The narrator in ATTH, killed because he claimed the old man’s eyes resembled that of a vulture’s and that he felt uncomfortable because he also claimed that whenever they fell on him, his “blood ran cold”. Though the motive was not because of hatred or wealth; “I loved the old man…For his gold I had no desire”, it was more than just his eyes that the narrator despised. He could have used a quicker method of killing, instead of haunting the old man for eight days, and enlisting fear into him till his last breath. “I knew that that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise…His fears had been ever since growing upon him.” The protagonist in each literature share the same selfish and irrational characteristics; to take away a good leader from it’s people and replace it with a dictator is a selfish and irrational act. Taking away someone else’s life
To show him he can’t keep being a bully. When Frank finds out that Kenny shooting that dog was only taking orders, he let Tub know that he basically shot his own friend for no reason. So the consequence of Kenny’s bullying? Tub shoots him in his stomach. Due to their where bout’s it takes them on a long road trip to find a hospital because they couldn’t get an ambulance out that far in the country and all was occupied.
‘Harrison’ Jim’s boss is furious when he finds out and causes Jessica to run away. When Jessica goes missing Jim is already out in the highlands and he finds her horse alone and Jessica is nowhere in sight. He searches for her everywhere and eventually hears her calls of distress from over the edge of a cliff. He rescues her and they share a kiss. After returning to the farm they find that Jim would be the only one who could find the missing colt.
On page 237 paragraph three “Had you gone for a Sunday afternoon ride that day you might have seen him, close to naked, standing on the shoulders of Route 424, waiting for a change to cross.” This kind of reminds me of passing of time because he is waiting. Also another example is when in the beginning it’s a hot summer day and towards the middle there is leaves on the ground. Also page 237
Rip would go to the town's inn and sit with his friends and discuss past issues in old newspapers. He was an overall laid-back man and "If left to himself, he would have whistled life away, in perfect contentment" (Irving 939). The one thing keeping him from doing so, letting his life drift away, was his wife constantly complaining about his idleness and laziness. One day, Rip Van Winkle went out hunting to get away from his wife and labours of the farm. He walked along to the Kaatskill mountains with Wolf where he heard his named called repeatedly.
Hudson River Valley Painters Summary of Hudson River Valley Painters: The Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. The Catskill Mountain House, the country’s first mountain resort, opened it 1824. That year, admiring crowds gathered along the Hudson River to watch the painters. Summer retreats appeared up and down the Hudson River which attracted tourists and travelers anxious to see the beauty, wealth, and excitement. Thomas Cole, a painter who founded of the Hudson River School, traveled to the Catskills in search of scenic views.
Page 45 says that “Candy looked for help from face to face” But he finds none, he is exploited and his dog is killed due to a lack of a cooperative society. George offers to play Euchre just as Carlson takes the dog out, changing his solitaire into a now competitive game. This could symbolize the change in the group as the other ranchers move into the bunkhouse. This scene shows the negative outcome of the competitive society that all the ranchers live
The father was mad at his wife for what she had done, so he saw it as his wife threw their sweet little girl to the wolves. Was this really what happened? Well the husband actually never knew what happened, he just assumed the worst. Since the husband kept repeating this story over and over the son only could picture “Aanakwad swing the girl lightly over
Thomas runs away from the Mission School and returns to his mountain home. When he arrives he expects to find his brother the bear and the rest of his animal family, but instead he finds a “charred circle” (70) where his lodge used to be. Tom then “…stood among the ashes and whispered the sorrow chant…For small griefs you shout, but for the big griefs you whisper or say nothing. The big griefs must be borne alone, inside” (70.) He knows that it was Blue Elk who did it because there is not one item of worth left behind, not even the knife Tom’s mother gave him.
Nat Swanson is an outlaw who is not just self-sufficient in many areas of desert survival, but also prefers to be alone, except with a Indian dog that follows him around; a personality which resulted from the decision he made when he was fourteen to work only for himself, after the slaughter of his entire family when he was only eight. We first learn of his initial tendency to isolate himself from others at the beginning of book, where he happens upon the upturned wagons of the ambush survivors. This is when he sees the face of a woman peering out from beneath the wagons, but chooses not to rescue her and resumes his journey to California on horseback. The following night he has nightmares induced by memories of the face, as indicated in the passage, “Swanson knew he had been dreaming… he knew it had something to do with the woman at the wagons.” As a