Old Hank: A Short Story

When the storm comes, “A wave of restlessness set the boys swaying and moving aimlessly” and “the littluns began to run about, screaming.”(P187) Jack demands that savages do the ceremonial dance just as they do it before killing pigs to achieve a sense of security. Even “Piggy and Ralph […] found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society” (P187). However, Simon appears for his decision of sharing his discovery about the beast at this time, and this is absolutely inopportune. All of the boys, include Piggy and Ralph, brutally beat him to death. After this assembly, The boys are officially divided into two groups -- one is lead by Ralph and the other one is under Jack's control.

It’s lower two arms have shovels for hands that it uses to dig while its upper two wield a greatsword and battle ax. Vesculent saw the beloved king and knew killing him would spite Beowulf, killer of his kin. So that is exactly what he did, he lunged from the bushes, and sliced Higlac across the abdomen. Vesculent’s sword was so sharp, that it split Higlac right in half, so the dreaded beast took his lower half as a snack for its trip home. Closer to dawn, a guard spotted the gory scene and immediately ran to The Court of Champions to tell Beowulf of the tragedy that took place.

Another time he used strategy to escape Polyphemus by giving the Cyclops too much wine, then blinding him with a sharp spear. The next morning he and his men tied themselves to the bottom of sheep to sneak out of the cave. ( Homer Odyssey 9.377-83). It Odysseus has a big flaw, it is his Pride and ego. It shows up when he and his man are fleeing the Cyclops on this ship and he just could not help bragging to Polyphemus about it and revealing his name.

“the most merciful threw stones at him... they burned his side with an iron for branding steers” (Marquez 977). All these punishments were warranted by the assumptions at the beginning of the story. Instead of examining further into why or how the winged man had arrived at the scene, the townspeople invented the answers. His misfortune reached its peak at this time for these punishments may have increased the angel’s recovery time. “at the beginning of December some large, stiff feathers began to grow on his wings, the feathers of a scarecrow...

Bob progressively starts to threaten everyone who embarrassed him in court, especially Atticus. “Mr. Bob Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he’d get him if it took the rest of his life” (Lee 290). Little did Atticus know, Bob would go after his children just to get him. Late at night when Jem took Scout home from her school play, Bob was following close behind them.

For them to get some money from the Dorset family they thought about kidnapping Johnny and then make them give them money for Johnny. So when they went to get Johnny, Bill tried to give him some candy and Johnny hit him in the eye with a brick. After he hit Bill in the eye, they started to chase him and when they caught him they took him to a cave. While they was at the cave Bill was beat up by Johnny. Then Sam told Johnny to not beat up Bill while he gone or he was going to take him home and Johnny didn’t want to go home.

Jack was always determined to kill a pig and bring it back for a feast. After Ralph scolding him multiple times for only trying to kill a pig and mainly failing he formed his own tribe where people could have fun and eat

Have you been up all night thinking about how nice your house is? If you answered yes, and said that you hate all of your nice things inside of your house, then you have found the right market for a gut wrenching house. The outside of this house on 292 West Death Street has a perfect erie river right outside of your deathly front door for drowning all of the poor, helpless, little kids in the dark, dead of the night. The front door will also never close, so you can always invite the demonic murderers right into your merciless house. There has also been a recent coating of lovely new kitten blood that will have all of the evil spirits, clawing at your house wanting you to come out and play a game of death roulette.

I did the famous toe drag as the second defense man tried to poke check me, I sent his jock into the rafters. As I looked up and shot low right under the glove next thing I heard was the goal horn I tied the game. The first two periods were barnburners and we knew they were not conditioned enough to finish. The Zam left and we started the period, West Kent was furious and started running us. Poor Beatty got lit up like we were doing to their lamp.

De Spain tells Abner that he will be taking 20 bushels of his next crop in order to make up for the damages. Abner again is outraged by the amount he is charged with and takes De Spain to court. Abners charge is lessened to 10 bushels yet he still is furious and feels he's being treated unfairly. Shortly after, he burns De Spains barn and is most likely killed by De Spain himself after Sarty told him Abner was setting is barn on fire(Faulkner).” Although there are other ways Abner could have made his feelings of oppression be known, he chose to act irrationally and intentionally burned his barn in hopes of getting his point across. Over all Abners character in “Barn Burning” represents the poor white families in the old south at this time.

He devoured two of my men on the spot and imprisoned us for future meals. I wanted to take my sword to Polyphemus right then, but I knew that he alone would be strong enough to move the rock that he had placed across the door of his cave. So, I begun to devise a plan. The next day, while he was outside pasturing his sheep, I found a wooden staff in the cave. When he returned, I got him drunk on wine that I brought along from the ship.

After a pig run with the hunters and Ralph, things seemed to fall apart quickly. Jack and Ralph have an argument which makes the kids choose between Ralph being leader and Jack being leader. This is where the strict bold lines of civility and savagery appear. The kids in Jack’s tribe were chanting and making a dance around the fire, they accidentally kill Simon thinking he was the beast. Ironically, Simon was going over to them to tell them there is no beast, since he just finished having a hallucination of the pig head speaking to him naming himself ‘The Lord Of The Flies’.

But, when British troops attacked his house, slaughtered his livestock and scared his small family; had no choice but to become a Patriot and go to the ruthless war. Then, when Hank woke up, saw that the bright day was warm enough to cool of Valley Forge and enjoy a large feast that the generals had brought. One of the soldiers, Ike, was a trusted friend that sacrificed him, but not in death, to save Hank from getting killed. Hank and Dorian didn’t seem to care of each other as well as Ike did. The story took place in Valley Forge during the winter, which killed a lot of men because of illness, hunger, and hypothermia.