An Analysis Of James Dickey's Deliverance '

Nicholas Lemann begins his book “Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War” with the 1873 Colfax, Louisiana massacre where a White League militia comprised of former Confederate soldiers killed black Republican voters. The Colfax massacre was perhaps the bloodiest event of Reconstruction. Lemann views this event as a startup of what would happen later in Mississippi if Federal troops did not defend black voters. Lemann blames Ulysses S. Grant’s Secretary of War, William W. Belknap, for not stopping the White Line activity in Louisiana and Mississippi. Grant had worked hard to stop the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1870s with Congress passing legislation and Federal troops putting down Klan activity. The white militias of the 1870s, established

Edmond’s journey seeking revenge has taught the readers that only those who have felt the deepest of misery know the feeling of true happiness. “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life” (Dumas 214). This quote infers that because Edmond Dantes spent 14 years in “hell” he is now able to enjoy happiness in a deeper way than those who have not felt the anguish of Chateau D’if. Edmond has been searching for revenge since he escaped prison. After being imprisoned for many years he transitions from a loving young man

“Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered . . . I stood on the corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets and his mouth twisted and broken. His mother had done a bold thing. She refused to let him be buried until hundreds of thousands marched past his open casket in Chicago and looked down at his mutilated body. [I] felt a deep kinship to him when I learned he was born the same year and day I was. My father talked about it at night and dramatized the crime. I couldn’t get Emmett out of my mind”.—Muhammed Ali, boxer 13

Being supposedly made up on the spot, Noah S. Sweat did not have time to compose an eloquent speech about a controversial topic. He instead spoke a purely unfactual and highly descriptive banter using doublespeak to voice his opinion of whiskey. Both sides of his argument include impactual adjectives to describe the drink. Or as Mr. Sweat would say on line 6, “the devil’s brew,” or on line 12, “the philosophic wine”. Each side of his argument is entirely one sentence long, implying that he emotionally fuels his speech as he works out his thoughts with the audience as one thought flows to the other. He uses metaphors also to describe whiskey; he sets situations which one could “feel” how whiskey affects the person. Mr. Sweat

The book “The Five People You Meet in Heaven”, written by Mitch Albom was a story of a man named Eddie-a man who worked as a maintenance in a park, Ruby Pier. The story takes place after his death and his journey to heaven, and the five people he meets. Five people that made a great part in his early life.-even some of those five people was not mush familiar with him. Each of their role was to make him understand his life on earth and leaves him a lesson about life.

In the last paragraph on pg. 220 of Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi, she talks about her fears that she has encountered throughout her life. I chose this passage because I felt that it was relevant to the story, because she discussed some of her fears throughout the story and how she might have overcame them. Coming of Age in Mississippi is about the author’s own personal experiences and encounters as an African American girl growing up during the time of segregation and the pre Civil Rights movement. She has faced many hardships as a young child because she was African American, but the one that sort of lead her to fight for her rights, in my opinion, was the death of Emmett Till. “Emmett Till was a young African American boy, fourteen to be exact, and some white men murdered him.

Greediness and bitterness. Angry and Unhappy. These personalities and emotions are experienced by this dynamic character. But, how will this bitter old man change into a man who is kind and happy of the man he is? Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”, a novel full of morals in which the protagonist experiences and learns from his actions and those around him. Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character, is introduced to be a loathsome person and has a callous attitude towards people. He is a man who lacks sympathy to the community, as he is a heartless miser however, these personalities of his will be approached by three Spectres. Throughout the story his character development will change immensely; his deficiency for caring to kindness, his ignorance to attentive. His expedition will start in Christmas Eve, he will encounter meeting The Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet To Come. Ghost of Christmas Past reveals Scrooges’ nightmares; his actions and relationships from his wretched past. Lastly, The Apparition of Yet To Come show Scrooge his ultimate future but, the events will only occur if he does not make an effort to bring out the opposite of his character. These three ghosts went to different places but, they all had the same mission; guide Scrooge to the light, to make a better man out of him. Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” was written to show the impact an individual, even the dead, can have on others.

