Ivan Sanchez American Literature Cannery Row: Novel Study Outline 1. Cannery Row starts with the adventures of Mack and the boys, a group of jobless yet intelligent men who rent a fish-meal shack also called the “Palace Flophouse & Grill” on the edge of the Row. Everyone always feels like giving back to the gentle, intellectual, and caring, Doc, the possessor of a biological supply house. Even though he is a very great person around the Row, Doc seems to be haunted depression. Mack and the boys decide to give Doc a party and they spend most of their energy, on only trying to set this event up.
He buys an expensive wardrobe and checks himself into the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Paul has a night out on the town with a freshman from Yale that end in a bad note. Paul finds out that his theft has gone public in Pittsburg and his dad has come to look for him. He has one last dinner at the Astoria, wakes up the next morning and takes a cab to a set of railroad tracks where he jumps in front of them and commits suicide. The author uses symbolism, character, and conflict to portray the central idea in the story.
Since little is known about Gatsby, Nick must depend on misleading rumors about the man of mystery. At one of Gatsby’s glamorous parties, a group of women gossip, “One time he killed a man who had found out that he was the nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil” (61). Other guest place Gatsby as a mobster or as a German spy during the war. While some of these stories may be true to his past, most are just made up things that people with wild imaginations came up with. As Nick and Gatsby become more acquainted, Nick is invited to dine with Gatsby for lunch.
He tells the murderer that they will meet tomorrow. Lady Macbeth warns her husband that his lack of hospitality is ruining the banquet. She tells him that if the lords had wanted only to eat a meal, they could have stayed home to do that. They have joined him in the feast for his hospitality and the company of a host. Rejoining the lords at dinner, Macbeth mentions that he wishes that Banquo were with them as he promised he would be.
In McCarthy’s, No Country for Old Men, money plays a significant role when it comes to ethical decision making. In the beginning, Llewelyn Moss comes across a crime scene where drug traffickers and drug dealers are brutally murdered by a third party, in pursuit for the money. Regardless, Moss greedily steals the money but leads him and his family to dangerous situations. In addition, Carson Wells is hired as a bounty hunter to kill Anton Chigurh and get the money, however, he ends up dying in the process. Finally, the crime and violence over money is so senseless, that Sheriff Ed-Tom Bell retires to prevent his life from being taken away.
The film Road to Perdition shows what life is like during the Great Depression. The film stars Tom Hanks as Michael Sullivan Sr., a mafia enforcer to mafia boss John Rooney. Sullivan Sr. has unsurpassed loyalty and has done terrible things in order to provide for his family and keep a close relationship with Mr. Rooney which makes his son, Connor Rooney jealous. One night, as Sullivan Sr. is performing a task for Mr. Rooney, Sullivan Jr. hides in his car and witnesses his father and Connor Rooney murder a couple of people. In order to keep him silent, Mr. Rooney orders his son, Connor Rooney, to murder Sullivan Sr.’s family.
In the play Macbeth, the main theme is the corruption of power through unchecked ambition. Macbeth is a faithful soldier and a good man, until three witches tell him of his future. Upon telling his wife the grand news, she devises a scheme where Macbeth kills the king in order to make his future the present. Macbeth is wary at first, and often talks of his guilt and soul before the murder, but, in order to please his wife, and feed his desire to become king, he murders the poor king in his sleep. He then blames two guards for the deed and becomes king of Scotland.
When Jefferies suspects a salesman by the name of Lars Thorwald may have murdered his nagging wife, he enlists the help of his glamorous Socialite girlfriend, Lisa Fremont, and his insurance company nurse, Stella, to investigate the chain of events. At first, he has trouble convincing his two sharp daily visitors that a crime has
He is later killed by a man who is sent by Tom. Towards the end of the novel, Nick runs into them as they are leaving for a long vacation, and finally realizes how truly ruthless and greedy Tom and Daisy are: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...” (Fitzgerald, 179). Nick doesn’t seem to have any desire to talk to them again, due to what they had done to Gatsby. He also doesn’t think it is fair of Daisy to, after all that Gatsby had gone through to show Daisy that he loved her, she wanted absolutely nothing to do with him after his death. She did not so much as send flowers or a sympathy card.
He only obtained the throne after killing his brother and marrying his brother’s widow. King Claudius appears to the audience as a civil, diplomatic ruler and it is only until the ghost first appears to Hamlet that is revealed he killed his brother with poison. The betrayal of his mother marrying King Claudius within a month after his King Hamlet’s death leaves Prince Hamlet feeling angry, bitter and revengeful towards his mother. Also the fact that she married her brother-in-law was considered to be incestuous and sinful in that era. When Prince Hamlet hires travelling actors to perform an act to the King Claudius and Queen Gertrude, they notice the plot to be similar to the murder of King Hamlet.