The first example is Mildred she is a character who doesn’t know anything but isn’t happy, When Montag comes in her room, “…sleeping tablets which earlier today had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lay uncapped and empty…”(Bradbury 10) This shows that Mildred isn’t happy and tries to commit suicide even though she doesn’t know anything. Another example is Montag. Montag in the beginning book is ignorant is can be seen he isn’t happy. An example of how he isn’t happy is after talked with Clarisse he says, “ Of course I’m happy.
“We cannot let these monsters tear us from the pages of the world.” A quote from the book Prisoner B-3087. That quote was what gave Yanek Gruener the drive to survive through years of concentration camps. Yanek was a Polish Jew, he was moved from his home into the Krakow ghetto where he lived in a pigeon coop. Several months after moving to the ghetto, Yanek had everything taken from at the age of ten, including his family.
Tom Robinson is a mockingbird in that he doesn't do one thing wrong. All he does is provide help to the people he interacts with. That is exactly how he got in trouble. Tom Robinson was helping Mayella with some chores. He was humming a melody and when he chopped up the dresser drawers.
Wednesday Wars Respond to Literature Essay Have you ever read the book “The Wednesday Wars”, by Gary D. Schmidt? In “The Wednesday Wars”, the main character, Holling Hoodhood, seems to form opinions about people pretty quickly, especially Mrs.Baker, Holling’s new 7th teacher. This leads you to having the same opinion about certain characters in the book. However, you should never judge people based on first impressions. The world contains many people, you never do know who they really are and what they are capable of until you them.
In Legend by Marie Lu flashbacks to add insight on Day. At this point in the story Day is going to bed, a few days before he is supposed to be killed. He is dreaming about events that have happened to him in the past. In one of his dreams he recalls the events when he hit a policeman on accident with a ball. Police man over reacted and beat him brutally.
Clemens, Courtney Mrs. Zajac ELA Period 3 8 February 2023 Question One “It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. -Saint Augustine”. In the novel, Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes, the reader is presented with the main character, Johnny, a fourteen-year-old silversmith apprentice to Mr. Lapham, the master smith of the Lapham house, in the time of the Revolutionary War. Throughout the book, this character is portrayed as prideful and arrogant.
In the story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”, Sherlock Holmes is not responsible for the death of Dr. Grimbsy Roylott. One reason why Holmes is not responsible is because the snake is uncontrollable. Roylott was stupid to believe that the wild snake could be trained so easily. Furthermore, Holmes attacked the snake in self defense.
In the book “ Johnny Tremain” written by Esther Forbes, the theme pride really stands out in the beginning of the book. In this book, it repeatedly shows pride as a bad thing. Pride is one of the few things in the world that isn’t just good or evil. Pride is only evil if you let it become more important than everything else. This is a quote by C.Lewis “ pride is a spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, contentment, or even common sense,’”
This passage explains love and emotional significance in the war . Although the small role of women in The things they carried ,it is an importance threw out the book. Females character’s Martha ,Mary Anne and Kathleen have all effects on the men. Different women in the book have different effects on the men and affect them in different ways .For an example “Jimmy cross carried letters from a girl who named , Martha who 's an English major at Mount Sebastian College.
Finny wore a pink shirt and used the Devon School tie as his belt to the traditional term tea for the Upper Middle class. Mrs. Patch-Withers noticed and Finny quickly came up with a convincing story to possibly get himself out of trouble. Gene thinks Finny will be busted and reacts by saying, “I could feel myself becoming unexpectedly excited at that” (Knowles 12). This quote shows the beginning of the envy Gene feels toward Finny. Gene is somewhat looking forward to the possibility of Finny getting in trouble for the first time.
Matthew Mulderig Mrs. Zajac English Period 1 8 February 2023 Rab’s Influence on Johnny In Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes, a boy named Rab influences the protagonist, Johnny, positively and negatively. Throughout the story, Johnny becomes less arrogant, and more respectful and thinks before he speaks during his time with Rab. Although Johnny’s relationship with Rab has been positive so far, Rab has introduced Johnny to a menacing crowd of passionate patriots, which causes him to become rebellious. Before Johnny met Rab, he was an arrogant, conceited apprentice boy.
“I can’t help but smile. We are here, together. In this wide, wild world, we’ve managed to meet again” (Condie 206). Ky and Cassia are both in search of each other in the canyons and Cassia took a blue tablet without knowing they were poisonous. Finally after long journeys Cassia and Ky are reunited with each other and are now trying to get back to their society.
“I felt no pity for him. In fact I was pleased with what was happening to him” (Wiesel 52). Elie Wiesel’s character became a brute, because he witnessed children being killed, death everywhere and his loss of faith. Wiesel watched people get hung with no phase of tears. Wiesel writes in his book after the war, “watched others hangings.”
While Crooks, a victim of racial prejudice, expresses his isolation openly, he also socializes with other workers on the job and while playing horseshoes with them. Curley’s wife, on the other hand, cannot talk to anyone without suffering the consequences of a jealous husband: “ I get so lonely,’ she said. “you can talk to people , but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not to talk to anybody?”
The Theme of Happiness What is your definition of happiness? My definition of happiness is enjoying all that you. In the book, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald thinks the definition of happiness is having a lot of money and high status.some other people think that being loved and loving someone could bring you happiness. Everyone has a different definition of happiness but I think true happiness come from enjoying everything you do, not money and status or even love.
