The Highwayman is a story of a highwayman and his true love Bess. The horse groomer Tom does not like this and tells authorities. Nine of King George's men came and basically kidnapped her. After a little while she decides her true love is dead and kills herself. Soon after that her love, the Highwayman comes looking for her. King george's men shot him down and now they both rest, dead.
... treats Piney as her own child, and is moved with the couples love. After ten days of living in the cabin, she died from starvation. She requested to Oakhurst to give the rations she has been saving to Piney. He felt all them were already hopeless, so he ordered Tom to hike to Poker Flat and try to get some help. After a couple of days, when the help arrived in the cabin, the found two women huddled together, frozen to death, and close by Oakhurst was found with a gun near him, a bullet right through his heart, and a suicide note saying “Beneath this tree, Lies the body of John Oakhurst, who struck a streak of bad luck on the twenty third of November, 1850, and handed in his checks on the seventh of December, 1850.” (Harte 458). This story shows that people can change their life when they want to, and that anyone can develop feeling despite whatever they did before.
In order to better understand the premises of the story a short summary is needed to get to know the narrator better. The protagonist, although not named tries to enjoy his summer with two of his friends Jeff and Digby by being rebels. Initially looking for trouble, they ride around from place to place using the protagonist’s parents’ borrowed car. They go looking for trouble at a place called Greasy Lake where they mistake a car for their friend’s car and try interrupt him while getting busy with a lady. When they interrupt the couple in the car, they find out that their friend Tony wasn’t in there, but a stranger, a real “badass”, their foil, was interrupted who proceeds to beat down the protagonist and his two friends. Out of rash thinking he hits the “badass” in the head with a tire iron just enough to knock him out. Once he is down the protagonist and his friends try to ravage the “foxy” lady the re...
The story opens with a crisis in their relationship. The narrator reads in the newspaper that Sonny has been taken up in a drug raid. He learns that Sonny is addicted to heroin “horse,” and that he will be sent to a treatment facility to be "cured." Unable to believe that his once gentle and quiet brother could have so abused himself:
Tom walker meets the devil in the swamp, the devil offers him wealth and fortune. He declines the offer because he doesn’t want to share it with his horrible wife. Tom and his wife’s feelings are not loving, one thing they have common is greediness. She goes back to the swamp try to make a deal with the devil, but she never returns, Tom waited a couple days until he went to the forest to look for her. Tom finds her apron in a tree, it had a heart and a kidney in it.
pick her up, she stayed with these men for a while and they gave her a
The start is when Young Goodman Brown takes a stand against the devil and refuses to go any further along with the devil. The devil ends up leaving Goodman Brown at a stump in which he sits. A few moments pass and Young Goodman Brown heard “hoof tramps and the voices of riders”(7). It would turn out to be the minister and Deacon Gookin, who passed Goodman Brown on the path as he hid from them behind a bush. Goodman Brown finds out that the two men are not completely devoted to Christianity as he had thought they should be. He heard that the minister and Deacon Gookin are both on their way to the devils ceremony. This is very ironic because the minister and deacon are supposed to be your role models. The Deacon Gookin is the teacher who would have taught Goodman Brown when he was a child, and once Goodman Brown was older he would move on to the teachings of the minister. So after all of the years of being taught by these two people, they were worshiping the devil, so Goodman is questioning his
When young Billy Walker took it upon himself to take a gang of Bald Knobbers to the Eden’s-Green Cabin late one night, all hell broke loose. When the smoke cleared, Billy had been shot in the leg and William Edens and Charles Green lay dead. In his haste to run from the scene of the murder’s, Billy had left his shotgun.
beat back the soldiers from his wife, she is captured as they flee in separate directions. The
The most interesting character in the narrative poem “ The Highwayman ” is Bess. Bess is selfless. Selflessness is to not think of yourself, but what is in the common good of everyone. Bess is tied up at the foot of her bed. The Highwayman is coming closer and closer to the inn. Bess’s finger pulls the trigger of a redcoat musket and she sacrifices herself to warn the Highwayman. Then, the Highwayman spurs to the west while his face turns grey and pale because Bess has died. Bess is showing that she is selfless when she “ shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him - with her death ” ( Stanza 13, Line 6 ). Bess is selfless. She did not think about herself when she laid her life down for the Highwayman. If selfless was more common,
In 1880 a group of strangers board a stagecoach. The stagecoach is heading eastward from Tonto, Arizona to Lordsburg, New Mexico. Among these strangers is Doc Boone an alcoholic doctor, Dallas a prostitute, Mrs. Mallory a pregnant lady and Samuel Peacock a whiskey salesman. Marshal Curly Wilcox tells the stagecoach driver, Buck that his regular ride along guard went hunting for Ringo Kid. Wilcox decides to ride in place of the regular guard when Buck informs him the Plummer brother's are in Lordsburg.
The next day, Inman and Veasey help a man remove a dead bull from his stream. This man, Junior, invites them to his home to spend the night, and several strange things happen. Inman is drugged and forced to marry Junior's wife, who the author suggests may be a cannibal. Junior then hands Inman and Veasey over to the Home Guard, the military force that has been searching for Inman. Inman is forced to walk eastward, retracing his steps. The guards decide to shoot the men and bury them in a shallow grave. Although Inman escapes with a slight head wound, Veasey dies.
The guards reported that when the highwayman come riding down the hill Bess shot herself! At this stage it is not clear why.Other witnesses claim that the highwayman heard the shot but by then it was too late. He too was shot right off his horse by one of the king’s
Unfortunately, however, after years of a happy marriage, Janie accidentally kills her husband during an argument. Her town forces her not only to deal with the grief, but to prove her innocence to a jury. Enduring and overcoming her three husbands and forty years of life experiences, Janie looks within herself to find and use her long hidden, but courageous voice.
A common feature in both ballads is a reference to supernatural events. In "The Highwayman" the speaker to says that a highwayman "comes riding up to the old inn door" where "Bess, the landlords daughter" was waiting (2. 50, 54). It is said that even after death, the highwayman and Bess connect again. On the other hand, in "The Unquiet Grave", the man's lover is dead, and after he visited her grave "for a twelvemonth and a day", the "dead began to speak" (ll. 5, 10). The speaker is saying that even though the woman is dead, somehow she is still able
After reading this short story a few times it became clear to me of the symbolism present. All the main characters are all male with the exception of the beautiful princess on whom he fell deeply in love with. The story even gives all the main characters a human form be it God, the Devil or Death. We do not see them in this story as supernatural beings but rather as just another person on whom the poor old man just happens to come across as he ran into the highway. No mention is made of the poor old man's wife or of any of his twelve other children in this story, and even thou the story begin with the old man, he soon drops out of the picture and the main characters become the son and his godfather Death'. From the time the son arrives at adulthood the story develops into a classical conflict between a father fig...