Section One - On the Beach Question 1: At the beginning Moira Davidson drinks a lot of Alcohol (alcohol). She is sad and angry because she can’t understand why the Australians have to pay for other people’s faults. John Osborne blames Moira to drink (for drinking?) too much to escape from reality. She meets Commander Towers and he explains to her that there is no point of (in) being sad and drunk. He encourages Moira to take on responsibility for her own life. That (This) is why she takes part in a secretary course and also drinks less alcohol. Moira falls in love with Dwight Towers and they kiss each other, although she knows that they will soon die. But she soon experiences (realises?) that Dwight still has feelings for his dead wife. …show more content…
He tells Moira that he wouldn’t be allowed to take her with him. I think he rather prefers everybody to die their own way. He is loyal to the Navy but Moira hates sailing. Dwight is still in love with his dead wife and he feels like this would be cheating, which is foreign to his nature. Question 3: Mary and Peter Holmes buy garden furniture in Melbourne, a dirty city, but don’t need to pay for it. They try to ignore and escape from reality, so they decide not to visit Melbourne anymore. They choose the easiest way and hope that there will be a small chance to survive. Peter Holmes is afraid that he won’t be at home when radiation comes. They don’t want to accept that they will die, because it has always been their dream to have a perfect family and they will have to kill their young daughter, Jennifer. Question 4: At the moment, my plan is to study law and become a lawyer. I want to help the poor and defend the Act of Parliament. But if I know that the end is coming, I will visit places all over the world. This is not only due to personal amusement but also to support any sick people. If there has been a nuclear war, it would be important that everybody is aware of sickness procedures and would be able to end their lives before the radiation becomes …show more content…
The apples of the old the tree don’t taste good, which points to the difference of Midges’ and the protagonists’ characters. Question 2: The old tree reminds him of his unhappy wife and marriage. He offers some logs to Mrs. Hill because he finally has a reason to cut down the old tree. The gardener, Willis, always tries to convince the protagonist of the right to live. When cutting down the old apple tree, he ends the relationship with Madge because there is nothing of her left. He does something good by giving away the logs to Mrs. Hill and is, for a short time, part of the bar-community. Question 3: In my opinion, both of them were blamed for the unhappy marriage. None of them enjoyed the marriage but nobody cared either. He is lazy and never helps Midge in the household. But Midge never asks him directly, she only asks what he does. She thinks the protagonist is only satisfied if everything is proper and clean. They stopped looking at each other and the protagonist kissed another younger girl. But Midge doesn’t seem to care. Even though the protagonist is gentle and tells Midge that his supper didn’t matter and that he would bring her a hot drink, she doesn’t notice his
Jack then shoots Boyce because he didn’t follow Jacks orders and killed Peter’s family instead. Jack then pours gasoline all over the house and sets the old abandoned house on fire. Meanwhile, the hallucination of Peter's wife is on the brink of yelling, urging Peter to wake up. When he finally awakens, he takes Anne out of the burning house where she is reunited with her daughter. Boyce traps Jack in the fire by pouring gasoline on him before dying.
ran” which is a contrast to the apples being trapped within the cellar (like the child in the house),
Katie tries calling her daughter Polly to see if it was her but polly is perfectly fine at college. “Pol? Honey? Are you alright?”pg.796. She then tries to call her mother to see if it was her, Katie knows that whoever called is apart of her family. Katie hangs up and calls her sister Dawn but she doesn't pick up. Katie's husband Bill drives her out to Dawn’s to see if she is okay, She turns out to be sleeping on the couch with the music blaring. That night Bill dies of a heart attack while watching a movie based on his book. Five years later Katie remarries, she’s down stairs and bill’s movie comes on. She falls and turns off the television, she hears the phone buzzing then realized something. The women she heard over the phone five years ago was herself saying take Bill to the hospital “Take...please take...t-t-” P.807.
She wants us to know how John Wilson committed such a crime, how he was trialed and executed, exactly what had went on during the investigation when the RNWMP discovered one of their own might have committed a murder, when they received letters from Polly’s sister, stating she and her family had not heard from Polly in months. She wants us to know what went on in Johns head before he murdered his pregnant wife so he could marry the young women he fell in love with in Blaine Lake, what he did before and after he committed such a crime and all the lies he told. She wants us to know Polly’s side of the story as well, to bring justice and pay homage to the victim who died so tragically. Lois found the story so interesting she wanted to tell the story to the rest of the world so they could be just as intrigued as she was when she first read about it, and how it would not leave her thoughts and always crossed her
Stacy was finally going home, and while Jennings felt happy initially, “It was replaced by a feeling I hadn’t felt before” (Burch 53). Shortly after Jennings was going home Mark cried in a heartbreaking moment “Don’t leave me! Please don't leave me!” (Burch 61). There is a constant flow of loss and separation in Jennings life. Jennings experience both ends of being left and leaving behind others both on purpose or not. Life is rough, even in happy moments sometimes, but it is moving forward that keeps you from being sad. It was the reason why Jennings wasn’t supposed to make friends, because it hurt. Towards the end of the section Stevie ran away, and this caused Jennings to run away shortly after. Jennings living was rough at the home, so he decided to run. He was beaten up pretty bad by Sister Barbara, so he ran and ended up at the police station.
