In “Charles” the stories tells of a boy who causes trouble in kindergarten and lies to his parents to avoid getting in trouble. In “The Open Window” the story tells of a girl who lies just for the amusement. When discussing similarities between “Charles” and “The Open Window”, you can bring up the fact about how both characters tell lies. In story “Charles”, the main character Laurie tells several lies throughout the story so his parents would not find out he was the troublemaker in kindergarten. For example, in the beginning of the selection, Laurie’s father asks, “Did you learn anything” (p.169) and Laurie responds by saying “I didn’t learn anything” (p.169).
It seams that Applegate is very hard to get along with; he even has a temper with the captain,’ Captain, why don’t you shut up?’. Applegate and space have something in common; they both had wounded him, physically and emotionally. It’s always hard to be honest, especially to an old enemy. The author has show the amount of struggle Applegate has to go through in order to apologise to Hollis. He does this by making Applegate repeat ‘guess’ over and over again.
When Cole is banished to the island, he is filled with a whirlpool of swirling rage. In the novel, Touching Spirit Bear, by Ben Mikaelsen, Cole Mathews is a misled young man, who has a knack for getting himself into trouble. Raised by his abusive father and alcoholic mother, Cole’s personality is built upon a foundation of anger and pain. All of these unaddressed emotions cause Cole to commit crimes and bully other kids. With nobody to tell him otherwise, Cole convinces himself that neither of his parents want him.
As the husband tries to tell his ex wife how he still feels about her, he becomes frustrated because he is limited by his new, slower functioning, brain. As time passes the man becomes more birdlike. His thoughts change swiftly between his wife and her lovers to the toys in his cage and flying away. Although the husband realizes that he should have talked to his wife of his feelings, and worries of her cheating while he was human, he never fully gets over his jealous tendencies. As he first dies while spying on a new man he suspects his wife is cheating upon him with, he fails to learn his lesson and continues to be jealous of every new man he sees her with.
Throughout Great Expectations, Pip is constantly feeling guilty of everything, even though he does not always deserve to feel this way. Pip’s older sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, causes Pip to have the feeling of guilt throughout his childhood and adulthood the most. As bad as it sounds, Mrs. Joe actually makes Pip feel guilty for being alive. Pip tells us this when he says, “I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends.”(Dickens 22) I don’t think that it is fair for Pip to feel guilt for living at such a young age. He doesn’t know any better and could possibly end up doing something really bad because of this feeling.
Christopher changes into a stronger person mentally throughout the book. He is first represented as a boy with Asperger Syndrome, who is very blunt and does not understand the rules of socialism. He reacts quickly to situations he doesn’t understand or like by folding himself up into a ball and groaning, he also hates skin-ship with others as it makes him feel uneasy. “If a strange man touched me I would hit him, and I can hit people very hard.” As the book progresses Christopher finds himself in unfamiliar situations that make him have to face his issues, such as talking to strangers on his way to London, and allowing to be touched by his mother (even though he did not like it too much.) His sentences are always blunt and factual, there are never long describing words as Christopher thinks that it is far more logical to just say what you want to say without putting fancy adjectives in there.
He’s not safe to be around “. (Burroughs 13)The fighting and absence reflected onto Augustan’s relationship with his older brother, John Elder. John was not only eight years his senior but also made it habit to torment the very young Augesten, who summed his thoughts on him by stating,” My hatred for him nearly caused my skin to steam, and I was constantly plotting revenge for one thing or another.”(Burroughs 24). The lack of emotional support lead Burroughs’s to find solace within his own self. Nevertheless, a juvenile Augesten yearned for a certain comfort he has been devoid of
One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness.” (Achebe pg.13). This quote is clearly explaining why Okonkwo doesn’t like what his father was. He obviously hated everything
In the beginning of the story, Brother recounts the day Doodle was born, saying that he was a disappointment as soon as he entered the world. The narrator was not satisfied with his brother, which resulted in the horrible things he thought about him. Brother said that “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable…” As a result, the narrator enjoyed torturing Doodle, threatening to abandon him multiple times. He even took Doodle to see the casket that was built for him, and forced him to touch it. The narrator basked in the control he had over his brother.
Hindley always treated Heathcliff very badly for a long time, and Heathcliff began to despise Hindley more and more. When Mr. Earnshaw dies Heathclff is still ridiculed by Hindley. Paul Cheetham states that “After Mr. Earnshaw’s death [Heathcliff] experiences at the hands of Hindley” (Cheetham). Hindley still treats Heathclff badly after Mr. Earnshaw’s death because he doesn’t want to forgive him for what he has done. Vereen M. Bell states, “Hindley cannot forgive Heathclff for unsurpuring the love of his father, so once he master of Wuthering Heights he sees that Heathcliff is methodically humiliated and degraded” (Bell).