own boss, living off of the land. * Curley: Curley’s the antagonist, because he’s the bad guy and the villain. Curley sets problems in the way of George and
Crooks feels hope for a moment thinking his life can become better even if his only friends are George, Lennie and Candy. He has no even been invited to live with them and Crooks is already willing to work like a slave as long as he has someone. Crooks is obviously a victim of the loneliness that invades the ranch but most important is the misfortunate consequences of
Crooks dreams of being seen as equal to everyone else. He remembers fondly his childhood, when he played with white children who came to his family's chicken ranch, and longs for a similar relationship with white people again. Excluded from the companionship that exists in the bunkhouse – no cards or chat. His possessions include books as he reads instead of having company, and he has no choice but to endure this prejudice and isolation. Consequently, he bitterly guards his enforced privacy, saying to Lennie, “This here’s my room…I ain’t wanted in the bunkhouse, and you ain’t wanted in my room.” He is regretting the way that he taunted Lennie, “A guy needs somebody – to be near him” and “a guy gets too lonely” and “A guy sets alone out here at night.” It is implied that Crooks is thrilled when Lennie and Candy come into his room and are his companions for a night.
In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it exhibits the adventures, troubles, and maturing of and eleven year old boy named Huck Finn. Huck Finn comes from the lowest part in white society. His father is a lush, and is never seen doing anything for him. Huck is homeless, but lives with Widow Douglas, who is trying to change him. This doesn’t go very well because he goes back to his ways of being independent.
With the enormous amount of stolen money, he and his family were able to go back home. “We go back to the land- tomorrow we go back to the land” (Buck 147)! Wang Lung and his family returned home to the land, but it was not as grand as he expected it to be. He arrived home with loads of money, but he still was bitter and longed for something more. He never could find what he was looking for and was angry with much of the silver he gave away.
They are considered rich, spoilt and lucky. Most of the Socs go to college and seem to have a perfect life but they too have problems. Bob got himself killed because he had no rules and his parents would let him get drunk and get into trouble. Cherry Valance, a Soc, and Ponyboy, a Greaser are also good examples of how stereotypes aren’t always true. Cherry teaches Ponyboy that Socs and Greasers aren’t that different like when she says “All Socs aren’t like that, Ponyboy”.
Living on a family farm, there was minimal wealth coming into the family. Traumatized by his father’s murderous death on his childhood farm, he becomes coldhearted and obsessively concerned and determined to become wealthy and rich when he grows older. Money and status influenced his goals and actions throughout life. Not only has money and wealth influenced his entirety as a whole, but it has made him completely dead and emotionless in his soul. Macon Jr. has accumulated so much wealth throughout his adulthood and ultimately lives in a nice house, has tenants, hires maids, and gains wealth on a frequent basis.
Jay Gatsby - Ever since his impoverished childhood in rural North Dakota, Gatsby longed for wealth and sophistication (American Dream) —he dropped out of St. Olaf’s College after only two weeks because he could not bear the janitorial job from which he was funding his tuition. Though Gatsby has always wanted to be rich, his main motivation in acquiring his fortune was his love for Daisy Buchanan, whom he met as a young military officer in Louisville before leaving to fight in World War I in 1917. However, Gatsby's 'love' for Daisy could also in turn be seen as a selfish obsession, since his dream of being with Daisy was never deterred by the fact she had a family, moreover a young daughter. Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy back, and
In the now, his relationship with his father is strained and uncomfortable but it wasn’t always this way. One fateful night destroys the respect he had for Willy and changes his passion from pleasing his father, to avoiding him and the search for truth within himself, a search for his place in the world, begins. He has been convinced by his father that he is a football star, a salesman and someone very special but he struggles, in his adulthood, to explain to his father that he is just human, just normal and that the stories and dreams he has been fed throughout his life are not his stories, not his dreams. And in the play, Willy Loman does not want to believe that he has done anything wrong to cause his son to turn so violently against the “plan” they made for his future. He simply can not see how the blame falls on him for his sons monumental