In the beginning chapters of the book, he is eager and looking forward to war. By the end of the book, wishes he had never been involved in the war. A dramatic change took place inside this man between his enlistment and discharge. I read this change to be an extreme form of growing up. Not the form of growing up that most young men these days go through, but the growing up a man does when he watches friends die.
Though Romans says that human nature is that we are sinners. Human beings are slaves to sin and seem to be powerless against it. We understand that we are not righteous at all, and that we need a relationship with God, so that we can be empowered by His righteous. His righteous comes through our faith in Jesus Christ. Only he can redeem, justify, and sanctify us, and we need all three for our salvation.
For example, in the beginning of the selection, Laurie’s father asks, “Did you learn anything” (p.169) and Laurie responds by saying “I didn’t learn anything” (p.169). Then Laurie proceeds to tell his father that a child named Charles was the reason he did not learn anything. He also goes into details about what Charles did that day as well. Those lies are similar to that of “The Open Window” because in this selection Vera lies pathologically. For example, she stated once, “You will bury yourself down there and not speak to a living soul, and your nerves will be worse than ever from moping.”(p.172) ~she also said, “Out through that
Growing up in his older brother’s shadow, Jack would compete with his brother in sports, but not so much in education. He learned to play tennis very well, became an exper sailor, and was an amazing swimmer by the age of twelve. Jack enterred Harvard University in the fall of 1936, and he soon noticed that his older brother, Joseph Kennedy Jr. had left quite an imprint on the school. Jack felt lesser due to this his freshman year and appeared careless without any obvious goals. Not giving his full potential, Jack got average grades and was an average kid his freshman year.
I love how this story and the last 2 stories, Things Fall Apart and Marriage Is a Private Affair, all share the common theme of embracing Christianity. Eastman's "From the Deep Woods to Civilization” seems to embrace the religion much more so, however there are still questions as to why the Indian people should follow the ways of those who stole from them. The Indians also question why the Whiteman does not even follow their own religion faithfully so why should they? They feel that the second coming of Jesus Christ will punish the white man for failing to carry out His teachings. Throughout the story, Eastman challenges racism by comparing the values of white middle- and upper-middle-class men, as well as stereotypes of Native men.
The Jews viewed the Gentile culture as unrighteous and not worthy of redemption. But Paul’s words exonerated that claim by the justification of faith of the Gentiles. Again, similarities between culture and human relationships in the biblical perspective, view all people as a creation of God in His
Paul Fisher is a scared 7th grader that doesn’t stand up for himself. Moving across the country, from Texas to Florida made it even worse. People often make fun of him, calling him names like eclipse boy. He has a lot of memories of people making fun of him and his brother is always there. In fact, his brother even scares him.
This is probably the most heartbreaking assertion Martin Luther King ever makes . He feels as if the church has shirked its responsibilities to the African American people, hiding behind “anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows”. I totally agree with , Dr. Martin Luther King’s , take on ,” Just and Unjust laws .” “There are many just and unjust laws; ones which should be followed in order to be a moral person, and laws in which you must disobey for conscious sake in order to be a moral person .” This is the answer Martin Luther King had given when the clergymen wanted to know why he was breaking laws .” Laws are made to protect the people , not to degrade and punish them .” As far as Dr. Martin Luther King , is concerned, the African American would continue to do whatever was necessary, preferably non-violently, to obtain the legal and moral right that was theirs
(The New Interpreter’s Study Bible, Exo. 3.10) Moses first tells the Israelites that he was the LORD of their god. And he was there to free them and take them to the land that he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Israelites wouldn’t listen to him. They wouldn’t listen because of their broken spirit and the cruel slavery that they had endured.
“Spare the rod and spoil the child”, though much quoted, is in fact a misinterpretation of Biblical teaching. While the “rod” is mentioned many times in the Bible, it is only in the Book of Proverbs that this word is used in connection with parenting. The book of Proverbs is attributed to Solomon, an extremely cruel man whose harsh methods of discipline led his own son, Rehoboam, to become a tyrannical and oppressive dictator who only narrowly escaped being stoned to death for his cruelty. In the Bible there is no support for harsh discipline outside of Solomon’s Proverbs. By contrast, the writings in the Gospels, the most important books in the Bible for Christians, contain the teachings of