When he is struck with dysentery, Elie begins to lose hope in life for his father. His father begins to go mad as the men in the bunks around him steal his food and beat him during the night. One night during orders Eliezer’s father begins to scream Elie’s name and beg for water until an SS officer kills him with a truncheon. He is carried away to the crematory before Elie wakes the next morning. Elie does not cry, because he is relieved by his father’s death.
2 NAME____________________________ Fahrenheit 451 Study Questions—Part One-Sec. One (pp.3-24) 1. Who is Montag? How does he feel about his job? Fireman, main character. He likes it in the beginning 2.
He believes that is life is perfectly fine, and that he is happy. Montag is married to a woman named Mildred, a mundane person who spends all of her time in front of her three wall-sized television sets in her 'parlor' and forces herself to fall asleep at night with sleeping medication. Guy Montag works for the distopian government as a “fireman”, a job completely the opposite of what you would expect. His job is to burn the homes of proclaimed “criminals” who continue to retain and conceal the now illegal books, and loosing a machine known as the hound, a dog-like machine with eight legs capable of injecting people with poison with lethal accuracy, to capture and kill the citizens who attempt to conceal and explore the intelligence that the books contain. Montag actually takes joy in this atrocious and destructive vocation and delights himself in observing all of the anguish he causes, which is seen in his quote “'Kerosene,' he said, because the silence had lengthened, 'is nothing but perfume to me'” ( Bradbury 2).
“I’m nearly dead of it,” (Tolkien 104) Bilbo said a little upset after Gandalf told The Great Eagle that they were starving. Victor suffered after the horrible murders and deaths of each and every one of his loved ones. This happened several times in the book so he was also miserable quite a bit. Another time was while he was on his journey to find the monster. He stated, “I have endured misery,” (Shelley 206) because he was travelling over dangerous grounds with little food.
In the morning, he would behave as if everything were normal. After a week of this activity, the narrator decides, somewhat randomly, that the time is right actually to kill the old man. When the narrator arrives late on the eighth night, though, the old man wakes up and cries out. The narrator remains still, stalking the old man as he sits awake and frightened. The narrator understands how frightened the old man is, having also experienced the lonely terrors of the night.
Examples of flashback and irony are used in the film to make the plot more effective. (POINT) There are several examples of flashbacks, however, one of the most important examples takes place when Jim is given an opportunity to have a second comeback fight. Towards the later part of the fight, Jim received a heavy punch which knocked his mouth guard off and he was so worn out it seemed as if he would lose. (PROOF) A flashback takes place at this moment in which Jim sees his children’s empty beds because they had to be sent away from home. He also pictures the poor living conditions of his family and their unpaid bills which suggest that there isn’t enough food to eat.
Nikolai meets a friend of his, Vladamir, wandering around Moscow looking for a place to live. Nikolai offers Vladimir his sofa to sleep on. Ludmilla does not take kindly to this, the apartment is already cramped. Vladimir is aware that he is intruding and makes an effort to help out around the house and he buys Ludmilla gifts. Nikolai seems unaware of his wife’s frustrations.
According to Freudian’s theory he displays signs of a core issue referred to as Fear of Intimacy. This issue leads a person to become detached because they have “overpowering feelings that emotional closeness will seriously hurt or destroy them” (Freudian). For example, he does not have any relationships outside of his family, and even when he is at home he remains guarded. Home is where people get comfortable and let their real selves shine. However, Gregor continues “locking the doors at night, even at home” (Kafka 9).
Sophie Lindenberg Turner AP English 12, Period 3 3 February 2015 Short Story Response Six: “Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka Franz Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist”, focuses primarily on a Hunger Artist obsessed with fame. Earlier in his career, the Hunger Artist had thousands of people watch and admire his fasting profession. To the Hunger Artist’s disliking, his impresario, or manager, would not let him fast past forty days in fear of losing the audience’s attention. The audience always praised the Hunger Artist for his martyrdom in fasting. However, the Hunger Artist was not fasting for religious reasons, but instead the Hunger Artist fasted for the attention and glory he received from the audience.
The wife from “The Yellow Wallpaper” is obviously mentally ill. She might suffer from depression, schizophrenia, or a personality disorder, but we are never for sure. Throughout this literary work, the wife is shuffled around and not given much freedom. Her husband, a doctor, advises her of what to do and what not to do. For the majority of the piece, the wife is stuck in a room consisting of few objects and horrendously disturbing yellow wallpaper. Not only does her husband manipulate her into staying in bed and thinking she is completely helpless and ill, but the yellow wallpaper also manipulates her into having strange thoughts.