Huck's Mind: A Psychological Analysis

Both the poem “Warren Pryor” by Alden Nowlan and the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr express a depressing tone. “Warren Pryor” is about a son who chooses a career that he dislikes in order to please his parents. “Harrison Bergeron” is about a dystopian society where excellence in any way is considered a disadvantage and inequality for others. In both texts, the protagonists all face the barrier of having their nature being stifled; however, the speaker in the poem chooses not to fight back for himself, while the majority in the short story is not even able to realize the barrier that they face.

The truth is that in our society education is highly important to have stability in life, so it makes sense that his parent were worried when he said he did not want to go to college. If I was in their place, I too would have wanted the best for McCandless and insisted he get a good education. I do think that McCandless is admirable for following his own path and not worrying about society's standards. At the same time, he seems a bit selfish despite his charity. He seems like he wants to impose his views on others because he thinks he is right, and when people do not completely agree, he cuts them out of his life.

Built on a foundation of jealousy, the relationships between Amir-Baba and Hassan-Baba display how Amir assumes that Baba possesses a stronger connection with Hassan than himself. Amir believes that Baba pushes him away, disrespecting his character, evidenced by Amir’s alleged idea that Baba blames him for the death of his wife. Rahim Khan’s conversation with Baba reveals this, allowing the reader and Baba to understand that “children aren’t coloring books” (21). Disassociated with Baba’s ideal outline of his child, Amir attempts to participate in sports rather than poetry and reading to shape into someone who stands up for himself. However, Amir’s failed pursuits of Baba’s

Typically, the father is the one who has to save the son. In this case, however, the son is the one who has to save the father, disappointing the son because the elder has more experience and should know better. Therefore, with that experience, the father should have avoided any problems that need a third party to interfere. The difference is, for The Kite Runner Baba’s disappointment towards who Amir has become and for “Forgiving Our Fathers,” Lourie’s father disappoints his son by setting a bad example. A similarity between Baba and Lourie’s father is making their sons feel disappointed in both the fathers and the sons.

Upholding impartiality in this case would mean acting for the greater good of public, and consequently renders the violation of family obligation. As a president of Massachusetts State Senate, he was expected to set an example. However, he made the wrong decision by defending his felonious brother. It was believed that William Bulger was morally reprehensible in refusing to assist the authorities as family loyalty should not precede impartiality. This analysis of the case will be elaborated in the following paragraphs.

Here he gave out the idea that his fault was caused by his fear of shame. In other words he was protecting himself of charged by others and confronting the shame. Here apply the theory “defense mechanism”, came up by Freud, Sigmund and expanded by Freud Anna Freud, could help on understanding what motivated his framing and how he defensed himself. Defense mechanism is an unconscious psychological mechanism to reduce anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful stimuli and could be applied as deny, displacement, projection, rationalization and etc. When Rousseau faced the trial from people, the first thing he chose to do was to deny.

It is imperative for one to not let innocence stop them from being able to make one’s own decisions so one does not succumb to other’s

The major values that they challenge are respecting your elders and the value of the land. They did not respect their father’s wishes, especially the third son. Wang Lung’s third son became a soldier even though his father had disapproved of it and he was resistant. They are more interested in the money because they did not grow up poor and ??.

He alleged that conflict in a society is ‘dysfunctional’ and ‘abnormal’. Society on the whole is integrated and functionally stable. Men are hostile by nature and have a soaring potential to hurdle the integration of society. On the contrary, Mills, 1959; Dahrendorf, 1959; Bernard, 1957 and Coser, 1956; presented the contrasting views about conflict as compared to Parsons.

Okonkwo, yearning to do for his son what his father never did for him, makes Nwoye feel the pressure of a false identity being pushed upon him. Sensitive, compassionate, and an overall peaceful

The story has come to a point where Bartleby has refused to work and the narrator lets this slide by. This refusal to work would result in dismissal of one’s job, but the narrator continued Bartleby’s employment. However, this charitable act may just be a feint so the narrator’s “can cheaply purchase a delicious self-approval; to befriend Bartleby…will eventually prove a sweet morsel for my conscience”. (Melville 56). Rather than for the good purpose, the narrator is conforming to what he thinks society would like him to do in this kind of situation.

Last Section of Huck Finn (!) #1. How does Huck appear to be superior to Tom? Mark Twain portrays Huck as a character superior to Tom by making Huck as the complete opposite of Tom. In this book, overall, Huck has foresight about in which event will happen; for example, Huck’s notable quote “I’ll go to hell” implies that he is completely aware of the fact that he will eventually get punished for his action, which was to release Jim--an act that is not accepted by the public.

In chapters one to twenty-seven much of an adventure has happened to Huck. He was in a gang with is friends, his father came back and later kidnapped him from the widow, the kind lady who was looking after him, and later got tired of waiting in the cabin his father took him and faked his own death. Once he had fled, he ran into a run away slave named Jim, who was the slave of the widow so Huck knew him. The decided to stick together and move along. During their journey they ran into good and bad people.

A foil is a character in a book who erodes the identity of another character. One example of a foil is Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer is Huckleberry Finn’s foil throughout Mark Twain’s book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck and Tom each have their own individual character, but when Huck is around Tom’s character his character falters. Others however believe that neither Tom nor Huck have good character.

Through Huck’s Eyes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain takes place during a time before slavery was abolished; therefore, black people were obviously deemed inferior to white people. Our protagonist Huck, the son of the town drunk, fakes his death to run away from his abusive father and finds his slave friend, Jim, also running away. They decide to team up and run away together, but Huck is internally fighting his urge to do “the right thing” and turn Jim in. During the novel, Huckleberry views Jim as a slave, a friend, and most surprisingly, a father.