Joseph Campbell’s Master Of Two Worlds means “[the hero] coming back with new knowledge requires the hero to balance the two worlds. The hero’s mastery of the outside world qualifies them to be giants in their own.(Campbell HJ)” Eddie’s master of two worlds was when he had met the fourth person in heaven, Ruby. She had informed him that he had to confront his father for all the times he had neglected Eddie and his family throughout his life on earth (Albom 144). Eddie’s father’s wrath towards Eddie specifically had begun when Eddie had come back from the war handicapped. Since when Eddie was a young man his father would always challenge him with maintenance problems and say to “fix it” and Eddie would always end up fixing them, replying then with “it’s fixed”.

In “A View from the Bridge”, Arthur Miller presents Eddie as an overprotective, opiniated man who through the play gets more and more agitated by Rodolpho who he believes is taking Catherine away from her.

Throughout the novel, Markus Zusak is able to show the message through the identify of Ed Kennedy. A strong example of this is shown in part one page 41 the quote of “You're a dead man. I hear his voice again, and I see the words on my face when I get back in the cab in the rearview mirror. It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments and my overall abilities in incompetence. A dead man, I think. He's not far wrong”. Ed is frightened and figures out that he doesn't really amount to much and doesn't seen himself with many prospects or possibilities in his life. Ed has no confidence, no goals and no ambition in

King Lear, written by Shakespeare is a play that mainly portrays the consequences of flattery and how wrong choices can lead into big issues causes deaths and sufferings. King Lear made his wrong choices by not choosing the wrong heir to his fortunes as well as not listening to his loyal friend, Earl of Kent who was devoted to him. This further lead to The Earl’s banishment. Selfless and true to the king, the Earl disguises as Caius to protect the unwitty king. However, throughout the entire play it is shown that King Lear loses the most and that when he realized his loses it was too late to correct the mistakes he had made in the past leading to the death of all his loved ones.

Ed and Ches both embody traditional masculinity as seen through their rash and bravado-driven actions. As Ed hears of a fight amongst men he does not know, his ego quickly causes him to intervene and fight three men on his own. As the men agree to his challenge, “three Tollivers were down and dead, and Ed Lowe was dying”, (44) an indication of the horrific outcomes of egotistic masculinity as it was Ed’s ego and his reckless challenge that caused his death. Even after being shot, Ed’s ego maintains control over him as he states, “‘We got ‘em. […] we sure did. But they got me’” (44). This shocking statement demonstrates Ed’s level of self-absorbance, but also leads to great rouble. Although he soon realized that he has left his wife and chidren,

If you were Ed, who would you vote in that situation? Dickey's Deliverance mainly talks about the 4 city men were so bored about the office life, so they went to the wild to enjoy the life of no control. During the journey, they meet two men who made them in great trouble. In one situation, Lewis killed one of the two men in order to save his friend. They were city men, and they knew the rules and laws that civilization gave them. As a result, they have to decide how to deal with the dead body apply the laws of nature and the laws of man. Since at that time, the four men were in the wild, their law of nature took over the laws of man, they buried the dead body(Benson) in the forest.

There was no energy left in him to shed a tear. He did not pray for him because he thought, what was the point? What will God do? For what God had put him through who can blame him. “ He had called out to me and I had not answered.” How bad would I feel if I didn’t answer the last call my father made to me. Yet for Ellie his father’s death was freedom, free from worrying and the extra energy spent helping his father will be useful to him now, free at last! His life only got worse, nothing mattered anymore. I would have given up the will to live. Everything taken away from me, what was the

Waverley’s observation of the inferiority within the clan is no longer through that romantic lens. Waverley is stricken by reality. This can be seen in Marilyn Orr’s book, Real and Narrative Time: Waverley and the Education of Memory, where she states, “..Waverley moves from his experience to an understanding of history and of his place in history..” (716). Orr is stating that Edward now grasps the reality that has been laid out in front of him; the romantic point of view was shielding him from reality. The clan of which he was so inspired by because of its sense of self-government is simply no longer there. He sees the clan for what it truly is; a socially divided group that is clearly not self-governed. Further examination of Waverley’s transformation