Lonely Broken Lion Summary

During the novel, Huck stated “It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened.” (Twain, Pg. 90 ¶ 2.) Both Huck and Jim enjoyed being able to connect with nature, and the bond it allowed them to create. The ending of the novel is very romantic, almost as if Twain’s goal was to achieve a story book “happily ever after.” Everything in the ending of the novel goes mysteriously right and all the characters achieve the happiness they were seeking out in the beginning.

She had felt as if her heart was somewhere with the quail and the plover and all the little whild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun.” In Part II, Chapter 5, Marie has a Romantic view of the birds. She says, “Ivar’s right about wild things. They’re too happy to kill. You can just tell how they felt when they flew up. They were scared, but they didn’t really think anything could hurt them.” In Part IV, Chapter 8, when Ivar finds Emil and Marie dead, the part that the Romantic viewers have centered on seems as the way Emil and Marie were described when Ivar found them.

Candy's dog is also old and useless and Carlson was having enough always telling him to take it outside because it smelled so bad and to also kill it because it's useless,. But one day they were inside the cabin playing cards and Carlson finally persuades Candy to kill the dog. Now because Candy's dog has died, he feels lonely and says “You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They say he wasn't no good to himself

However, in the end, the people in the jury cannot see this and Tom is found guilty simply because of his skin color. Finally, another symbol in this story is the knot hole in the tree in the Radley’s yard. This symbolizes the children’s growing friendship with Boo. Boo knew that the children were afraid of him, so he quietly tried to make friends with them throughout the novel by leaving small gifts for them in the knot hole. Since Boo was never outside, this was the only way that he could communicate with the children.

Candy is set apart from the rest of the workers due to his old age and his strong bond with his dog who eventually was killed. Candy is first introduced as “a tall stoop-shouldered old man”(18), indicating to the audience he is old. Candy also has a hand injury which prevents him to do as much as the rest of the men are able to, making him feel isolated to certain things. Toward the beginning of the novella, Carlson suggested to Candy that he should kill his dog due to its old age. Candy cried desperately “‘No, I couldn’t do that.

I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.” (Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar) Post World War II, American society saw a rigid social structure with definite gender roles. As Vanessa Martins Lamb points out, “Have dinner ready, prepare yourself, prepare the children, minimize all noise, be happy to see him, listen to him, make the evening his”,( Evasion of Growth, 5), here is what young women learned at school in the 1950’s in America. As Plath puts it “they don’t believe marriage can work without woman becoming maid, servant, nurse, and losing brain” (461).However, slowly this structure lead to suffocation and discontentment in the women of that age. Since centuries a man has the whole world to explore and rule, a woman on the other hand, was supposed to

They both conclude the stories interestingly. However, In my opinion the ending in the story ‘After Twenty Years’ is more interesting because it has a great shock factor to it. It definitely is an unpredictable ending. Compared to ‘A Sound of Thunder’ the author foreshadows the events that may occur in the ending, which takes away from the excitement of the reader to reach the ending. In the story ‘After Twenty Years’ it is clear that it has a style of a very well-written ending as it successfully reaches its purpose, which is not only shocking and surprising the readers but also satisfying and giving closure to them.

25). While Bear was in the military, he excelled, and when he came back to civilian life, he didn’t earn much respect, he in fact got disrespect, which might’ve been the reason he had lots of stress issues. It’s not their past that makes them get involved with illegal activities, it’s the way are treated after they come home from war. “Bear always sleeps with a knife under his pillow, despite her pleas not to…. Forcing his family to lower the blinds at sundown, and he “walks the perimeter” every night before bed looking for snipers and ambushes.

The young male lion that carefully trailed Adah and almost killed her is an effective depiction of nature (pg. 139-141). Nature is ruthless, untamed, and does not show any clear opportunity to be contained or trained. It was a near miss for Adah, for had the bushbuck not taken her place, she would have ended up in the belly of a predator. A predator, like Africa itself, is wild and changes everyone’s perspective of it when not visualized, but experienced in reality.

Tata Ndu describes the approach of the lion as “He came up the steps to explain in his formal French that the tracks of a large lion, a solitary hunting male, had been spotted on the path from the river. Tata Ndu’s eldest son had just come back from there and brought this report. He had seen the marks of the little girl who drags her right foot, and the lion tracks, very fresh, covering over her footprints”(Kingsolver, 140) This highlights an idealized, united ,strong Congo, attacking the wounded and slow Western occupiers, to hunt and remove them. Much like the lion, the nation never truly succeeded in accomplishing the final attack on their occupants. Because of this, the nation resembled less of a lion, and more of a timid

Protecting Billy, Old Dan fights “the devil cat of the Ozarks, the mountain lion.”(225) just to keep his caring owner safe. If you give up your life just to protect someone even if you didn’t need to, you must be loyal to them. Likewise, Little Ann is also very loyal. She stays with Old Dan the whole night just to keep a coon in a tree. The author writes “There, scratched deep in the soft leaves were two little beds … Old Dan hadn’t been alone when he had gone back to the tree.

Lions that live in the wild live to around 12 years. Lion’s need their pack, food, and their night vision. Lions need their pack to hunt and protect territory (biotic). Lions need food to survive(biotic). They need night vision for hunting at night (abiotic).

Rip Van Winkle was a wonderful but hopeless man. His dog would always follow him in any of his hunts, and Rip would always be concentrated onto whatever he was doing, as long as it didn’t involve his family or farm. Rip was not treated fairly verbally by his wife because of this. Rip’s dog, Wolf, felt his pain when he entered his house while his wife was there. Wolf could only barely make it out alive.

But the way that you always clung to me made me feel so special. I wish there was some way that I could see you after school 's over because I will honestly miss you and your raisin bread and juice boxes, the mooing animal crackers, laying on my leg during sharing and how you never want to sit in your chair, reading Fly Guy countless amounts of times, and your hugs and hanging on my arm, wiping your sweat on my arms, and your "good mooowrnin! "s every morning, to the meows, the orange day, and everything about you a lot. You are one of the smiliest kids i 've ever met, and you deserve the world. It kinda sucks to me knowing that you won 't remember me because you 're so young, and you 'll get another teacher to cling to in a few weeks, but really honestly thank you for making me realise what I want to do with my life.