Instead, they attacked him for no reason. In the experiment, the inferior group of children were treated inhumanely and they became frustrated, which led them to be wicked towards the other group of
This is showing Stradlater is a secret slob because he appears all right on the outside, but once someone gets to know him, they know he is slob. As shown by the book, his razor is full of hair, lather, and crap yet he does not care. He does not seem to care about how he keeps himself as long as he looks good on the outside. Stradlater gets into a fight with Holden, and Holden alienates himself from Stradlater by saying, “That’s just the trouble with you morons. You never want to discuss anything.
A sick fear and rage swept him. Fiercely he hit out at the filthy thing in front of him that bobbed like a toy and came back, still grinning into his face, so that he lashed and cried out in loathing” (Golding 185). His emotion really got to him because he couldn’t understand how Jack and his tribe could be that sick and careless. In this example Ralph is enraged with Jack and his tribe because they don’t understand the importance of the signal fire. “A gust of rage shook Ralph.
Walter is a Cunningham, so he is inferior and should be treated as such. Scout embraces the racism thrust on her and fails to see any other path. Also early in the novel Scout, Jem and Dill are afraid of Boo Radley, they think he is a monster and try to play tricks on him. They don’t know Boo Radley and have never seen him but still judge him on stories they have heard. They are threatened by him, and are scared to go on his property.
9. Why do you think Lennie allows Curley to beat him up? Why is it better for Curley to pretend he got his hand caught in a machine? Lennie does not defend himself because he knows that if he does, it will bring trouble for himself and his friend George. Evidence for this is the quotation "Lennie looked helplessly at George, and then he got up and tried to retreat."
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.” Furthermore, Paul writes about the failures to practice their great privileges and shows the effect their hypocrisy had on the reputation of God among the Gentiles. In Romans 2:21-24 Paul writes “you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
Another example is “Lennie twisted with embarrassment”. This shows that he is humiliated by Curley and just wants him to leave as he does not know what to say in reply to Curley and is rather like a hedgehog as he wants to curl up into ball. “Lennie was looking helplessly” shows his helplessness and inadequacy to sort out the problem as he needs to George to step in and help him. He cannot deal with the situation and is unable to get out of it without somebody else’s
Despite Piggy's clear thinking and appraisal of their situation, his contentious manner and rude dismissal of the younger boys unfortunately causes his ideas to be dismissed. Even more importantly, he is a cynic who can do nothing to comfort the others, instead instilling in them a sense of fatalism. Piggy, whose pessimism and sadness make him a likely martyr, is established in this chapter as a prophet whose words are not heeded until it is too late. Golding uses Piggy's advice as foreshadowing: failure to heed Piggy, however absurd he may sound, leads to dire
This reveals his sacrificial, committed selflessness to Huck. For example, when Huck and Jim find a floating house, Jim tells Huck to “[c]ome in…but [not to] look at his face- [because] it’s too gashly” (48). Jim is also righteously angry and scared when Huck plays tricks on him and causes him stress with his immature jokes. Jim feels very afraid when Huck “gets lost” as he explains to Huck that “…[h]is heart wuz mos’ broke bekase [Huck] wuz los’, en [Jim] didn’ k’yer no mo’ what become er [Huck] en de raf’” (80). Of course, another of Jim’s qualities rises to the surface here as the reader sees him forgive Huck.
Sin had taken over, and there was no sense of structure for the people. “They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.” (Romans 1:29-31) God is angered by the people who know Him, and are supposed to be his children and are still living as the people who do not know Him, and are accepting of these behaviors. The problem with the culture during this time, is that they were living as if there were no God, and they had removed him from their lives.