Differences In 'Ponies And Flowers For Algernon'

In the story, one of the boys named Jack starts picking on Piggy and calls him “Fatty”. The boys in the group laugh and mock Piggy. The text says that Ralph shouts, “ He’s not Fatty” , “His real name's Piggy!” This causes even more laughter and embarrassment for Piggy. Since Ralph said this, Piggy now feels betrayed because Raph is the only one who actually cares for him.

Later on being, two best friends. Going through this with him was his “friends” Frank and Joe. Them two have always treated Charlie with such disrespect because them two would always pull jokes on him call him names but Charlie never noticed. Luckily he also had good people around him during this time like Miss.

Jem lashed out because he didn't like what Mrs. Dubose was saying about his father and Lizabeth lashed out because she envies Miss Lottie for having hope when she doesn't and the flowers were the only beautiful

Unit 5: Lesson 4: Flowers for Algernon, Part 2 Apply: In the story "Flowers for Algernon, Part 2," One example of foreshadowing is when Charlie thinks his landlady is afraid of him. I think this si foreshadowing because it says that she looks at him funny. Another example is when Charlies coworkers petitoned him to have him fired. This is foreshadowing because I think the reason he was fired was because everybody was scared of him, and in the surrounding paragraghs, the clues supported my thought.

In addition, it says that Odysseus spoke with “modest words” which shows that he was being humble and not bragging about what he can do. This shows a transformation in Odysseus’s character compared to earlier in the book, where he was prideful and bragged about his accomplishments.

(Act 2) Willy comes off looking like a fool when he attempts to lie in order to impress Howard and soothe his own insecurities. Ironically, his constant need to lie in order to make himself well liked is probably a big part of the reason that people don't really like

Darry becomes frustrated when Ponyboy doesn’t think about the consequences of his actions, and when

If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff,...” (Salinger 51). Holden’s observation is discussing that people often lie when leaving a conversation or when saying hello to people, Holden claims that he hates when people say they are glad to see you because they do not mean it.

What they did not know was Paul saw them through the window. Here and then I realized that Erik couldn't even respect a classmate that died. That is disrespectful and rude. That example just sums it all up to me. I find laughing at a dead classmate or anyone extremely disrespectful.

One real life example of this are bullies, who abuse and bother others because they are not comfortable with how they are so they take it out on other

This, in turn, creates humor when the reader laughs at the security guard’s lack of knowledge, which is absolutely absurd.

In the book Jack is always making fun of Piggy. Jack was being rude to Piggy and saying his fat behind doesn’t do nothing to help while piggy was trying to talk. However some of the time Piggy stands up for himself, “I got the conch … you let me speak!”(Golding 33). Piggy illustrates how its not easy to have integrity. This is because whenever he tries to talk the others mainly Jack just tell him to shut up or take his glasses from him making him feel uncomfortable.

Megan Morecraft Honors English II Mrs. Drake September 28, 2016 Equality’s True Motive Similar to The Giver by Lois Lowry, the society (in The Giver) is built upon rules that restrict the motives and individualities of the people that live within the community. For example, in The Giver the Elders of the society took away the ability to see color and feel love for one another by making the people resort to sameness. The protagonist, Jonas, was special like Equality in Anthem, because both of the characters figured out the problems of their society and rebelled. In the novella, Anthem, Ayn Rand creates a character named Equality, also known as Prometheus, who conducts secret experiments that are genuinely motivated by the desire to prove self-worth

We all have our differences, from food to language to beliefs. We all have troubles accepting differences, though, even the author of this herself. Not accepting differences could be the fall of humanity. We all could go against one another, destroying ourselves in the process. If we keep discriminating each other this is a possible effect of it.

Teresa Garcia, 20405211, History 1301-13 Row 5. Lowe, Richard. “Willis August Hodges.” In The Human Tradition in the Civil War and Reconstruction, edited by Steven E. Woodworth, 213-222. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources Inc., 2000.