However this was not enough to stop his greed from overwhelming him. In the beginning, he sets the setting of the story through his descriptive diction, he is in a store standing in front of a pie rack deciding on which flavor of pie to steal. He sarcastically states, “I nearly wept trying to decide.” He tries to forget the religious aspect, trying to block out any sense of good or anything that would make him have second thoughts before doing this. Soto tries to “[forget] the shadows of angels”. The pace before he steals the pie is very fast, making the reader wonder if Soto was caught or not.
He says “We were raging then, the way we stole and broke peoples windows”. Yunior says “I had another year to go in high school no promises elsewhere”, this shows us that he has no interest to advance himself in life. Later in the story when he takes his mother to the mall, he tells us the system him and Beto used to use to steal from stores, they would walk in with empty bags and come out loaded. He tells us how he used to steal 2-3 hundred dollars worth of goods each time. We see that Yunior didn’t work for his things, he would just steal them, and when he would buy things the money used was made selling drugs.
The street, in which he was standing, was deserted. The terrified storekeepers were watching through the doors of their stores. All of them had abandoned Clemens unwillingly, as soon as Eutychus and his thugs arrived. Suddenly the sacred car, which Clemens was accustomed to petting, came out from the temple. It headed straight for Clemens.
After Cole robbed the gas station he started bragging about it at school. At first he thought he could get away it, but he was wrong because Peter Driscal reported him to the police officer which made his anger rise. “You’re a dead man” Cole warned Peter, after school Cole found peter in the parking lot. With all his anger he attacked Peter by punching his face with his bare fist (7). This example shows how Cole is violent with Peter.
Hope’s Boy The risk and protective factors in this story is, the time Hope left Andy in the room along when she went downstairs to have a drink. When she took him to the neighbor’s house to steal from a garden, Carol and Hope went in the house, but before that a dog started barking. The owner came out and told his dog to get them and the dog almost bit Andy on the leg. Another time occurred when she was stealing from the drugstore when Andy was with her and when they were eating out of the garbage. She also put him at risk when she had Louis living with her and she did not call the police when Louis physically abused Andy while Hope was at work.
Later he gets told by his bestfriend Banco that his manager has been stealing money from the register for awhile. After Mac hears that he goes and tells the owner of the restaurant Duncan about it and Duncan fires the manager. Mac becomes the next manager but this is still not enough. While walking home one night Mac runs into two stoners who take him to a third stoner that is an oracle. They tell him of a system that makes it so you don’t have to get out of your car to order, the drive-thru.
He took her on a trip and now he has to the bank back. Since his mom’s death, Lee has bean alone. All lee wants is someone to be long to. Since he is not getting that he’s been in a lot of trouble with the police “you’ve burned all your bridges” a police officer says to Lee when he brings him home after catching him during a gang initiation. Lee wants to become a member of the Tarantulas because”if you belonged you didn’t need to worry about anything... you always have a place to go, someone to turn to.
She told him that a certain amount is for him, and the other certain amount is for Beneathas education. No matter how much mama did not like the idea of him opening up the liquor store, she couldn’t see her own son in the condition he was in. Walter being caught up on his liquor store, he did not listen to what mama had told him, and gave all the insurance money to his partners for the liquor store. The following day, one of the partners came to his house and told Walter that the other partner had run away with all the
When the check came, and Mama put the money down on the house, he said to her bitterly, intending to cause as much pain as possible, “So you butchered up a dream of mine—you—who always talking ‘bout your children’s dreams...”(95) Yes, he was upset, but there’s a limit to what you can do and say before it turns intentional. He gave up on his dreams, much like Beneatha did later on, and because of that, he lost his conviction. He didn’t go to work for 3 days, instead took Willy Harris’ car and drove off places, and went to the Green Hat and got drunk, for three days. Almost lost his job, putting his family into deeper trouble than it already was. “Ain’t that a sad, ain’t that cryin’ sad,”(104) was his only comment.
One car had followed me while I walked all the way from the building to my car and the other two just appeared. I though the car which had followed me should have got the spot, but instead she was cut off by one of the two other cars. She then proceeded to roll down her window and yell an obscenity that her mother definitely would not approve of. In today’s society, swearing has become more prevalent than it was before, and out generation has become immune to the shock value of hearing swear words. In Rick Reilly’s 2006 article “Swearing Off Swearing” for Sports Illustrated, he uses ethos, pathos, and logos to attempt to convince the reader to literally swear off swearing.