This made everyone in town think that she simply didn’t feel any remorse for her son’s death. When she actually did feel sorrow, loss, and remorse, she just didn’t want to show it. The question here is: Why doesn’t Hagar want anyone to know how she really feels? The answer is that this is her way of protecting herself. She made an emotional wall in fear of getting hurt.
The next day, the nurse who had summoned Wiesenthal the day before told him Karl had died. In 1946, having survived the war, Wiesenthal decides to find Karl’s mother in Stuttgart. Widowed, grieving and alone, she tells Wiesenthal her son was a “good boy.” Wiesenthal says nothing of the murderer her son became, knowing she would not have believed him. Then Wiesenthal, at the conclusion of his story, asks the reader to imagine themselves in his place and ask, “What would I have done?” Fifty-three well-known men and women, from all walks of life, respond. To Wiesenthal’s question, the writer, Yossi Klein Halevi, believes Wiesenthal did the right thing by not telling Karl’s mother the truth about her son.
By changing the main focus of her paper and making over-generalizations about the way that all women feel, Bennetts takes away from the effectiveness of her argument and weakens her overall credibility. Bennetts starts her article by sympathizing with the struggle women go through while transitioning from working-woman to housewife. She blames the “corporate culture” for not being flexible enough to allow mothers to balance their responsibilities at work with their responsibilities at home (Bennetts 419). Bennetts then goes on to explain the resentment women begin to feel for having to give up their careers to be a homemaker. They begin to harbor anger towards their husbands who “still view child care and household chores as women’s work” (Bennetts 419).
The Other Side of the Rainbow Sophie Johnson is the neighborhood’s head mom and chief bitch. My entire middle school staff is in the habit of disappearing whenever she has an appointment and I even had a secretary once who called in sick on the days of Sophie’s scheduled visits. When I fired her she unrepentantly informed me that her job description didn’t include sucking up to a know-it-all, ex-Homecoming Queen with a Napoleon complex. Since I couldn’t argue with her logic, I wrote her a glowing recommendation but had to let her go just the same. Sophie has a furious tick in her left eye when she gets angry that slows down or speeds up to match the level of her outrage – it’s a dead giveaway.
Eric admits that he was responsible for getting her pregnant and had offered £50.00 from his dad’s office but that she had refused and told Eric that she did not want to see him again. Eventually when it becomes known that the inspector is a fraud, the Birlings are forced to look at their actions and treatment of Eva Smith/Daisy Renton. The younger Birlings are able to accept that their actions may have had bad consequences with Shiela acknowledging that there are more Eva Smiths/Daisy Rentons out there whereas the older Birlings are in denial of any responsibility or wrongdoing with Mr Birling excusing his behaviour on the grounds that there was no real inspector therefore no real harm had been done which leads Sheila to say to her father and mother that “it’s you two who are being childish, trying not to face the facts”. “An Inspector Calls” by J.B.Priestley is a great play with a very strong moral message running through it. The play conveys the notion of responsibility within society to the reader very clearly through demonstrating actions and
Antigone's downfall is the result of her own doing. She refuses to listen to Creon because she is Polynesis' brother and wants him to be buried and suffers the consequences of disobeying the king. Antigone's death is not deserved for the crime she did. Creon sentenced her to death because he was threatened for his thrown. The readers are saddened because Antigone should not have died and she should be the queen of the kingdom instead of Creon.
His fame, his position, his life will be in my hands. Beware!” By saying this he is telling Hester to not say he is her husband and not say who is the man she had her kid with, he says there will be consequences so she should beware of what she says. Chillingworth is being self-centered here because he is Hester’s husband, he should not be telling her to keep a secret that they are married just because he is ashamed of how his reputation will be affected if people figure out he is her husband and she cheated on him with another man. By: Ashley Humm
Priestley shows that they don’t care about what they have done when Mrs Birling says “And in spite of what has happened to the girl since, I consider I did my duty.” This shows that she doesn’t think she needs to responsibility for the part she played in Eva Smith’s death. However, when they fear there will be a public scandal they say “But surely…I mean…it’s ridiculous.” Mrs Birling thinks about what she has said and when she works out that it was Eric that got Eva Smith pregnant she tries to take back what she has said and convince the Inspector she was wrong. This conveys a dislike towards the Birling family because even when it is about a girl who has killed herself Mr and Mrs Birling are more concerned in looking out for themselves instead of helping in the
Joey's death lead her to pursue the cause of his death, because of this both Edie and Terry met. Edie's naivety didn't know any better that Terry was a member of the mob and she trusted him. However Terry didn't want to tell the truth which could've hurt her, emotionally and physically. As the film progressed, Edie wants to run away with Terry and forget about everything happening. Terry on the other hand, wants to seek justice for his brother's and everyone who was killed by the mob's death.
In the story you almost feel bad for her because her parents really do not take her side, but then find out she is a huge drama queen. She tries to get you to be on her side by making you feel sorry for her when in fact she is a jealous person towards everyone. She is really jealous of her sister and judges her sister for all of her mistakes.” The passage above supports my thesis due to the fact that Laura Lukes believes that due to Sisters selfishness she is unable to connect with you her family. Instead of Sister embracing her sister’s homecoming she tries to cause trouble. “And I said to Stella-Rondo, ‘I think I would do well not to criticize so freely if I were you and came home with a two-year-old child I had never said a word about, and no explanation whatever about my separation.’” The way