She made a poor choice and I chose not to be around that kind of behavior. Consequently i have now lost every one of my middle school friends I swore would always be my best friends. Lastly, Odysseus men were trapped on an island and were starving, they made the decision to eat the one thing they weren't suppose to touch. The sun god, Helios was furious, he asked Zeus to punish the sailors. Zeus stuck them all with a bolt of lighting and killed all, except Odysseus.
The Great Gatsby displays the disintegration of the American Dream along with how it affects Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, and Tom Buchanan. Firstly, Gatsby is willing to do anything in his power to recapture Daisy's love for him to such an extent that he takes the blame for Myrtle’s death instead of Daisy. This attempt to regain Daisy’s love is later destroyed when Myrtle’s husband kills Gatsby at his pool; “the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete," (Fitzgerald, 164). In addition, Daisy went for Tom Buchanan because of greed, which indicates that she desires someone with wealth, class, and someone who is recognized for their name. “I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called
Our attention bleeds deeper into the story. By the time he is done with the story he leaves his audience with bloody wounds and twisted thoughts. The author’s attitude reveals that an individual’s true self will affect the choices he makes. For example, when the crowd passed the dead body no one cared to comfort the dead man’s family.
How do you like the beating that we gave you…” (L. 390-392). This piece of evidence has two parts on how Odysseus endangers his men. The outcome of Odysseus’ outburst is a majority of his men dying and being cursed by Cyclops’s father, Poseidon, the God of the Sea. This shows how Odysseus bragging and his arrogance leads his men and him to danger.
he became bitter about the situation and his motivation to paint this picture of the city of Los Angeles burning is to symbolically show the fate of many people that go to Hollywood in the chase of their dream, Tod feels like “Hollywood is a city built on sex and greed and manipulation and every other sin”. He was going to show the city burning at high noon so that the flames would have to compete with the desert sun and thereby appear less fearful, more like bright
If you’re a powerful lamp kill all those who Shepherded hates. Your wish has been done Your new wish is my command Down to one wishes That night death came to many doors.
How do you like the beating that we gave you…” (L. 390-392). This piece of evidence has two parts on how Odysseus endangers his men. The outcome of Odysseus’ outburst is a majority of his men dying and being cursed by Cyclops’s father, Poseidon, the God of the Sea. This shows how Odysseus bragging and his arrogance leads his men and him to danger.
(3.1. 179-84). The Prince is angry that the feud between the two families has led to the murder of his relative. He tells Romeo that if he does not leave immediately and not return that he will be put to death. Romeo is not at all grateful that his life has been spared and says “There is no world without Verona walls, but purgatory torture, hell itself ... Then “banishment,” is death misterm’d.
He overreacted to all the killing he said he had done. Macbeth said, “If I wash my hands in the ocean the the whole sea will turn red.” Macbeth killed Banquo because he said he would kill Duncan’s killer, He felt like everyone was after him so he killed Banquo. Macbeth said,“That he is now seeing hallucinations of ghost.” ( Act 3,Scene 4).
This leads him to a selfish, evil
1. In the book, All Quiet On The Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, Paul realizes that, at this point in time, he either has to kill or be killed, he chooses to kill. Unwilling to die without a fight, "We have lost all feeling for one another. We can hardly control control ourselves when our glance lights on the form of some other man. We are insensible, dead men, who through some trick, some dreadful magic, are still able to run and to kill" (116).
John didn’t fit in, in the World State, he didn’t understand their ideals or ways. He wanted to feel raw emotions and they were too much that they pushed him to the edge. John’s suicide was based off of disgust and self-loathing. When John takes his life it symbolizes hope for humanity dying within their
He again harms the Finch family when he assaults Jem and Scout on a pitch-black night. In the struggle Mr. Ewell breaks Jem’s arm, greatly bruises Scout and in the scuffle falls on his own knife and kills himself. As To Kill A Mockingbird shows injustice
These two most often will correlate with each other. The aspect of sun and heat in this novel is very important. The most noticeable reason is the fact Meursault blames the sun for his actions. The sun symbolically represents a higher being or great source of power. This connects perfectly with Meursault’s claim for shooting the Arab.
The battle for existence is what drives Meursault to connect more to the physical world. In The Stranger by Albert Camus, there’s a young, detached man named Meursault living in French Algiers. At the beginning of the novel, Meursault receives a telegram, which informs him of his mother’s death. He acts calm during and after the funeral and frolics around with his girlfriend, Marie. While on the beach with his friends, they are suddenly confronted by Arabs and get into a fight.