Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz provides two main boys who are totally different from each other. Ari, the main person, has a real hardship of interaction with people. He is not able to control the relationship with people around him. On the other hand, Dante, Ari’s friend, is so friendly with people and affects Ari’s growth greatly. As Ari explores the secrets of the universe, he establishes lots of relationships with peoples such as making rules between them. Breaking rules in this story is very significant for each character’s mind: especially Ari, and it affects Ari very well on behalf of changing his characteristic until he becomes matured. In the earliest time in this book, Ari is a type …show more content…
The stay at hospital gives him a lot of time to experience the other people’s feelings for Ari and decides to ask his parents for leaving him alone. This decision is really great for him because he can think about himself objectively. Through his time without parents, he clears his mind, so he comes to hesitate to break the rules. For instance, his mother tells him not to drive his truck with drinking when he gets his car from his parents and he drives it with her. He usually tries to break the rule made by her; however, Ari who gets accident is different. When his parents went out to some wedding dance, he was just going to ahead to a desert and drink alcohol, but he said, “I kept hearing my mom’s voice in my head and it really pissed me off that her voice was there. So I just decided to go home” (207). He actually learns whether it is right to break a rule at that time or not from his accident. Again, he is depicted as a matured person who can make the …show more content…
Thus, the reader sees through lots of rules in several situations and enjoys the changes from Ari’s negative character to positive one. The author notes a dramatic change in his family. His mother asks him, “’Don’t you want to have a beer with your mom and dad?’… ‘It against the rules.’ ‘New Rules.’… ‘A beer with your old man isn’t going to kill you. It not as if you haven’t had none before. What’s the big deal?’” (345). As Ari goes through lots of rules, the rules finally unite his family such as mother telling Ari about his brother and his father. It is the most significant point for him to stay with his parents because he feels hard to prove his parents’ mystery by himself. In addition, the author finally makes the readers feel satisfied with knowing the whole mystery. As Ari proves his mystery fully, he realizes to be closed to Dante with his honest feeling. For instance, they no doubt kiss each other like a couple. This incident shows that Ari becomes matured since he goes through a new way of
In the article The Cosmic Perspective by Neil deGrasse Tyson he examines a range of topics from human life coming from Mars to how our perspective of the universe relates to religion. In the year 2000, a new space show opened at the Hayden Planetarium called Passport to the Universe, which compared the size of people Milky Way and beyond. While a show like this might make someone feel minuscule and insignificant, Tyson says that seeing the size of the universe actually makes him feel more alive not less and gives him a sense of grandeur. I agree with his idea that looking at us as a people in comparison can actually give you a sense of grandeur. However, when I compare myself to the vastness of space, it puts events on Earth in perspective while showing how influential we can be as a people even if we are small.
Miranda becomes attracted to Adam, a masculine soldier who shows his devotion to the war and traditions. He is heroic figure according to the traditional principle. Yet Miranda was able to
Welty presents Phoenix, throughout the story, as a determined woman who is persuaded by compassion and encouraged by humor to defeat the hindrances so that she can help her chronically ill grandson. This story gives a wonderful lesson for all people who feel like the afflictions of life are too immense to overcome, and also provides advices for how to persevere when realizing goals that may seem impossible. Consequently, the ways Welty uses symbolism to make clear of how difficult Phoenix’s mission is, but the way she depicts her character shows how humor and compassion help a person make it through tough situations.
Arima eventually stops his blackmailing as they open up to each other, having many similarities, and then quickly growing romantically attached to their friendship. Throughout the show they both shape each other’s personalities and make each other better people.
