I couldn’t imagine devoting most of my life to building a dome. I was amazed he never quit with all the mishaps that happened with the marble and just after working on it for so long that that was all he did eat sleep and breath the dome. Filippo was very cunning and funny with all the pranks he played on people. For instance his greatest rival was Lorenzo Ghiberti and they had to work together on the dome and to prove he was superior to him, Filippo pretended to be dying so Lorenzo had to be in charge of the project. Once Lorenzo messed up Filippo came back and fixed everything and embarrassed
Tub, who is fat, the butt of the jokes, and is slower than the rest of the group. He constantly tells people that he has a gland problem knowing that he doesn’t. When first reading this story, the reader sympathize Tub. He’s standing outside in the cold waiting on Frank and Kenny. When they finally pull up Kenny almost run over Tub and start to taunt him.
It was one man for himself throughout the entire graphic novels; many times it is shown in the pictures and said in the writing. In chapter 4 of Maus I, one gets a glimpse of this when “Vladek visits shops that owed him money before the war…”, and how his aptitude in business and trade over the years rewarded him greatly later on. Even when he was near death, Vladek bribed other men with bread just so they would take him down to the train; the train to survival that is. One would think that the Nazis wouldn’t participate in these acts considering they might have everything they need, or even want for that matter. But yes, they participate, and it was solely just because they could and it gave the Jews less.
If Adam is not such a genius at bread baking, Bourdain will not hire him, but the results of Adam’s work are amazing pieces of crusty art created perfectly every day that Bourdain has ever eaten. In fact, Adam is lazy and always drunk, that makes him not capable to do anything. It makes Bourdain is so upset, but kindly gives him chances over and over again. Bourdain also uses paradox to demonstrate Adam’s fundamental truth. Bourdain uses expressive words that are really harsh and intense, such as “dirty, megalomaniacal…” indicating the horribleness of hiring someone like Adam to work in his kitchen.
Finally, George and Lennie are foils based on the facts that George is cruel to Lennie and Lennie is clam. In the beginning, Steinbeck, shows George’s personality when he’s yelling at Lennie cause he forgot where they were going, “You crazy son-of-a-bitch. You keep me in hot water all the time” (11). This shows that George is always yelling at Lennie because he’s always causing trouble, but, in the middle of the book, when Lennie goes into the barn and he see the light to Crooks’ room, he goes in there and starts to talk with Crooks. “Nothing—I seen your light.
The shift workers fell every which way still laughing and enjoying the whole situation. However, the slidewalks stopping caused the seven minute delay which then had a ripple effect on the Master Schedule. The Harlequin had succeeded in disrupting the normal flow of everyday life and although the shift workers thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing, it was not enough to cause them to rebel against the status quo. The Harlequin continued pulling pranks challenging the status quo. When he appears on the still-being-constructed shell of the new Efficiency Shopping Center he uses a bullhorn to convey his message.
They are successful in doing this by having Rick say numerous times, “I stick my neck out for nobody.” More evidence of Rick being a selfish man is showed when Rick is told about Victor Laszlo, a resistance leader who has escaped from a German concentration camp and has come to Casablanca to try to get to America. Rick explains that he has no particular "sympathy for the fox" and understands "the point of view of the hound too." Rick also tells the new Nazi commander, Major Strasser, “Your business is politics. Mine is running a saloon." This shows that Rick really does not care about any of the politics happening and he just wants to go about his own business.
Although the line, “no-one had got around to fixing it up yet”, shows that he is still seeing everything as a product that has the potential to be fixed. The fifth stanza has an angry tone as Dawe describes people as being “godless, money-hungry, backstabbing and miserable”. In this stanza, his childhood ends and he enters adulthood, this is shown through the line “goodbye stars and soft cries in the corner”, the once innocent child has now become a greedy business man who is selfish and ruthless. In stanza six, his wife (Alice), is driving him home from a not so good dinner party, as he is angry and getting annoyed with his wife, “now take it easy on those curves, Alice, for God’s sake…” they crash. His last words “watch it” demonstrates the irony of being a product, as if to watch it on
Crooks notes- For Controlled Assesment- 21st Feb 2012- Of Mice and Men · He has seen many men come and go, all dreaming of buying a piece of land, but is now cynical, as no one has ever achieved it. · He is always called the 'nigger' by the men, which shows how racism is taken for granted. The men don't mean to insult Crooks every time they call him this, but they never think to use his name. · This shows signs of isolation. He feels isolated and bitter.
Sarah Marriott Professor Lavatori French 100 15 April 2014 Tartuffe I saw the comedic play Tartuffe on April 10, 2014 with a small group of my classmates for a field trip. The play was originally called The Impostor, or The Hypocrite, because it is about a con artist named Tartuffe that manipulates Orgon by making him think he is a religious saint. Tartuffe tries to take over all of Orgon’s possessions, and it almost works because all but Orgon knows that Tartuffe is a scoundrel. It was written by Molière and first performed in 1664 at the Versailles fêtes. After its first performance, King Louis XIV censored it because it was thought to slander religion.