“Night will be the crisis, I believe. He’ll stay or go, but tonight will be the deciding of it.” (428) Ruby stays with Stobrod to care and heal him, so Ada goes into Inman’s hut to sleep with him. “The world was such an incredibly lonely place, and to lie down beside him, skin to skin, seemed the only cure.” (429) Later in the night, they discuss once again their past experiences and hopes for the future. This chapter incorporates love and time as its major theme. Inman and Ada sit in the hut feeling uncomfortable and
Pal, not noticing extends his arm out even more and that is when he dies. The butterfly killed him. The butterfly symbolizes freedom and happiness. The relief on Paul's face freed him from the agony of war and its despair. It made him happy even if it were for only a few seconds, the aftermath (death) would still be peaceful because he died in the battelfield in sight of something so beautiful as a
For example, by the end of the play, Henry Higgins goes out of his way to find Eliza and he himself admits, "I shall miss you, Eliza. I have learnt something from your idiotic notions; I confess that humbly and gratefully. And I have grown accustomed to your voice and appearance I like them, rather." (Shaw, 100) In Frankenstein, it is more of the creation that begins to appreciate the creator, than the creator appreciating the creation. When Frankenstein dies on the ship, Frankenstein's monster admits his remorse to Walton, saying, “I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin.
Robertson is literally on the battle-ground so what he is experiencing is much more grotesque. He talks about his experience sleeping with no blanket or coats, hiking, eating canned beef and searching for a hole to stay in. He describes how many are wounded but out of the wounded 90% heal. He clearly tells his parents not to worry and that he feels that he is going to be okay. He states that he is content with dying because at least the wont die a coward.
“They’re a rotten crowd…You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” These words stated were the last words Nick Carraway said to Jay Gatsby before he met his demise. Nick Carraway, who said he was “inclined to reserve all judgments,” as stated in the beginning of the novel, finally makes discernment here. He called Daisy, Tom, Jordan, and all the upper class morally rotten. He knows and believes that Gatsby is worth more than them all. Gatsby’s heroism in the war, determination in the pursuit of his dreams, and his tenacious devotion to the love of Daisy forms Nick’s final opinion which leads him to give him the compliment.
Procopius In The Secret History Procopius writes an extremely unfavorable account of the Emperor Justinian and his time on the thrown. He focuses his writing not only on Justinian and his wife Theodora but also his general Belisarius who Procopius accompanied on campaign and Belisarius’ wife Antonina. This account was extremely different compared with various other historical accounts and leaves the reader somewhat skeptical about the accuracy of the book. Justinian’s accomplishments far outweighed the stories that Procopius wrote about so historians like Peters and Sarris have called him and enemy of the Emperor and even a shady character and instead they focused on his accomplishments and how his laws, with some updates, were used until the end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. (Peters, 94) Procopius in The Secret History criticizes Justinian throughout the book.
The article What’s Moral About Huckleberry Finn is arguing the morality of the novel. The article is discussing the negatives about the book. June Edwards says, “He smokes and dislikes clothes, school, and anything related to civilization” (Edwards 32). Edwards is saying that Huck is unfit for civilization. Therefore Huck is not a good role model.
Mr. Finn takes Huck away from the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson. Huck starts to enjoy the life of “freedom” from civilization with his father; he does not have to attend school, or church, and he can light up his pipe for a smoke any time he wants. He does not mind being his father’s prisoner out in the woods except for the beatings that he receives from his abusive, alcoholic father. After a drunken night, Mr. Finn goes insane and tries to kill Huck before passing out dead drunk for the night. Fortunately, the next morning Huck finds a canoe floating
However, yesterday's outrage illustrated that such debates are mainly opportunities to enforce the compensatory victimhood of "reverse racism". In the Telegraph, Toby Young consulted his dictionary, and found Abbott's remark to be the very definition of racism. After many hours of tweeting and ratcheting up media coverage, blogger Harry Cole appeared on Sky News to lament those who "use race as a political tool". The insistence on an apology evinces a new standard of racial sensitivity among rightwing commentators. Racist jokes are always "taken too seriously", but Abbott's sentence is offensive, no contextualisation allowed.
Sue Ahmad AML 2301 Professor Mitchell 21 Oct. 2013 Full of Moral Dilemmas At the beginning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, right before the explanatory, Mark Twain writes a “notice” that suggests his book is not written to persuade or send a subliminal message of any kind and anyone who interprets it as such will be punished, so to speak. Is this message factual, or is the humor a way to get the audience to view the book as such? The novel contains many moral predicaments at almost every turn. Some would say that’s not the case or the only moral issue is indefinitely racism, but there is much more depth and meaning to why this book became one of the greatest American novels with universal meaning. Some specify the morality of Huckleberry Finn is in the instance of slavery being portrayed, and even claim that it was flawed and misinterpreted to the point where it was a mockery.