Tom Sawyer Maturity

The conflict that is shown most in the book is Christopher’s listening skills from the start of the book to the end. In the beginning, when Chris finds Wellington deceased, he acts as if he is a detective. He circles around the neighborhood asking anyone he can find. Annoyed, Chris’s dad tells him numerous times to stop investigating the murder. With the disapproval of his father, Chris continues to search for the murderer, determined to put this person away.

As Johnny goes through this difficult stage in life he decides to run away not thinking about where he’s going to stay or how he’s going to get food. He decides to join a gang of orphans with his best friend Billy in order to survive. This novel is still widely read today because it provides an inhuman image of brutal conditions African Americans faced in Harlem of 1940’s. In the Rite of Passage, the main character Johnny is hit with some really bad news that his family that he’s been living with throughout his entire life is not really his own. In the text, Johnny comes home after getting a good report from school and his foster mother and sister tell him that he is not going to be living with them anymore.

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.’” (Stanley Basca to Elvis) (page 84) This passage from a trial scene, shows that Not only did Davy have no remorse for killing the two young men, he actually lured them to his home where his family slept unknowing.

Three examples that support this theme is Tom testifying in court, not telling Becky that Injun Joe is in the cave, and persuading Huck to live with the widow. First, Tom shows exceptional maturity while testifying in court. Tom is at at a grave site and witness Injun Joe murder Doctor Robinson. After Tom witness this murder a case is opened about the murder of the Doctor. In court Tom testifies saying the the Murdering Halfbreed if Injun Joe and at that moment Injun Joe runs away.

When analyzing John Proctor, the first thing that stands out is that he had an affair with a 17 year-old Abigail Williams. Proctor has a wife who loves him and three children but still decides to stray from his family and fancies someone else. John has everything that a person could ever wish for: a job, loving family and friends, but he still abandons it all. When John confesses to his wife about the affair, she fires Abigail. Several months later, when Abby approaches him about it, he tells her that what they had is

“A Good Man Is Hard To Find”: Characters Qualities and their Changes Flannery O’Connor’s short story A Good Man Is Hard To Find tells about the end of Bailey’s family; it is called by father’s first name as the author did not mention characters’ last name. The man’s mother, hereafter referred to as the Grandmother, did not want to go to Florida and preferred to visit places of her youth. Woman’s contumacy led to the car accident; she took her cat to the trip and the pet disturbed the driver. After that the family met with escaped convicts led by the criminal called Misfit and were killed by them. The Grandmother was the only character that achieved a “public” death: “the Misfit… shot her three times through the chest” (O’Connor); other family members were shot in the forest.

There is a character named Judith, but her family 's been despicable about the name. "Worm" is verbally expressed by her brother Darrel. "You" is called by her mother and "Ladybird" is called by her father. The setting is in Colonial times with World War 1 in action. Judith sneaks off at night with her generosity to bring him berries before he prepares to go to battle including the other men.

In Washington Irving’s “The Devil and Tom Walker”, Irving characterizes Tom as selfish man that only cares about himself. In the beginning of the story, Tom decides to take a shortcut through a swamp where he encounters the devil asking to make a deal. When he arrived home, Tom shares to his wife about the hidden treasure mentioned by the devil, which encourages his wife to make a deal with the devil herself and take all the portable article of value as an offering. After his wife’s extensive disappearance, he decides to search for her but only discovers his wife’s organs Instead of worrying about mysterious disappearance, Tom is most concerned about the loss of his items when he whispers to himself, “‘Let us get hold of the property... we

Both “Young Goodman Brown” and The Scarlet Letter focus on one of these sins. “Young Goodman Brown”’s premise is a young man who is struggling with the choice between selling his soul to the devil or serving God. A Puritan believed by selling your soul to the Devil you forever damage any relationship with God. When leaving his house, he is smitten by guilt by his young wife’s sadness over his departure. She implores him to stay for this night in particular, but he sadly informs her it must be this night.

There are times in life where people do commit a small mistake, or a huge crime, but what really matters is if one will listen to their conscience. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the main character lives with an old man who has an eye that “resembled that of a vulture--a pale blue eye, with a film over it.” The story revolves around the main character’s obsession over the eye, and how he got rid of it-- by murdering the old man. Towards the end of the story, the young man confesses to the police about his insane stunt after they searched his house. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe focused on having the reader know more than the secondary character, using description, and using a first-person narrator, to build suspense. Edgar Allan Poe made sure the reader knew more than the secondary character in his short story to build suspense.