Comparison of Hardy's The Withered Arm, Lawrence's Monkey Nuts, and Lawrence's Tickets Please Subject Matter: The story is set in 18th century England. The story is about a man who owns a dairy, returns to his farm with a new wife and his previous wife and son are curious about her. The previous wife, Rhoda Brook, has a vision the night the new wife, Gertrude arrives, where she hurts her successor. When she meets Gertrude however, Rhoda discovers that the arm that she thought she had damaged in the vision was actually damaged in real life! Gertrude told her that it had appeared one night mysteriously. Although many attempts to cure it are tried, they never work. Gertrude finds out that Rhoda did this to her, tries more remedies over the years and then dies at the end. Hardy- The Melancholy Hussar Of the German Legion: The story is about a girl who falls in love with a hussar, after being betrothed to another man. The couple plan to elope, but she betrays him and stays. Lawrence- Monkey Nuts: The story is about two men called Albert and Joe and a woman called Miss Stokes. Miss Stokes is a pretty girl who likes Joe, but he does not return her love, instead seems to feel secretly strongly about her, but does not act on the feelings. Albert likes Miss Stokes, but she does not return these feelings and this becomes a love triangle, gone wrong. In the end, no one gets together with anyone and the story ends as it started. Lawrence-Tickets Please: The story is about girls who work on the night trams. Annie is the main character who is pursued by John Thomas, 'her boy'. Other characters are the other girls, Polly, Muriel, Nora etc. The girls confront John Thomas, an obvious womaniser and force him to choose which of the girls he wants to marry. They attack him and tell him to choose. He chooses Annie and the girls let him go. The incidents and themes of the stories are the same, with love and
Kathleen. 229). This book is about a middle-aged man that lives on a farm with his wife,
... lives of the Dead family members; Milkman, unable to live any longer in an environment composed of animosity, drives him to leave his home and search for "his people." Serendipitously, although no single individual gains control of either Milkman's living or dead life, Milkman's need to escape from his collective family and surroundings unwittingly captures him and the life he so fervently aims to keep from the control of others.
decide what he is going to do about it. He cannot decide what woman to
passing away. He begins to get scared of her at his first night at the
Plot Summary: A man, Tom Joad, is released from prison and returns home to find his family’s farm and all other nearby farms deserted. After finding his family he finds out they are planning to travel west to try to earn money picking fruit in California. It is a long and challenging road to travel in a weak, old pickup truck, for both Grampa Joad and a woman by the name of Sairy Wilson cannot complete the journey. California is not all the glamour they had expected because California has an enormous shortage of jobs. To make matters worse, Granma Joad dies. The family moves around looking for work, and unfortunately two of the older boys abandon the family out of frustra...
The story is set on a ranch, where the two men eventually find work at
The girls did not even talk or form any meaningful relationship with him whatsoever; they were just there to buy food and leave. She even went out of her way not to look at them, Updike states; “She must have felt in the corner of her eye me and over my shoulder Stokesie in the second slot watching but she didn’t tip, not this queen” (462). Their whole relationship was him watching her throughout the store; forming a somewhat creepy and awkward one-sided relationship. That is not how a meaningful relationship starts; stalking them like animals, peaking on them like an immature boy; and ogling at them through multiple aisles of a grocery store. He hangs on every single word that the queen bee says, analyzes her speech and tone of her voice, and vividly imagines the inside of her house. They have not even met before this day and he has not even talked to her. All of these feelings that he is feeling are unwarranted, maybe it is because that she is pretty, but he acts as if though he is in love with
for a true love, she meets a young man named Johnny Taylor and falls in love. Her first
a story that reflects the subordination of woman in marriage. By the time of the early
Comparing the Ways in Which Susan Hill and Thomas Hardy Present the Woman in Black and the Withered Arm
the mob. The only job they can find is an all girl band so the two
choose one of the suitors to be his mother's husband. Now just think that a
...rson and he knows that she will take care of the little guy even if the Guy is not around. A distort desire to be free of the situation drive the whole family into tragedy and leave them grieves
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, "The Lottery", by Shirley Jackson, "The White Circle", by John Bell Clayton and "The Vigilante" by John Steinbeck all share the theme of mans inherent evil. Lord of the Flies takes place on an island in the Pacific ocean during an atomic war, and there is no adult supervision. "The Lottery" takes place in a small farming community in the present day. "The White Circle" is set in the turn of the century Virginia on a Large farm. "The Vigilante" takes place down south in a town with strong racist beliefs. Jack from Lord of the Flies is an insecure boy who leads a group of savages through injustice and violence. The Townspeople in "The Lottery" are focused as a group to keep up the traditions of their town, that include an annual stoning of a random person(Tess). Tucker, a normal boy in "The White Circle" is driven into violence after consistent torment from his neighbor Anvil. Mike in "The Vigilante" is a mild mannered southern white with racist beliefs that are carried out on a black man. Ralph who is against Jack in Lord of the Flies is being over-run by Jacks violence and bloodlust, until an officer rescues the group to find out that the boys aren’t playing and have reached the end of their innocence. The towns people gather annually to choose through a lottery the victim of a violent stoning for the harvest, when a prominent citizen Tess is chosen she tries to over turn the verdict, she is killed. Tucker is the son of a wealthy farmer and is under constant torment by his neighbor Anvil, he cracks and attempts to kill Anvil in a brutal attack with hay forks, Anvil avoids death and realizes Tuckers deep rooted evil. Mike along with the men of his village decide to take the law into their own hands against a black man, they beat and kill him then hang him from a tree. Mike realizes later how satisfied he is from this act. These violent plots all have a very important
tells him not to, he does this out of fear of the prince carrying out