n the book The Count of Monte Cristo takes revenge against the people who ruined his life as Edmond Dantes and uses different types of strategies depending on their weakness. The Count disguises himself as an Abbe and returns to find Caderousse still as a poor man. On page 110 it says “So saying , he the diamond from his pocket and handed it to Caderousse. “Take this, my friend.” he said, “it's yours” “What! for me alone?” cried Caderousse.
The innocence of Sacco-Vanzetti Sacco And Vanzetti were accused of a murder they did not take part in. Sacco and Vanzetti were both Italian Immigrants. They both were charged with the murder of 2 paymasters. The jury and the judge were both against Sacco-Vanzetti because the victims were described as 2 italian immigrants that’s what made the case more sad. What made it more sadder, they were both put to death
•Montresor does fulfill this definition of revenge. He boasts about how it has been fifty years since his crime and nobody has “disturbed” the catacomb that he has enclosed Fortunato. Regarding the second part, it is questionable. The fact that he is still telling this story a half century later may suggest that he is obsessed (“overtaken”) with his crime. And the third part, he did make himself known to Fortunato because Fortunato cries “For the love of God, Montresor” as he is being enclosed in the catacomb wall.
Did you know that “76% of parents feel guilty about saying “no” to their kids?” (Janice D'Arcy). S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the late 1960s, and follows a fourteen-year-old boy named “Ponyboy,” and his group the “Greasers.” Ponyboy and his group are constantly quarreling with the west-side “Socs,” and the Greasers always get the short end of the stick.
“There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause” (Thomas Southerne). Scout’s innocence, The Radley family, and Tom Robinson’s trial all convey the theme that innocence leads to courage. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee portrays the ways in which innocence leads to courage. Harper Lee illuminates the fact that Scout’s innocence leads to her courage within her community. “‘That’s okay, ma’am, you’ll get to know all the county folks after a while.’
Some people say the theme of the Outsiders-a book by S.E. Hinton- is preserving childhood innocence, but I say it is that violence is never the answer. I say this because, throughout the story there is a lot of violence. Every time there is some form of violence, something bad always happens as a result. None of the fights end up causing more problems. For example when Bob attacked Ponyboy Bob ended up dead, because of this Jonny and Ponyboy had to go on the run.
“The tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart”, as said by Ultima. Antonio has this realization in chapter 22, when he realizes that Ultima has been trying to teach him all along. Antonio can experience the suffering of his friends and family and string of tragic deaths that he witnesses, and still persevere and thrive. Antonio’s questions and resolutions here are basically Anaya’s thesis for the novel. He must embrace all the aspects of his culture and childhood- Luna and Marez; Native American, Spanish, and English; Catholic and pagan; curanderismo and priesthood- and build his own identity out of them, accepting them all as valid in their contradictions.
In the novel, Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck, the author demonstrates how friendship is profitless, impracticable, and full of deception. Friends don’t always have your back when you think they do. Nothing really does hurt more than being betrayed by the one person you trusted the most. Friends sometimes aren’t worth the heartbreak you go through in the end.
Maturity is one of the most important parts of human life. Maturity begins developing during the adolescence of a child and progresses all the way until a person becomes an elderly sage. Maturity is an important part of any bildungsroman, or better known as a coming-of-age novel. Jamie Ford’s novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet tells the bittersweet story of two misfits in wartime: Henry, a Chinese-American boy, and Keiko, a Japanese-American girl.
12 Extended Essay The Complexity of Innocence in S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders Word count: 3,661 S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders uses allusion to its advantage, specifically through the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay, written by Robert Frost. The novel highlights Ponyboy Curtis and the other greasers he associates himself with; among these are Dallas “Dally” Winston and Johnny Cade. The allusion to Robert Frost’s poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay, shows the complexity of the retention and loss of innocence in specific characters in The Outsiders by relating lines of the poem with three of the main boys highlighted in the novel:
Annemarie is a young ten-year old girl who witnesses a tragic event in the year 1943. along the way Annemarie is lied to. Sometimes adults lie to children for their protection or they are not old enough to handle it. In Annemarie's story she is affected by lies and truth, her relationship with the adults in her life, and her journey from girlhood to womanhood.
"You must have a very innocent heart not to have guessed it immediately" (Dumas, 56). In the Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas highlights the character's loss of blissful innocence. Through the course of the story, Edmond Dantes, Mercedes, and Albert become more hardened and less childish. This pattern is universal, but the following examples are some of the extremes. The most visible and arguably important loss of innocence in the story is that of Edmond Dantes, who literally gains a new identity after his imprisonment. "
Coming of Age in a World of Tragedy: Joe’s Loss of Childhood in The Round House The loss of Joe’s innocence can not be traced back to a singular event but is more of a gradual process that unfolds as Joe becomes more aware of the reality of his community. While childhood is often marked by the years one through eighteen, in Louise Erdriches The Round House, it is viewed more as a mentality. The first change in Joe's mentality can be seen when the milk goes sour in his fridge, representing the loss of innocence and stability in Joe's life. After accidentally drinking the sour milk, Joe rushes up to his mother's room and says, “‘Mom, the milk was sour’...
Our human nature requires us to be products of our environment. If someone grows up in a house that appreciates art, those that grow in the house are likely to inherit that trait as well. Those that grow up in tribal society are likely to hold those tendencies for the rest of their life too. As we see in Mark Bowden’s “Tales of the Tyrant” in this tribal way of life people live independently; they need not work with others, because they only have themselves. Saddam Hussein did not know how to civilly operate with others around once he rose to great power; so he was forced to use his village mentality where violence is the rule of law, thus leading to his intense and irrational cruelty.
A world war takes place as a group of boys get stranded on an island. As the boys try to escape the war, it follows them onto the island in the form of a never ending conflict with how to survive. As the boys become engaged in this war they lose their innocence. In the Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, loss of innocence plays a big role in the outcome of the book. Loss of innocence is ultimately what leads to the war which takes place on the once “good island” (Golding 34).
