Hunter was saving to buy a house for Ruth and her children in Queens. After his death the family became depressed and went their own way. James was miserable and heartbroken. James started failing his classes, turned to drugs, and crimes. “One day he was there, the next-a stroke, and he was gone.
Maybe he got into a fight so serious and he is murdered, nobody knows. However, the sight of this carcass or the possible imagination of what happened to him left one honest impression or virtue in the life of the narrator. The narrator begins to realize how imprudent and irresponsible he is. At one point he contemplates suicide, but realizes “the dead man is the only person on the planet worse off than I was,” he said (Boyle, 693). The narrator’s experience tonight proves that his careless actions will place him in a position that will likely end up destroying him.
In France, he had to disappear after conning his way to a lump sum amount (31). Evidence in the book underscores the cumbersomeness of a spy’s work. The death of Hugh Thomas had been planned methodically, and for a long time. Margaret, Thomas ' wife, had been involved all along with Sigmund secretly pulling the strings. The nurse, Anna, was involved, too.
But Wilkinson was very jealous of Lewis after he was appointed governor. Other theories regarding Lewis’s death claim that it was a suicide. While there is a few bits of compelling evidence there is copious amounts of evidence proving it was murder by conspiracy. To disprove the suicide theory, in the only examination of Lewis’s body claimed that he was killed by an assassin. And if it was suicide, why did all of his money disappear and Mr. Grinder just happened upon a great deal of money.
Justified Death Of Mice and Men was an inspiring book about a couple of men just trying to get by in the Great Depression. George and Lennie had known each other for a very long time and had grown to depend on each other. The most controversial topic from this book was why George killed Lennie. It was the right thing to do for multiple reasons. One of the many reasons for george to kill George is that Lennie was a danger to those around him as well as himself.
Knowing that Lennie has killed Curley’s wife and will be shot by Curley, George rushes to the river to get to Lennie first. The two men talk for a short while, then George silently brings the gun to Lennie’s head and shoots him. Steinbeck’s use of foreshadowing effective in this novel. Steinbeck
In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck many hard decisions were made. In this novel two Characters George and Lennie get kicked out of their last city and travel to soledad to start their new life. Lennie causes lots of commotion at the ranch which turns people against George and Lennie. At the end of the novel George kills Lennie which raises the question if he fairly weighed all of the options and if his choice was justified or condemned. One reason why this was a justified decision is that George only wanted the best for his best friend.
In this final action, he attempts to redeem himself by gifting what remains of his estate to Pearl. Whether this is genuine or not is completely up to the reader. However, he did do something much unlike what was expected of him. He gave what he had left to the product of sin he had been trying to correct for years. This action allows readers to see him less cut and dried; he is left up to the reader’s
He steals Carleson’s luger and shoots Lennie. In the aftermath of the novella, readers
A Changed Hobbit “If it’s challenging you, testing you, and pushing you... it’s helping you become more of who you’re meant to be” –Mandy Hale. In the exciting and eye catching novel The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien, the main character Bilbo Baggins, goes on a dangerous and very challenging adventure, to retrieve a lost and valuable treasure. Throughout this novel Bilbo Baggins truly evolves as a character throughout his journey.
In particular, Llewelyn Moss and Sheriff Ed Tom Bell lives are disrupted by a drug deal, causing them to re-evaluate their values and choices and ultimately learn that fate cannot be changed but chosen, making the cycle of literature that Frye proposed. Moss’s life was changed when he found roughly two million dollars at a busted drug deal. With this amount of money, Moss’s life can be changed forever but that money belonged to drug dealers, and they were after the money as well. Moss blinded by the trauma of
Gatsby’s demise, tragically mistaken for a crime he did not commit, symbolizes the hollowness of his pursuit, lamented by Nick Carraway’s reflection that Gatsby “paid a high price for living too long with a single dream” (Fitzgerald 169). Likewise, Macbeth meets his end in a final, futile battle, realizing the emptiness of his conquests as he muses, “Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more” (Shakespeare 5.5.24-26). Their respective deaths underscore the ephemeral nature of ambition divorced from ethical considerations, echoing the timeless warning against the perils of sacrificing integrity for personal
Imagine, a small, nearly silent hospital room filled with quiet apprehension about what is about to happen; the silence masked only by soothing voices trying to bring the room to a state of peace. A man lies in bed, only kept alive by the life support that his been sustaining him for days. Then in a moment, the life support is gone and so is the man, released in a harsh act prompted by mercy, compassion, and good intentions. In John Steinbeck’s book, Of Mice and Men, a another situation is prompted by compassion, but the result is a cruel act. Lennie attempts to show caring and tenderness to Curley’s wife, but it leads to her death in an example of situational irony.
Max Bergman Ms. Stephanie Archimedes English 11/17/23 Will you always stay an outsider? In The Outsiders, the concept of identity is woven thoroughly. The question would be, is your identity pre-determined by your circumstances? In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the story follows Ponyboy.
In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, legality is often deemed less important than morality in terms of decision making. Multiple characters throughout the novel disregard the law in order to carry out their vision of justice. When Curley, the son of the ranch owner, discovers his wife’s body, he is furious. So furious that he plans to track Lennie, a new employee with an intellectual disability, down and murder him to get revenge for his mistake. Regardless of the law, Curley’s morals based on vengeance and masculinity drive him to kill Lennie.
