During the stalemate before the battle, two men fell ill with an eye infection, and were dismissed so they could recuperate. When the battle came, however, one ordered his helot to lead him, blind as he was, into the heart of the fight, where they both died. The other, Aristodemus, followed his orders and returned home. There he was branded a 'trembler' (coward) and effectively abandoned by his city. He was allowed to live there, but he was ignored by his friends, considered as low as a helot in rank, and his daughters were refused husbands.
Holden was kicked out of several schools, and he was left on his own at Pencey. Holden did not fit in well, and he cannot get along with anyone. Holden is affected very much by previous events in his life, and this continues to define who Holden is today. Holden, miserable after his brother Allie’s death, is in deep depression.
The Blindness of Georgie and “Fuckhead” In the story “Emergency”, Denis Johnson’s main characters, Georgie and the narrator also known as the “Fuckhead” in this story, who were drugged in this story, are essentially blind to the world while still having the ability to see; Georgie representing life or the giver of life who is blindly living life joyously and blindly saving lives, and the narrator who is blinded by his own beliefs living a nonchalant, meaningless and sad life, who after spending almost an entire day with Georgie, regains his “sight” through blindness and discovers his own flaws. In this essay, I will be talking about how differently blind they are from one another and how the narrator regains his sight in this story. Both the characters were pretty different from one another with respect to life and death. The first difference between them is identified at the beginning of this story where Georgie was mopping the floor which he thought was covered with blood but according to the narrator the floor was clean; Georgie cried “There’s so much goop inside of us, man, and it all wants to get out.” (Johnson 36). In this part of the story, the blood represents death and According to Georgie, death is everywhere around him and he is bothered by this fact and that’s why is the one striving and working hard to clean it all up whereas the floor seemed fine to the narrator.
'Cry about the simple hell people give other people'. Discuss with reference to To kill a mockingbird and comment on whether it's a pessimistic novel In to kill a mockingbird, we see all kinds of hell people give each other as said by the character Dolphus Raymond, and how innocent people suffer in different ways as a result. There is the hell of family life, Dill never had a father, 'I haven't got one' and his mother once remarried didn't want him around. So 'he just gets passed around from relatives to relatives and Miss Rachel keeps him every summer'. Unlike Scout and Jem, he has never felt the love and security a child ought to feel.
As shown, Holden is depressed in many ways: he fails in life, he is lonesome, and he still is affected by his brother's death. Holden is a failure because he cannot pass any classes in school, except English, and he cannot do anything right. He is lonely because he simply hates mostly everyone and, therefore, does not have any friends. Holden is depressed by his brother's death because that was his best friend. Holden's depression started with the loss of his best friend/brother and continued on with failure and loneliness throughout the rest of his
“D”: Roger Chillingworth Roger Chillingworth, Hester Prynne’s, deformed husband, slowly transforms into what many call the Black Man. Chillingworth’s transformation, ultimately detrimental to Reverend Dimmesdale’s health, began once he questioned the reverend about sin, and his obsession did not, “set him free again until he had done all” of his searching (117). He leeched info out of poor Dimmesdale every day until, “there was a fiend at his elbow” his own self (155)! Chill., hired to help nurse Dimm. back to health, actually took more years off his life.
It was a sad day of loss and nostalgia when the keeper extinguished the lamp for the last time. Boarding up the lighthouse, he moved his family and belongings often to another light station. Lighthouses do not endure through space and time. Eroding coastlines, battering waves eventually cause enormous wear and tear on these structures. In the 21st century there is much more than a lonely lighthouse to aid mariners.
He has his own room in the barn because he is prohibited from sharing a room with the white men. Candy, looking in awe at Crooks’ room, says “Must be nice to have a room all to yourself”’ Crooks answers with “And a manure pile under the window, Sure it’s swell” (82). This separation makes Crooks more isolated than any other characters because of his lack of human interaction, which causes him extreme loneliness. “I tell ya a guy gets too lonely and he gets sick” (80). This also causes him extreme loneliness.
It is a biggest nightmare of their lives. The horrendous health devil of depression is making their mind fatigue and they are unable to overcome or rescue the recession problem. The last dialogue of the cartoon “Sell” tells us that the author highlights the downfall of the stock and business that nobody is ready to buy or sell anything, and all the businesses ended into extensive destruction. Adam Zyglis cartoon is effective in many ways. First the selection of the title clearly tells us that what is the cartoon about and what message is he trying to convey through the selection of his dialogue throughout the cartoon.
These feeling are expressed in the story about Rat Kiley's letter, with which the chapter is started - with his feelings of grief about loss and final «cooze», because he was not written back and he could not cope with his loss. His pain is shown in the shoking story of shooting baby buffalo. However, all these stories might have never happened, the soldiers were fighting the war and facing blood, troops and losses, struggling because of their youth and immaturity, fear that cannot be ignored about war. This terrible experience of war is the only truth that author wants to make the readers understand in his