Powder: Questions
1 Jeremy's original source of rejection came from his parents who banished him from his home. He was to live in the basement, away from society. This hurting he received made him a more compassionate, caring and loving person. Although his early stages of life were of persecution and sadness he accepted as a way of life. Being banished from society, he solely learned the meaning of compassion.
He acquired the knowledge of caring and loving by experiencing the direct opposite of treatment. When he received this treatment, he hated it, and wished for something different.
2. Three personality traits of Jeremy or Powder were his extreme compassion, his shyness, and his caring. Jeremy expressed compassion in the fullest possible form. He expressed feeling for others that went to extreme measures. Such as the passing of death from the dying deer to the sheriff who shot him for sport.
Since he was an albino genius, it would be simple to understand his difficulty of fitting and acquiring new friends that he can socialize with. Thus he became a shy boy that pretty much kept to himself. Jeremy's characteristic that distinguished him from the rest of society in which he lived in. Although he was persecuted, beaten, and ridiculed at. He understood his characteristics and understood why the boys hated him It was fear!
3. I respect Jeremy's caring. Like Christ himself, he wouldn't fight or use any sort of violence to resolve problems. Jeremy would speak his words of wisdom, or use his divine powers of mental stability and force to express a point. He would, without hurting anyone, prove a point. This characteristic made us create a field of empathy for the boy.
4. Jeremy showed his love and compassion and caring for other people and creatures in a few instances in the movie. The most popular scene expressed caring for a creature. A creature, in the shape of a defenseless deer. A sheriff was with a bunch of kids, hunting when they should not. The sheriff found and shot the deer. As the deer laid there breathing his last breathes of life,
Jeremy stepped into action. In order to express the anguish of death to the sheriff, he held on to the neck of the deer and the arm of the sheriff. Using his forces of mental power he fed the feelings of death to the sheriff. Even though Jeremy loved the animal inhabitants, he also expressed compassion and caring for the human population. Jeremy was being ridiculed once again during stormy weather. A boy named Johnny pushed Jeremy into the mud, laughing Johnny
from his community and losing all of his status. In the last chapter of the book, "The Kitchen
For many people, hunting is just a sport, but for some it is a way of life. In Rick Bass’s “Why I Hunt” he explains how he got to where he lives now and what he thinks of the sport of hunting. There are many things in the essay that I could not agree more with, and others that I strongly disagree. Overall this essay provides a clear depiction of what goes through the mind of a hunter in the battle of wits between them and the animal.
but most of all he wanted to live with freedom to think and act as he
believe that he was a man of high moral standards, in fact higher than most of
To pay for the life Deerslayer took the Indians requested that Deerslayer stay among their people and provide for the fallen Indians family and take the widow for his wife. “Take the gun; go forth and shoot a deer; bring the venison and lay it before the widow…feed her children; call yourself her husband” (Cooper 458).
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.
... living. In his time he had managed to make the world different and made the way that the people live different for Europe, Spain and the New World. Works cited
he could not exist. His place within the society and the acknowledgment of others were crucial to how he
...ecomes evident that his life and the important parts vary from those of an average person.
true to himself and the way he lived his life and being absolutely sure that the ideas in his head
what others thought of him. His life symbolized what a lot of people have gone
capabilities. He truly paved the way for women to lead a full religious life. This implied that they
This is where the definition of power comes in to play the “psychological relation” see even though his body was decomposing his mind was still sharp.
When he realized that the bird wasn’t dead he got mad and started choking it till it died..