First of all, let’s define what impulsive actions means. By Dictionary.com it is characterized by actions based on sudden desires, whims, or inclinations rather than careful thought. In our everyday life, we make many decisions and most of them do not have a big impact on our lives. However, impulsive actions and decisions can result in major consequences, which may be a cause of huge change in someone’s life. The saddest part is that choice we make in seconds can have life lasting or even life-ending effects. There are many cases when two people argue and one of them gets very angry that without even thinking kills the second person. That killer might be a very good person, but he/she will be known as a killer and may spend many years in jail only because of the bad choice made in a second. Certainly not every impulsive decision ends in jail, and as I said we make tons of such decisions in our lives because it’s in our nature. For example, it can make someone very rich who bought a lottery ticket or invested money without thoroughly thinking. However, I do not believe that Sammy from “A&P” was a victim of impulsive action even though he seems to be. Additionally, Louise Mallard from “Story of an …show more content…
However, we can not blame her because people are usually must be very confident and sure about someone’s death before informing others: “...the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed." So, she did not have a reason to not believe in Brently's death. However, when she saw Brently, she might think that it is the end of her very short and truly happy life. Consequently, she had so many pessimistic thoughts instantly, that her weak heart could not handle it. Clearly, at this moment impulsive thoughts pressed on her heart how marriage pressed on her life, and she just could fight it, and death takes her
AIDS is the world’s leading infectious killer. To date, the illness has killed approximately 25 million people around the world. In the memoir Breaking Night, Liz Murray wrote about her mother’s slavery to cocaine and how it lead to her contraction of the HIV/AIDS virus and eventually to her death. Her mother’s death was only one of the difficulties that plagued Liz’s life from birth to age 18, which was the amount of time spanned by the memoir. Homelessness, hunger, and [something else] were enemies of Liz in her youth, however, she managed to heroically turn her life around and conquer the obstacles standing between her and a better life.
She is so unbothered that she even forgets to tell Montag that Clarisse has died. Mildred learns about the information and goes right back to listening to her seashells or talking with the family in the parlor. The constant stream of entertainment prevents her from having even a moment to stand and think about what has occurred. People would rather keep being happy than have to confront the weight of someone’s death. They have an equally apathetic reaction to the announcement of a war.
Together with Tom, she left her responsibilities and problems behind, she didn’t have the decency to attend the funeral of the man she doomed to death. Being a ghastly and self-serving person she left everyone and didn’t look back. All these decisions doomed her to a miserable
Impulsive: “The edge of my hand was touching the golf club, and with a single motion I swept the club over and down, struck it a savage and accurate blow and killed it. ”(paragraph 6, page 151) Mr.Morgan killed the large without thinking, he couldn’t control his emotion. At that moment, he didn’t think too much, he just wanted to kill that “terrible” ant in order to keep himself safe. He even did not think about whether that large ant was evil or not.
In Katherine Paterson’s novel, “Lyddie”, the main character must survive and make decisions that will affect her and how she lives. Lyddie was a thirteen year old girl, and her father had left the family. While Lyddie’s mother and younger siblings had gone to their aunt’s home for the winter, Lyddie and her brother Charlie decide stay to take care of it. However, during Spring, both Lyddie and Charlie were demanded to go to work to pay off their family's debts. Lyddie is taken to a tavern of which she meets Triphena ( the cook ) and Mrs. Cutler.
No one would have been surprised to read that Mrs. Mallard later killed her husband had she not perished from her heart condition. After finding her freedom, and experiencing it for a short while, Mrs. Mallard may have the motivation to take back her new found independence. Then it would have been her house the neighbors, sheriff and county attorney would have been rummaging through. Conversely, had Mrs. Wright decided to relieve herself from her burdens by taking her own life, then it would be her who escaped and gained freedom through
With this belief Mrs. Mallard now looks forward to a long life. Previously to her husband’s death she dreaded the years ahead spent under the thumb of her husband. Now, though, Mrs. Mallard is someone who has much to look forward to and many joys to appreciate. Soon this opportunity is taken from her, just as her chance of freedom is taken from her she learns that Brently is still alive. When Mrs. Mallard sees Brently walk through the front door, the disappointment and the devastation of loss that she suffers cause her heart
Author Stieg Larsson once wrote, “Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.” In the play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, each characters have a flaw that are used against their circumstances. Very rarely does a character in this story thought about the consequences of their actions before they did something, resulting in devastating outcomes. Granted, the main characters of the story have a noticeable weakness that contributes to their tragic ends. Romeo and Juliet both have a fatal flaw of being too impulsive when it comes to love and decisions.
The story begins with Mrs. Mallard getting the news that her husband had died in a terrible train accident. At first Mrs. Mallard was racked with grief for the loss of her husband. As the story progresses, Mrs. Mallard says, “There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know.”
but she was waiting for other Although Mrs.Mallard felt overly joyful, she knew that once she sees Brently corpse her heart will be broken
Mrs. Mallard’s actions cause the readers to contemplate a hidden meaning woven into the story line. Mr. Mallard is assumed to die in a railroad accident, leaving Mrs. Mallard devastated. Instead of feeling sadness or grief, Mrs. Mallard actually feels free. "There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature" (Page 499).
The play ‘A Doll’s house’ is a three act play written by Henrik Ibsen. - BLABLA BLA-. The story, however could be interpreted differently by different readers greatly depending on their cultural context. In this essay will be discussed how a Freudian and a Feminist reader might interpret the plot, the character relations and the ending differently. A Feminist might argue that the story’s underlying message is to unveil the power dynamic during the 19th century between men and women.
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf depicts a day of a high-society women running errands in preparation for an evening party, in companion with Septimus Warren Smith, a veteran of the First World War, who is suffering from shell shock. The novella embraces a Bergsonian sense of time through the distinction Woolf makes between time on the clock and time in the mind, which directly correlates to Bergson 's notion of temps and duree. Woolf’s predominant concern with time is firstly delineated through the time on the clock, or temps. In the novella, temps not only act as a source of disturbance to Clarissa, but also account for Septimus’ death. By using the clock symbol, Woolf draws a discrepancy between the clock-time, temps and the mind-time, or duree.
When Richard’s heard the news of her husband’s death, he assumed Mrs. Mallard would be devastated. While everyone knew Mrs. Mallard was “afflicted with heart trouble” (57), him and her sister, Josephine, wanted to give her the news with “great care” (57). Josephine broke the news to Mrs. Mallard in “broken sentences”
Tommy Chung Mrs. Martin TSW 1,2,4,6,7 2016/10/6 Analysis of “The Story of An Hour” In the story, “The Story of An Hour”, the main character is Louise Mallard. She is a dynamic character. She internally changed throughout the story.