All she thinks about is her husband and she does not stop thinking about him. She waits for her husband to come home every day at that exact time which shows that she gets a little obsessive over him. She obsesses over everything her husband does and remembers the exact time of when he comes home “When the clock said ten minutes to five, she began to listen, and a few moments later, punctually as always, she heard the tires on the gravel outside, and the car door slamming, the footsteps passing the window, the key turning in the lock” (Dahl 11). She knows how he likes his drink, and she “loved to luxuriate in the presence of this man” (Dahl 11). She constantly shows Patrick how much she loves him by making him dinner, his drink, his slippers etcetera. Mary Maloney killed her husband because she is so captivated with him that she would rather kill him than divorce or split up with him. She is so emotionally enslaved by her husband that “Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause, she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head” (Dahl 13). Mary Maloney, in shock of what he told her, kills him without thinking. “The violence of the crash, the noise, the small table overturning, helped bring her out of the shock” (Dahl 13). Mary Maloney knew afterward that she would be executed because she murdered
Murray and Will thought Mr Creswell was not well due to the lose of his wife. They suspected he might be drinking but did’nt realised the extant of his problem until Murray followed Ada into her home and saw the terrible state of their house was in. Mr Creswell had neglected his respounsibilites to his family due to the amount of alcohol he was drinming to drown the grief of the losing his wife. Ada was ashamed of the state her family had fallen so she never asked for helped and kept her fathers drinking problem a
After several weeks when the boys have been confirmed missing, cracks begin to appear in the boy’s relationship, when Joe realises his best friend Patrick is going out with Kelly, the girl he has always liked.
First, Godfrey Cass makes unsound decisions and causes problems for people. Initially, Godfrey secretly marries Molly; he would have been better off if he had married her in the open or had not married her at all. Dunstan uses Godfrey’s marriage to threaten him and says, “‘I might tell the Squire how his handsome son [is] married to a nice young woman, Molly Farren and [is] very unhappy because he [can’t] live with his drunken wife’”(24). Godfrey’s disgraceful marriage was a bad decision. Later, Molly is unhappy about their marriage because Godfrey resides in his fine house while she dwells in a dingy, small room. Molly hated that “her husband would be smiling and smiled upon, hiding her existence in the darkest corner of his heart” (108). Then, many years after Molly succumbs to her drug addiction, Godfrey unwisely decides to try to adopt his daughter Eppie who grew up with Silas. When Godfrey breaks the news to Eppie that he is her father, she “turns quite pale” (171) and replies, “But I can’t leave my father” (170). She is shocked that Godfrey had neglected her all of her life. It would have been nobler of Godfrey to claim Eppie as his own and reveal his marriage, but he was afraid of losing his reputation. Godfrey’s decision to marry Molly and not to claim Eppie creates turmoil in Raveloe.
It is shown here, that right after the heart-breaking news was given to her, Maloney decided to go ahead and kill her husband. She lost all her fondness of Patrick, and took the decision that if she can’t be happy, then the other person shouldn’t be able to happily live their life either. It was very harsh of her, and expresses how she lost her solicitude and compassion that she had for her husband. Leading onto the next loss, a good, moral character. “ ‘Is he dead?’
Suddenly there becomes a knock at the door and Miss Morstan has arrived she states she is a friend of someone Holmes’ has helped in the past and ask if he would help solve the case of her father who went missing. She begins by telling Holmes’ and Watson that she received a letter from her father telling her to meet him at the hotel in London and when he doesn’t show she begins to worry and contacts the police. With curiosity Holmes’ ask if she has any information on him, she begins pulling out letters and packages. Holmes’ begins to examine the letters she receive and says,
The first sign of problems begin to immerge when Alice goes out for drinks with a friend after work. Alice doesn’t come home until late that night and she appears to have forgotten that Michael had a trip that he had be on for work that night. Alice is initially irritated with Michael and then breaks down because she misses Michael when he is gone. He attempts to save her and make things better by taking her on trip to Mexico to fix things that are ...
He decides that it is of high value to him still and goes to get it back. He gets together with his friends Joe, Glenn and Cleveland. They get in a rental van and go to the house and try on Barack Obama masks. Peter thinks they are Bill Cosby masks and his buddies tell him, no its Barack Obama, which then worries Peter that he said something racist, which is kind of funny considering it never bothered him before. Their plan was to break in and get the videos but the new owner came outside and told them they could just go inside and get it. Peter takes it home and goes through the videos and stumbles upon an old tape that was labeled to: future Peter. While watching this video Peter realizes that he has not lived up to what he expected to be. Chris then comes down stairs doing the same things Peter was doing in the video to
During the summer break, why do families visit beaches so often? A very common vacation site for families during the summer season is the beach. Although the beach has many beautiful aspects that make up its unique scenery, it also provides many joyful and memorable emotions to its travelers. For my family, the beach has always been our favorite vacation site for the summer. Most people often refer to the beach as a peaceful yet exciting scene.