Sacrificial Lamb Reflection

In the novel entitled The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, fourteen year old Ponyboy Curtis is faced with the deaths of his beloved parents. Now under the care of his oldest brother Darry, Ponyboy and his other brother, Sodapop, are forced to stay out of trouble to avoid being taken away to a boys’ home. However, these brothers are members of a gang referred to as “greasers”, which poses a threat to their good reputation. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy struggles to determine whether or not it would benefit his brothers if he were to be taken away to a home. Though it is difficult for the family to live a somewhat normal life, Ponyboy deserves the opportunity to stay with his brothers.

Are they parallel to his depression and the severity of it? There are three occurrences where Holden brings up the idea of where the ducks go when the lake freezes over in the winter. The first time he brings it up, Holden is at Mr.Spencer’s house and they are talking about Holden leaving Pencey because of his poor grades: “I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something.

Throughout “The Scarlet Ibis” the central conflict is Brother’s inability to accept Doodle’s differences. As Brother tries to make Doodle more “normal” the climax of the story is reached when a storm hits them as they walk home from the lake causing Brother to leave Doodle behind in the thunder and lightning. This pivotal moment in the story forces Brother to choose between helping his brother and having the satisfaction of challenging his capabilities when Doodle cries “Brother don’t leave me!”(5). After the storm passes Brother finds Doodle’s dead body. His conflict with fate is resolved when he comes to terms that his selfish pride killed Doodle.

Childhood Killing someone for something that happened 36 years ago as a child might sound absurd, but it might not be. In “The Utterly Perfect Murder” by Ray Bradbury, a man named Doug wakes up in the middle of the night to kill his childhood “friend”, Ralph. He does not know why it took him 36 years for it to come to him, but he decides that it needs to be done. So he gets on a train, leaving his family behind. However, when Doug arrives at Ralph’s house he decides not to kill him because of the physical and mental state Ralph has deteriorated to.

As stated, Power Play illustrates hockey culture in an evolving fashion. Cody’s views on hockey change from the sport being considered a blissful break from school and his home, in which he could work hard for the most predominant focus in his life, being in the Show, to then considering it as the bane of his existence. Although he is a fictional character, Cody acts as a representation of the young Canadian hockey players that, in reality, were molested by their coach. As a result of Cody’s aforementioned changing views and the abuse in Power Play having been based on true occurrences, hockey culture is represented in both positive and negative perspectives, as a therapeutic and goal-oriented lifestyle and as a vile and unbearable prison.

At the beginning of the book, their relationship was distant. This is shown when Sonny’s father invites him to return to Coalwood after college, Sonny harshly refuses, saying. “‘When I get out of this stinking hole, wild horses couldn't drag me back.’ My words were meant to hurt him and they did.” (Hickam 334).

The short story “Powder” by Tobias Wolff is about a boy and his father who went on a skiing trip right before Christmas. The boy must return to his mother before Christmas Eve dinner, or his mother would be furious. Yet, when a snowstorm strikes and the roads are closed, his father breaks the rules to get this boy home on time. In this story there is a lot of tension between the father and the mother and son yet some of the tension does get resolved. This story is about understanding that not being the same people your parents are is okay because you are special in your own way.

Odysseus’s adventures were long, brutal and tested his weaknesses. I'm going to analyze how these weaknesses kept him from returning home. Because of these weaknesses odysseus’s son grew up without a father in his life, who knows if he even had a father figure in his life at the very least He survived many situations against all odds and was reunited with his wife and son after 20 long years. Two of his adventures were. Odysseus likes women that are not his wife, and he gets sucked into the goddess Circe’s “vortex” so to speak, his crew warned him it was a trap to keep them there but he didn't listen and they stayed there for a year eating and drinking as much as they could possibly want.

The child try to teach the father waltzing but while they are doing it the father messed things up. But at the end his/her dad dances him all the way to bed, and the child still wants to cling on to the whirling, waltzing man the the child loves, doesn’t matter how much the father’s breath smells like whiskey, or how battered his knuckles may be. The father (from Grape Sherbet) made his sherbet, that masterpiece of swirled snow, gelled light. It’s a memory of a Memorial Day picnic with the speaker now realizing there was something to

The impact of the weather scene is a way to indirectly relate to the murder of Victor’s young brother, William. The author, Shelley utilizes weather to convey the Victor’s emotional feelings about the murder of his bother William. Through imagery in the quote, Shelley is able to utilize words to describe the weather relating them to both the storm and what has happened to our protagonist. To me, the flashes of light illuminate the lake which is his brother. William’s illumination is the light of his life is soon quenched when the author describes the “pitchy darkness”

Do you want to hear about the thrilling adventure of a 70 year old man and his grandson? In the book The Trap by John Smelcer, Albert is an old 70 year old stuck-in-his-ways trapper that keeps trapping even though it is risking his own health. Johnny is Albert’s grandson. Johnny is around 17 years old. Johnny is constantly surrounded by his needy family and has to decide what he should and should not do.

Mercy Killing or Murder: The Death of Lennie Small On a mild afternoon, with the summer breeze blowing sotto voce over the trees, the sun “...had left the valley to go climbing up the slopes of the Gabilan mountains, and the hilltops were rosy in the sun...” (Steinbeck 99). This is what the brush looked like before a mercy killing materializes in Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck.

Charles Baudelaire, a literary author during Romanticism once stated this: "To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts"(Baudelaire). Chicken George was born into slavery in 1806 in Caswell North Carolina to Kizzy and Massa Tom Lea. He was conceived after his mother Kizzy was repeatedly raped by Tom Lea. In his youth he becomes a game cocker. He married Matilda and together they had six children.

There are two major tragedies in Of Mice and Men. One is the death of Lennie, and the other is the death of George’s dream to own a ranch. Throughout the novel, George mentions, mostly when he loses his patience with Lennie, that he could have an easier life without him. George is actually wanting more freedom from having to take care of Lennie, but truly wishes him no harm. The reader is also aware that George really wants to own a ranch with Lennie.