Bob Ewell like Atticus is a white single parent and he is infamous for being the town’s white drunk trash. Bob is not a responsible parent, he is always losing his job and because of this his children suffer. Bob fails also to teach his children wrong from right because he makes Mayella lie in court which subsequently causes the death of an innocent man. He doesn’t have affection or even take care of his children obviously because on Scout’s first day of school his son is asked to leave because he has lice. Bob Ewell has no morals; he discriminates against blacks and even hits his own daughter.
Consequently, when Victor first started out in school, he did not fit in with the other Indian boys because his hair was too short, and he did not look like a true Indian. Due to his differences Victor was picked on repeatedly whenever the other kids felt like ruining his life. For example, as Victor became a little older, he became tired of being picked on and took matters into his own hands. Victor stated, “The little warrior in me roared to life that day and knocked Frenchy to the ground”. Next example comes in “Second Grade:” the confrontational dialogue between him and Betty Towle-“missionary teacher, redheaded and so ugly that no on ever had a puppy crush on her, made me stay in for
At the same time Paul’s comrade Detering went M.I.A when he came across a cherry blossom on the front lines and was paralyzed with homesickness. Detering was known to be sensitive as he spends most of the book missing his wife and farm back in Oldenburg. He essentially goes crazy and steals the cherry tree and within two days he runs away to never be found again. He walks over the bridge with his military equipment left at home and looks up at the case that holds his butterfly collection. Implying the separation between his youthful virtue and the cold-hearted exterior he attained from the
Fuad Manuel Asfura Giraldez English 8-3 October 17, 2008 Everyone Bullies Melinda Sordino Last year a boy from the Everest school was kicked out for bullying at school, and was not accepted in some other school. This is why bullying is bad. Melinda, the main character of the novel Speak does not bully, but she is being bullied, and it practically ruins her life. Since the first day of school Melinda has been bullied by her ex-friends and other particular people. Therefore Melinda is still being bullied throughout all the ninth grade.
Other characters are the boys in Stanley’s work group at the camp, the warden at the camp and her men, Mr. Sir and Mr. Pendanski. Stanley’s family is cursed because his “pig stealing” great great-grandfather, Elya Yelnats, does not keep his promise to Madame Zeroni. Nothing good happens to the men in his family because of the curse. His grandfather made a lot of money but it was stolen from him by Kate Barlow when he kissed her. She left him in the desert to die but he lives.
Unfortunately, because of such extreme poverty and no resources for food, the Batwa are disappearing. Those that have chosen to integrate into society are faced with constant discrimination and prejudice. “Batwa children say they dislike going to school because other children throw things at them and call them dogs” (Matthews, 2006, Para 12). The degrading has been so horrific that the Batwa people are ashamed of whom they are. In 1906 a young man named Ota Benga, lived one of the most degrading and appalling 12 years any one person could ever live.
The narrator also has an uncle, who seems like an alcoholic small time crook. The guy talks about his family relations and how his mother don’t want him to be as his father or his uncle on page 1 line 19: I remember she cried a lot because she was always worried that I would turn out like my “stinking, rotting, lout-of-a-father.” I never could figure out who she wanted me to turn out like. Uncle Barney? The only job that I ever knew he had was working as Santa Claus once a year….. I was five and Santa pulled of his beard and asked me to get him a stiff drink.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Ebenezer Scrooge has one love, money. He loathes all things that bring cheer and happiness to others, so naturally, he despises the whole Christmas season. One Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by a deceased friend and partner, Jacob Marley. Marley has been dead for seven years and was just as selfish as Scrooge. As punishment his spirit is now forced to wander the Earth in chains, and he has come to warn Scrooge that the same fate waits him if he keeps living the way he has been.
And every time he made a leap, Everybody fell asleep. And every time he ate his tie, Everyone began to cry. And Cloony could not make any money Simply because he was not funny. One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so sad, And he told them all why he felt so bad.
Deceit simply does not pay off. When Cory was a young lad of nine years of age, he and a select group of pals stole packages of Korean delicacies on Halloween from a local foreign grocery store.. The worst part of it all was that he could not, or rather would not, fess up. “He had lain in his bed thinking, I hurt in my guts.” (Wolff). Cory’s deception caused such inner strife that he physically hurt in his stomach, or at least thought he did, but yet there he was, six years later, still struggling with his conscience after hearing about the fire and reflecting on that fateful Halloween night almost half his life-time ago.