Full Pocket? Sometimes people want something, but once they have it they realize they were better off without it. In the short story, “Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket" by Jack Finney, the main character, Tom Benecke, is a young man who is obsessed with work, recognition, and success. Tom allows these obsessions to take over his life and they become his priorities. Through a dangerous circumstance, Tom Benecke risks his life trying to fill his empty pockets; however, he learns what he should have been filling his pockets with all along.
Also, Ishmael has been able to make more friends that get a stronger bond throughout the novel. Finally Ishmael can stand up for himself and others against bullying. Ishmael develops from a shy boy who couldn’t stand up for himself, but that changed when he met James Scobie. James started at St Daniel’s Boys College and Ishmael’s whole perspective of life was turned upside down. At first he may of thought that Scobie was a “living, breathing, kick me sign”.
Rahim Khan, as Amir’s mentor and friend, helps to support the ideas about redemption and why it is still possible, “there is a way to be good again”. Through Rahim Khan we see that Amir must complete his journey to achieve this and through the phone call from Rahim Khan in the opening paragraph, we can see Amir’s cowardice nature and repent. “I knew it wasn’t just Rahim Khan on the line. It was my past of unatoned sins”.
The major conflict of this play is that Willy doesn’t realize he is losing his mind, but everyone around him does. Not wanting to embarrass Willy or make things any worse for him, his loved ones play along with him. Willy’s son, Biff, returns home from his failed life in the city to find out all this news from his mother. Your attention is gotten rather quickly when you realize, Willy, seemingly happy and content, is actually suicidal. In a somewhat sub-plot, Biff wants to try again at his city life and get a good job that will not only take care of his families’ financial problems, but will also make his father proud of him.
Realizing his father is not as perfect as he believes him to be at such a formidable stage in his development deeply affects his view of himself. From an early age Biff was looked up to by his younger brother and boasted about by his father. In some ways this was helpful to him because he had very high self-esteem and was a confident young man. On the other hand, his father inflated his self-esteem so much and over looked many of the little faults in him that it gave him a false sense of invisibility. For example, when Biff stole a basketball from the locker room to practice with he knew it was wrong but he did it anyway.
Life is full of dangerous challenges and advantages, but depending on how we deal with them is what makes us good or bad people. In the documentary Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer readers see, that man’s determination really can affect man’s morality. When pushed to the limits one can see people true colors. Examinations of the characters Rob hall, Scot fisher and the author Jon Krakauer will show the individuals true nature. The story really does show one of how people can act and react when they are so close to there dreams and sometimes it can be positive and other times it can be negative.
A major character in this story is Charles Trask. What motivates his actions is the fact that he thinks their father, Cyrus, loves his stepbrother more than him. An inner conflict that Charles has is jealousy. He would always beat Adam up when they were young teenagers but once Adam left for the Army, Charles realized that he actually missed him. Once Adam comes back, he tells Charles that he escaped from jail which makes Charles feel better about himself.
Huck does everything he can to make sure Jim gets free. Besides helping a friend, Huck also shows what happens when you help a stranger. When Huck sees two frauds scamming the Wilkes family out of all the money they had got from their uncles will, Huck decides to tell them the truth, and hope that he doesn’t get into trouble too. Although his plan didn’t work out the way he had wanted, you could still see that his intentions were good. Kids can learn a lot about treating others equally and telling the truth, even if it could hurt them, from reading this
Not only that, but because both traits were apparent in his life, he was able to choose for himself the type of life he wanted to live. Both qualities allowed for his father to progress into a life that others found desirable. In order to live in a life that is enjoyable, it is essential to find others with the same beliefs and wants; in order to thrive in life, both are there to give humans the choice of how to express themselves. Cruelty and ruthlessness are traits that each human has, but humans can also have the capacity to be extremely selfless and loving towards others. These two sides of humans are necessary in order for individuals to progress in life.
Being a little more mature than when he first entered the program, he has realized the era of his ways and knows full well the type of life that accompanies some of the decisions he made as an unguided juvenile. We know this from when he states “I also cannot believe what a pain I was, thanks for not giving up on me... I really would like to talk to some of your younger offenders... Maybe if I did, they would not make the same mistakes I did." As it stands, it is results like this that will help to secure and stabilize the future of the juvenile justice system. In order for juveniles to get the treatment that best suits them, it will take considerable, and combined efforts from both families and communities of the individual, and from the prevention programs established for this purpose.