If he did not, he would not taught ,explained and helped David to understand about Waknuk's rules and their views on people who are different from the image of God. He also would not cares about David and wants to protect him. The last example is “ It was a great satisfaction to learn and know more, it helped to ease one over a lot of puzzling matters, and I began to understand many of the things Uncle Axel talked about much better, nevertheless, it brought, too, the first taste of complications from which we would never again be free. ” (8, 82) This happened after David’s aunt die, he develops an intense desire to become normal. He was so scared that someone will find out about him.
(Card 19) Even in the middle of the book when Ender is confiding in Bean, he states that he felt he could not lose any of the battles, for some reason which he did not reveal (Card 197). This drive is so embedded into Ender’s personality that even he can not understand it himself, or it is so personal he can not even reveal it to one of his closest companions while at the school. This gives Ender a passion that soon boosts the rest of his army, and they too come to realize that being good is not enough; they have to be superior. Although these are just three characteristics that explain why Ender is such a great leader, there are many more reasons listed in the
The obsession with social hierarchy drives people to be selfish and greedy- never happy with what they have. At the same time, there are many people like Gatsby today who feel they have to cheat their way to the top to be happy, like so many corporate giants who have schemed for years and stole billions of dollars from innocent, but maybe slightly naïve taxpayers. Both kinds of people have lost the sense of the American dream. Originally people just wanted a perfect but humble life: a loving, close-knit family, a steady paying job, and ultimately pure happiness. But once people see that it is possible to have much more than that, they begin to get covetous and only want more.
‘I did not know where I stood on so many issues of consequence; I lacked a stable core. I was not certain where I belonged… my own identity is so fragile’ During his time at Princeton changez adopted a persona which he believed would make him fit in, but there is still something that actually set him apart from the Princeton peers. In pretending to be a young prince while surreptitiously supporting himself with three jobs he had begun the process of transforming himself. He admitted he was well liked an ‘exotic acquaintance’ but in his desire to makes a life for himself in America he did not recognize the danger in subjugating his true self. Moreover the readers cannot be convinced that he had acceptance he believe he fit in.
Often times in literature, characters are exposed more for the sins they commit, than the heroic deeds they perform, or for their achievements. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the main character Gawain, although a very modest, but courageous character for accepting a terrifying challenge from the mysterious Green Knight, his bravery is soon forgotten as the poem goes on. Through symbolism and nature, the reader is provided that Sir Gawain, although has had faults, he is still seen as a hero. In the beginning of the poem, during a New Year’s Eve feast at King Arthur’s court, a mysterious green knight interrupts the festivities, by proposing a challenge to the King or any other brave man, that he will allow whomever accept the challenge to strike him with his own axe, on the condition that the challenger seek him out in exactly in year at the Green Chapel to accept a blow in return. When the King does not accept the challenge right away, the
Pidgeon explains why Gatsby pretends to be having a great life. “Fitgerald makes it clear that Gatsby does not enjoy these things for himself. They are merely being used to realize his dream...the acquisition of Daisy” (181). As Nick gets to know Gatsby more closely we as the readers begin to think that, despite Gatsby’s enriching stories, things don’t add up. Gatsby did it all for Daisy.
The Great Gatsby: Final Essay Assignment In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it gives an outsiders view point of how upper class society acts. The main character of the book, a young adult named Nick, is not used to the upper class way of living. Through his eyes you get a view point of high society’s financial, social, and even love life. Gatsby believes he is in love with Daisy and has been for many years, but when Gatsby explains to Nick all the reasons he is in love with her they don’t seem to be so true at heart. Gatsby is more in love with the thought of being with Daisy, than he is actually in love with her.
Gatsby believes that if he reaches the “green light” than he and Daisy will be together just like in the past. When Gatsby reaches the light, in other words Daisy’s dock, he still continues to struggle, which reveals that putting hope into an inanimate object that a long lost dream will come true is just futile. But even after this, he continues too have faith that there might still be a chance for them to get back together. By putting so much faith in past love life, it leaves him unaware of the terrible tragedy that lies ahead of
The light across the sound on the end of Daisy’s dock represents the idyllic perfection that Gatsby, and thus the American people, instilled to themselves. Nick explains the endless pursuit of of Gatsby in that he “believed in the light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...And one fine morning-” (Fitzgerald 180). Gatsby, and the American public, had built upon their dreams to the point of when they realized they were unattainable, a character dies, and the American public falls into
Gatsby loves the thought of being with Daisy meanwhile, Tom loves her buts treats her as an object. They both have a lot of money but Gatsby has more because of his business of being a bootlegger selling illegal alcohol and Tom got his money from family. The reason behind why Daisy wants to stay with Tom is because of his money. ” They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made….” (179). What Nick is trying to tell us is that Daisy and Tom are cowards they act like little kids, they try to get their hands on anything they can find and when trouble comes they retreat back to their luxurious lifestyle.