Analysis: The Hunger Artist

C.S. Lewis once quoted, “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and of, course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” This exemplifies the genuine idea of what pride can do to a soul. Many never fully acknowledge the sincere people who sit around them, and the beauties these individuals hold. Similarly, in Hurst’s, “The Scarlet Ibis,” Doodle’s older brother, the narrator, is driven to push Doodle to succeed in various activities, because he cannot seem to see Doodle’s “inner beauty.” As the thought of making Doodle the best he can be, and displaying his “inner beauty,” eventually leads to a horrific tragedy. To clarify, in “The Scarlet Ibis,” the narrator is introduced as a conceited,

“Doodle was both tired and frightened, and when he stepped from the skiff he collapsed onto the mud” (Hurst 6). Doodle is overworked when brother teaches him how to move around on his own. It was not enough that he learned to walk, but Brother wanted to teach him to do all kinds of things. Brother took too much pride in Doodle and forced him to work too hard. Not too

His desire to fulfil this wish resulted in the death of his brother at a young age. The Narrator has already done well his brother walk. Since he was so selfish and with so much pride, teaching his brother how to walk was not enough for him. He wanted more out of doodle even if it meant for his brother to die at a tender age. No one is infallible.

Shek tried to disperse them, but they wouldn 't budge.”(175) The Sherpas and porters really care about Zopa and they were willing to sacrifice their important jobs to save him. Sherpas and porters are from a country that is pretty poor. When they held the silent vigil they sacrificed not only themselves but their families. Lastly, in the very beginning of the book Peak got in trouble with the law for climbing and tagging skyscrapers. Josh had left all his customers at base camp

Eliezer’s best traits come out and allow him to survive his terrible ordeal, which are adaptability, determination, patience, and perseverance. Elie uses his father as his reason to persevere and keep on going through. For example, whenever Eliezer’s father dies, Eliezer loses all function and does not even want to recount how empty and lonely he felt. On page 32, Eliezer describes how great his fear of

The quote “Pangs of hunger melted my resentment of my father away, and now that he was gone I longed night and day for his return” represents the daily suffering that Johannes had to endure daily in his childhood, with meals being a prized scarcity everyday (80). The suffering was also represented in the author’s description of how his father and his mother were beaten badly by the policemen of South Africa. Hate is also another key theme of this novel, with the quote “He tore me away from my mother and lashed me...She tried to intervene, but my father shoved her aside and promised her the same” showing how even a person he trusted dearly, his father, resorted to showing cruel acts of hate to his family (100). These two themes were the overarching emphasis on the childhood life of Mark

At times of desperate starvation, he would eat the food they were given. When he is told to run as he is being examined for the selection, he runs as fast as he can but in his mind all he hears is “You are too skinny, you are too weak,” which is his own voice

There are many lessons Odysseus and is men learn on their journey home in the Odyssey. Unfortunately, only Odysseus makes it home and the rest of men are dead because of their foolish actions. In the Thrinacia and The Cattle of the Sun episode of the Odyssey Odysseus’s men once again disobey him and cost them their lives. The men and Odysseus learn valuable lessons throughout their epic journey, but in the episode the most important lessons they learn are; temptation can lead to death, being obedient can save your life, and trust your instincts. If Odysseus’s men would have been more obedient to their leader Odysseus perhaps all of them would have made it back home alive.

You either “eat—or get eaten up,” which is represented by _________________ (54). Everything Balram did from when he left Laxmangarh to when he became successful and “helped make new Bangalore” was for his own advantage (273). When Ashok began drinking after Pinky left, Balram told him he had to “believe in god and keep going on” not because he genuinely cared for him, but because he wouldn’t have anyone to “pay him three and a half thousand rupees a month” (159). The selfishness imbedded in him led him to conclude that the only ticket out of darkness was to murder his master, which goes against his personality in beginning when he felt guilty for something as trivial as outing a driver for

And after all, the boys are starving and are in need of more food. So, if they are starving, and a boy comes on over asking for more is a form of heroship and salvation because if Oliver is surely given more then others will get more. Therefore proving that Oliver Twist’s character is represented as a hero/leader-esc type of person due to the events of the text. In the text it states, “He drank another cup of hot tea and Fleming said: --What 's up? Have you pain or what’s up with you?