Ellie’s decisive ability and her morals are thrown into chaos when she arrives at the family house and finds her dogs dead. She remains in a leadership position when she finds the eldest pet still alive and tells the others to help it while she runs inside to see what had happened to her parents. As Ellie wrote after the traumatic incident, “I knew that nothing sp awful could have happened to the dogs unless something more awful could have happened to my parents.” Although she says she had lost all rational thought. She still made good decision when the tragic events that had happened were unravelling before her. “They lay beside their little galvanized iron humpies, flies all over them, oblivious to the last warmth of the sun”.
Unlike all the men she had tried to not let down, she felt guilty about killing an innocent creature. In conclusion, Kaplan uses the short story "Doe Season" to convey the "coming of age" story for a young girl. The affect of peer pressure is increasing every year because more and more people are like Andy. When young, children are influenced by everyone around them, often leading to trouble. The influence of the men around Andy affected her decision to shoot and kill the doe.
With very little detail, he lets us associate the story with someone we know by putting our own picture into our heads. In my essay I will be talking about the symbolic elements and allusions in the story. Carver is alluding to the story in the Old Testament about King Solomon. This story talks about two women who are fighting over a baby because one of the women accidentally killed her baby by rolling on top of him. And, because the women were living in the same house she switched her dead baby with the live one.
I knew all week it would come to this.” (Miller, 57) This shows how much hatred was omitted from her. She wanted to get out of a sticky situation and so she went and ruined other people’s lives. This relates to the US government because they wanted to “protect” the United States even though these Japanese Americans had not done anything wrong. John Proctor is like the Japanese Internment Victims. He was thrown in jail because he might be a witch.
Through To Kill A Mockingbird, the reader puts on the shoes of a little girl, Scout, and traipses through this familiar town and learns of social injustice by seeing it affect not only a member of the town, but her own father. The societal ills To Kill A Mockingbird comments on the most are race and the morality of acceptance. Race is the central issue of To Kill A Mockingbird. With Scout being white and coming from a seemingly middle class family, she does not understand racism or its effects on those for whom the hatred is intended. Scout’s hero, her father Atticus, says to her, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view .
Response to Smooth Talk/”Where are you going…” This story written by Oates’ about Connie and the psychopath Arnold Friend and his abduction over this innocent yet in a way very naïve teen-aged girl is much alike to Joyce Chopra’s film Smooth Talk. It all started from the source of “The Pied Piper of Tucson” somewhere in the southwest of America who mimics the character of Arnold Friend. “His Specialty was the seduction and occasional murder of teen-aged girls.” The one question that startles me the most was why in fact these young girls did not report or inform anyone of the cruel acts that this disgusting man committed, and when I say man he was indeed a grown man in his mid thirties posing as a teen-aged boy of eighteen years old. “…mimicked teenagers in their talk, dress, and behavior… (and sometimes walked unsteadily as a consequence. )” Comparing the film to the story itself they are very much identical to one another with a few alterations from the story itself.
She also used to be a teacher. Vera was a nice person. In the story when Emily Brent tells Vera about how she turned away Beatrice Taylor from coming into her house because Beatrice had an “accident”, Vera was shocked that somebody could do such a thing. The role Vera plays in the story is the 10th little Indian who hangs themselves. She also helped kill the 9th little Indian because she assumed Philip Lombard was the murderer and shot him with his own relover.
Evey’s loss of innocence forced her to undergo many unfortunate situations. At the beginning of the novel she found herself struck by poverty and tries to become a prostitute. While trying to achieve this, she got caught past the curfew and was almost raped but a strange man that called himself “V” saved her. As the novel goes on, V and Evey have a conversation that says: V: I may have killed those fingermen that attacked you the other night too, but I heard no objection to that. Violence can be used for good.
She shuns the luxuries of her brother’s mansion, for the quiet comforts of Gods creation. She abstains from the town gossip circles, for time alone to allow more time for inner reflection. These characteristics should make her a good role model but instead she is simple labeled as a witch for her peculiarities. She is so misunderstood that even a so-called devil child can see her goodness “What is it, good Mistress Hibbins? (Hawthorne 237)” Mistress Hibbins is a lonely, widower that misses her husband and wants to be with him.
Tommy Ford November 4, 2013 Period 1 We Are Not Who we Seem In society women are usually seen as fragile and delightful , but that is not always the case. The short stories “The Landlady” and “Lamb to the Slaughter”, written by Roald Dahl , in the Landlady, we read about a woman who murders young men and stuffs them to preserve their bodies and keep them as her permanent guest. In the story “Lamb to the Slaughter” we learn that Mary Maloney kills her husband because he promised to leave her.They show us the importance of appearance versus reality, as they show how things can often be different to how they seem,and that we can be easily deceived if we are too reliant on looks. In both of the short stories we see how the two women / antagonist Mary Maloney and The Landlady share similar traits,yet are different because they have different motivations for what they did. One major similarity between these two characters was their ability to gain a sense of trust with the male characters and the audience through positive impressions.Mary Maloney is portrayed as the compliant and perfect housewife.