Then her father takes the money she needs to use to get a real abortion in order to buy himself a new set of teeth. The town doctor explains that Cash’s leg was hopelessly destroyed by the cement cast, which his father did by the way... Vardaman realizes he’s poor because he can’t have toys like the other kids. Darl is shipped off to an insane asylum when he is suspected of the burning of the Gillespie farm. Anse borrows shovels to bury Addie’s body and flirts
Example of analytical essay, Third main idea After Andy had killed the doe, she felt so shocked that she said: “I felt the recoil, I smelled the smoke, but I don’t remember pulling the trigger” (David M., 131) and guilty because the doe never had the chance to fight back. In the woods, after killing the doe she just ran away to not feel guilty by shooting the doe, however the men where so happy and the dad said: “I told you that she was a great little shot” (David M., 132), to the other guys. Long afterward, in her deep sleep, she was facing the doe face to face, and the doe invited her to come closer, and so she did a entered her hand in the wound of the doe filing his heart and some kind of pain given by the hot beating heart of the doe, she felt that the doe was there and still alive so she said: “Alive, Alive” being marveled (David M., 134), then when she woke up she could still smell blood nearby her without the same agony that she had ,she just had her first period in the process of becoming a woman, she said: “I will hide it in my jacket pocket, so nobody can see” (David M., 134),feeling ashamed, then she knew that the hunting trip was over as the men looked and found the doe, so she decided to run and not watch how they prepared the doe for the way back home, the men decided to call her saying: “Andy, Andy” (David M., 135),very, very loud ,but that was no longer her name because she was already a woman. After she had become into a woman she felt like everything was different from her old ways, she felt the call of her mother in the green ocean, floating calling Andrea saying: “Come in, come in” (David M., 135), she felt like there was nothing left to do, she just waited for the mocking of the terrible, now inevitable,
He gives her a mission and tells her that if she succeeds, she will officially be a striker. West goes to the alt’s house and waits. She finally sees the other girl on the street and throws a knife at her which kills her. She panics and runs away, leaving the corps to lay there. She decides to tell herself that with each strike, she won’t be killing someone as much as she’ll be letting someone else live.
Percy resorts to a rock loaded snowball to make the final blow on Dunstan, but when Dunstan gets out of the way, the pregnant Mrs. Dempster and her husband Amasa are walking by, and Mary gets hit in the head. She is forced into premature labor, and begins her decline to insanity. As a young boy, Dunstan is especially affected by the snowball incident because he is naïve and takes it upon himself to feel guilty about Mrs. Dempster’s premature labor since Percy apparently does not feel guilty about it. Dunny says that he was “alone in [his] guilt, and it tortured [him].”At one point, Dunny consciously faces the fact that the reason he is so guilty is because Percy refuses to accept responsibility: “His brazen-faced refusal to accept responsibility seemed to deepen my own guilt which had now become the guilt of concealment as well as action.” Dunny says here that he feels guilty for not telling anyone who hit Mrs. Dempster, and also because he was directly and actively involved in the incident whether he had ill intentions or not. Dunny says: “I was contrite and guilty, for I knew the snowball had been meant for me, but the Dempsters did not seem to think that.” He is reflecting on the fact that even though nobody else thought it was his fault,
After Candy has brought George to the barn to show him Curley’s wife, George leaves and Candy cries. What is the true source of Candy’s sadness and why? Compare the killing of Curley’s wife to the night Candy’s old dog was shot and killed by Carlson. 2. Death is the beginning and the culminating event in the chapter, but the killing of Curley’s wife is regarded with a lack of emotion by the characters, even less than the killing of the puppy or the shooting of Candy’s dog earlier in the book.
Ruthie, who is the youngest daughter of the Joad family told one of the girls in the cam that her brother (Tom) has killed two men and his currently hiding near. After Ma Joad finds this out she tells Tom to really leave, because she is fearful for the rest of the family and is scared that they are in danger. Tom then leaves to do the same that that Jim was doing which was gathering migrant workers. There was word out that there wouldn't be a job open for anybody, because cotton season was finishing up. The land becomes flooded from the rain that was set in and Rose of Sharon has her baby, they all go to a dry barn for safety from the
After being in an accident, the family sets along a ditch, shaken up from the wreck when The Misfit and his accomplices arrive offering assistance. The grandmother tells The Misfit that she knows he is a good man, and comes from nice people. She loses all her moral value by trying to persuade The Misfit to spare her life even after he orders Bobby Lee and Hiram to take her family’s lives. The grandmother does not stand her ground towards the escaped inmate by offering him all the money she has on her, and by saying “You wouldn’t shoot a lady, would you?” Even when she states that Jesus may have not raised the dead. The grandmother is obviously Christian and begins to pray when she learns that The Misfit may take her life.
The women use their emotions in order to figure out that Mrs. Wright did commit the murder. By the end of the play they decide to protect her because they seemed to relate to the abuse she endured in the household. The murder was justifiable because during this time period there was no such thing as divorce. Mrs. Wright was dying slowly because of her husband, and the only way to escape was to kill him the same way he killed her bird through strangulation. Mrs. Wright’s situation is comparable to a prisoner who is condemned to incarceration for life with no parole when they have never committed a crime.
Nancy Smith Jacquelyne Kibler Eng 091 June 20th, 2013 A Good Man Is Hard to Find “‘She would of been a good woman,’ The Misfit said, ‘if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.’ ” (O'Connor 29) The Good Man is Hard to Find is a tragic story of a family who decided to go on a vacation, but got killed randomly on the road by a serial killer on the loose named “The Misfit”. The main character of the story is a grandmother. At first she seems to be the typical grandmother who still thinks that her son is a little boy and he has to do what she wants, although he is a grown up man. She wants to be right all the time and she acts as if she knows everything. Flannery O’Conner portrayed the unnamed grandmother in “A
I hope not anyway. It wouldn’t be very good for my job.” Which establishes that Patrick only cares about his reputation and his job, he doesn’t care about his wife at all, he leaves her with money and that’s the last of him. However, Mary can also be seen as an Antagonist, without resisting she hit her husband with a leg of lamb killing him instantly. Mrs. Maloney may have loved her husband but she clearly wanted him dead after the disturbing news that had just