He states how “All that day he traveled, laying his course by the rounding sun.” (7). Thus making it seem like he has been traveling for such a long time but the ending contradicts this by stating, “Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge” (8). This is the ultimate shocker as it was portrayed the Peyton has been traveling but to the reader’s despair he hasn’t even escaped his fate of being hung. Thus making it seem like since Peyton couldn’t handle all the distress around him that he fabricates a long story but is cut short by his untimely
After Dimmesdale left the forest he felt like he could carry the whole world, he had more energy than he had had in years because he was finally going to get his sin off his back into the open. Although, before they could leave Dimmesdale got to weak so once again he climbed up the steps of the scaffold but this time it was day time and he told the whole town what he did and then he died right there in Hester's arms. So laterally, keeping his sin and guilt from the town and him being the pastor and teaching not to sin made him to weak to live so it practically killed
“At one point, I remember, we paused over a picture of Ted Lavender, and after a while Jimmy rubbed his eyes and said he’d never forgiven himself for Lavender’s death. It was something that would never go away, he said quietly, and I nodded and told him I felt the same about certain things” (Obrien 27). Another theme is fear of shame as motivation. Tim O’Brien experiences this himself when he is on the boat with Elroy. He decides to go to war because he is ashamed of running from it.
Back to The Mighty, Kevin and Max realized that they had something in common. They were outcasts and were always being bullied because they were “freaks”, but they were proud. Also, they were both abandoned by their fathers at a young age. When Kevin died because of his illness, Max became very sad, but later on, he wrote his own book and realized that their relationship still exists, because he ended his book drawing a picture of a grave at the bottom of the lake, and on the grave, it said “Here lies King Arthur, Once and Future King”, and that King Arthur story was a symbol of Kevin. That picture was also a symbol of Kevin because at the beginning of the movie, Kevin said, “Every word is part of a picture.
I herded sheep with him’” (44). The death of Candy’s dog serves not only as another tragedy in the already depressing life of the old man, but also as a reminder that his time is almost up just like his friend. When Carlson takes the mutt out back to be shot in the head, Candy begins to realize that he too will soon outlive his usefulness and be fired from his workplace. As an old man with only one hand and a limited number of days, finding work would seem like an impossible challenge. So when the opportunity to own a piece of land with Lennie and George comes up, Candy is thrilled.
Others said it was to relieve the tension, and others said it was to ward off a dawn raid. Whatever the reason the first hour of the soldier's day became known, as "The morning hate." It was ear deafening! Today a cloud as dark as death covered all of no man’s land and the body’s laying across the long deserted death ridden field was unrecognisable many soldiers have been put through so much pain maybe not physically but mentally I think of all the family’s whose sons, dads, or husbands have died and I count myself lucky to be writing this diary now! Every day of war is one to forget but you would think you could escape the extreme depression during the night when you’re
Even when Osborne is killed, the relationship between the two is still remembered as Raleigh misses his celebration meal and does not feel in the mood for eating. This is shown when Raleigh is arguing with Stanhope and says ‘Good God! Don’t you understand? How canI sit down and eat that – when – (his voice is nearly breaking) – when Osborne’s – lying – out there -.’ The stage directions give the audience the intense feeling Sheriff was trying to create of sorrow and anger. I believe Raleighs tone really shows how much Osborne meant to him in the few days he had known him.
Of Mice and Men was an awe inspiring book about a couple of men just trying to get by in the Great Depression. George and Lennie had known each other for a very long time and had grown to depend on each other. Throughout the book Lennie asked George to tell him about them, about they were going to get a place and live together; they never got to do that, as life would have, reality go in the way. The most controversial from this book was why George killed Lennie. It was the right thing to do for multiple reasons, the first being that Lennie was a danger to those around him as well as himself.
He referred to the creature a “catastrophe” (35). After obsessing on his creation for nearly two years, Victor was mortified with his creation, he said he had “desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that [he] had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled [his] heart(35).” The creature heard every word that yelled out, confused as to why his “father” did not want to be approached. When the creature reached out to Victor, Victor ran from the “demonical corpse to which [he] had so miserably given life to (36).” He ended up walking the streets of the town, abandoning the creature that he solely created. The second experience of human cruelty that the creature experienced was when he ventured into the village. After Victor stormed from the laboratory, the creature then left the apartment and walked deep into the woods.
I feel very sorry for him because he was unlucky that night and he got caught in an accident. He himself felt very ashamed and apologized the family members of the victims. He knew that he will be given jail till his life but when the final decision came it was 51 years of prison and thought he will behind the bars for the rest of his life. He was only 24 years old when he was jailed and his whole life was spoiled in just few seconds. I have compassion and forgiveness for him because his whole life was spoiled, because he was just 24 and he was given 51 years to life.