Up to this chapter Christopher’s story had began to fade out and It had hit a dead end. This chapter is more of a ‘get out jail free card’ than an actual planned chapter. We get to find more out about Christopher’s condition in this chapter too and how insecure and scared he is about meeting or talking to new people. When he first meets Mrs Alexander he tries to ignore here because he cant do ‘chat’ and describes it as ‘boring’. Like I said before, this chapter is mainly to bring the story back to life.
Like the devastating reality that Gatsby is unable to fit into daisy’s class, he is also hit with short coming of his new life due to lack of meaning. Gatsby as a little boy dreamed of making his life into something admirable. Mr.Gatz shows nick that Gatsby kept a book stating these things: “read one improving book or magazine per week.”(Fitzgerald, pg. 173) Gatz says, jimmy was bound to get ahead.”(Fitzgerald, pg.173). However in Gatsby’s adult reality he becomes a criminal to make his fortune, in hopes to win Daisy's affection.
At first it didn’t give the impression that it was an imperative scene to the understanding of the story because there was no background to her, she didn’t seem to have any significant value to the story until you read further. Anther scene I feel deserves the title of a climax is the death of Henry Lamartine Jr. The whole chapter conveys so much emotion, mostly of the relationship between Henry Jr. and his half brother Lyman Lamartine. After Henry’s experience in the war he was never the same person and was never happy. It wasn’t that he wanted to be like that it was that he was unable to find that happiness after being in so much hate.
The narrator had become scared for his life when Miguel placed the gun on the table. He saw his whole life pass right pass him, Tobias’s symbolism of the room is a literary symbol, because the significance of the room is only evident and is not widely known or accepted by society. “That room – once you enter it, you never really leave” (Wolff, Tobias). This quote shows that when you’re entering any room you do not know if you’re going to make it outside or not, and that how one specific event can affect and potentially change a person’s
The negative tone in this source Is the fact of how desperate the men actually were. It says that “these men remained still as the dead to avoid drawing fire till darkness should screen there escape” which shows just what the men had to do. They couldn’t move for hours on end otherwise they would have been
Grant tells Jefferson that he is more of a man that he could ever be, and that we all need him. In Jefferson diary he admits his thoughts. He talks about how it is difficult for him to sleep at night, because all he dreams about is going through the door of his execution. He confesses why he acted the way he did in the beginning to Grant, and Miss Emma, he says it was because no one ever told him that they loved him so he wasn’t sure how to do the same. He confesses that he cries a night because he is scared, and because Grant has been so good to him.
And the only thing that kept him going was his dad but the chance of getting separated from his dad was devastating for him. He was constantly hit with life and death situations throughout the whole year he spent going from camp to camp. Elie and his father had to lie about their age to even stay alive. “Here, Kid, how old are you?” “Eighteen” This helps keep him from being burned in the crematory. He was scared, felt lonely and wanted to do anything to stay alive.
He kept trying to make the urge to speak to her go away but it came back stronger than ever.” What preceding event has upset Tommy? Why was it significant for him?4. “It said, “Don’t do this anymore or you will suffer your whole life.” He puzzled over whether to sign it A Friend or Your Friend and finally chose Your Friend.” What is ‘It’? Why does he choose ‘Your Friend’ rather than ‘A Friend’?5. “You could never see the sky and the ocean because you were locked in a prison, except that nobody called it a prison, and if you did, nobody knew what you were talking about, or they said they didn’t”.
simply because he could not comprehend the character of Cass Mastern. For Jack Burden, “the world then was simply an accumulation of items, odds and ends of things like the broken and misused dust-shrouded things gathered in a garret” (284). Jack Burden could not grasp the truth of accepting the “cold-eyed reproach of the facts” that pointed towards Cass Mastern’s responsibility for the suffering of others (237). To Jack Burden at the time, “one thing had nothing to do, in the end, with anything else.” He felt that what had happened to those around Cass Mastern was by no means Cass Mastern’s fault; thus, he could not understand why Cass Mastern had died such a miserable, guilt-ridden death. Jack Burden stopped working on his dissertation and transitioned into the first occurrence of his “Great Sleep”
This scene greatly illustrates how deeply traumatized Huck was regarding his battered childhood with Pap that he would go so far as to give away everything he has if only it meant he could avoid any future contact with Pap. I suppose this was how Twain laid out the looming battles and adversities which Huck would face with Pap as his character grows and evolves. It was comforting to know that Huck no longer feared Pap when Pap appeared in his room that night. Rina Cheah ENG 222 Reading Response Journal #2 As the novel of Huckleberry Finn progressed, I find the