His true intentions of holding this shindigs so often is to attract his former flame Daisy, Nick's cousin, to see if he can relight their flame that was never fully blown out. His intentions are pure and heartfelt but a large, handsome problem stands in his way of getting Daisy back, her husband Tom. After Gatsby went to serve in the war, he lost contact with her for some five years and during this time she met a man of equal wealth that filled the gapping hole in her heart. The secrets then begin to come into play. Gatsby eventually comes in contact with Daisy and renews their long lost love, in secret of course.
Cold Sassy Tree By Olive Ann burns The book Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns, takes place in Cold Sassy, Georgia. The protagonists are Rucker Blackslee and a young man that goes by the name of Will Tweedy. Rucker Blakeslee and his new bride, Miss Love Simpson, attempt to live happily and ignore the town's and the Blackslee family's general condemnation of their union. Will struggles to grow up and maintain his integrity with all the drama that is happening. This novel is about an old man growing young because after his wife Mattie Lou Blakeslee passed away he decided to move on and make Miss Love Simpson his new bride.
In our lives, we can have a lot of joyful and beautiful moments, but we must not forget that sooner or later, challenges appear on our way. Louise Erdrich's "The Red Convertible" gives an example of life's most difficult challenge: Lyman must accept that his brother, Henry, has lost the will to live after fighting in war. The purpose of this essay is to use Erdrich’s story to show how much war can change someone’s life for worse. When young men go off to war, they painfully become aware of their own mortality. Many 18-year-old boys are drafted off to fight for their country-when most had never picked up a gun.
However, when all dignity and values seem lost, signs of their former selves can, and do return. During the war, the men are forced to face many dehumanising situations, and this challenges their dignity and morals. The soldiers were expected to live in the most degrading of conditions in their muddy, lice
He graduated from college had a summer job and in comes a letter saying he was now drafted into the war. Not knowing what to do he basically tries to hide his draft letter and when his dad asks him what’s his plans for the summer he says “Nothing, wait”. He starts to think about running for Canada and then one day at work while doing his usual job of removing blood clots from the neck of dead pigs something inside him broke. He walks away from the plant, goes home and packs, writes a letter to his parents, and starts to drive north. At this point in the story O’Brien to the point of view of the people who read it seems like a coward for running away.
When two people marry it should be because they love each other not because of money and the pressures from you family. F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the lives of Daisy and Tom Buchanan and also Daisy’s former lover, Jay Gatsby. In this novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ the conflict occurs when Daisy is about to marry Tom but finds out that Gatsby wants to resurrect their previous relationship. Family pressure, money and love are ideas presented in the passage through characterisation and symbolism and the reader is encouraged to disagree with Daisy’s actions. In many families there are conflicts or disagreements.
The value of their lives was also changed by war. Their identities were lost. As a fellow soldier lies dying, the men around him are forced to care more about obtaining his good boots he won’t need than morn his lost life. In war time orderlies and doctors don’t have time to learn the dying men’s names, but are impatient for the bed that will open up after a death. Paul and the other young men eagerly signed up thinking war would be glorious “only to find [they] were to be trained for heroism as though [they] were circus ponies” (22).
Nobody likes the war and nobody wants to fight but for some reason the world had a problem and it needed to be fixed. The war has its positives but there are a lot more negatives such as, the draft, people leaving their family, death, etc... The point that rash tries to prove about the war in this essay, is when the farmer talks about losing his own boy in the war. “He fought for Mr. Lincoln do he?” the boy asked “not no more” the farmer replies. Whether the farmer is an antagonist or protagonist in this story, Rash still portrays him to be sad and pissed that his son died in the
It becomes clear in the story that Lennie has a mild mental disability, and is deeply devoted to George and is dependent upon him for protection and guidance. They both share a dream of one day buying their own piece of land, farming it, and, much to Lennie’s delight, keeping rabbits. The next day the two show up together at the nearby ranch and George insists that he does all of the talking. He lies, and begins to explain that they are cousins and that the reason they travel together. He tells him that a horse kicked Lennie in the head when he was a child and he hires them.
When he returned home, age was only a number. He was forced to grow extremely fast because he was exposed to real life morale dilemmas between right and wrong. O’Brien uses the illustrates symbolism that in the scene with of the baby water buffalo to illustrate misplaced anger. Rat had lost his best friend in Curt Lemon, and wrote a heart felt letter to Lemon’s sister describing the role her brother had played in his life. It was not really a war story at all, it was more of a love story as described by O’Brien.