... on an island because he wants the children to create their own culture and society. It will show their own type of government on the island and will give responsibilities to each of the characters. The type of government will shape their behaviors and the respect from the others. Their rules of civilization change the way people feel about each other. For example, Jack does not like Ralph because Ralph is the leader of the group and makes the decisions, but Jack doesn't like the way Ralph leads them. Another reason Golding put the setting on an island is that the environment is different from the conditions that they're used to. The environment and veg ...
... at Huck. Jim says, “ Dat truck dah is trash; en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren’s em makes ‘em ashamed.” That line, from the story, is basically saying that Huck is trash for doing that to Jim. Then fifteen minutes later Huck goes into Jim’s wigwam and apologizes. This is showing that Huck does have a voice because any other white person from the south would not apologize to a slave. The slaves were thought of as being lower than any white person and Huck was showing that a slave as equal to him or even better than him because he went and apologized to Jim. By doing this Huck was different and devel ...
... black man seriously in Maycomb, which shows the lack of morale in the town. After looking at the judge and the jury, I realized that Tom never had a chance in the first place. The odds were still against him even though the plaintiff was the lowest form of human imaginable, who would have lost no matter what the case was if she was up against another white person. She was Mayella Ewell; disgusting. The point is, how would Tom might have been sentenced if he was in another town like yours and mine, say (your state here)? There's no doubt in my mind that he would have been found innocent right away if he was tried in my town, because of the undeniable evedence, a ...
... top of the Honor Roll, so that everybody's parents can marvel at how smart (s)he is. There is one character that fits into no stereotype. "Leper" Lepillier is an individualist. Individualists are people who don't conform to social norms just for the sake of being accepted by others. Real individualists are not those people with blue and green hair you see on talk shows. Those people conform to a subculture, something that was less common during World War II. The real individualists of the world are quickly disappearing, as conformity becomes more popular. I haven't met any real individualists, so I can't say whether or not Knowles exaggerates Lepillier's lack of ...
... relationship with Dimmesdale, consequently, has been the almost inescapable result of her own nature, not a violation of it. Her sin has only affected the way that people look at Hester. Hester feels that the only sin that she committed is that she had not told the community who the father of Pearl is. It was her choice not to tell whom the father was and she regretted every moment of it. She was suffering because she was not strong enough to come out and tell the town that Dimmesdale was the father. It is stated in the novel that she “was patient, -a martyr, indeed, -but she forbore to pray for her enemies; lest, in spite of her forgiving aspirations, the w ...
... pigs simply acted as overseers, and, in effect, slavedrivers of the working animals, blatantly avoiding anything physically taxing. This is demonstrated in a quote from page 35, “The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others.” Of course, the ignorant animals put forth no opposition. The sheep, cows, horses, and birds were digging their own graves when they reacted passively each time Napoleon usurped a little more power. Since very few of the animals could read, or adequately remember what was read to them, they failed to notice or object when the Seven Commandments were altered. “ ....But it appears to me that the wall looks diffe ...
... his actions because his surroundings have shaped him into what he is and his age keeps him from much blame. While reading A Map of the World, one learns that Robbie Mackessy is in an unhealthy, unfit environment at home. His mother, single and constantly dating, treats him poorly. Mrs. Mackessy plays a negative role in Robbie’s life that eventually brings him to do certain mischievous things. From neighbor’s and Robbie’s accounts, one can clearly see the environment in which he lives. Through a next door neighbor’s testimony we learn that Robbie has been seen frequently unattended away from and at his home. For periods of time, neighbors describe hi ...
... modern version of The Odyssey is a combination of all these scrolls that could have existed as separate stories about Odysseus’ travels, his encounters, and how he obtained his status as a hero. Ancient Greece has always been an interest of mine. In 6th grade a teacher that I had know for my whole schooling showed a movie every week. One week we watched “Jason and the Argonaughts”. Ever since then I could never get enough Greek mythology. In freshman year of high school we read the annotated text book version of The Odyssey. Lucky for me, I transferred English classes at the semester and I was able to read The Odyssey twice. And sin ...
... missing hand ever will. He looks down on himself as an old worthless man that’s wasting away his last few years. Not only is it the way that others think of him but also the way he thinks of himself that forces him to find solitude. The most evident case of loneliness is Curley’s wife. No matter how hard she tried she couldn’t fit in. For example, when she tried numerous times to talk to George and Lenny she was either ignored or told to leave. Because of her reputation for being a flirt none of the farmhands wanted to talk to her. It was the threat of getting in trouble with Curley that caused many workers to avoid her. In addition, because of Curley’s in ...
... is allowed to be metaphoric and abstract. With the stereotypical view in mind, a reader would not expect the above excerpt to come from a piece of non-fiction literature. The classification of “non-fiction” guarantees that the personas depicted in the tale will be real people; Woolf’s non-fiction tale reads like a story - a personal anecdote shared with the reader by a persona who might not, if the story be fictionalized, exist. Thus, Woolf almost confuses the reader as to what classification it actually falls into – non-fiction or fiction? The author’s conversational manner relaxes the reader to a point that he or she forgets that they are, indeed, read ...
