An adjective that I would use to describe Virgil Byrnes would be abusive. In the book there are multiple different ways Virgil has hurt people. One the most cruelest ways Virgil has hurt people was when he burned his own daughter Sarah Byrnes. Sarah reveals this to Eric Calhoun when Sarah was still in the hospital. Sarah states “Then he said, ‘Here's your pretty little baby for you,’ and I look up and saw the wood stove coming right up to my face.
A theme most commonly used in literature. It has a way of bringing change either to a character or environment that no other theme can achieve, most likely for the worst. We see cruelty everywhere in life and pieces of literature it can sometimes be hard to see when it 's right in front of our face. I had a hard time figuring this out while reading The Poisonwood Bible and Things Fall Apart. It wasn 't hard for me to see what they were doing was wrong, but more of why they were.
Throughout her life, Mariam learns not to speak up for herself, as she is always met with retaliation or consequence, whether from Nana in her childhood or from Rasheed once she is married. Hosseini’s writing establishes her timidity. Especially in her early scenes with Rasheed, whose thoughts are expressed in long lines of speech, Mariam’s responses tend to be much shorter and less open. Frequently, she responds only with gestures, and on the occasions that she talks, Hosseini usually omits her dialogue and instead tells the reader directly of her response. This is in contrast to Rasheed, whose thoughts are almost always expressed through dialogue, sometimes in rants that drag on and on.
William Golding’s book Lord of the Flies is about a group of boys who got stuck on an island as a result of a plane crash. The boys have to decide whether they are going to focus on rescue, or hunting and having fun. One of the boys, Jack, solely wanted to hunt and have fun; leading to savagery and the fall of society on the island. Although there are many other words to describe him, the best word is callous because of how insensitive he is based on his negative emotional qualities and his involvement in conflict. Jack’s negative emotional qualities explicitly shows his callousness.
The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy is a collection of stories within stories, all reflecting the frame story of King Shahrayar’s desire for vengeance and the cleverness of his supposed future murder victim Shahrazad. Throughout the development of the stories, the images of cutting and separation appear constantly in both the literal and symbolic sense. These themes are especially evident in “The Story of the Three Apples.” The murder of a young woman, the mistake of a husband, the noble justice of a vizier, and the intense vengeance of a caliph, expose King Shahrayar’s shortcomings in his rule of his kingdom and the smooth manipulation of him by Shahrazad.
Because of this, he enjoys using his opportunistic advantages to make Hassan think less of himself. As children, Amir and Hassan enjoy reading under their favorite tree, but Amir’s favorite part is when they come “across a big word that [Hassan does not] know” and he has the opportunity to “expose his ignorance” (Hosseini 28). Amir craves so badly to be superior that he
Lord of the Flies is a passage into the very existence of humanity. The very last part of the book is full of rage and violence. The violence could be blamed on the lack of vital nutrients the boys where facing but more likely the motives of Jack and his party is related to the emotional impact of their stay on the island. The impact of the island and lack of adults lent to the overall outcome of their stay. Starting out the group of boys were scattered around the island and in tiny huddles of boys.
By serving as a father-figure in Amir’s life, acting as a friend and encourager, Rahim Khan is able to provide
Throughout the book, the authors use descriptive language to create a vivid and immersive description that draws the reader in and engages them. In one scene the author describes the assault from Rashad’s perspective to explain his physical state where Rashad describes the attack, “He shoved me through the door and slammed me to the ground. Face-first. Hurt so bad the pain was a color-white, a crunching sound in my ear as bones in my nose cracked”(Reynolds and Kiely 22). This description is visceral and graphic, it helps the reader understand the brutality of the situation in a way that is both emotionally and intellectually engaging.
In the novel, Hosseini uses Amir’s internal conflict highlights how unresolved guilt and fear can negatively impact one’s life. Hassan’s rape initiates the internal conflict in Amir that lasts the rest of his young adult life. Assef rapes Hassan after the kite running competition prompting Amir to run away in terror and fear. After the incident, Amir celebrates the victory of
I took her from behind by that creek over there” (Hosseini, 7). The author accurately depicts the mistreatment of women by muting them out of the novel. In addition, Amir scarcely
To conclude, Shahrazad aims to kill two birds in one stone, by telling stories with the purpose of saving the life of the women of the kingdom and improve the King’s character and develop him into a better human with fair judgment and wisdom by trying to make him motivated to change through the stories. Each story that she told mirrored to her situation and was told to change the King’s mind by making them relatable to his life. Not only did she try to imply that one shouldn’t jump to conclusion to fast through the story of the husband and the parrot, that not all women are corrupt and weak through the honorable action of the shepherds daughter and the she-demon, and that giving life is more valuable than taking it, but she also introduced
The main character had to manage his father’s neglect while growing up. All Amir really wants is to be “looked at, not seen, listened to, not heard” (Hosseini 65), and while this conflict shapes the way that Amir grew up, readers are exposed to the
In the story, the women are oppressed by the society. This is narrated through the delivery of the main antagonist’s id, the gender inequality in enforcing laws and the marginalization of women. As a result of Rasheed’s id, Mariam and Laila are consistently physically and emotionally
Hosseini 104).When Rasheed forces Mariam to eat pebbles, he represents the corrupted person, or vampire, who only perceives his wife as an object that seeks to serve him and his relentless demands. After a while, Rasheed begins to look at Mariam as a burden that needs to be lifted off of his shoulders, so he tortures and abuses her, turning himself into a monster in the process. Furthermore, Rasheed does the same thing to his other wife, Laila, and his daughter. When Laila and Aziza attempt to escape, Rasheed is outraged, so he asserts his power when, “ [He] had not given them any food, and worse, no water. That day, a thick, suffocating heat fell on them.
