(pg 272) Overall, The Story of Tom Brennan is a novel about pain and suffering and virtually every main character in it feels some degree of it. Some feel it more than others. Tom suffered tremendously and more than anyone else even when compared to Fin or Daniel, even though Fin was irreversibly harmed physically and Daniel had to life with the debt he felt he owed to everyone. Tom’s life, or what was left of it, was never going back to normal and it was because of
Literature that stimulates the feeling of pity, sympathy and sorrow is Pathos. The two pieces of literature express pathos in different lights, showcasing a rollercoaster of emotions for the reader. John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men and Christie McLaren’s article “Suitcase Lady” both expose heartache and social inequalities to deduce the feeling of commiseration. The bleak hardship of life affirms the heartache through Lennie and the Suitcase Lady. Lennie is loyal to George and is terrified of upsetting his friend.
This gives people different perspectives on what is going on based on the emotions they feel or what they believe is right or wrong. The six categories of shared humanity are found and explained in different works of litural, some being I Am Legend , How I Live Now, and “The Scarlet Ibis”. The novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson explains how a human can experience emotion in a tough time in their life. At the end of the book the emotion of
In everyday life, people are put under many pressures and are expected to be perfect to society. In Edith Wharton’s, best-known and most popular novel, Ethan Frome, this idea is highlighted, showing the protagonist’s breakdown. Ethan Frome struggles against the rules of society and his duty to his family, fighting a battle within himself between what he wants in order to be happy and what he feels he must do to satisfy his family and society. Frome struggles between his desire for his wife’s cousin, Mattie, and his sense of duty toward Zeena, his wife. The pressures that come from the responsibilities in the Frome household lead to Ethan Frome’s emotional breakdown, showing how societal pressures can lead to harmful self-doubt.
Through Gene’s exploits at Devon, John Knowles uses metaphors, personification, and war-like diction to convey the ever-present theme of how life events change us. Knowles uses
E ven though the novel and picture versions of The Fault in Our Stars are similar in plot and characterisation, the book portrayed the moral of the story more meaningfully with extensive, emotional dialect. The plot is the same in both the book and film, but each of them have specific minor changes. In John Greens novel, Hazel is a vegetarian, is extremely cancerous and very depressed. Similarly, Augustus has two siblings, is an uncle to his sisters’ children and had a previous girlfriend who Hazel would be very inquisitive about later in the text. While the movie maintains certain romantic elements such as: “It would be a privilege to be heartbroken by you, Hazel Grace.”
People go through life in different ways, each having their own set of morals and beliefs. Nonetheless, the bond between humans and their moral system can be compromised under stressful and life-threatening circumstances. According to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, humans cannot reach their fullest potential without fulfilling their elementary needs for survival. When situations come and strip them of that, it begins to tear the system a person has; leaving them to desperately leave everything behind for the sake of survival. Night and Lord of the Flies explore the limits of humans under extreme conditions.
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” The quote was said by John Green. A character from the story named Hazel. She was diagnosed with cancer and she started going to a group called the Cancer Kids Support Group. A young man named Augustus Waters changed Hazel’s life forever.
HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy is without a doubt in my mind a book of absurdity. Looking at the famous quote ”Don’t panic.” ”I’m not panicking!” ”Yes you are.” ”All right so I’m panicking, what else is there to do?” perfectly describes the genius of Douglas Adams and his absurdity.
Kurt Vonnegut’s Sirens of Titan explores a plethora of insightful topics: Society, the universe, human existence, free will, morality, and ultimately, the existential conflicts that emerge when these aspects come into dissonance. In light of this, humanity tends to critically downplay its role in shaping society, inadvertently coming into conflict with the very structures it created in the name of government and order. Vonnegut's vivid descriptions of Malachi Constant’s interactions with his futuristic society, his service in the Martian military, and his comparative solitude while on Mercury and Titan highlight the inherent flaws of rigid societal constructs as obstacles to the self-actualization that comes with existentialism, suggesting
The Fault in Our Stars, a novel by John Green, utilizes the image of “a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of a dock” (Fitzgerald 21) to create mood and foreshadow. Elizabeth Rowe from USA Today writes on this allusion explaining how “John Green writes about a green light in Amsterdam and a green car. He later conceded in an interview that these are, in fact, Great Gatsby references and that the green objects are analogous to the book's blinking green light.” The green light radiates a feeling of false hope and foreshadowing which ends with similar negative circumstances experienced by the main characters of both novels. This book was very popular and even became a movie later which shows how almost every reader or viewer could understand and decipher the familiar reference to The Great Gatsby.
In the short story, The Fault in our Stars by John Green, the author introduces a character named Augustus, who has a tendency to hold unlit cigarettes in his mouth. When Hazel, the protagonist, starts to reprimand Augustus, he says, “It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing” (Green 20). This philosophy means that anyone has the power to do whatever they please, but they need to have control so they will not be harmed, giving one control over their body rather than letting something get the better of them. This philosophy shows that it is important for an ill person to feel like they have a sense of control because it makes them feel as though they have jurisdiction over their illness, giving them the potential to take control of their life. This is shown through Augustus’s fear, Isaac and Monica’s phrase, and Hazel’s choice.
The Fault in Our Stars is a beautiful novel written by John Green. This story takes place in Amsterdam and Indianapolis, where it 's based mainly on two characters, Hazel, and Augustus. Hazel is facing stage four Thyroid cancer, and Augustus suffers from osteosarcoma, another form of cancer. Hazel is a very heartwarming character who never gives up no matter what, but like most teenagers, she dislikes doing what her parents believe is good for her. Her parents tried convincing her to attend a support group, but she just didn 't buy it until one day her mom forces her to go.
To Suffer or Not to Suffer As human beings, we try to eschew from the suffering and adversities that plague human morality. Nonetheless, society remains drawn to the surplus of tragedies in plays, movies, and literary works. Not only do these works provide an escape from our own hardships, but suffering and tragedy is a significant aspect to the development of human society. Personally, I have experienced my own share of sorrow, trauma, and difficulties in life. While they may not be as severe as those faced by the characters in A Doll’s House and Never Let Me Go, a pervasive theme still manifests in the presence of suffering.
The Moral Decision Being a moral person comes down to the choices being made, whether it will create benefits or adversity for others around, it should satisfy the one making the decisions. In the film The Green Mile, directed by Frank Darabont, based on the novel written by Stephen King, displays many concepts of morality—what is right or wrong—through the decisions of the protagonists Paul Edgecomb and John Coffey. The two protagonists, Paul Edgecomb and John Coffey, both reveal throughout the film that everyone can have different views, as both the protagonists have various outlooks of what the moral idealism is. The concept of morality within the film develops through the complex decisions that the characters have to make. These decisions
