In the short story “Just Lather, That’s All”, there are ironies that occur for the barber and Captain Torres. The barber meets with Torres to give him a shave. Torres walked into the barber shop in his military uniform to show that he was part of the military. During his shave he was telling the barber about his search for rebels and the ones they have already captured. The barber was a rebel but he assumed that Torres did not know that. While shaving Torres, the barber had a series of thoughts running through his head. He was thinking about killing Torres and the outcomes of the murder. He was also thinking about not killing Torres, and being an honorable barber. It is ironic that the barber did not kill Torres because they are enemies and
“Lather And Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez, shows suspense in many ways, by using key elements. The key element that Tellez uses, develops suspense in the story. Tellez uses many different elements to show suspense like using mood and tone to make us feel something. In "Lather And Nothing Else” Tellez used style, the point of view, and pace to build suspense into the story.
In They Say/I Say, Chapter Eighteen is talking all about food, and the long term argument that has been going on forever: What should we eat? There are many good articles in the chapter written by many reliable authors, but there are two of the articles that really stood out. The first one “The Supermarket: Prime Real Estate” by Marion Nestle, and the second is “How Junk Food Can End Obesity” by David H. Freedman. Both of these authors talk about the food industry, one talks about how the supermarket effects the choices people make in their diets, and the other talks about how junk food and the fast food industries might just be the way to go to help Americans become healthier.
One’s greed for power blinds their sense of pity for humanity which creates chaos in society because of their ignorance. In the text Danforth explains to Francis Nurse, “But you must understand sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between” (Miller 94). In this quote Danforth explains to Nurse that a citizen of Salem cannot be against the court’s justice system: One must comply with its rules or else they will be counted as guilty. Danforth claims power over the people through the court and anyone who does not obey his demands will be persecuted which shows that this trial is for himself and not for the town. For the sake of his power, Danforth apprehends innocent individuals who are not compliant thus foreshadowing the misfortunes of uninvolved people who are suspects. Without knowing, Danforth intends to create a disorder in society because of his need for more control, which justifies his inexperience and his abuse of authority. Danforth also tells Nurse, “And do you know that near to four hundred are in the jails from marble head to Lynn, and upon my signature? […] And seventy-two condemned to hang by that signature?” (Miller 87). Here Danforth attempts to intimidate Nurse by bragging with h...
The word barber is derived from the Latin word barba, meaning beard.2 As a profession, barbering was introduced in Rome in 296 B.C. The barbers of the early days were also surgeons and dentists, and in both Egypt and Greece, barbers attained prosperity and respect. Statesmen, poets, and philosophers who came to have their hair cut or their beards trimmed frequented the shops. They also came to discuss the news of the day because the barbershops of the ancient world were the headquarters of social, political, and sporting news.
...wthorne has a message or lesson to us and he delivers his message or lesson by his way such as he made his protagonist in both stories as guilty. His goal is to reveal something about unmoral and the people have, sin, guilt, shame, and they need a repentance. The sin, guilt, and shame, in the case of Bourne, a person who failed to keep his vow, he suffers guilt. the other hand, the sin, guilt, shame, in the case of Mr. Hooper, especially the mask is unbelievable that Mr. Hooper wears the mask and he did not take off even though when he is dying because the people’s sins. In both stories, we cannot accept Elizabeth's sacrifice, nor that of Cyrus. We would have been more moral for Mr. Hooper to have lifted his mask for Elizabeth and graced her with an explanation. Also we consider Hawthorne's stories exemplify a moral lesson, a lesson Hawthorne maybe never intended.
His client is Captain Torres, who is an evil man. The barber has been given the job of shaving his beard, and with the Captain sitting before him and a razor in his hand, the barber realizes how easy it would be to kill him. “I could cut his throat just so, zip! zip! I wouldn’t give him time to complain” (Tellez, 3). This develops the barber’s inner conflict as he is silently contemplating whether to simply shave him like a professional barber should, or kill him on the spot. The Captain’s fate is literally in the barber’s hands. This inner conflict is a result of his image, how he wants to be portrayed, because he is both a barber and a secret rebel. “My destiny depends on the edge of this razor” (3). Therefore, whatever he chooses ultimately results in how his future will unfold. If he kills the Captain, he could be seen as either a “murderer or hero” (3). If he doesn’t kill the Captain, he is letting the man go who is responsible for so many terrible things. After contemplating his choices and considering the consequences, he eventually solves his conflict by simply giving him a shave and letting Torres go. As a result, the barber indeed proves how one’s identity will result in how one’s future will
The first moment that creates suspense is when Captain Torres enters the barbershop. The barber thinks “He came in without a word...And when [he] recognized him [he] started to shake” (342). This makes the reader wonder why the barber is scared of the man who entered the barber shop. THe man is then described “...taking off his cartridge-studded belt with the pistol holster suspended from it” (342). The reader then begins to wonder why the man has a pistol holster on his belt. It is then revealed that the barber is a revolutionary and that the manis Captain Torres,
In "thinking outside the idiot box", Dana Stevens responds to Steven Johnson's New York Times article in which Johnson believes that watching television makes you smarter. Indeed, Steven Johnson claimed that television shows have become more and more complex over the years in order to follow the viewers need for an interesting plot instead of an easy, linear story. However, Dana Stevens is opposed to this viewpoint. Stevens is not against television, he does not think it makes you smarter nor that it is poisenous for the brain, he simply states that the viewer should watch television intelligently. That is to say that, viewers should know how much television they should watch and what to watch as well.
