But what the villagers do not know is that he never wanted to kills his son. In fact, he feels horrible about it. Okonkwo falls into a deep depression some days after Ikemefuna’s death. Okonkwo and Unoka are truly polar opposites. However, just like his father, Okonkwo is always at odds with the values of the people of the village.
His father, Unoka, was a well-known for his laziness in the village. He was the root of Okonkwo’s embarrassment. Since his childhood, Okonkwo was ashamed of his father, who, “In his day he was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow” (04). In the standard of his clan, Unoka was a coward, lazy, and wastrel man who spent money wastefully. When he was a child, a boy once called Okonkwo’s father an Agbala, witch means “a woman” as well as a man who has no title.
The president had virtually no authority, and the council spent most of its time arguing and not actually accomplishing any governing. The next problem that Morgan brings to attention is a combination of laziness and the makeup of the population. When the colonists first arrived to Jamestown they functioned as a socialist like community. The colonists farmed as a whole and everyone was given equal portions of the crop, so this was not boost to plant and farm as much as possible. “The work a man did bore no direct relation to his reward.
His lack of education, as well as his attitude toward women, and his steadfast grip on old traditions does not allow him to work and thus he cannot provide a steady income for his family. Being an immigrant and stuck in his old life, he is not able to get used to the ideas of American business and life. He spends his whole life living off his children rather than trying to create a life of his own. He knows if all of his children try to leave him he will have no one to take care of him, so he desperately sabotages every attempt they make for a new independent life such as marriage or moving out. On the other hand, Sara, referred to as the “Daughter of the new world,” embraces the ideals of Americanized Jews, which quickly
After watching the documentary on the Trail of Tears I have come to the conclusion that what the Americans did to the Cherokee Indians is heartless, selfish, and cruel. Men, women, and children were taken from their land and herded to makeshift forts with very little food and warm clothes. They were stripped of everything they owned and stood for. They couldn’t do anything about it for fear of being killed. I believe that what happened in the 1830s was evil.
Money and material things do not truly satisfy a person's life or make a person happy. Tom Walker had all the money in the world and he was still a stingy cheap miserable old man. Not thinking through choices in life can cause a lifetime of regret and Tom Walker is a great example of someone whose life was ruined by his bad choices. The sad part of this story is by the time he fully understands that his choices were wrong it was too late. He didn’t think about those choices in his earlier years when he was robbing people blind.
The fact that the baby died, with the fact that Paul's farming land was ripped up, and everything involved in his farming life was ruined, made the ending pessimistic. This is because more tragic issues are
Heart of Darkness Theme Essay: Race In Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, Marlow is shocked to see mans inhumanity to man from how he and his men treat or call the natives. And the mission of “civilizing” and “enlightening” native people because they are to savage for salvation. Also the divide of races of black and white adds to the themes that Conrad uses of light and darkness, good and evil. The use of white as good and black as evil is challenged when we view it through the theme of race. “A lot of people, mostly black and naked, moved about like ants.” Conrad's statement shows that the person (either Marlow or narrator) see the natives as tiny little insects.
In the end Victor is left with nothing. He has no friends, no family; he is exhausted and now starving. The monster has left Victor all alone that he considers making him a mate letting the possibility of a progeny real. All that is left to do is for Victor to die himself he has lost his brother, his wife and now his dad all because he created a misanthrope. All though all these deaths weren’t directly victors fault he was the one that created Frankenstein but was to mortified and ashamed to take the responsibility for his doing.
We also learn a bit about Mr Ewell. Lee states earlier on, ?The varmints had a lean of it, for the Ewell?s gave the dump through gleaning every day? This suggests that the Ewells live of the town?s dump which isn?t a very hygienic way of living, but then again Mr Ewell is an unemployed alcoholic. As we are told earlier, ?No public health officer could free them from congenital defeats, various worms and diseases indigenous to filthy surroundings? Mr Ewell is a terrible father due to his abusiveness and neglect.