If a man's word isn’t any good, he’s no good himself. This is a quote from Where The Red Fern Grows. Billy made a promise with his dogs, that if they treed a coon, he would do the rest. The meaning of the quote is that if you lie you aren’t being true to yourself. You also aren’t showing any honesty or honor to the person/thing you made your deal of promise with. I believe that this is true and something more people could follow.
Is your heart still in the right place? Has a story ever run with it and broken it, with tears running down your face? If you have read Where the Red Fern Grows, it has definitely happened, making your heart buoyant with happiness and and break with tragedy. The strong-willed Billy, with his faithful redbone hounds, the brawny Old Dan and the brainy runt Little Ann, toy with your emotions as you follow them through their adventures and their tragic losses. Even though the movie based off the book is meant to be similar, and is, there are still differences between them.
Connections Question- The author of Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns stated that she made Aunt Loma an unsympathetic character. Do you think she has been successful so far? Support your answer with examples from the text.
Firstly, Brave Orchid is a woman warrior because she receives an education later in life. Kingston writes, “Not many women get to live out the daydream of women – to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself” (Kingston 61). In this passage, Kingston reveals that a woman going off to live at school was not a commonality. Amongst the other women she lives with, she is by far the oldest. Despite the fact that older women are supposed to be wiser, Kingston does not provide any characters at school that share Brave Orchid’s age; she is about twenty years everyone’s senior. Therefore, being a fully grown adult woman attending medical school must have been a rarity. She did not subject herself to
In Act 1, Scene 1 of the Crucible, Arthur Miller’s theme is evident when Abigail worryingly puts all the blame on tituba because she knows that Tituba’s race puts her at a disadvantage, thus leading to tituba lying for her own safety. Passionately trying to seek answers Parris threateningly screams, “ You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death, Tituba!”(Miller 24) Tituba fearfully replies, “ No--no, don’t hang Tituba. I tell him I don’t desire to work for him, sir.” (24). In the quote, Parris didn’t like that tituba didn’t tell him she dealt with the devil so he threatened to kill her. Historically whipping was a method to abuse or punish slaves for misbehaving. After the beatings if still alive the slaves will suffer mental and physical distress. This image of a brutal death
The memoir, Angela’s Ashes, is a sorrow-filled novel written by Frank McCourt. McCourt tells the story of his unfortunate childhood in which he describes the numerous hardships he faces. This novel is told from the point of view of a young McCourt, dealing with the struggles he is too young to understand. Throughout his childhood, McCourt’s innocence was the one thing protecting him from the harsh reality.
Terrorists need everything to go their way, or they will kill or severely injure you if you don't obey. Although these extremist groups known as terrorist groups, are terrible they are happening, and many people are being abused because of it. The book I used in this essay is Under the Persimmon Tree, by Suzanne Fisher Staples. The book is about a family of four living in a small village. The mother is pregnant with a third child. The Taliban takes Baba-jan (father to the main character), and Nur (teenage boy, main character's brother) to fight, also they take all their remaining food, and supplies. Baba-jan is killed immediately after he was taken, along with all the other men in the village. Mada-jan (mother of the main character), and Habib
Ernest Hemingway has a superbly unique style of writing in Hills Like White Elephants. His short, to the point syntax and sentence style plays a great role in helping readers understand the theme of this short story. The critique M.A.K. Halliday observed, “The story is frequently generated by the repetition of words, clauses, and groups of related words or ethical sets” (Link, Alex). The first set of dialogue that can be pulled from this story is story is short and to the point. The American states, “We can have the whole world.” Jig replies with “No, we can’t” (Hemingway, Ernest). The sentence length is very short, yet there is a hidden meaning behind the small talk. Jig is referring to not having the baby. She can have everything, but her will to decide things. She can’t have a baby due to unloving pressure from the American. It is in sync with the tone of the story perfectly. The tone is forward, direct, and shallow. That is exactly what happens in this dialogue. There is no emotion, just pure sarcasm on a huge topic. Abortion to this couple is nothing more then a qui...
Act II scene i of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is a scene in which a lot is revealed. In this scene Polonius sends his servant, Reynaldo, to France to see Laertes and also to spy on him. As Reynaldo is on his way out, Ophelia comes into the scene and she is very distraught. She explains to Polonius that Hamlet had confronted her in a very unkempt state. Hamlet had grabbed her wrist and held her there for a few moments and then sighed. In this entire encounter Hamlet did not speak. Polonius is convinced that Hamlet is madly in love with Ophelia and that in addition to Polonius forcing Ophelia to distance herself from Hamlet is that is the reason for this encounter. The scene ends with Polonius going to see Claudius of his idea. This scene shows evidence of dramatic irony because Polonius is convinced that Hamlet is mad because he is in love with Ophelia but the audience knows that Hamlet is only pretending to be mad.
In this play, The Piano Lesson, by August Wilson, readers can see Berniece struggle to accept the piano’s prime significance and traumatic past which it represents. In Berniece’s case, she ultimately struggles to accept what the piano represents, her family's ties to it and the stories behind the piano itself, it’s in her home, but she can barely look at it and has not touched it since her mother has passed. Her daughter plays it, but does not know the piano’s significance to her family, with their ancestral past. Bernice does not want to let the piano go but, she doesn’t fully embrace it either, which causes her to not fully move on with her life. Berniece still has not fully forgiven Boy Willie, or gotten over the fact that Crawley is gone,
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, a famous retired WWE actor, once said, “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. “ In other words, success has nothing to do with hard work. You may succeed from that hard work, but without it, there will be no greatness. In the book Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls, the theme of hard work and consistency can be inferred though Billy’s actions.
William Shakespeare's Hamlet Act Two, Scene Two. The second soliloquy is divided into three parts. Hamlet’s feelings of cowardice and worthlessness for not. fulfilling his own promise after witnessing a scene from the A player that is filled with passion and emotions.
In the play A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry uses the characterization of Walter to show
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!”
Although scholars and literary critics continue to question the true authorship of his plays long after his death in 1616, William Shakespeare is still considered one of the greatest writers of all time. Throughout Shakespeare’s career, up until the fire that destroyed the Globe Theatre in 1613, many people believe that Shakespeare wrote thirty-six full length plays (Literary Cavalcade).
Alice in Wonderland belongs to the nonsense genre, and even if most of what happens to Alice is quite illogical, the main character is not. “The Alice books are, above all, about growing up” (Kincaid, page 93); indeed, Alice starts her journey as a scared little girl, however, at the end of what we discover to be just a dream, she has entered the adolescence phase with a new way to approach the mentally exhausting and queer Wonderland. It is important to consider the whole story when analyzing the growth of the character, because the meaning of an event or a sentence is more likely to mean what it truly looks like rather than an explanation regarding subconscious and Freudian interpretations. Morton states “that the books should possess any unity of purpose seems on the surface unlikely” (Morton, page 509), but it’s better to consider the disconnected narrative and the main character separately, since the girl doesn’t belong to Wonderland, which is, as Morton says, with no intrinsic unity. Whereas, there are a few key turning points where it is possible to see how Alice is changing, something that is visible throughout her journey. Carroll wants to tell the story of a girl who has to become braver in order to contend with challenges like the pool made by her own tears, or assertive characters, like the Queen.