After reading Steve Martin’s “The Death of My Father (2008)” essay, I could definitely tell it was a personal story. The story was very heart touching because he was telling a life story of him and his father. This story had quit a few elements to it but the three that stood out to me was Creative tension, Use Concrete Language to Create Clear Visual Images of the Setting and Characters, and the Conclusion. Creative Tension: There is a conflict and it gets resolved. Martin never got the affection from his father as a young child and that caused him to remember all the bad things.
I did not hear him stir again.” p. 64. The composes uses her narrator Scout to create a clear image of a young boy, visibly shaken by his ordeal of retrieving the lost pants therefore reinforcing the degree of courage it must have taken for him to even contemplate undertaking such a feat. Another character who is representative of this theme is Mrs Dubose. The audience is made acutely aware of the depth of her courage in chapter 11 when she finally passes, her death brought on more rapidly because she refused to die whilst addicted to morphine. Atticus tells his son that he wanted him to read to Mrs Dubose so he would understand that real courage was not demonstrated by a gun.
However, in the mist of it all, he still cared and loved his father. The speaker proves this point by using similes of how he hung on to his father by using “Death.” Death is something that is inevitable, and by using this vague simile, we can conclude that he loves dad to death. In addition, the author states, “Such waltzing was not easy.” With this statement, the reader can infer that the author’s relationship with his father was not always an abusive one; it simply proves that his father was a drinker. The third stanza of this poem is where the plot takes a turn and the author sees the abusive side of his father. The first two lines of that tercet makes one think that the father is either working at a harsh labor facility or he is occasionally punching objects or people.
Breanne Gray Characterization Paper October 24th, 2013 Period 9 A True Gentleman “He had announced in the schoolyard that day before that Scout Finch’s daddy defended n-words,” Cecil Jacobs (Lee 74). In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch plays the role of the protagonist who fights through Maycomb’s thick racism. Finch demonstrates a very strong sense of justice and teaches his children the same. No matter what the situation is he maintains his integrity. His character is so sterling in nature that he could have been boring or irritating if Harper Lee had not written him so beautifully and believably.
Human nature has many sides and complications. This is shown in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird which stresses the importance in maintaining respect in hard times, the longing for human compassion, and the struggle between doing what is right and appearing to do what is right. Internal and external conflicts rage throughout this novel that provides insight on human behavior and how circumstances can change a person. Atticus Finch maintains respect throughout the novel although pressed with difficult times and hardships. Atticus is a single father struggling to raise two children of his own, which is not easy by any means, especially if the children are witty and stubborn.
The novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee shows that honor is a prominent characteristic in a person. Atticus Finch is honorable because, raises his children with a strong set of values, he gets himself into something he knows is not going to turn out good but still tries his hardest, , and isn’t willing to cover anything up to take the easy way out. In the novel, Sir Atticus Finch is an honorable character and shows this by the way he raises his children. Atticus is Scout’s, the protagonist, and Jem’s father. Atticus tries to teach his children to vision yourself in the other person’s shoes before judging them.
The Scarlet Ibis In James Hurst short story “The Scarlet Ibis,” he uses the tragic relationship of two brothers to demonstrate the themes of pride and brotherly love. “They did not know that I did for myself; that pride, whose slave I was; spoke to me louder than all their voices, and that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother.” Brother only helped Doodle so he won’t be embarrassed. But he also did it to help Doodle out. Then before doodle dies, Brother fells like he didn’t do enough for Doodle or loved him enough (pg.347). “He looked straight at me and grinned”.
There is brotherly love, love for art, and love through compassion. Ironically, the narrator learns to love art through misery as he sees his brother pour his pain and suffering into his music. “I was remembering, and it made it hard to catch my breath, that I had been there when he was born; and I had heard the first words he had ever spoken. When he started to walk, he walked from our mother straight to me. I caught him just before he fell when he took the first steps he ever took in this world.” (5) It is this greater than sibling connection between the narrator and Sonny which causes the narrator to care for Sonny almost like a father.
The child Scout marvels in the fact that her father knew she was listening to his conversation with Uncle Jack. The adult Scout however, marvels in the fact that her father wanted her to overhear his conversation. Although the story takes place over the course of three years, Scout learns a lifetime's worth of lessons in that span. Here, the reader should remember that in many ways To Kill a Mockingbird is Scout's memoir — the adult Scout can better understand the impact of various events than the child living through them. You quickly realise when reading To Kill a Mockingbird that Scout is who she is because of the way Atticus has raised her.
The Destruction of Jem Are children able to cope with the darker secrets of humankind? This question is put to the test in To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee. In the book, Jem is the brother of narrator Scout Finch, four years older than she. Jem represents the ideals of bravery and justice in Scout’s life, and the manner in which his definitions of humanity change over the course of the story is vital to her development as a person. Along the course of the novel, Jem grows from a precocious young boy who drags his unwilling sister along as a co-conspirator to his nefarious schemes into a maturing young man who helps Scout better understand the problems and events that rage through their childhoods.