... displays his desires to live his life differing with that of his father. In his first step to overcome his past, he believes that he is one step closer to overcoming his fear of becoming like Unoka. This eventually develops to be his ultimate goal in life. As time progresses, he becomes obsessed with the concept of being different from his father, beginning his life having nothing. With a father like Unoka, Okonkwo did not have the start in life which many young men had. . . . But in spite of these disadvantages, he had begun even in his father’s lifetime to lay the foundations of a prosperous future. It was slow and painful. But he threw himself into it life ...
... he pours with sweat, symbolizing the flow of emotions. Meursault constantly thinks about the sun when one would expect him to be mourning his dead mother. He says, "I was surprised at how fast the sun was rising in the sky."(16) which is a strong support for the idea that Meursaults thoughts weren't on his mother and his actions weren't concerned with that, but with the sun and his constant obsession with it. One more example of the uses of the sun throughout this novel comes after Meursault kills the Arab. "I shook off the sweat and sun." (59) When the main character Meursault is explaining this action. The reader gets a sense that the sun has covered him. An impl ...
... Marie both does come to hate and love her. This nun made her as strong as she was. She gave her pride in herself; pride to prove to Leopolda that the Devil was not within her and that she could succeed even as the wife of an Indian. There are relationships in the novel that contained true love. Many of these relationships were not marriages, but they outlasted everything. Nector Kashpaw is possibly the most significant character in that sense in the novel. His love life ties the lives of the two main characters of the novel, Marie Kashpaw and Lulu Lamartine. In Nector’s youth he had promised to marry Lulu, but then found himself in the arms of Marie. He marri ...
... ashamed of her identity, and tries to conceal it by changing her name. She explains, “My real name was Rachel, which in Yiddish is Ruckla, which is what my parents called me--but I used the name Ruth around white folk, because it didn’t sound so Jewish ”(80). Ruth’s attempt at acceptance is in vein, however; it never stops the children from teasing her. When Ruth leaves Suffolk and moves in with her black, soon- to- be husband Dennis, intolerance follows her like a hungry dog following the scent of a steak. Dennis and she live in a predominantly black neighborhood in which Ruth is less than welcome. Many black people dislike her simply because she is ...
... Tom Robinson is treated just because he is black, they begin to understand the meaning of prejudice. No one comes to help Tom Robinson except their father who defends him when Tom is accused of raping a white woman. Scout watches the trial and believes that he will be found innocent. Instead, Tom Robinson is found guilty. Her disappointment in the verdict makes Scout question the idea of justice. "Who in this town did one thing to help Tom Robinson, just who?" (215) Scout and Jem had believe that their father was not like any other fathers in school. They see him as an old man who can’t do anything. However, when a mad dog appears on the street, Atticus, their f ...
... from town, and branded an outcast. Even though she did not name her lover, so that he could be punished, he did not go unpunished. Reverend Dimmesdale had taken it upon him to stand on the same platform that Hester had, and he also whipped himself. The whipping did not serve its purpose, he was laughing all the while that he lashed himself. Neither means of punishment had taught him anything, as well as Hester. To fill in for what punishment had not taught, consequence brought forth the lessons of life. The consequences that Hester found were bad and good. There is usually two sides of consequences. The scarlet letter showed everyone she was ...
... so that they become crucial elements of the rhetorical and artistic construct of his fiction (Reynolds 179). Hawthorne used ironies of fallen women and female criminals to achieve the perfect combination of different types of heroines. His heroines are equipped to expel wrongs against their sex bringing about an awareness of both the rights and wrongs of women. Hester is a compound of many popular stereotypes rich in the thoughts of the time ...portrayed as a fallen woman whose honest sinfulness is found preferable to the future corruption of the reverend (Reynolds 183). Hester was described by Reynolds as a feminist criminal bound in an iron link of mutual crime ( ...
... illustrates the crassness and thoughtlessness that seemed to run rampant among the rich and famous during the twenties. An example of carelessness is when a large group of people at one of the huge soirees, decides to continue the party in the massive, expensive fountain in Gatsby’s lawn. They just jump right in and begin to dance without concern for their health, much less concern for the well being of the fountain. After the galas had died down, most of the participants went home, leaving a monstrous mess and sometimes even their clothes or shoes. Although Gatsby himself did not seem as dissolute as his guests, he did have flaws. On outward appea ...
... he thinks they are "phony" or normal. A few of his accounts make it more obvious than others to discover how he classifies each family member. From the very first page of the novel, Holden begins to refer to his parents as distant and generalizes both his father and mother frequently throughout his chronicle. One example is: "…my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything personal about them. They’re quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. They’re nice and all – I’m not saying that – but they’re also touchy as hell" (Salinger 1). Holden’s father is a lawyer and therefore he considers him "phony" beca ...
... Paris and Mary Warren not to say anything. "Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you... And you know I can do it... I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down." She fell in love with John Proctor after their affair, her morals and her whole life began to fall apart. She started to be overcome with her feelings of love, and her passion for John was enormous. After she was denied these things she could no longer control herself, and her whole reason for living became to get back John. This s ...
