The Pearl Greed Quotes

Danglers went as far as to leave his wife over a payment he did not want to pay the next day. “I am leaving today in order to avoid that tomorrow which would be unbearably disagreeable to me” (Dumas 454). Both men let greed fill their hearts to the bitter end. They did not love money, they worshiped it. The love of money, the root of all wickedness, has transformed our earth into a corrupt nation, a people without a moral sense, and a society of very chaotic and greedy human beings.

The first example of this is when Kino’s brother says “It is the pearl said Juan Tomas there is a devil in this Pearl”(23). This is said when Kino’s house is burned down because someone wanted the pearl. Another example is right after Kino found the pearl the narrator said “So that he became curiously every man’s enemy”(64). Now Kino has become very unfortunate because if every man wants his pearl people will do anything to get. The third example is at the very end “And Kino drew back his arm and flung the Pearl with all his might”(89-90).

Roylott was bitten by the swamp adder causing his death, Sherlock Holmes cannot be held responsible. Sherlock Holmes was forced to protect himself and Helen Stoner, causing him to agitate the snake in the process, sending it back to Dr. Roylott’s room. Secondly, Dr. Roylott has threatened Sherlock Holmes in his home, causing no guilt from Holmes at his death. Finally, Dr. Roylott was intentionally killing Helen and Julia, in order to keep his monthly income of $750. When Sherlock Holmes agitated the snake causing it to bite Dr. Roylott, Sherlock indirectly caused his death; but, Sherlock Holmes cannot be held responsible due to Dr. Roylott being the killer of Julia, and the attempted killer of

Additionally, William Brittan creates suspense by using dramatic irony, inference gaps and foreshadowing in “The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr”. The tale is about a man, Edgar Gault who was obsessed with locked-room murders so much he foreshadowed in the text the killing of his Uncle Daniel because of money. Lastly, mystery elements such as inference gaps, dramatic irony and many possible suspects creates anxiety for the audience in “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl. This chiller was about a wife, Mary Maloney who lived for her husband, Patrick Maloney and got told by him that he was leaving her. Mary snapped and killed her husband with a frozen lamb leg, she covers up all her tracks and calls the police, his colleagues.

“Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife. Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted all over his hands”. This is proof that Jack is cruel, and has become a savage. He then proceeded to put the sow’s head on a pike as a gift to the beast. These boys probably range from six to thirteen years old, and they are acting like total savages.

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The massive characters are seared with scars. "- Khalil Gibran. In the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” written by Edgar Allen Poe, the main character, Montresor, suffers from an abnormal physcology for revenge due to his name being mocked by a man named Fortunato. Montresor is so consumed by his hatred for Fortunato that he deliberately creates a plot to murder Fortunato to seek justice for himself and his family name.

However, at the termination of the apprenticeship, Tom returns to the sea again for employment. His account recalls the dangers of British society shown through his encounters with the Wapping dame who cheats him out of his money. The difference of Tom’s account is that only has one profession, that of a sailor, throughout his life. His travels are not the focus of the account more of a side effect of his profession. Additionally Tom’s station alters only when he has the funds to provide a better quality of life, which he quickly loses to excessive charity.

Instead of being sent to a detention centre, his father locked him up in his house and now he is mentally unstable from the years of isolation. The mockingbird also has a compelling importance due to the connections with Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Harper Lee uses juxtaposition to highlight the contrast of a black man and a white man facing racism and discrimination. However in this novel, one mockingbird is shot and the other is pressured to kill. A Mockingbird is considered for someone who displays innocence, kindness and does not want any recognition of the good deeds they do for others.

Comparatively, Jim is constantly disliked because of his race. When Jim runs away, there is a reward to find him and others are determined to find him for the money. Also, after Jim helps the doctor, he explains to the men at Aunt Sally’s house that a slave helped him and should be worth a thousand dollars, even after he did a superior task. However, Jim is not discerned as Christ-like figure because he superstitious, such as when he knows it is going to rain when birds fly by.

Aldous Huxley develops the character of John in Brave New World through exile from the World State in order to elucidate the theme of not being able to escape the corruption that is society. After all the hardships John has been through, such as growing up on the Reservation with his mother, whose death also drove him to desperate actions such as starting a riot among some Deltas at the hospital, John was not able to properly cope with his “new life” in the World State. HIs positive view of what the “Other World” would be like was crushed when he realized how horrible and corrupt the people were there, all conditioned in uniformity to create stability. His disgust was only furthered by his exposure to the World State’s use of soma and sexual pleasure to keep people happily occupied. Everything that the people were conditioned and taught to do went against John’s beliefs, so he was understandably upset about it.