When the other men head to Suzy’s, Lennie gets lonely and goes to see Crooks. He happily speaks to him about the dream farm. When Crooks tries to tell Lennie that George isn’t coming back, Lennie gets scared and angry. Lennie gets to see Curley’s wife again. Hubba hubba.
Being a foreigner, he probably did not speak English very well and probably did not have many friends. His work days were long and hard which explains why he walked through the streets at odd hours of the day. One day a little boy, named Andy, approached the old Chinaman. Through interaction with the old man, Andy entered his world and discovered the true depth of the Chinaman’s loneliness. At one point, Andy looked into his eyes and became overwhelmed with his feelings of isolation.
Bob Jones moved to Los Angeles from Cleveland because he was tired of being passed over for work while white boys were hired. Eventually Bob Jones does find work and has an important position as a Leaderman in a shipyard. In spite of his position he deals with racism at work especially from his supervisor. Easy Rawlins moved to Los Angeles from Houston after returning from the war and encountering an old friend. Mouse burdens Easy with the fact that he has committed a senseless murder.
In the book hatchet written by Gary Paulson an important character is Brian Robeson. Brian is a 14 year old boy who is lonely, depressed and angry because his parents are divorced. He is a city boy used to being looked after and pampered in everything he does. He cannot cope in the wild but learns to survive. When Brian crash lands in the canadian rain forest he is unable to cope and he feels resentful and scared.
After hearing this Henry was angry with himself for running away. “He turned away amazed and angry.” (Crane, 47) Henry then decided that he could not return to his regiment because they would hate him for running away from the battle, so he ran off into the woods. He came across a regiment of all wounded men and joined them. While marching with the wounded regiment he felt out of place because he did not have any wound. “He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.” (Crane, 57) As he was marching with the wounded regiment he found his friend Jim, who was wounded badly on his side.
Journal reflection for film "Up!" This bittersweet adventure brings us through the life of Carl Fedrickson, a grumpy old man who recently lost his beloved wife, and how Russell, a young boy scout, together with a talking dog, Dug, and a flightless bird, Kevin, brought meaning back to his life again. The film plays up the many stereotypes society has of different generations. Carl, an elderly man, is depicted in the beginning as one who is grumpy, irrational, irritable and generally unreceptive to the idea of anything new. Russell, the boy scout who represents the young generation, is painted similarly in an unflattering light: Loud, unaware to his surroundings, inconsiderate, immature and knows nothing about everything.
Goodman heads home to Faith. Because of what he witnessed, or what he thought he witnessed, Goodman did not speak to Faith. Goodman Brown eventually passes away as a lonely, bitter, old man. " The Rocking Horse Winner and " Young Goodman Brown" had extremely different twists to them. But in both stories you found evidence of evil and greed.
Finally, Holden did not accept the reality of his brother's death, which was indicated during one of Holden's visits to Allie's grave. During the visit, it began to rain. All the other visitors ran for the protection of their cars, but Holden felt depressed because Allie could not escape the rain. When he saw the visitors leaving, Holden scowled at the thought of them going some place fore dinner, while Allie could only lie in his grave. Holden continued to believe that his brother felt emotions.
Richard Ford’s “Optimists” tells the story of Frank, the protagonist, who is learning to realize that the most important things in life can change suddenly without notice and without recovery. Frank is a boy of fifteen years old whose father, Roy Brinson, works for the Great Northern Railway. One day Roy comes home from work unexpectedly after he sees a man get caught under the train and hopelessly watches him die. His wife comforts him while one of the guests that are over their house scorns him for not trying harder to save the man’s life. Roy is aggravated and ends up killing the man with a hard hit to the chest, changing his and his family’s lives forever.
He has a very old dog, and the boys at the farm want to shoot it. Candy thinks that just because someone is old doesn’t mean they’re useless, and would they shoot him too? They always think he’s unable to do things because he’s old, even though he can do it. Throughout the novel, he is often by himself, away from others, because he is discriminated against by the others. As the end of the novel approaches, discrimination leads towards Lennie’s harsh