He took her on a trip and now he has to the bank back. Since his mom’s death, Lee has bean alone. All lee wants is someone to be long to. Since he is not getting that he’s been in a lot of trouble with the police “you’ve burned all your bridges” a police officer says to Lee when he brings him home after catching him during a gang initiation. Lee wants to become a member of the Tarantulas because”if you belonged you didn’t need to worry about anything... you always have a place to go, someone to turn to.
When he comes back he says he was wrong about his uncle, he is not a good man. He tells them that he wants $200,000 and 1500 articles of clothing or he’ll burn down the town. Since Amelia’s Father is the only town official left in town, Josh says that he can’t leave. Amelia sends them into the house while she thinks how they are going to fix everything. Then, she has an idea.
For 14-year old Walter, his great uncles’ farm in rural Texas is the last place on earth he wants to spend the summer. Dumped off by his mother, Mae, in the middle of nowhere with two crazy old men and the promise that she’ll come back for him, Walter doesn’t know what to believe in. Eccentric and gruff, Hub and Garth McCaan are rumored to have been bank robbers, mafia hit men and/or war criminals in their younger days. The truth is elusive, although they do seem to have an endless supply of cash. But Walter begins to see a new side to his great uncles when he stumbles on an old photograph of a beautiful woman hidden away in a trunk and asks Garth who she is.
Jurgis has begged for food, stolen food to survive, worked long hours every day, gone to jail for crimes he did not commit and lost his loved ones. “He has been only six months in America, and the change has not dome him good”(14). In the early 1900s the American Dream was to start from nothing, and to live a life better than the country you immigrated from. In the early 1900s, immigrants came to America in search of a better life, but were struck by the empty and unforgiving land of America. “They had dreamed of freedom; to see their child grow strong”(138).
Analysis of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Chapter 1: Fredric Douglass begins his narrative by placing his birth in Tuckahoe, Talbot county, Maryland. He does not know how old he is because his masters have deliberately kept it from him. Growing up, this made Douglass very unhappy. It is generally acknowledged that his father is a white man, even rumored to be his master, Captain Anthony, who is a harsh man that owns three farms and thirty slaves. Douglass witnesses his first whipping of which Anthony whip's his aunt Hester.
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, it might have been.” -Kurt Vonnegut. After reading Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, all one can think about is what might have been. Set in Verona hundreds of years ago, two rival families continue to fight because of an “ancient grudge” (Prologue.3) Two teens, Romeo and Juliet, fall in love, defying their families rules. After only a couple of days, their love cause both of their deaths. Friar Lawrence was the cause of their deaths for his irresponsibility and lack of urgency to solve the conflict he started.
Apparently Catherine and Rodolpho have been out quite a bit lately, seeing the beautiful sights of their lovely little slum, Red Hook. Beatrice fails miserably at calming Eddie down about the situation. Eddie goes on and on about how unmanly Rodolpho is. Apparently, men who sing and have blond hair just "ain't right" in Eddie's book. The main conflict becomes pretty clear when Eddie swears to put an end to the budding romance.
Joe sacrificed his honour in his struggle to make his family wealthy and strong as Joe denied his part in the shipment and blamed it all on Steve. Three and a half years later everything is coming back to haunt Joe, including truth behind his son Larry’s disappearance during the war. Director John Cooper revived the intense Arthur Miller classic and made it into an exciting production full of high emotion and great acting. The play All My Sons deals with two plot twits, Chris Keller the son of Joe and Kate has invited his brother Larry’s old fiance to the house so that he can marry her. However, before that is to happen they must convince Kate who still strongly believes Larry is still alive, that he
God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! This is the first time that the reader sees Hamlet’s inner turmoil as he considers committing suicide over the death of his father but decides he cannot, for the consequence would be hell. It is important to note that purgatory and hell are referenced numerous times throughout the play as a consequence for giving into selfish thoughts or actions. In this particular instance however, this soliloquy also lends to the idea that Hamlet is insane due to the passing of his father.
When Hamlet explains,“ this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul…”, the “why” adds a tone of confusion, hinting that not even Hamlet can explain as to why he feels this way about the air. The sentences that follow continue the pattern of being an antithesis, with Hamlet describing man with great admiration, but then contradicts what he just said with, “Man delights not me”. Hamlet’s usage of antithesis reflects how he repeatedly contradicts his own thoughts throughout the play. Because of his father’s recent death, Hamlet’s mentality is confused, uncertain, and pessimistic. His disinterest in the world he knows is beautiful confirms the depressed state he is in.