George is the dominant male in the relationship , because of Lennie’s disability it causes they both very much trouble back in Weed and on the ranch they arrive too after escaping. Also Lennie’s disability causes himself to be put aside from others on big events. While all the other ranch hands go to town, Lennie, Crooks, Candy, and Curley’s Wife are left behind. They’re left behind because to all the other strong and healthy men they’re outsiders. Lennie is considered as an outsider because of his mental disability.
Americans should be happy with what they have because people around the world are dieing of hunger, while they sit around looking for the next thing to buy. II. Body Paragraph 1 (Adversity) A. William Kamkwamaba faces many challenges in The Boy Who Harnessed Wind (Why is it so hard for William to get an education?) B. Lack of Resources (money, food) C. Lack of Electricity D. Criticism by his peers for foolish ideas III.
“I’m nearly dead of it,” (Tolkien 104) Bilbo said a little upset after Gandalf told The Great Eagle that they were starving. Victor suffered after the horrible murders and deaths of each and every one of his loved ones. This happened several times in the book so he was also miserable quite a bit. Another time was while he was on his journey to find the monster. He stated, “I have endured misery,” (Shelley 206) because he was travelling over dangerous grounds with little food.
The mental burden that probably weighs the most on the hearts of the men is fear. This fear comes from many sources. The men are constantly haunted by the fear that they may die. Ted Lavender’s death and how the men react to it show its impact on the soldiers. Kiowa expresses the sense of weight that the threat of death has on the men when he describes Lavender’s death: "Boom down, he said.
The story takes place in shantytowns of Haiti. It is about a poor peasant man named Guy who struggles, despite all of his efforts to try to provide for his family. He is faced with poverty, unemployment and starvation. Throughout his struggles in the story he is portrayed as being frustrated since he is unable to provide his family with the life he has dreamt of. The jobs at the sugar mill were scarce, to where the men had been put on a waiting list that could take up to half a year to get a day’s work.
"He fell on a day that was... All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. "(p.296) He has been through such agony with his fellow comrades dying, and the horrors of the war, but yet he dies on the quietest day of the war. Paul has been in the war nearly from the beginning, and he has survived a host of battles on the front line even while seeing many of his fellow soldiers die. Throughout the novel, Paul slowly loses his hope that he will ever get out of the war alive, and he begins to think that even if he does survive, he will not fit back into the normal routine of his community back home.
“Job History” by Annie Proulx takes place in Cora, Wyoming. The story follows the life of the main character Leeland Lee and his unsuccessful attempts to find a fruitful career. His lack of education, irresponsibility, poor decisions, and the scarcity of available jobs in his hometown make life very difficult for him so he moves several times seeking an occupation. His determination is commendable, but he learns that hard work doesn’t guarantee success and in the end his efforts are futile as he lives his life in discontent. The structure of Annie Proulx's “Job History” does not follow the typical structure of a short story.
He also writes "an ash-pile made by many fires". This shows that many men must have walked through this road to enter a lonely and miserable life, moving from ranch to ranch finding useless work. I think all the people living in the ranch are lonely. There are particular people in the ranch who have lonelier lives than others. The loneliest person on the ranch has to be Crooks, who suffers from extreme loneliness because he is black and he is living in a ranch and the surrounding area which is very racist.
Their way of living should not be respected, but it is true that each of them is somehow struggling with their lives The antagonist and narrator of the story, Jake Barnes, experienced World War I as a soldier. During the war, a number of people were wounded and lost their morality on the battlefields. Jake is one of them who is suffering from the trauma from the war. Jake has an injury from the war and as a result, he is unable to physically make a love to women. This disability left him psychologically and morally lost, and takes his masculinity away from him.
However, the people walked past him to see the menagerie and animal exhibits. Soon the audience and the circus management forgot about him. The Hunger Artist continued fasting until he lost count of the days. When the circus management wanted to clean out his cage, they found the Hunger Artist dying. His last words concerning his purpose of fasting were, “because I couldn’t find the food I liked.