The Lonely Goatherd

The Lonely Outcasts John Steinbeck displays the theme of loneliness in the novella Of Mice And Men through the outcasts; a cripple, a colored man, and a woman. People judge Crooks based on his skin tone, making him resentful and hesitant towards everyone. Candy realizes that because he is crippled he won’t be able to work for much longer, but if he does not work, Candy will not have any family or friends to turn to. As a result of a protective husband, Curley’s wife is lonely because her husband threatens to fight anyone who tries to talk to her. Crooks is a colored man whom is constantly judged by a harsh society.

In Singleton’s story “Answers,” the main characters loses the element of trust with each other, causing tension in their marriage. The husband loses the trust he has with his wife because of the revelation of her dishonesty during an honest game. In

Another one of the women had the presence of a negative stimuli, her husband was not sympathetic of her and her emotions. She had a really tough day and was very irritated when she got home. She tried to talk to her man about it and he was not responding the way that she needed him to. Instead he sat on the couch and drank a beer and chewed his gum… no not chewed popped.

This causes these two men to live with discomfort, which leads them to become irrational and cloistered. Tom does not have a healthy relationship with his mother because he emotionally limits himself; Tom creates tension between him and his mother by not opening himself up to

This backfires when they began to grow close again. Then, when Daisy kills Myrtle and Tom gets Gatsby killed they run away together, as they always do. The quote, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . .” shows how they are.

The husband soon becomes jealous of his wife's ability of creation and fears that he is loosing control over her. He also becomes frustrated when she can't produce for him the family he greatly desires and she desires for him. They are both devastated by countless miscarriages to the point where the husband tries to bear his own child. They become distant until the wife is finally able to bring him a

In fahrenheit 451, Mildred wants to kill herself because she is very unhappy. Some might argue that she is just sick, but that isn’t all because she depicts signs that she is depressed, lonely, and lacks the feeling of love. This could all be causes of society having a negative effect on Mildred and her wellbeing; technology, obsession, and being unable to cope with her emotion are all factors that play into Mildred life. Fahrenheit 451 burns through the thoughts of readers as controversy spills out of the pages. Guy Montag, firefighter, husband, and a truth seeker, goes through multiple barriers trying to figure out the questions no one dares to ask.

The Ottos are devastated over the loss of their adopted son, Bear, who died from the impact during the bus accident. Bear's parents grieve over the loss by becoming house ridden and isolating themselves from others. “ Though he was all sinew and bone, he look fragile- as though a friendly clap on the s

She feels suffocated by her depression and does not know how to deal with

Actions as such bring up the issue that while he tries to foster the marriage, John is also repeatedly lying to her and continuously being caught. In word such as “I think you’re sad again. Are you?” , there is clearly a discord portrayed in the marriage, and a sense of distance in between the couple (Miller

"If only I could get rid of this dead weight ... Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever. " In Night everything is reversed, every value destroyed. " Here there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends," a kapo tells him.

(Marchetta, 95) The Italians judge her as she is already a disgrace for going against their values and beliefs. She feels restricted from the pressures and that her life doesn’t belong to her. She is pressured to make a good impression that will reflect on her family, in return she never is able to be happy will her life for she never wants to make another mistake again. Therefore Christina is affected by obligations and expectations of her family and culture, which in return influence her life and decisions and make her feel alone and isolated without a voice.

In the novel Spill, Simmer, Falter, Wither by Sara Baume, she talks about a strong and unbreakable friendship between an old anti-social man named Ray and his adopted dog who he calls One Eye. Both of them were all alone and had no one to love or be loved by, until they came across one another at the pound. After a short ride home and getting settled in they both become the best of friends and rely on each other for many reasons. The novel shares many similarities as well as differences which draw the two closer together and strengthens their inseparable bond throughout the story. One important point to look at is seclusion.

In An Animal’s Place, Michael Pollan describes the growing acknowledgement of animal rights, particularly America’s decision between vegetarianism and meat-eating. However, this growing sense of sentiment towards animals is coupled with a growing sense of brutality in farms and science labs. According to Pollan, the lacking respect for specific species of animals lies in the fact that they are absent from human’s everyday lives; enabling them to avoid acknowledgment of what they are doing when partaking in brutality towards animals. He presents arguments for why vegetarianism would make sense in certain instances and why it would not and ultimately lead to the decision of eating-meat while treating the animals fairly in the process. Pollan

A very interesting hypothesis is presented by Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet who assumed that the leading role in the death of Macomber had Robert Wilson. He says that he is a professional hunter, he can adopt to his client's standards but has his own standard of kill-ing. He definitely has ethics about people, but from the opening of the story he is guiding everything. He tells Macomber what to drink, what to do and how to hunt. Unfortunately, during the buffalo hunt Wilson made a mistake and both, Margot and Francis recognize it.