The Rich Brother Short Story

Finally Franek keep picking at Elie not until he broke. “ That day, Franek burst into savage laughter : ‘ I knew it, I knew that I would win…’ “ ( Page 56 ). This ultimately shows that with Franek and the Kapos Elie got mental damage with all going on in his life/ being in the concentration camp. It most likely give Elie post traumatic stress order and that is not good for anyone.

Both the poem “Warren Pryor” by Alden Nowlan and the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr express a depressing tone. “Warren Pryor” is about a son who chooses a career that he dislikes in order to please his parents. “Harrison Bergeron” is about a dystopian society where excellence in any way is considered a disadvantage and inequality for others. In both texts, the protagonists all face the barrier of having their nature being stifled; however, the speaker in the poem chooses not to fight back for himself, while the majority in the short story is not even able to realize the barrier that they face.

The biggest one is the hatred between the Socs and Greasers. The main characters, Ponyboy, Soda, Darry, Johnny, Dally, and Randy solved that problem quite well. Randy decided to not join the rumble after Bob’s death and make the relationship better with Greasers. Ponyboy also came to realization that fighting was useless by hearing other people’s feelings about the rumble. Soda, Darry, Dally realized that too by hearing that Johnny still died even though they won the rumble.

Rotten night out. Nine o’clock or thereabouts,’ Stanley said…’Well, he had something in his hand. A tire iron, I guess, or pry bar. Hard to tell in that rail. Anyway, he whacked every window out of the Finch boy’s car.’”

The Scarlet Ibis and Sucker are two amazing short stories, you can put them in comparison and see that they have numerous similarities and differences. In these stories the two main characters never truly felt like they were part of their family. They were emotionally abused by their brothers which made them continuously feel like they didn't belong. In the end it drove these characters Doodle and Sucker to their death, or put a huge impact to their personalities. In what ways do these two stories, share these similarities, and what are their differences?

Rich Marshall’s friend Mike Barbour learned from Rich's bad decisions and not in a good way. “I said no and he punched my arm again then he just kept saying it faster and faster and hitting me before I could answer”(Crutcher,193) Mike Barber abused his girlfriend for not doing what he wanted her to do. if it weren't for Rich Marshall Mike Barbour would not have learned to build unhealthy relationships with people just like Rich had. The final unhealthy relationship Rich created ended with a terrible outcome both for Rich and TJ Rich was seeking revenge on TJ's dad so he did something absolutely horrifying.

For instance, The reader knows that the narrator is a bad brother when the brother renames him Doodle. The brother says,"It was perhaps the kindest thing I ever did for him because nobody expects much from someone called Doodle" Hurst 8. Renaming a loved one would be an act of kindness but not renaming someone a rude name. He renames him Doodle because his little brother is weak and doesn't do anything; he is invalid. This shows the brother brings him down instead of lifting him up.

Victor really isn't very happy after his dad left, he seems him as if he is the bad guy. Like his dad left, because he didn't want to be around them anymore and didn't care about them at all. Which isn't the case, Victor's dad really does love him and his family he just felt like he needed to get away and didn't have the heart to come back. Later in the movie his dad dies, Victor and Thomas went to

“in my younger more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that ive been turning over in my head ever since. “whenever you feel like criticizing someone, “just remember that all people in this world haven’t had all the advantages that you’ve had.”ch.1 Analysis: nicks father is telling him not to judge or look down on to people of less because you don’t know what they have been through even if they are of lower stature, They can be better than you personality wise and not be rich. 6. “his speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.

In hindsight, however, Tyler and Jack are the same person, clouded by a dissociative identity disorder; according to Christian McKinney in his essay, it is the “narrator’s desperate search for a father figure which ultimately results in the invention of Tyler” (MCKINNEY-EB). Additionally, it is evident that Jack blames himself for the dissolution of his family as his father “divorced (his) mother when (he) was about six, moved to another town, married another woman, and started having kids with her” (PAGE). This is

Peter was bored of being rich, so he decided to give back. He didn’t want his father to find out he was doing this, so he had to pick a fake name for him. Peter picked the name Ramen Thief after Momofuku Ando. He started right away and borrowed his dad’s private jet and went to his birthplace, North Dakota. He can travel around the country in 45 seconds.

The author Cormac McCarthy just seemed to give us an abundance of tragedy and violence as the father of the boy keeps trying to tell him that they’ll make it even though everything seemed to be bleak. Anybody who used to be anybody was no longer important anymore, no matter what your occupation used to be in the old world. This newer world seems to be extremely backwards and even one of my favorite quotes in the book proves it, “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” It shows that nothing in the old world matters since all you can seem to remember are the dreadful things in order for you to know that in this time and age the situation are dangerous, which makes you push yourself in order to survive. Since their new world was post- apocalyptic, there is no more relying on law enforcement agencies or in humanity either.

The younger man tells them he is the Duke of Bridgewater, and the elder one says he is King Louis XVII of France. Huck uses a lesson he learned from his father and decides to go along with it. It is better if they have less problems on their

Sam and Bill send a letter to Ebenezer Dorset wanting fifteen hundred dollars in return for Johnny. Ebenezer knows that Johnny must be causing the kidnappers trouble and knows that he will get money to take him back. Instead Sam and Bill pay Ebenezer the money and will never return to the town of Summit ever again. Therefore, in O. Henry’s short story “The Ransom of Redchief” he uses situational irony to create a humorous short

When Dantes gains vengeance for Caderousse’s selfish actions, he is justified because Caderousse is the source of his own downfall. When Dantes returns to Marseilles, he is appalled to learn that his father was forced to pay “a hundred and forty francs” to Caderousse and that he “lived for three months on [only] sixty francs” (8). Dantes begins to grow displeased with Caderousse because he did not display mercy for a Dantes’s poor, old father who needed the money he owed to survive. During the scene when Dantes’s alias, Abbe Busoni, gives Caderousse a diamond, he is ecstatic and shows Abbe Busoni “effusive declarations of gratitude” (110). He does this because, like before, he is only thinking of himself and the earnings he will obtain from