Stanley Pearce's Motivation

He lengthened his stride, seized the lead, and crossed the finish line” (Hillenbrand 216). He was knocked out with a club after this, but that was nothing compared to the feeling of his win. Louie was later punished by holding a beam above his head for as long as he could for supposedly letting the goat that he was taking care of die. “He felt his consciousness slipping, his mind losing adhesion, until all he knew was a single thought: He cannot break me. Across the compound, the Bird had stopped laughing” (Hillenbrand 302).

When he was in Manzanar, he was so mentally unstable, he would over-drink every day and make unreasonable decisions. One night he over drank in the barracks and threatened “to kill [Mama] this time! “ (69). Here Papa almost kills Mama while drunk and doesn't realize what he is doing, until he is stopped. Being drunk causes people to not think about their decisions, and if he really did kill Mama, there is no reversing that.

You can see the effect it has on accustomed people on page 109 “One of the recruits has a fit.” It continues to page 111 “The first recruit seems actually to have gone insane. He butts his head against the wall like a goat”. So if your not used to the front you can actually go insane, and if you spend a total of four years on the front like Paul then that is definitely going to take its toll. Then on page 113 “We have become wild beasts. We do not fight, we defend ourselves against annihilation.

Jake seemed to also push the buttons of the guards, one instance when he said that he had been waiting to splash water in the guards face for a while. Then after being given another thirty days on the starvation diet, when they gave him the paper to sign about it he wadded it into a ball and threw it at the officers’ chest, giving him yet another thirty days (In the belly of the beast). It seems that he is very reckless in the way that he goes about serving his time. He also mentioned that being yelled at or being spat at in the face once or twice is fine, but doing that everyday for thousands of days, no one can say that it is nothing and forget about it. He said the same about his stuff, that they can take something and he will learn to live without it, but take something everyday until they are reaching for his eyes, heart, soul, etc., is something that he can not deal with (In the belly of the beast).

The theme Mortality and Death goes with “Ghost Soldiers” because O’Brien was almost to death two times. First time he was shot in the stomach and second time was in the butt. First time Rat Kiley was there but the second time he was shot Kiley was not there and O’Brien did not like the new medic. A quote to go with this theme is, “It’s hard thing to explain to somebody who has not felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake” (O;Brien 183). This quote is talking about how when he got shot he was more aware of life and that he could die any

When someone is to bring up the case around Jem, he tries to shut them down, he does not like hearing about it. Tom was found guilty and was soon killed after going to jail, and that hit Jem very hard, he was very tore up about it. In the book Jem specifically says, “No sir, they oughta do away with juries. He wasn’t guilty in the first place and they said he was.”(295) Jem constantly throughout the book claims that Tom is not guilty and wants it to change, and doesn’t know how to except that the jury said different and that’s how it has to

Junior gives Inman up to the Home Guard who force Inman to walk for miles and days until “the hope of home [begins] fleeing him.” As a result, Junior nearly kills Inman, who only survives because a miracle allows him to survive being shot at. In contrast, Polyphemus curses Odysseus with a prayer to Poseidon that will make him “never see his home again,” causing Odysseus’s journey home to last nearly ten years. Polyphemus’s curse causes Odysseus ten years of grief and the loss of all his crew. Junior and Polyphemus parallel each other as they share very similar experiences in which they not only cause the protagonists grief in their encounters, but also leave the protagonists with a complication that persists beyond their encounter. This extreme likeness in situation further solidifies the mirroring of Junior and Polyphemus within The Odyssey and Cold

Although Jackson was violently shot twice in a restaurant, he survived and after being brutally assaulted on the streets; clung to life for a week before dying, and became a martyr for the Selma marches that followed. The movie also averted from the true reason why King was absent during the first Selma march ‘Bloody Sunday’. It suggested that he was delayed due to his marriage, however, it was proven that King had originally tried to postpone the protest till Monday, but to prevent altercation permitted the march to proceed due to the large turnout. Initially King had felt the march would not last, and would inevitably amount to imprisonment. There was no documented proof of Kings marital

Construction on the Titanic started in 1909 and finished the construction in the spring of 1911. It took 15,000 workers to build her with 8 of those men losing their lives during her construction. It took $7,5000 (€1.5 million) to build her. It took 3,000 rivets to construct the hull, which was a mix of iron and steel. It measured in 882.9 ft in length, 92 ft in width, and weighed 26,000 tons.

He repeatedly says no because he is suffering from trauma after having fought in World War I. But after the bombing of St. Malo has ended and he has survived the bombing and being imprisoned, he tells Marie that he’ll move

Kilrain informs colonel Chamberlain that their unit,the Twentieth Maine, has just received 120 men from the Second Maine, because they are disbanded.The men are now being kept under guard, and Chamberlain has orders to shoot any man who does not agree to march. The leader tells him that the mutineers are tired of the war even if they have one more year left. Also the Union generals who has no skills and have been running it, and they want to go home. Chamberlain knows he cannot let them go, but he also cannot bring himself to shoot them. So he had an idea and he did a moving speech which is him asking them to join the Twentieth Maine.

They bicker and argue and even fight, just like siblings do, except my brother does not ever try to rip my arm off. Just the other day we were arguing about whose turn it was to take out the trash; he started lying and stated that it was my turn. Then all of a sudden we started wresting. Mac had me pin down like a piece of paper on a tact board. I struggled and fought for the advantage over him and then

The cycle repeated and Michael just got used to it even so he still yearned to be free and rebellious but because of his stupidity, he is nowhere with no one to save him. In one of the cruel beatings, he heard the gunshots and this time they were inching forward at a rapid pace. The general which oversaw everything smirked and told the officials to take Michael to a different location and they followed suit as the rebels slowly took the hidden strong hold. In the days of sitting, Michael wondered how the rebellion grew and if there was another leader which lead it. He did not mind of course for he wanted it to succeed and he could see it in the eyes of the officials and guards that they were terrified of the rebellion and they know that the government is losing the game of cat and mouse which they played with the rebilion.

"I chatted with a Doctor once for around two hours and attempted to pass on to him my fears that I felt come overpowering savage driving forces. After one session I never saw the Doctor again and from that point forward I have been battling my mental turmoil alone and apparently without any result." He then laid out his preparation to slaughter Kathy after he lifted her up from work that night despite the fact that he admits that he is not certain why he is going to do it other than to spare her from the shame of what he was anticipating doing. Whitman then confessed to executing his mom who as he would like to think never happy in life just like her due. He additionally requested a post-mortem after his death to check whether he had any physical issue that could have added to his issues.

When the shooting started many of the people began to run away from the shooting, however; Chris Mintz a 10-year Army veteran was poised with a life changing decision. He had to choose whether to run and most likely save himself or to stall the gunman saving numerous lives by allowing them to escape and keeping the gunman 's focus on him. Chris chose to stall the shooter by standing in a door way and talking to him. Chris attempted to reason with him but to no avail. The shooter was not persuaded by Chris 's reasoning and shot Chris multiple times.