Alicia Rumbaugh Hurt Locker The film starts with a statement: war is a drug. As Sgt. James keeps bits of deconstructed bombs under his bed, we see that he cannot give it up. After a short visit home, he returns for another deployment. When pressed about his marriage by his soldier buddy, he cannot speak or explain his emotions.
When Willy arrives, he refuses to listen to Biff, which angers him. Happy tries to get Biff to lie to his father, which Biff slightly does. Willy falls into another flashback hallucination, one in which his son discovers his affair with a potential customer in Boston. From that moment on, Biff had never looked at his father the same. Back in the Lowman residence, Linda scolds her sons for abandoning her father back at the restaurant.
At first it tricks you into believing he is a hero but he goes down a crooked path. During the movie Jean steps on a runaway coin of a young chimney sweeper and the little boy thinks he is helping him by stepping on his coin to keep it from rolling away but Jean pretends to not know the coin existed so that he can keep it. This shows the greedy side of Jean and the way he steals. Jean Valiean changes towards the end of the movie when an impersonator of himself is about to be sentenced to death and Jean sees that the man is innocent and confesses that he is the real Jean Valiean. He had promised this dying woman that he would bring her daughter to see her, but she ended up dying and he seeks this girl out and takes care of her.
This is apparently a problem to them, for the boy had no desires, given his incurable mental illness, “Mad-made objects…could be found in his abstract world.” The couple finally picked a basket with jellies for their son. This makes the reader deeply sympathise the boy’s plight, for a “young man” like him would usually have no interests in jellies which are a suitable present for children. It reflects what his sickness has reduced him to – a teen with intelligence of a child. The boy repeatedly contemplates suicide, and has had yet another failed attempt to do so, and the couple is unable to see him, for fear that “a visit might disturb him”. The couple is revealed to be at a rather old age, “At the time of his birth…now they were quite old.” Their son’s illness has put a huge financial burden on the little family – the father used to be a successful businessman, but is now “wholly dependent on his brother Isaac”.
The teacher then gives him a detention until half past two. He starts to feel anxious and confused because he hasn’t learnt time yet. ‘First Day at School’ is about a young child that on their first day at school. He starts to get worried and confused because of not being at his safe home. He misunderstands many things like he thinks classrooms are glassrooms and he thinks lessons are called lessins which he thinks are small and slimy creatures.
He never knew his father so he doesn’t have a good sense of his own identity, he makes poor decisions in raising his son’s by instilling a false sense of what it takes to be successful, and allows them to steal and cheat. Willy’s father left when he was a baby and he only has one memory of his dad, “All I remember is a man with a big beard, and I was in mamma’s lap, sitting around a fire, and some kind of high music” (Miller 1232). After his older brother Ben leaves shortly thereafter to search for their father, it is assumed that Willy doesn’t have a male figure in his life during his upbringing to teach him the things that a father would teach a son, such as morals, and a sense of values, possibly helping him form a sense of identity. Because of this Willy feels a tremendous sense of loss. Willy confesses his sense of loss over his father’s abandonment to Ben.
It is at this time a year since Toby died, so the letter was delivered very late. When he finally gets the courage he is interrupted because his mother comes home, and therefore he can't open the letter. This also indicates a tense and confused atmosphere. Also later when he tries reading the letter again his father interrupts him. Martin’s relationship to his father is also a little tense; they don’t seem to get along that well.
The first thing that arose was the older man wearing “pajamas”. Bruno thought he was just too lazy to change into work clothes, but what he didn’t realize was that the older man was a concentration worker. (Herman, 15:02) He was even helped by this older man after a little accident with the tire swing. His mother was still determined
During this meeting, they discussed Holden’s academic failure and his unwillingness to conform to society and apply himself to his studies. Antolini has a paternal attitude towards Holden. He seems genuinely concerned about the boy and tries to help him realise that his irresponsible behaviour is spiralling out of control. He tells him he is headed for a fall and “the man falling isn’t permitted to feel or hear himself hit the bottom.”(Chapter 24, The Catcher in the Rye) He offers advice: “The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” (Chapter 24, The Catcher in the Rye) The visit is relaxed and friendly. He doesn’t question Holden too much.
He doesn’t want to take this risk but somehow he changes. After a short period of time, Sam doesn’t wear make-up. However he wanted money to buy drugs and took the risk to earn that money and ended up prostituting himself to earn $300. George flushed Sam’s drugs down the toilet and after a conversation where his father told him that Sam was not the only one who had gone through a difficult experience. It was at this time that George told Sam about his drunken father.