He says that Jim “was most ruined for a servant, because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches” (Twain 6). Huck got his habits of prejudice and rebellion from his pap, who despises people who are well-educated. Huck was taken away by pap because he hated how Huck decided to get an education, believing that it was an attempt to get away from him. But after suffering through pap’s abuse, Huck decided to fake his death and flee to Jackson’s Island, where he finds Jim who ran away from being sold. Huck and Jim decided to travel together in a raft to Cairo; however, they get into arguments with each other.
In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, competition between Tom and Gatsby over the heart of Daisy has brought out the worst in both of them leading to their denounced relationship. While at the parlor of a suite in the Plaza Hotel, Gatsby tells Tom that Daisy never loved him and only married him because he was poor and she was tired of waiting for him. Tom was upset after Gatsby’s remark and informs everyone that Gatsby is a bootlegger and informs the others about the illegal activities Gatsby was involved in with Wolfsheim (Fitzgerald 130-135). Gatsby said this to Tom because he has grown to dislike him during his quest to win Daisy back. He does not like the way Tom treats Daisy and believes he should be the one that is with her, especially because of Tom’s actions toward Daisy such as talking on the phone with his mistress Myrtle, Wilson’s wife, in front of her (Fitzgerald 15).
Rayona hates it more than anything that when she goes anywhere, people poke fun at her and make racial remarks to her which makes her feel insecure about herself. When Ray meets Foxy for the first time, Father Tom introduces her and Foxy says, “Your Christine’s kid…The one whose father is a nigger” (Dorris 44). Not only does Rayona have to deal with racism her mother is always putting her in bad situations. There has been quite a few times where Christine has attempted to leave Ray and told her that she wanted to commit suicide. One time in the very beginning of the story Elgin goes to visit Christine in the hospital, Rayona had not seen him in 5 months and Christine did not want to tell him about her sickness.
Marley is also there to explain to Scrooge his bad deeds and wrong doings and warn him of the terrible fate that will come if he does not change his ways, such as when he informs Scrooge on his "ponderous chain" he has forged, he says, "The weight and length of the coil you bear yourself? It was full and heavy as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. You have labored on it since." Marley was also Scrooge's only friend and now that he died, the reader is shown Scrooge's loneliness. 3.
Morality aside, she “[walks] through her husband as if he were a ghost” (26), completely disregarding his emotions. Another example of adultery in the novel is Gatsby’s relationship with the married Daisy Buchanan. He finally reunites with his dream girl after five years of separation, however, Tom eventually learns of his wife’s betrayal, “I stared at him[Wilson] then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before…” (124) He is enraged at the news and sees no justification in Daisy’s actions despite his own unfaithfulness. Tom and Daisy’s disloyalty further projects their lack of respect and
Kris Lucas Mr. McClain Shakespeare, Period 3 February 3, 2012 ****** The feud between the Montagues and the Capulets drives Mercutio, Tybalt, Romeo, and Juliet to think irrationally and make mistakes that lead to their deaths. Romeo and Juliet are young and blindly fall in love because of one another’s physical attractiveness. Mercutio and Tybalt hate each other because of an age-old family feud, which they do not know the cause of. Romeo and Juliet’s Love cannot exist because of the hate between their families, so they act irrationally and end up dead; Likewise, Mercutio and Tybalt are driven to hate one another for their families and also die as a result of the hate. Rome and Juliet’s relationship is one sided and based on appearances.
Now agitated severely he gathered his belongings and the wooden leg and begins to brag on his deceit of manipulating a woman out of her glass eye and how his name was an alias. He then disappears under the hill to probably embark on a new vulnerable female. Another story I read was “the Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekov. In this story 40-year old Dmitri Gurov is a married man who dislikes his intelligent but boring wife. As a result he cheats on her and has numerous love affairs.
His vengeance actually becomes a crazed obsession that will never cease. When Chillingworth sees little Pearl in the arms of her mother, he is deeply hurt that Hester has betrayed him, but more than that, hateful towards the adulterous man. He hates the man more and more as time goes by. He makes it his primary goal to find this man and hurt him. After he discovers that the man he is looking for is Reverend Dimmesdale, he creates an evil plot to destroy him.
In John Knowles’s novel-A Separate Peace, Gene kills his best friend in a jealous moment before he realizes what he has done. The great Gatsby revolves around the love story of Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby, but they do not get married because as Daisy says “Rich girls do not marry the poor boys” ,and so she marries Tom Buchanan. However, after Daisy meets Gatsby and sees the luxurious lifestyle of Gatsby, that includes his collection of English shirts, she begins to cry. She cries because she regrets her wrong decision; she chose the wrong man who she never loved. Then Gatsby convinces Daisy to say to Tom that she never loved him.
Comparing Stories “Good Country People” is a story of how a selfish yet smart young woman, who likes to use her disability to make others feel guilty, is left vulnerable by a man she thought was purely good. In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” a grandmother and her family go on a trip that is set to doom them forever. The grandmother lies and makes her family go down a road that ends up being to nowhere then they run into a horrible man called “The Misfit” who has just broke out of prison. Their destiny is to die the minute “The Misfit” finds them (O’Conner 422). Although “Good Country People” and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” have the same author they are very similar in many elements in the fact that they have a similar theme, setting and point of view.