It looks like they should kill their enemy, but at the beginning of two stories they didn’t because both barber and the narrator have justice in their heart. “Gregory” is a story about loyalty, friendship and irony. When the narrator’s execution is ordered the guerrilla's must choose between their friend and their loyalty to their country. However, the narrator has to obey the order to kill him. In “Just lather, that’s all”, the barber has a lot of chance to kill Captain Torres but he didn’t.
His dog’s death is especially mirrored in Lennie’s death, because they are both killed to avoid a worse end. Lennie would have starved to death, or been lynched by Curley were he not shot, and Candy’s dog would have died slowly and painfully due to old age. Also, Candy’s statement after his dog’s death influences later events. “I ought to have shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to let no stranger shoot my dog” (p 60).
Edgar Espana Kara Lybarger-Monson English MO1B February 29, 2012 Questioning Ones Power In T.C. Boyle’s novel When the Killings Done, Dave LaJoy the so-called animal lover and animal rights activist, who by the way hates humans, faces-off with Alma Boyd Takesue, the real animal lover that is trying to restore “Eden” to the way it was before being infested by rats and feral pigs. Both Alma and Dave are interested in animal rights but have different ways in doing so, Alma even though she’d rather not kill anything has to eliminate animals from Eden because she is dedicated to preserving the species unique to Eden’s environment and Dave, on the other hand, is on a determined mission to “save animals” even though the way he goes
Ellie again questions herself and her actions when she blows up a lawnmower to save her friends. She battles with her decision and believes she is a murderer. Although the choices she makes may deliver pain and trauma to others, her human spirit shines through the chaos to help her succeed. Through the characters in ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’, Marsden shows the human spirit’s ability to grow and triumph. Ellie’s decisive ability and her morals are thrown into chaos when she arrives at the family house and finds her dogs dead.
The story continues to reveal just how much things have changed since she was young and why she so desperately craves change as well, Evelines thoughts reveal that, “She and her brothers and sisters were all grown up her mother was dead. Tizzie Dunn was dead, too, and the Waters had gone back to England. Everything changes. Now she was going to go away like the others, to leave her home”(201). The author tells us more about Evelines life and it reveals why she wants things to change so badly.
At that mental age, they would not have been able to handle reality. One may say that it is sinful to end a life in general, however what George did was a truly good action by sending Lennie to a better place instead of receiving torture from Curley, a very abusive and cruel man to Lennie. A good example that is similar to this is when Candy had to make the decision to end the life of his dog. Many workers disliked Candy’s dog because it was elderly and smelled horrendous, therefore wanted it dead. Like George, Candy only wanted his dog dead to prevent it from enduring the suffering that they both face from oppressors.
While Beowulf is talking to Hrothgar about Grendel, Beowulf says: “Fate will unwind as it must” (286). Christians do not belief in fate, they believed that God as chosen a path for them. Revenge is another Pagan belief which is expressed by Grendel’s mom like this: “Grendel’s mother, a monster, goes to Herot / and kills Hrothgar’s closest friend to avenge her son’s death /. When Beowulf heard about this, he ran into / the black sea after the deadly monster” (Intro pg.56). The last example I am going to give about Pagan values is loyalty.
Another is how Fujimoto, Ponyo’s father, hates all humans because of the bad effects to the ecosystem that they cause. Fujimoto once was human sacrificed it all to serve the sea. For example when he states,”I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.” (Thoreau, lines 46-47). Even though Ponyo’s father loathes humanity, she has so much love for both humanity and nature that instead of bringing humanity down, she wants nature to come up alongside it. Fujimoto is the advocate for the idea that humans – society, corrupts people.
Tommy Ford November 4, 2013 Period 1 We Are Not Who we Seem In society women are usually seen as fragile and delightful , but that is not always the case. The short stories “The Landlady” and “Lamb to the Slaughter”, written by Roald Dahl , in the Landlady, we read about a woman who murders young men and stuffs them to preserve their bodies and keep them as her permanent guest. In the story “Lamb to the Slaughter” we learn that Mary Maloney kills her husband because he promised to leave her.They show us the importance of appearance versus reality, as they show how things can often be different to how they seem,and that we can be easily deceived if we are too reliant on looks. In both of the short stories we see how the two women / antagonist Mary Maloney and The Landlady share similar traits,yet are different because they have different motivations for what they did. One major similarity between these two characters was their ability to gain a sense of trust with the male characters and the audience through positive impressions.Mary Maloney is portrayed as the compliant and perfect housewife.
The death penalty is used in a number of countries like China (PRC), Iraq, Israel, Japan, North Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, United Arab Emirates and the United States. The I think that the death penalty is not effective because you could mistake an innocent person for a criminal. This would mean that the person would die for something he/she he never did and then when they figure out that they got the wrong person they try to compensate their family. This is very wrong because it they are taking the life of an innocent man/woman and paying back their families as if they are animals. I think that this could be the same as a person who kills a farmer’s cow and then pays the farmer for it.