What she dreams of there in the center of those wires is a world of precision efficiency and tidiness like a pocket watch with a glass back, a place where the schedule is unbreakable.” (Kesey 28,29) Through this quote you can tell the preciseness that Nurse has, she is not a lax person she is very stringent when it comes to the rules she has in the ward. ” So she really lets herself go and her painted smile twists, and she blows up bigger and bigger, big as a tractor… you can smell the machinery inside. She has to change back before she’s caught in the shape of her hideous real self.”(Kesey 5) Nurse ratchet rarely fails to show her façade, evidently in this quote. When Ratchet is out of character it is ephemeral it never lasts long. Kesey uses simile-comparing Ratchet to a roaring tractor to show her true side and what it is like when she shows her self, but then she quickly changes because she doesn’t want anyone to catch on to her.
The Disdain of Total Equality Total equality may seem fair and justifiable in the eyes of some people, but in many cases it turns out to be little more than a form of oppression, in which a group of people limit the abilities of others. Throughout the story Vonnegut speaks of this necessity for equality and the means that the government goes to achieve it by using devices called ‘handicaps’; one example of this is George’s earpiece, “A buzzer sounded in George’s head. His thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm.” Vonnegut’s simile here creates a sort of loud diction, which expresses the sheer discomfort invoked by these restraints on the person wearing them. The governing body in this society views this as the solution to a problem, one that happens to be relatively impossible to solve, this is how Vonnegut incorporates satire into his story. He is poking fun at the age old concept of ‘equality,’ one that has inspired wars and movements alike; he accomplishes this by creating a system to make everyone equal, a system that happens to be just as stupid as the idea of ‘total equality.’ Under this system equality is achieved, but it is at the cost of individual freedom and a society full of stupid people, this in-turn creates the situational irony found in the story.
She continues to argue that as a result such difference presents inequality and has made genuine love between man and women doubtful. Genuine love in de Beauvoir’s recognition would be an equal relationship between man and woman comprising of “the mutual recognition of two liberties” in which “the lover would than experiences themselves both as self and as the other: neither would give up transcendence, neither would be mutilated; together they would manifest values and aims in the world” (De Beauvoir 1983, p. 677). In consideration to her statement she therefore believes that there exists a problem which is preventing the genuine love between man and woman, the problem of inequality. A woman she states is defined and differentiated in accordance to man and not he in reference to her (De Beauvoir 1983, p. 16). Thus a woman’s existence and recognition is dependent on a man’s acknowledgement.
Keller knew how Paul’s music would sound like and crushed Paul’s smugness about his ability, which was less accomplished than he believed. Paul thought of it as an insult and a waste of his time, as reflected by his strong opinion expressed with frustration to his father after the first lesson that, “He practically broke my arm… He’s a sadist,” when he complained to his parents. Knowing that Paul was an arrogant teenager who had been praised too much, Keller tried to teach him more than just the mastery of the piano, but how his attitude should be. Although Paul did not receive Keller’s message, later on he realized how much Keller had taught
Finding a Good Man in “A Goodman is Hard to Find” In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Flannery O' Connor uses the story of a family's run in with a criminal to try and define what a good man is. The core of the story focuses on an elderly grandmother's hypocritical moral code to the twisted one of the Misfit. Which forces the reader to ask themselves what is the definition of a good man and if those two or others in the story that really that fits that description? The cast of characters in the story is quite small with most people focusing on the two most dynamic characters in the story of the Grandmother and the Misfit with the the rest of the grandmother's family being little more then plot devices to further along the story. Yet there are arguments that the grandmother's son Bailey comes closer to the definition of a good man then any other in the story for while it is true that O' Connor herself once insisted that readers should ascribe little meaning to the character other than him being the Grandmother's son and driver.
Not much was expected of him because of his small size. “Soaring and reaching so high—not just for the basket, but to aspired to be a hero.”(Irving) But Owen Meany possessed a power within him that would allow him to make John Wheelwright believe in God. “Owen Meany believed that ‘coincidence’ was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design—more powerful and unstoppable than The Flying Yankee.”(Irving)In the end of the story, Owen Meany becomes an ultimate true life hero especially after facing several trials and tribulations put into place by not having a complete family. He endure life changing events that weren’t always for the better. When John and Owen went to the airport for John's return flight,a day Owen believed that he was destined to die, they see a group of nuns escorting a column of Vietnamese war orphans through the halls.
Illusion of Being Well Liked Through the character Jay Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald disproves the idea that money can buy happiness, friendship and love. Through the actions of Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays the idea that wealth cannot buy happiness. Gatsby having all the money in the world, still does not make him happy. Even though he has nice clothes, a car, a mansion and good looks he still is unhappy because a life with Daisy was his main goal and he never reached it. Trying to show off all of his possessions didn't impress her, but made her feel sad.
Striving to be the best academically and to be so much like an adult, pressured Gene into thinking he had to be, ”serious sometime, about something. If your really good at something, I mean if there’s nobody, or hardly anybody, who’s as good as you are, then you’ve got to be serious about that.”(Knowles Pg. 58) Even though he was great already, Gene began making fantasy rivalries to cope with what he wasn’t good at, the physical aspects of life. In his mind, he and Phineas ”were even after all even in enmity.”(Knowles Pg. 54).
Like the devastating reality that Gatsby is unable to fit into daisy’s class, he is also hit with short coming of his new life due to lack of meaning. Gatsby as a little boy dreamed of making his life into something admirable. Mr.Gatz shows nick that Gatsby kept a book stating these things: “read one improving book or magazine per week.”(Fitzgerald, pg. 173) Gatz says, jimmy was bound to get ahead.”(Fitzgerald, pg.173). However in Gatsby’s adult reality he becomes a criminal to make his fortune, in hopes to win Daisy's affection.
As a “scholarship boy” he allows himself to be embarrassed of where he came from and that his parents were not as educated as his teachers. Rodriguez separates himself from his family and emerges himself in his academic pursuits. In doing this, Rodriguez was sad. Even though he was a successful student he felt a lack of confidence. My own view is that Rodriguez did love his parents, just did not know how to deal with the two different worlds of family and schooling.