Aspects Of Naturalism In 'Paul's Case' By Willa Cather

Holden Caulfield has been known to show unstable emotions and actions towards his peers. Holden belongs to a rest home because of his constant irrational behaviour. Holden doesn’t apply himself towards school even with teachers that care about his studies. Holden doesn’t have a good relationship with his family members because he doesn’t communicate well. A final example that proves that Holden should be in a rest home is that he doesn’t have a healthy relationship with his peers.

Although Troy feared and hated his father he would later realize he had traits similar to the devil himself. Troy has a job as a garbage collector and he

Thus, to these men, the relief camps had a negative impact on Canadian society. The government had previously hoped that the camps would prevent the rise of communism. However, by grouping these men together, “Bennett basically provided basic training camps for the army of unemployed” (5). The men were frustrated with the Great Depression and once they were in the relief camps, they became angered at the poor conditions and wages. They directed this anger at the government for its ineffectiveness in providing them adequate jobs (5).

At the beginning of the book, Doug has a very negative view of the world around him. He has just moved to a new town, and he hates his life there. He describes almost everything as being, “stupid” and he calls nearly every person he sees as a “chump.” Not only that, but he has an abusive dad

Unfortunately, his tale is an all too common story of black urban

One is the failure to achieve positively valued stimuli, the second is confrontation with negatively valued stimuli and the last is removal of positively valued stimuli. (Wong, Lecture) In Nathan’s case, he constantly suffered from all three of these behaviors. Firstly he was unable to achieve the escape from his parents that he so desperately longed for. Secondly he was constantly abused by both his mother and father and lastly he was taken away from both his friends and the band they were in consistently which removed much of the positive outlets that he had.

Let me begin by saying that Andy had so much to live for but instead all he did was build up his guilt which affected him at school, home and mostly in end. Literally, there was no happy moments. All, there ever was sad, depressing and distressing moments. I mean he couldn’t take the pain and the pressure that was coming along his way. So, it all ended in a dramatic twist.

The creature has gone through many emotions and experienced many things in the past few chapters. From the very beginning the creature has felt alone and deserted in the world. He has been abused by mankind and rejected by his very own creator. The hate and anger that the creature experiences is concerning, but who would feel differently? The creature simply longs for a companion, but instead he is beaten and despised.

They ways in which they are affected by this abandonment proves that isolation has grave effects on human interaction and social development. One way that the theme of isolation negatively affecting social development is presented in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is through the character’s separation from their creators. The creature is abandoned by Victor, his creator, as soon as he awakes.

He’s still angry with what father used to do with him when he was young. Obviously, he has a bad relationship with his father when he was young. He says that Ba is “an abusive” father and tough on him while he was growing up. For instance, Nam was required to

His environment was a negative impact in his life growing up. As the nature and nurture perspective, Kuklisnky inherited anti-social personality disorted from his abusive parents. His father violence reinforced violence and the lack of conscience and love. He also was diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder, but he never seeks for treatments. Kuklinski was the byproduct of his

Troy’s Father’s importance and impact on him become evident as soon as Troy’s childhood is known. Despite the hate Troy felt towards his father he ended up very similar to him. Troy’s father didn’t love or even care about his children, but

"If only I could get rid of this dead weight ... Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever. " In Night everything is reversed, every value destroyed. " Here there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends," a kapo tells him.

The creature can be viewed sympathetically in several ways. The creature is a victim of his environment and it is not his fault he was created and abandoned by his creator due to his scary looks leaving him scared, homeless, all alone to fend for himself. “I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property”;” I was hideously deformed and loathsome” (Shelly, 107). The creature was born in a world that wasn’t accepting of him because he was judge by his scary appearance and not recognized as a person. People would be afraid and run away from him.

Part A: Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case” In the story “Paul’s Case”, the setting is somewhat related to one another. Willa Cather arranges each scenario in various places all having different meaning to the main character of the story Paul. The story begins in his High school, Pittsburgh high school where Paul is seen as a devil, basically a bad kid who will influence every other student. Pittsburgh high school in the story represents a place where Paul does not belong, in which he must find his way around or to have a separate life where he can make a living.