Poetry Response- Mending Wall, by Robert Frost Every year, two neighbors meet to repair the stone wall that divides their property. The narrator is skeptical of this tradition, unable to understand the need for a wall when there is no livestock to be contained on the property, only apples and pine trees. He does not believe that a wall should exist simply for the sake of existing. He cannot help but notice that the natural world seems to dislike the wall as much as he does: mysterious gaps appear, boulders fall for no reason. The neighbor, on the other hand, asserts that the wall is crucial to maintaining their relationship, asserting, “Good fences make good neighbors.” Over the course of the mending, the narrator attempts to convince his neighbor otherwise and accuses him of being old-fashioned for maintaining the tradition so strictly.
Raymond looks at the possibility of how it could snow even though his brother is giving him all these facts of how it is too cold and too dry to snow. For this reason Raymond is more optimistic than Harold since he chose hope while his brother chose facts instead. In addition, Raymond is also more considerate. On pg. 70 Raymond offers to the Guthrie brothers, which are a couple of young boys who are part of the novel, some money for helping him and his brother on the farm.
'Mending Wall' is an interesting poem that is symbolic of the differences in human thinking on barriers Robert Frost is known to make use of nature and pathetic fallacies in his poems and a lot of symbolism that leaves the reader to imagine what he really means,making his poems highly subjective. In this piece, Frost has used words and phrases that we could draw parallels with,he uses a sense of underlying meanings with these phrases. In the title itself, ‘Mending wall’ the poet lets us know that the poem is about a wall or a fence,but later the reader realizes that it’s more than just the words on the surface that Frost wants us to recognize. The poet refers to the wall as a solid object but also a psychological or invisible wall,this wall signifies the differences between the two neighbors. Ironically,when the wall is actually supposed to separate two beings,this wall reunites the two neighbors ,this is seen in the title ‘Mending wall’,where one might suggest that this is grammatically incorrect, what Frost might actually be intending is that the poem is more about the wall mending the relationship between the two individuals than the two merely mending the wall itself !This wall maybe built due to differences in thoughts and ideas or merely just because of social awkwardness of the two characters.
Within the novel, Lennie shows no significant changes, development, or growth. Sympathy is created for Lennie because his enthusiasm for the dream of their future farm proves contagious as he convinces George, Candy, Crooks, and the reader that such a paradise might be possible. But he is a character whom Steinbeck sets up for disaster, a character whose innocence only seems to ensure his inevitable destruction. The farm is a place where Lennie and George can live together, have animals, grow their own crops and, in general, feel safe. Lennie has little memory, but the story of their dream is one he knows by heart.
George does not care about Lennie’s situation and he trust in him as Lennie trust in George. In chapter four, the George says, “A guy needs somebody-to be near him” shows that people need other people to be strong and take better decisions. No matter who is that person and how smart is he or she. George does not care about who Lennie is and he considered Lennie his friend, showing that intelligence is not everything. All Lennie actions show his innocence.
He knows that he should not turn in Jim because Jim has done nothing but help Huck in his adventure and has done nothing wrong to Huck. Huck’s development is shown here because he knows that what society views slaves as is wrong. They are best friends, which is why Huck cannot bring himself to turn Jim in. Even though Huck brings himself to pray to for the ability to turn Jim in, he could not because he cares about Jim. They took care of each other on the raft and have grown a close relationship, because of this Huck cannot bring
During the Simon’s (Matt and Marie’s son) birthday party, there were some conversations between Kate, Daniel and Kate, Marie; Marie told Kate to face the truth that Matt’s life was not a failure, and he love his son, his family and the farm. The most important thing that bothered Matt, however, was that Kate cannot forgive Matt and cannot understand him. Daniel also has made some progress (Page 281-282); he tells Kate to look at real world too; also, Daniel point out that Kate had put the story in a place that was too heavy. Actually, Matt did not change after being a famer. He can be a scholar; however, he just found out he like farming, too.
He starts by telling us about the weather “white snow” which describes that is winter. Then he starts reminiscing his home land how in Wisconsin, Christmas in his village is not about the parties and the presents but about being together and sharing together. And that is why he feels out of place because in college people only care about things that he could care less, and act differently than the way he’s used to be treated or being around with people that act a certain way. This actions make him very homesick and sad so he heads home to get away from that place he does not like and calm his feelings of alienation. When the narrator gets home, he
He shows that he is honest when he says, “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known” (Fitzgerald 64). Although Nick has close friends, he is not completely trustworthy if them. Nick proves that being honest makes him a better friend and a man of good character. Nick also portrays trustworthiness by being honest to Gatsby about Daisy. Although Gatsby needed to leave town, he “couldn’t possibly leave Daisy until he knew what she was going to do” (Fitzgerald 155).
He worries his age will make his useless on the farm. When he hears of George and Lennie’s plan to buy a piece of land he offers his life’s savings if he can join George and Lennie in owning the land. Candy knows he won’t be around much longer, and he just wants to make sure he is safe, and well taken care of. In the book Candy says “a guy needs someone to be near him, a guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, as longs as he’s with you I tell ya.