Dill’s imagination is wild as well. He tells enormous lies and conducts unlikely stories; he often tries to be some thing he isn’t. “ Having been bound in chains and left to die in the basement by his new father, who disliked him, and secretly kept alive on raw field peas by a passing farmer who heard his cries for help, Dill worked himself free by pulling the chains from the wall. Still in wrist manacles, he wandered two miles out of Meridian where he discovered a small animal show and was immediately engaged to wash the camel. He traveled with the show all over Mississippi until his infallible sense of direction told him he was in Abbott County, Alabama, just across the river from Maycomb.
“Someone had challenged their god, humiliated him” (42) Hassan points the slingshot towards Assef, and it is very significant. Assef is frightened, but more importantly, a Hazara is standing up for himself, not a Pashtun. 7. “I never slept the night before the tournament. I'd roll from side to side, make shadow animals on the wall, even sit on the balcony in the dark, a blanket wrapped around me.” (49) Amir’s insomnia is significant throughout the novel.
My Antonia In the novel My Antonia, the author, Willa Cather, uses “the road” as a symbol to contrast the successful American dreams of Jim and Antonia with the unsuccessful dream of Mr. Shimerda ultimately showing that the American dream is not achievable by all. At the beginning of the novel, Jim came to Black Hawk as an orphan to live with his grandparents after the recent death of his parents. After getting off the train, Jim must take a long caravan ride through the dark open plains to reach his grandparents house. As Jim looked at the openness of the land, Jim realized the road symbolized the beginning of his new journey, “I had left their spirits behind me. The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not whither.” (8) Jim understands that there is no way to get his
“Mama: What you been doing for these three days, son?” (105) Walter replied by telling her he spent his work time just driving, roaming the streets of their small are, and drinking at the Green Hat. (105) Also, after Walter was finally given another chance to prove himself a man, he disobeyed his mother. Lena told him that he could have a share of the money, if he put a small some into a safe bank account for his sister Beneatha. (106) Instead of doing so, Walter poured every single cent of the money into the hands of another man. Karma came back to bite him for his Selfish actions.
One particular Saturday night Jim decides to go to town and is meets his local farmer who tells him he found a slaughtered calf's remains with Jim's brand upon the hide. Jims starts worrying about his herd so he goes to check it out. After he sees everything is all good, he goes back home but finds another horse tethered in his barn. He immediately grabs his gun and sneaks in the house but finds Jelka in bed with one of her cousins. In a rage, Jim shoots Jelka' cousin in the head and runs out of the room and rides away into the night.
With the enormous amount of stolen money, he and his family were able to go back home. “We go back to the land- tomorrow we go back to the land” (Buck 147)! Wang Lung and his family returned home to the land, but it was not as grand as he expected it to be. He arrived home with loads of money, but he still was bitter and longed for something more. He never could find what he was looking for and was angry with much of the silver he gave away.
He had partaken in seventy-seven lotteries and is a loyal activist for keeping things precisely the way they are. When he hears that the north village is thinking about giving up the lottery, he responds “Packs of crazy fools… Listening to the young folks, nothing’s ever good enough for them. Next thing you know, they’ll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live that way for a while. Used to be a saying about ‘Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.’ First thing you know, we’d all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There’s always been a lottery” (1217).
Case Study: Robert Hansen History and the Crime Robert Hansen was born February 15, 1939 in Estherville, Iowa. He grew up as an antisocial child due to bad acne and a stuttering problem which led him to have few friends . His father was very strict and forced him to work many hours at the bakery which he owned. He was a small, straggly child and although he was left-handed, his father forced him to be right handed, contributing even more to his stuttering problem because of the increased frustration. After graduating high school he enlisted in the Army Reserves and after basic training he worked mostly in his father’s bakery.
The dust bowl is a piece of land with sharecroppers. In chapter two Tom Joad is now out of prison then he got a ride from a trucker, the trucker asked Tom questions but he told the least amount of detail. He just said that he was going to the land of a sharecropper his dad. The driver said that they were “going fast” because there has been some accidents with tractors and several dust storms. Then the trucker talks
" Lost self, Dakota has lost part of himself; he has lost Bill. Bill and Dakota just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time " It was 2001 at 9:52 am. “The twin towers have been hit” says Dakota; as his mom is crying “Bill! Oh my God, Bill!”.... As the twin towers are falling Bill is racing down a hallway even as it is tilting down from the plane crashing, ominously on his floor. Luckily the door to the other part of the hall way is open; he jumps and grabs the handle almost a second too late!