This shows he was afraid he was trying to forget he participated in the crime and was afraid of being caught. In the same book, it says He emphasizes that he is a “good person but he can still be a good person and still do a bad thing”. This shows that he was afraid of not being a good person because of what he was involved with. In the book Don't Look Behind You! It says that April's Friend Left the map of where they were going.
She is hidden away because, “her father says to be this beautiful is trouble.” (81) The only difference between the two of them is their age. When Sally goes to school, she dresses and behaves differently because she is not under the tyranny of her father. But, when she goes home, she is forced to behave the way he commands her
Fear is a natural response to danger that prevents personal innovation, but there is beauty in it. Though fearing the loss of something fleeting—an established reputation, for example—may not be justifiable, to fear for the well-beings of another can be. In her bestselling novel The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton describes various cases of people demonstrating the sort of justifiable fear mentioned. Character Ponyboy Curtis, for instance, is afraid of what may become of his good friend Johnny Cade when Cade unintentionally causes the death of a rival gang member and high school student. “‘What are we gonna do?
Fear is the worst feeling to have, but fear also creates suspense because some people are not themselves when they are afraid. In the story "Refresh,Refresh" by Benjamin Percy two boys turn into a new person when their fathers leave for the army. The boys became very violent someone completely different from who they were before their dad left for the army, "before he could even speak, I brought my fist to his diaphragm, knocking the breath from, his body." (5). The boys in "Refresh, Refresh" were so afraid of what Dave was about to say that they acted out of fear and started to beat Dave up.
The Maid by Jann Haworth was created in 1966 (PMA wall panel for Maid), it reflected the 21st century and modernization around the world. The Maid is an example of pop art, which was an art movement that chose to represent ordinary, consistent, and predictable imagery of life at the time. Pop art depicted comic strips, household products, celebrity’s and models, and billboards (“Pop Art”)). They would recreate these images as “smooth paintings, silkscreens, or soft sculptures” (“Pop Art”). The maid is a soft sculpture, she is made out of “nylon, cotton, satin, kapok, plastic, wood, and paint” (PMA wall panel for Maid).
All men feel it and none dare to speak” (46). This quote is important to understanding how big of an impact fear was on them, and shows that it began to literally consume
This thought leads onto the idea of flight or fight. Fear is a strong emotion which leads to the fight or flight response is when your mind need to save yourself or runaway. Fear is apparent in people’s choice to their extreme actions, it may cause some to confess something they didn’t do, or accuse others to save their own lives or name or keep silent. In act one Miller shows a repeated cycle of flight responses, in this act Abigail is being questioned for what the girls have been caught doing in the forest, as pressure starts to build Abigail
The fear in this case is the fear of a parent, thinking that their child had been molested. It started with Judy Johnson, stating that Ray Buckey had molested her child. This fear of molestation had turned into hysteria, where parents feared the very existence of the school. Parents had heard of secret tunnels under the school, where many children were said to be molested, and began digging. However, no such evidence of any secret tunnels were found.
She tried to reach over and spell a sign into her hand, but Helen yanked her hand away. Also, the movie had a similar thing happen. But instead of this, a bit more chaotic. In the movie, Annie is doing the
It’s a Wonderful Life is a film set in the World War II era that follows the life of George Bailey. George spends his entire life in a small town named Bedford Falls. His dream was always to leave the town and travel the world, but he never gets the opportunity because he is stuck running his father’s building and loan company. George serves the citizens of the town by providing them with affordable housing. During this time he makes many important relationships with people throughout the town.
Whether this fear is reasonable in the beginning of the book, before the
At first, her stomach lurched when she felt the floor tilt under her feet, then a deep low rumble made her hair stand on end. ‘Hold onto my arm,’ Mrs Tiffin called. But as soon as the tremors started, they stopped, and an eerie silence followed in their wake.
In this compelling story, The Prom by Hasan Minhaj, Minhaj uses narrative techniques to express the idea that people in general let fear restrict their actions. He uses well-known allusions and incorporates other languages to impact the audience by connecting and conveying unique aspects. Minhaj mentions Mario Kart, Full House and March Madness so that the audience can be able to better connect and relate with him. Furthermore, he also quotes his father using his native Indian language so that the audience is able to gain insight to their culture.
“Diary of Interesting Year” by Helen Simpson; narrated from a women’s perspective, who was never named through the story. The story was written in a journal format with dates and included times occasionally. The journal starts off in the year 2040 in February, the women start off talking about the journal that her Husband G bought for her for her birthday that she used to document the year. Everything starts off fine then there is a sudden disturbance in the environment. Sewage overflowing in the streets and outbreaks of Cholera, which is a diarrheal disease that can kill within hours if left untreated.
Hence, the dangerous forest and the safe town. When ‘the native’ (p. 29, 21) suddenly approaches her, the female protagonist is paralyzed by fear for ‘every vestige of control, of sense, of thought’ (p. 29, 49). Yet, she does not fear the man himself since it is ‘Fear itself that [has] her by the arms, the legs, the throat’ (p. 29, 52).
