The Narrator had high expectations of Robert the blind man being “slow” and not “humorous”. When the blind man arrived the narrator could not believe it. “The blind man, feature this, he was wearing a full beard! A beard on a blind man! Too much, I say” (Paragraph 19).
Typically, a husband who can’t consummate a marriage should be abandoned without hesitation. When Bertrande is “urged by her relatives to separate from Martin, she firmly refuse[s]” (28). This decision reveals Bertrande’s “certain character traits…a concern for her reputation as a woman, a stubborn independence” (28). Bertrande cleverly calculates the advantages she possesses as a result of Martin’s incompetence. “Her refusal to have her marriage dissolved…freed her temporarily from certain wifely duties…gave her a chance to have a girlhood” (28).
If Karen returns, then I will return also. Robert is not a very nice man. All of the above. 5 points Question 6 Which is true? Answer A deductive argument always ends with a conclusion that is a statement of probability, no matter how remote that probability.
The man never responded to Curley's wife and she ended up with Curley. 33. Curley's wife compares Lennie's actions to that of a child's and doesn't percieve him as a threat. Steinbeck could be showing Curley's wife's want to fulfill her own needs. She could be overly worried about her loneliness getting to her to where she would go as far as letting Lennie touch her.
While in her mother’s eyes, she only supported her daughter and craved the absolute best for her child. Schwind-Pawlak presents this argument poorly due to her change of heart towards the end of the essay. She does not stick to her beginning argument which causes the opposition to lack stability. The two authors support their arguments by providing evidence. The supporting evidence of the two essay’s help reveal the hardships teenagers face while dealing with their parents.
Novalee's childhood was filled with a tremendous amount of sadness that a child should never have to go through. Her mother deserted her when she was young and thereafter, she bounced between foster homes until she met Willy Jack. In Willy Jack, Novalee believes she finds love. To her disappointment though, she does not. However, she finds happiness the baby that they have created together.
Antigone believes that without burying her brother he will not have a good after-life. Antigone even goes as far as burying him twice. Antigone is more admirable in that she is not selfish. She cared for her brother so much that she would go through all this trouble to give him a good after-life. She wanted to marry Haimon but sacrificed this to bury her brother.
When they talk about him, the characters usually do not talk him down, but rather build him up, unless its George. George is closest to Lennie and often rants openly about Lennie to Lennie. As said in the story, “'Course Lennie's a god damn nuisance most of the time'” (41) it shows that George is not scared of Lennie's overbearing existence and slanders him with him present. George is one of the only characters within the book that talks down on Lennie. Throughout the story Lennie's played out as a nuisance and and some one to stay away from but when Steinbeck adds in the text, “'Course he ain’t mean'” (41) it is showed that Lennie is not a harmful character and can be trusted with certain things.
The difference between both of them is that they aspire to two very different aspects of life; She wants respect and he wants power, we see that those two principles do not always agree with each other. We obviously see that both are ready to face the extreme. But Creon could not be considered as a Sophoclean hero because all he does is respect what he has to do, the written laws. He could have made an exception, especially for his niece but he did not. Antigone was overpowered by unwritten laws, which are what makes her a Sophoclean hero.
According to the Board of Education, 86% of the elements students learn in previous grades are used as a basis that is necessary in order to excel in further years. Once a student misses out on one lesson, he/she will seemingly have difficulties working on new material. Students need to fully comprehend all the information from each year to succeed. Social promotions hold students up to a certain standard upon entering the next grade. The pressure to grip the next set of information can be overwhelming, especially to those who struggled to interpret the lessons prior to.