* As an adult, Kane has a great deal of wealth and power but no emotional security, and this absence of security arrests his development and fuels his resentment of authority. * Kane’s Guardian * Even though Thatcher gave Kane everything he wanted during his childhood, Kane never forgives him for taking him away from home. * A big reason Kane goes into the newspaper business is to harass Thatcher with front-page attacks on banking trusts Jedediah and Kane * Jedediah Leland and Charles Kane were good friends that met in college * As their relationship continued, they were both excited to be starting the paper together. But as Jedediah saw what Kane’s corrupted ethic of business was turning into, their relationship started to digress to the point where Leland made a transfer to Chicago. * Kane fires Leland without hesitation.
Some people would stop at nothing to get money. Such as the Duke and King and Pap. Unfortunately, with Huck having over six thousand dollars, Pap does stop at nothing to get the money. He literally works himself to death trying to obtain it. In the beginning we learn that Huck sells his six thousand dollar fortune to Judge Thatcher for one dollar to make sure his father will never get it.
When the day comes to sell the horse, Jem wanted to surprise his mother with the money, but then he realized someone stole all the money that he had saved up. The town finds out who stole the money because a man that Jem sold rocks for gave him a “lucky penny” and that man’s wife ended up finding it with the boys who stole all Jem’s money. Lawrence is found with pockets full of money and he tells the town who the other boy was with him. Lazy Lawrence teaches children important life lessons that will help them in the future. The story shows that if children want to get something accomplished, they need to go out and do something about it, they should stay motivated and never give up, and they should keep their head up even in the worst situations.
Dumped off by his mother, Mae, in the middle of nowhere with two crazy old men and the promise that she’ll come back for him, Walter doesn’t know what to believe in. Eccentric and gruff, Hub and Garth McCaan are rumored to have been bank robbers, mafia hit men and/or war criminals in their younger days. The truth is elusive, although they do seem to have an endless supply of cash. But Walter begins to see a new side to his great uncles when he stumbles on an old photograph of a beautiful woman hidden away in a trunk and asks Garth who she
Often their clients are too poor to pay legal fees, but Schlichtmann's firm eats the legal costs itself, hoping for a rich slice of an eventual settlement. Essentially, he's gambling with the firm's money every time he accepts a case. That's why he turns down the delegation of parents who tell about the deaths of their children: He doesn't see enough money in it to justify the risk. (The movie has a hard-boiled discussion of how much various victims are "worth." A white male professional struck down in his prime gives the biggest payoff; a dead child is worth the least of all.)
XXX. The Gold Saves the Thieves (pg 205) The King says that there is a blue cross on the dead man’s chest whereas Harvey Wilks says that there are the words “P-B-W” so everyone goes along and brings the coffin up to inspect the corpse and finds the gold that Huck has hidden (202). That spares the King and Duke’s lives as well as Huck’s own and nobody guess that Huck is ever suspicious yet. XXXI. You Can’t Pray a Lie (pg 209) The King and Duke become desperate after fruitless attempts to earn a living so they sold Jim for forty dollars.
Minor characters Christopher Unwin Christopher Unwin was the only surviving son of a wealthy mining family. Christopher is a character who became a victim of Josiah Bont’s Greed as Josiah attempted to pre-bury him in order to steal Christopher’s valuable belongings. But unfortunately for Josiah he was too lazy and greedy to make sure that Christopher was actually fully covered in his grave, so he awoke from his grave and went preaching to the townspeople accusing Josiah of being a “spawn of Satan” for what he had done. Because of Christopher waking and warning everyone about how desperate Josiah had gotten for valuables the townspeople had nailed Josiah on top of a mountain and left him there. Quotes * “Your father tried to kill me in my sleep this night.” (p199) * “That spawn of Satan had laid me there.” (p199) * “Lucky for me, in his laziness and lust to be at my possessions” (p200) * “I had to scramble like a mole to get free.” (p200) Jane Martin Jane Martin was a young Puritan girl who minds Anna’s children when she is at work.
When Charlie asks what a half-caste is, Wes gives him books. Many about times of slavery in America. He is trying to teach Charlie tolerance in a town that is narrow-minded. As a result of these familial relationships, Charlie thinks that his parents would assume he’d been kidnapped when he had in reality snuck out with Jasper Jones because this is “probably (his) only ever transgression”. ( Pg 10) Jasper Jones does not have the protection Charlie has been afforded.
His past is filled with illegal activity and cheating, and there is nothing he can do to erase it. He tries of course, by saying he “came into a good deal of money” when his family from “San Francisco” in the “Middle West” died (65). But Nick instantly sees right through this, as San Francisco is obviously not in the Middle West. Later, Tom, after some research, exposes this to Daisy to show her the kind of man Gatsby actually is. After finding out the truth about Gatsby’s past, Daisy is convinced to end things with Gatsby, ultimately shattering his life dream with her and leaving him with nothing but stolen money and a corrupted
Either she was too weak to figure out her situation, or a lifetime of having everything handed to her made her simply not want to. Tom and Daisy left the very next day. And through how a stressed Daisy ran over Tom's mistress, Myrtle, causing her husband, George Wilson, to shoot Gatsby out of grief and confusion, it caused his death too. It still wouldn't have mattered if he hadn't died-Daisy and Tom still would've left. His dream of reliving the past was all he really had.