Let me cite the example of the man from “Black Cat” and the man from “The Tell-Tale Heart”. The resemblance in both these cases is the madness of the protagonists which is also shown by the sentence structure; for example “very dreadfully nervous I had been and am” and “Yet, mad am I not” represent the disorder of subject and verb. But “the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or not the loftiest intelligence…” The first point which comes into my mind, reading the stories, is assertion which is a human instinct. All the human beings try to say what they believe. So, the dislike for the “vulture eye” and “the cat” made them assert that they were not insane.
They speak of Apollo of bearing numerous names such as The Sminthian, God of Lycia, and The Mouse God. He earned the title Mouse God because of insufficient detail that questions his brutality towards mice. In many ways, Salinger’s Holden Caulfield can be comparable to his equivalent Titan. However, Holden is not as well praised as Phoebus; he still somewhat expresses subtle goodness, truthfulness, and a strong connection with a very close sibling. Holden constantly refers to inadequate people as phonies and believes that his job is to correct their attitude and way of life.
Though the stories are different in name and plot, they definitely have similarities and differences, yet they portray the same theme. One of the main similarities between the two stories is the anger that both narrators possess. What is interesting about the narrators of the stories is that they seem to have lost control and do not think twice before killing. The anger inside of them seems to have slowly bubbled up until the only thing they cared about was taking out their anger on something or someone. In “The Black Cat” the narrator takes his anger out on his pets, including his favorite cat Pluto, and ultimately his wife.
Throughout the last few pages of Strange Meeting, Hill cleverly deploys unique techniques to convey Hilliard’s tranquillity and acceptance. Hill was a young, bright female writer who had the power of hindsight due to many men’s stories along with other past successful literature poets about war. Her novel was a microism of the disgusting realities of war. Immediately from reading the last few pages it is clear the change in Hilliard and awareness that he has changed dramatically from the beginning. We are introduced to him as being “…afraid to go to sleep.” As this was the very first words we see- it emphasises the difficulties he was suffering from the realities of war from the start.
‘An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, for promise’d joy!’ Burns’ word choice ’us’ shows he understands the mouse’s pain and vulnerability as he has also experienced similar pain. He shows how the mouse’s plans and the poor people and also his own plans do not go as he expected and all the expectations of happiness he had imagined do not always work out as they have been planned due to circumstances that cannot be controlled by vulnerable creature or even most human beings. Robert Burns’ ’To a Mouse’ successfully and efficentally conveys the themes of this poem through both the poetic techniques and the clever use of the charecter of the mouse. Burns by using both these features takes a seemingly unimportant incident, and conveys to readers his personal and emotional connection with the themes which makes the poem powerful and moving . This also evokes feelings of sympathy from the reader making the poem an overall
The heroes and villains question is ‘Explore the ways sympathy for and/or dislike of a character is created in the text you have’. This could be an opportunity for bright students to explore less obvious (but still relevant if well supported) interpretations of characters. For example: Curley is a man who lacks the natural power of Slim and can only achieve authority by wearing high boots, aggressive-looking spurs and being antagonistic and violent. He understands the women of the ‘cat-house’ but not the striking young woman he has married, (and who only married him as a way of getting away from her controlling mother). She is dissatisfied with her lot in life, and he is so desperate to be the lover she wants that he wears a glove and
This makes them different from the other migrant workers. However, it is evident that Lennie gets into trouble, and George has to get him out of it. George becomes fed up occasionally. Lennie also likes to pet things, and he keeps dead mice In his pockets, which George has to throw away. “God almighty, if I was alone, I could live so easy.
Lennie loves soft things and animals, which he accidentally kills because of his strength. His size combined with his mental handicap frequently put him and George in difficult situations. Lennie from Of Mice and Men remains one of literature's most memorable characters. More Of Mice and Men Characters Learn about Curly from Of Mice and Men, Candy from Of Mice and Men, and other Of Mice and Men characters. • Curley is the confrontational, mean-spirited boss's son who picks on Lennie (until Lennie crushes his hand in a fight).
Everytime Fireheart asks Cloudpaw to do a simple task, Cloudpaw disobeys his orders in some way. "He was taking too long to get ready. Anyway, I prefer hunting alone!" -Cloudpaw (Hunter 71) Sandstorm - Most Understanding Sandstorm is a very understanding cat because she always tries to see things in another perspective. She is also very fond of Fireheart, and actually tries conversating with
The Man in this story is an alcoholic, yet that is still no excuse for the actions that he did. It is said that he loves his animals and enjoy them very much and out of all, his favorite is his cat. Yet something suddenly urged him to hurt his cat and it says “ I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!”. If this guy was not insane he wouldn’t counteract his words of loving his cat so much, then going about hurting the innocent animal. At the same time he felt some remorse, and knew what he did was wrong, and to cope with what he chose to do to his cat, he drank the memory away.