Similarly, the title “Give” suggests an attitude. The word could be interpreted as an aggressive demand or a cry for help. In the poem the character is both hostile and pleading in a desperate attempt to get attention because of the way in which he feels he has been ignored by society. Although both poems feature characters shunned by society they are written from contrasting points of view. ‘The Clown Punk’ is written from the view point of a father who is driving “home” through the “shonky” part of town.
Mr. Younger had many pleasant and joyful moments stolen from him in this novel due to his irresponsible actions. For example, one evening Ruth had received a phone call. The caller was the wife of the man that Walter drives for, Saying walter had been a no-show to work for the past three days. “Mama: What you been doing for these three days, son?” (105) Walter replied by telling her he spent his work time just driving, roaming the streets of their small are, and drinking at the Green Hat.
The ride was very silent everyone in town though they made the prefect couple But there was trouble. Elizabeth sat beside her husband wondering how she would tell him she wanted a divorce and she was in love with Brandon scope and having his child. Brandon was the town mayor. We are low on gas; said Beck. I am going to turn into the gas station on the next corner.
Erdrich also uses the red convertible that the two brothers bought as a metaphor for Henry. During the story, the brothers go on a cross-country road trip in their car, not stopping to for maintenance, and as a result, the car becomes old and beaten. Upon returning to their home on the Indian reservation where they grew up, Henry receives a draft notice from the marines calling him to fight the Vietnam war “We got home just in time, it turned out, for the army to remember Henry had signed up to join it”(196). While Henry is away in Vietnam, Lyman decides to repair the car. Unfortunately, when Henry returns from the marines he is a changed man, he no longer seems to enjoy anything “When he came home, though, Henry was very different, and I‘ll say this: the change was
He did not have any outer clothing and was shoeless. Before the defendants left, they put Stafford’s shoes and jacket on the shoulder of the highway. Stafford wore glasses, which was in the car, but when the defendants left, they either inadvertently or purposely did not give them to Stafford. Michael W. Blake, a college student, was driving on the same highway at a reasonable speed and saw Stafford in the middle of the road with his hands in the air. Blake could not stop in time or avoid hitting him, therefore, Stafford was hit by Blake’s car and died.
The car misses the student but slides and crashes into the pole for the traffic signal. Terry and Shaun are hurt but survive as both were restrained by their seat belts in the front bucket seats. However, Jane was sitting in the back and was not wearing her lap belt (she hated lap belts and they did not fit right with her skirt). Jane was ejected from the car and
The descriptions of the motorcycle and the “greasy character,” both produce the tough image that the narrator, Jeff, and Digby yearn for, whereas the narrator’s mother’s “whining” station wagon does not (125, 127). When the narrator, Jeff, and Digby retreat to the woods and the lake after their attempted rape, the narrator’s car is demolished and trashed by the angry greasy man, and two “blond types [wearing] fraternity jackets” that appear in a Trans-Am. The demolition of the narrator’s car symbolizes how weak and vulnerable he is, like a little school boy getting beaten up by an older, tougher bully, and takes away whatever “bad” boy image he had left. After emerging from their hide outs in the lake, the boys return to their car the next morning and are greeted by two
He is driving his mom’s car and his friends are rolling joints and doing things they consider bad like yelling out the window. On their drive, they run into a 1957 Chevy they recognize as their friends’, Tony Lovett. They think that Tony is with a girl getting intimate and Digby decides to flash the headlights and honk the horn to make a joke at Tony. This is also an example of arrogance and misunderstanding of being bad. As they see a figure emerging from the car, the narrator realizes that this is not Tony and quickly his mindset changes to fear and
And he just started out on the road without checking the straps to make sure all the cars wouldn’t move during transportation. But the very back cars straps were loose. Well the truck got about another 20 or so miles down the highway. And a car with a family started riding right behind the Truck not knowing the straps were loose, and they continued down the road for another 5 or so miles the car with the mother and her 9 year old son backed off of the truck because they moved into traffic that was faster so they could have more time to react
Finally, a police officer showed up and as we were standing outside telling the officer about the episode that had just happened gun shots rang out for a second time and the policeman ran, jumped in his car and pulled off speeding with his lights on. I remember thinking “where is he going, I thought the cops were suppose to serve and protect?” It was disappointing to us that the police never showed back up to the house to see if anyone was