Lengel, the manager of the store, spots the girls and gives them a hard time about their dress in the store. He tells them, “Girls, this isn’t the beach.” He says that they are not dressed appropriately to come into this grocery store. Lengel’s words cause Queenie to get embarrassed and start to blush. Sammy cannot believe this and gets frustrated at his boss. He doesn’t believe that it is right to prosecute these innocent girls for the way they are dressed. He also states at this point that the sheep are piling up over in Stokesie line trying to avoid all the commotion the scene has caused. I believe Sammy takes this as the last straw in a long string of aggravations.
In the story A&P, we know as the story begins, Sammy is employed at A&P. He is ringing a older lady, who he describes as a "witch", groceries up. While Sammy is occupied, in walks three girls, wearing bathing suits, who catch Sammy's eye. Their attire is against the stores policy, which is not enforced, until the manager approaches them. Once the manager approaches them, we later read that Sammy quits his job. Following his first announce in him quitting, he says, "You didn't have to embarrass them" (152), which let us know, he felt the girls were embarrassed. Sammy's main point for quitting his job at A&P, in his and my opinion, is to be an "unsuspected hero" (152).
War never changes. It starts with a drop of blood and ends with a sea, but it isn’t the spilling of blood that stops the chaos. Peace is brought by the magnanimous who look past each other’s faults, not the cold-hearted and unsympathetic. The short stories “Lather and Nothing Else” and “Gregory” both explore the theme that it is better for opposing sides to show trust and empathy with each other rather than displaying ruthlessness and needless violence because mutual understanding PREVENTS FURTHER CONFLICT. Captain Torres trusts the barber not to slit his throat which then leads to them being empathic to one another and developing a relationship, similar to when Gregory trusts the guerrillas with his life which
“The Shampoo” by Elizabeth Bishop was written near the beginning of Bishop’s residence in Brazil and is a direct homage to her lover Lota. Even though Lota is not directly addressed in the poem, an earlier draft of the poem reveals a connection to her longtime lover. Bishop uses the mundane act of washing a loved one’s hair as the basis for a brilliant meditation on the nature and progression of time. In “The Shampoo” Elizabeth Bishop uses imagery of nature, metaphor of time, and deliberate diction to compare the gradual movements in nature over time with the process of aging. Bishop draws a contrast between the process of aging and the timeless relationship she has with
In Haircut, the author Ring Lardner, placed his story in a small town where a very known barber, Whitey, is the best source of information on the town. He knows everyone very well, and he knows all the town gossip and all the news (146). The reader can see from the beginning of the story that this barber is not a reliable person, because he cannot be trusted in everything that he is telling to readers.. All the time, the barber is on the side of his friend Jim Kendall, trying to give to him all the benefits of the doubt. In the beginning of the story, barber said: “When he was alive, him and Hod Meyers used to keep this town in an uproar. I bet they was more laughin’ done here than any town, its size in America” (Lardner, 145). He believes that the sense of humor of the two friends is a quality. There is nothing wrong with a person to have a sense of humor, but sometimes Jim’s humor was sarcastic and inappropriate. A good example is that night when Jim, changing his voice as a woman, called the barber and asked him to come to her house and shave her husband who just passed
For this writing essay assignment, and just the simple fact that go to this place almost every other week, I choose to write about something that I was extremely comfortauble with, and that’s going to the barber shop. Over my life I have been to many different barbershops, some in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, though they were all in different states, with different people and personalities, they all had the samething in common, and that was that homey and invinting feeling that they all gave off as you walked through the door. I have been going to the barber shop since I was a baby, so I know its surroundings and what it’s like up close. Although it may not sound very interesting, the shop is a really fun and informational environment. Some people go to their local shops and dont even bother to get haircuts, they just go to hear the lattest gossip and what going on not only localy, but globaly as well. There are even women who work at many barber shops, although they don’t cut hair as the men would, they’re more of a stylist for the women who need their hair done, im pretty sure the beauty shop is just as interesting as the barbershop is, as women love to gossip as well. I look at it like its a sort of art form, I mean there are thousands of different hairstyles that people go to barbershops and request. Cutting hair looks to be so simple and easy by first glance, but as you sit and just study the barbers every move, how carefully he cuts the hair to make sure everything is even and blends it all together, you realize that it takes quite some skill to do. Barbershops create a special social connectivity with...
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