Family bonds are very important which can determine the ability for a family to get along. They can be between a mother and son, a father and son, or even a whole entire family itself. To some people anything can happen between them and their family relationship and they will get over it, but to others they may hold resentment. Throughout the poems Those Winter Sundays, My Papa’s Waltz, and The Ballad of Birmingham family bonds are tested greatly. In Those Winter Sundays the relationship being shown is between the father and son, with the way the son treats his father. My Papa’s Waltz shows the relationship between a father and son as well, but the son is being beaten by his father. In The Ballad of Birmingham the relationship shown is between
At the outset, Atwood gives the reader an exceedingly basic outline of a story with characters John and Mary in plotline A. As we move along to the subsequent plots she adds more detail and depth to the characters and their stories, although she refers back with “If you want a happy ending, try A” (p.327), while alluding that other endings may not be as happy, although possibly not as dull and foreseeable as they were in plot A. Each successive plot is a new telling of the same basic story line; labeled alphabetically A-F; the different plots describe how the character’s lives are lived with all stories ending as they did in A. The stories tell of love gained or of love lost; love given but not reciprocated. The characters experience heartache, suicide, sadness, humiliation, crimes of passion, even happiness; ultimately all ending in death regardless of “the stretch in between”. (p.329)
Firstly, one’s identity is largely influenced by the dynamics of one’s relationship with their father throughout their childhood. These dynamics are often established through the various experiences that one shares with a father while growing up. In The Glass Castle and The Kite Runner, Jeannette and Amir have very different relationships with their fathers as children. However the experiences they share with these men undou...
This play follows a family by the name of the Youngers. All of them seem close knit and love each other despite their differences and quarrels from time to time. One seems set apart from the rest of the group, Walter Younger, the father of the family. He even tries to indicate that he thinks differently and that somehow, he stands out. “Here I’m a giant - surrounded by ants!” (2.1.878). Walter likes to take in this view of himself, when he is actually just bitter about not having the life he wanted. He longs for a sense of accomplishment, something that seems so far away but almost in his grasp. In a quarrel with his mother concerning wealth, Mama asks Walter about his...
...and through an unfolding of events display to the reader how their childhoods and families past actions unquestionably, leads to their stance at the end of the novel.
Presumably, complications start to revolve around the protagonist family. Additionally, readers learn that Rachel mother Nella left her biological father for another man who is abusive and arrogant. After,
...parents were much more successful in the working world encouraged him to complete many daily activities such as choir and piano lessons. His parents engaged him in conversations that promoted reasoning and negotiation and they showed interest in his daily life. Harold’s mother joked around with the children, simply asking them questions about television, but never engaged them in conversations that drew them out. She wasn’t aware of Harold’s education habits and was oblivious to his dropping grades because of his missing assignments. Instead of telling one of the children to seek help for a bullying problem she told them to simply beat up the child that was bothering them until they stopped. Alex’s parents on the other hand were very involved in his schooling and in turn he scored very well in his classes. Like Lareau suspected, growing up
Nonetheless, this really is a tale of compelling love between the boy and his father. The actions of the boy throughout the story indicate that he really does love his father and seems very torn between his mother expectations and his father’s light heartedness. Many adults and children know this family circumstance so well that one can easily see the characters’ identities without the author even giving the boy and his father a name. Even without other surrounding verification of their lives, the plot, characters, and narrative have meshed together quite well.
Arithmos took Danae’s hand off of his arm, trying to get some distance away from her.“ I am just heading for a small walk, which I would like to take alone.” Danae was angered by his constant decline to be within her company, for she desired Arithmos as he was the only man that was as beautiful as her and did not fall in love with her. Letting Arithmos go, Danae watched as he walked through the trees rich in green color, waiting until he was out of sight to secretly follow
In the story “Two Kinds”, the author, Amy Tan, intends to make reader think of the meaning behind the story. She doesn’t speak out as an analyzer to illustrate what is the real problem between her and her mother. Instead, she uses her own point of view as a narrator to state what she has experienced and what she feels in her mind all along the story. She has not judged what is right or wrong based on her opinion. Instead of giving instruction of how to solve a family issue, the author chooses to write a narrative diary containing her true feeling toward events during her childhood, which offers reader not only a clear account, but insight on how the narrator feels frustrated due to failing her mother’s expectations which leads to a large conflict between the narrator and her mother.
Aza beings a romantic relationship with a boy named Davis. When Davis and Aza kiss for the first time, it sends Azas thought spirals into overdrive and Aza can not stop thinking about Davis’ bacteria entering her body. Davis has a dad who is a multibillionaire that disappeared when he found out that the cops started to look for him because of robbery. The police asked for a reward of 100,000 dollars to find the fugitive. Since Aza had previously been friends with Davis years back, Azas best friend Daisy wants to take advantage of that relationship and try and find Davis’s dad, so they can then receive the 100,000 dollars. This book will take you through Azas and Daisy’s journey and show you the lengths they’re willing to go to for the 100,000