He feels very safe with his father but at the same time he questions some of his decisions. Although his father is made out to be the hero and decision maker, the boy influences his father at certain points in the novel. For example, the boy shows influence when they met a blind man walking down the road. The father's initial reaction is to leave the man alone, but after the boy's influence, they talk to him and give him food. This input from the boy helps build the father and son's relationship that the whole novel is based on.
He was the man responsible for a majority of quotes that made this text popular. Voltaire’s satire evolves around Pangloss’s optimism. His philosophical views mainly target conceptions from the Enlightment. His views state that, “the conception that if God is all good, and all-puissant God had engendered the world and that, therefore, the world must be impeccable.” It is believed through his philosophy that it is seen as misguided or evil, it is because they do not understand the overall good that the “evil” is designated to accommodate. Like Candide, Pangloss is not a tenable character; rather, he is a distorted, hyperbolized representation of a philosopher whose beliefs and perspective is considerable linked to his philosophy.
He felt let down in his father, as he didn't arrest anyone or carry a gun, "And that disappointed me at times". David saw Wes as a great role model later when he realized what a challenge it was choosing between being a brother, sheriff and an employer to Marie. David starts to see his father in a different way because of the difficult situation he was in, evidence of this is shown when he "could appreciate the situation his father was in" therefore gaining respect for him. Unlike Wes, Frank was a negative role model to David. In Montana shows that David believed that Frank was the perfect "manly" role model until his true colours showed.
For example, when a male give someone promise, he should try the best to keep his word and maintain a good credit. Let me bring up another example, man should also be responsible to their family. Personally, I think a man should have a job and earn money. It is not a must to be a breadwinner, but at least man should do some contribution to his family. Another major factor that I think a man should have is tenacious.
It also shows how much he wanted a “father form heaven”: someone he could rely on to earn for his family and support him. Frank thinks his dead brothers won’t ever have to deal with such worries and not getting what they want. He realizes that death may have not been such a bad thing for Eugene but a way of escaping all of life’s hardships for a much more heavenly place. He even seems to be a bit jealous! This suggests that he thought death was better than life at one point.
He didn’t stop his persistent attitude in trying to make ends meet to provide for his family, in his persistence he managed to find a house to live in, he rode his bike into town to get money and he built a small bar for people that could afford it. Characterization added to the moral lesson because it allowed for the reader to see Jonathan’s struggle. Even from the beginning the reader could tell that he was a good person who would do anything to care for his family. Jonathan shows how he takes responsibility but praises God through the statement “nothing puzzles God” which becomes like a statement to relax himself, he says it in times of doubt and when he knows that he’ll have to keep himself motivated. 2.
When Dax said he was happy to be alive it gave Dr. Larson reassurance for his actions years before. He also claimed that Dax had many opportunities to take his own life after the treatment, which he failed to do so. I see this as the most prolific positive for keeping Dax alive. He was able to continue seeing his family and enjoy being alive given his quality of life. It is difficult to put yourself into the situation Dax was dealing with, the only way to understand would require one of us experiencing the pain he was going through.
Just like this there are more issues that people should consider bad even if in the future god would say that it is good. People should think critically about their actions regardless of what a god would command. The other dialogue of Plato that we discussed was the book I, and II of The Republic. This books deals with the theme of justice. Plato concludes that there are four kinds of life.
It also illustrates if things in the story did or did not change. When the reader first meets Abundio in the beginning of the story, Dyada refers to Abundio, “He’s a good man. One you can trust” (Rulfo 16). Now the reader gets the impression that Abundio is truly a good man, and the reader can now also trust this character and make assumptions that Abundio could even help Juan Preciado on his journey to find his father. Later on into the end of the story, it is revealed that Abundio’s wife dies and he becomes depressed, and his way of solving his problems is to go to the bar and drink away his sorrows.
Samantha Fairbairn EUH2000 Essay 1 2/10/12 Republic of Plato vs. Plutarch’s Lives The definition of an ideal state can never be limited to only one. Both Socrates and Lycurgus in Plato’s Republic and Plutarch’s Lives, respectively, have different views on what the true ideal state is. Socrates believes that there can only be harmony between the classes in a state when a king is a philosopher, or when philosophy and political power correspond. Yet Lycurgus had the idea that the ideal state must be in harmony with its inhabitants with as much equality as possible. Lycurgus’ interpretation of the ideal state is much more clear and realistic than Socrates’.