This shows that although Daisy loved him she chose her family over him even though she wasn’t very happy with the decision. For many people money is an important aspect of life. Daisy found money and social status very important in order to keep her somewhat ‘happy’ by getting anything she wanted. Tom Buchanan gave Daisy lots of material things in order to do this. For example of page 74, it quotes that Daisy receives ‘a string on pearls’ the day before her wedding to Tom but also on the same say she also get a letter from her former lover Gatsby, gets drunk after reading it and has a moment where she hesitates about marrying Tom but after she sobers up she ‘squeezed it up in a wet ball……And walked out of the room, the pearls around her neck and the incident was over’ as it also quotes on pages 74 and 75.
Myrtle is married to poor man, George Wilson, and lives in the valley of ashes. She doesn't have much since they struggle with business, and yearns for more. She's not satisfied or content with what she has which brought her to a rich guy like Tom. With the kind of money that he has, he's able to provide her with the kind of "love" that she's been wanting and waiting for, but Daisy seems to get in the way between them. Even though Tom is cheating on Daisy, he still has much love for her, which holds him back from giving all of his love to
Both MacFarland and Bimbi inspired the two author’s to actually want to read, to learn. In Rose’s experience, he writes, “…McFarland had hooked me. He tapped my old interest in reading…I suppose I had been mediocre for too long” . For Malcolm X, the motivation came from “…Bimbi, who" first made me feel envy of his stock of knowledge”. The authors of 1 these articles wanted to expand their knowledge in some way.
The picture of innocence, walking among the worst evil in the world. It is after he saw this and the conditions that the Jews were living in that he began to take in more and more Jews that weren’t necessarily making him money, but because he was trying to save them. I believe that half the reason for Shindler’s change of heart is because of his accountant Itzhak Stern. He convinced Shindler that saving even those who weren’t “essential” to his business or to him making a profit was the right thing to do. At the end of the movie, all of his Jewish workers make Shindler a ring as a thank you for everything he has done for them.
These layers of suspense greatly add in looking into Tom’s head and understanding if Tom can comprehends the peril he put himself into. In the end, Tom brought the entire ordeal upon himself. Had he decided to not be so greedy and selfish, he would have gone out with his wife and enjoyed the night, rather than experiencing one of the most horrific events of his life. Instead, he finds himself on this narrow little ledge, very much regretting the past few decisions he had made. The author does a great job of making this apparent, and chooses to show it through irony, cause and effect, and suspense.
John Steinbeck made the plot interesting and the themes behind the work were truly brilliant. The book had its points were they were very descriptive but didn’t keep me interested enough. Reading through those boring parts is completely worth it though. Steinbeck makes the book easy to understand and i like that quality a lot about this book. In my opinion, I got the idea that this book was written more for the workings of the mind but at the same time Steinbeck wanted to make you feel something as you read this.
While still married to Wilson, Myrtle does everything in her power to try and imitate the life she sees Tom and his friends living. She attempts to throw parties, similar to Gatsby, but they are almost all failures that demonstrate how much lower in class then Tom she really is. In fact, it is her lowness in class that is what keeps Tom from forming a real relationship with her. Although Tom tells Myrtle that the reason that they cannot form a solid relationship is that Daisy is catholic, "it's really his wife that is keeping them apart…" everyone, with exception to Myrtle and her sister, knows that is not the real reason. A person of Toms stature would never marry a women from the Valley of Ashes, and Myrtle is too naïve to realize that.
The theme of the movie “War Of The Buttons” directed by John Roberts, is pride and the message in the movie is pride is easy to gain but easy to lose. The movie “The War Of The Buttons” shows that pride in yourself is hard to get but easy to lose. In the film Fergus gains pride by telling his parents to “shut up and punish him already.” So his father whips him because he was late and his clothes were destroyed. He also gains pride by being aware of his punishment and facing it. Toward the end of the film, the final battle between the Ballys and the Carriks occurs.
He is so influenced by the culture around him that he is willing to “risk his life for no reason but the danger” just so his reputation will get better (Raffel 39). Though he loses this race, he loses with honor, which might be even better than winning. Beowulf constantly feels the need to one-up himself and do something even more honorable so that he is still viewed as a
Charlie perfectly demonstrates the message of the play, that every person fins happiness in their own way. Throughout the story it’s pretty easy to hate Charlie he seems to be doing nothing but hurting himself and the ones around him. Towards the end of the play the audience comes to find out that Charlie has one hundred and twenty thousand dollars and could be getting the best medical help possible. But instead of saving himself, he’s been saving all of the money for his daughter Ellie. Now it can definitely be argued that this is not the correct things to do and that maybe Charlie could have lived longer with help from the doctors.