In "The Approximate Size of My Favorite Sharif2 Tumor", (Sherman Alexie) tells how one man tries to use humor to deny the reality of his terminal cancer. He shows how humor can be taken too far. This story demonstrates how humor can destroy one part of your life as it helps you cope with another. Trying to look at it in different perceptive, jimmy has a terminal cancer and he dearly loves his wife watching the people you love go through stages of knowing you’re going to die is very depressing. what jimmy did was humor the people around him, seeing the his wife smile even though he was ill made him happy although Norma hated that he jokes a lot about his tumor.
This value was seen particularly when during their double date Joey pulls Chandler over to the side and tells him that he and Loraine are going back his place by saying “I'm outta here. Here's my credit card. Dinners on me. I'm sorry, Chandler.” Chandler then responds by saying “ I hope she throws up on you” which is followed by an audience laugh. Tolerance is shown here because although Chandler is upset that Joey is leaving him alone, he tolerates this and makes a joke about her throwing up on him and lets him go.
In reading the fiction story “Killings” written by Andre Dubus, you think the two characters Matt Fowler and Richard Strout are very different. Dubus has the reader sympathetic towards Matt though the tragic death of his son Frank, and less feelings towards Richard. However, midway through the story you begin to compare Fowler and Strout and how they; love their family deeply, want revenge on the wrong that was done to them, and seek out homicidal justice. Matt Fowler’s love for his family is evident. I believe that Dubus wants us to know that Fowler loved his wife.
We are quickly acknowledged to the fact that the man is a very loving and caring person, and so was his wife. However, as much as he trusted his wife and loves her, she does not feel the same way: " Having gone out in the rain one day, in order to deceive her lover, she caught cold and died." (153). Quickly we realize that his wife was not as loving, caring, or faithful as him because she was going to deceive her man had it not been such a dreadful outcome, her death. The man always thought his partner loved him back equally as much as he loved her, perceiving almost a perfect relationship to the reader.
Back to The Mighty, Kevin and Max realized that they had something in common. They were outcasts and were always being bullied because they were “freaks”, but they were proud. Also, they were both abandoned by their fathers at a young age. When Kevin died because of his illness, Max became very sad, but later on, he wrote his own book and realized that their relationship still exists, because he ended his book drawing a picture of a grave at the bottom of the lake, and on the grave, it said “Here lies King Arthur, Once and Future King”, and that King Arthur story was a symbol of Kevin. That picture was also a symbol of Kevin because at the beginning of the movie, Kevin said, “Every word is part of a picture.
In the stagnating stage, “nonverbal communication can be cold, distant, and awkward.”(Cropley, pg. 230) The nonverbal communication that Walt displayed toward his family, especially, his grand-daughter at the funeral was definitely cold, distant and awkward. It is not hard to see that there is definitely some stagnation going on with Walt and his family. His relationship with the Hmong boy next door, Thao has some very interesting dynamics, and it is fun to watch their relationship go from negative to positive by the end of the film. In the beginning of the film, Thao tries to steal Walt’s 1972 Gran Torino as an initiation into his cousin’s
Rip Van Winkle reminds me of the bums that loiter around the convenient corner store in my community. I say this because the bums will give you the warmest greeting upon approaching the store, they offer to wash your windows, and wish you the best of luck but as you exit they beg you for your change. In comparison, Rip Van Winkle is helpful such as the bums all the while helping out members in community, he neglects what is most important; his wife, children and responsibilities. Neglecting responsibility results in bums begging for change (like we see today) in Rips case he takes the famous twenty year nap. Though Rip was a grown man, his actions were that of child-like.
The narrator attempts to reassure his audience he is of sound mind. For example, the narrator says “If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body.” Another irony in the story is that the narrator refers to how he loves the old man and was never so kind to him as he was right before the murder. This is ironic because he loves the old man by the systematically plans to murder him. Poe uses imagery throughout the story by referencing the clock and time as a way to describe how slowly he moved. The narrator says “A watches minute hand moves more quickly than did mine”, the narrator sees himself as a clock, counting down the old man’s
It could be amusing to the audience as it highlights the absurdity of the situation. Also, in the same scene, Frank does not get Rita’s joke about him being named after the quality who is Frank Ness, Eliot’s brother who was the famous ‘Chicago copper’ who caught Al Capone. Frank thought Rita meant T.S Eliot. The audience may feel superior to Frank, as they may understand the joke so this would be amusing to them. Professor Dan Rebellato states that: “we laugh at something because we feel superior to it”.
“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”, written by Ernest Hemingway, we are introduced to an analogy between light and darkness, youth and old. It touches on the subject about the arrogance and selfishness of being young, and the understanding and compassion of being older. We learn of how people look to a social environment to escape from loneliness. Hemmingway writes about an old man who likes to frequent a well-lighted cafe in order to drink himself to a stupor. He describes how the old man tried committing suicide the previous week only to be saved by his niece.