Paul was a self-oriented boy, concerned with money, wealth, and glamour, raised in a Calvinist household that supported these ideals. Through my research I have decided that Paul's eventual fate was not any one person's fault. Paul was just as much to blame as his father and teachers for Paul's suicide. Paul was never content with his house on Cordelia Street and was always dreaming about "movin' on up" while he worked at Carnegie Hall and watched the actors and actresses move about in their stately attire and live in the most luxurious of hotel suites. Because of this dream to get out of the area in which he lived, Paul hardly ever got along with his teachers and his father.
However, he was still able to go through his life like that. The quote doesn't apply to All Quiet on the Western Front because Paul Baumer and his friends trusted the officials and this ended up leading to the death of all of them. "... It is impossible to go through life without trust..." This quote does not apply to The Catcher in the Rye because Holden Caulfield, the main character believes everyone is phony and doesn't trust anyone which is a major flaw. Holden’s major flaw affects his life
Columbus enslaved the people, demanded every adult Taino to bring gold to him every three months, and forced Christianity. When the Tiano people came back empty-handed with no gold, Columbus would cut off their hands. There was not much gold at all because they were not in Asia, they were in America. Columbus believed they were in Asia searching for the land of gold, but was never in India or Japan or China. Columbus never stopped searching for gold even when they grew hungry and sick.
Kurtz had seemed to work all his life to be adored by everybody. But in the end everybody is just waiting for his death and they all want the ivory that he got before and the money that he earned by having all the ivory (page 83) When Marlow meets Kurtz he has no real opinion about him. He isn’t sure if Kurtz is insane or not (page 119). But when Kurtz has told Marlow why he chose this life in the heart of darkness, Marlow does understand him more or less. Now he wants to
Even before the novel starts, Winston had become a grown man and all his life he had thought about the monstrosity that was Big Brother. He was always trying his best not to ‘go along to get along’ and fight the pressure of being different, secretly of course but still nonetheless human beings cannot stand to be different in this case as it seemed that everyone else was the same except for him. Deep down inside, he had always wanted to rebel. He needed the right opportunity and the right people to join the rebellion. He knew that living conditions in post-war Britain were ethically and morally unjust; like the fact that every single form of electronic device was constantly spying on him – and every other citizen, waiting for an expression on their faces that showed any sign on rebellious thought.
That is the country I see. That is the country you see. But now it is up to us to help the entire nation embrace this vision. Because in the end, we're not just against the ingrained and destructive habits of Washington, we're also struggling with our own doubts, our own fears, our own cynicism. The change we seek has always required great struggle and great sacrifice.
He worked so hard at convincing himself that he could recreate the past that he actually believed it could happen in his own mind. He hated his life as a kid because of the fact that he wasn’t rich. To Gatsby, the reason Daisy never married him was because he wasn’t wealthy, like Tom was. This triggered Gatsby to have a life goal. This life goal was everything he worked for, his entire life revolved around doing anything he can to become rich, and once he was rich then he would once again capture Daisy’s love for him again and they would get married back in Louisville at Daisy’s old house.
There are people who wonder on a daily basis how come violence and aggression continue to increase all over the world. We all have to be under agreement that we all want the best in life. We all want fancy homes, a great financial status, fancy cars and so much more that people desire in this world. Violence and aggression is one of the last things that we desire in life like the other true desires we have. In all honesty people think that most people become frustrated over not having certain desires in their lives and that is what causes violence and aggression.
I quickly learned it was a battle field out there, each man fighting for himself to make a name and fighting to make the team better. “What though before us lies the open grave?” (McKay). Each new player trying out for the team the team had their own grave right in front of them, it was up to them to fill it without being
Since his father Unoka was not a hard working man and did not live a productive life, Okonkwo had nothing to learn or inherit from him. Instead, he had to work very hard himself to get to the position he was in. He had only one fear and that was “to resemble his father” (17, ch.2). His obsession with success, which is one of his tragic flaws, stops him from seeing what is really going around and from having a better outcome. Many times, tragic flaws cause the tragic heroes to die or face downfall and Okonkwo’s case was not any different.