Stanley Yelnats the 4th was a teenager who came from a poor family. He was accused of stealing sneakers, belonged to a famous baseball player named Clyde Livingstone. In the court he was asked to choose between jail and Camp Green Lake. His family did not have enough money for a lawyer and they did not have enough time to find out more about Camp Green Lake. They thought whatever place it is, it had to be better than spending time in jail, so they chose the Camp Green Lake. The time Stanley spent in that camp turned him into a better and stronger person.
Stanley was naive and immature. When he was caught with Livingstone’s shoes, he thought that everyone was going to believe him if he told the truth. The truth was that the shoes fell from the sky and he thought that it was a sign, because his father was trying to recycle the used snickers. At the time, he could not understand how stupid that story sounded. Also when he was asked to choose between jail and Camp Green Lake, he chose the camp, because he thought it was going to be a fun place. At the camp he was assigned to group D. This group was consisted of 6 other members. X-ray was the head of the group and everyone else obeyed him. After spending some time in Camp Green Lake, Stanley realized in order to survive at that place he had to become friends with X-ray, the leader of his group. In the story chapter 13, we read that Stanley found a golden tube with letters K and B engraved on it. He gave the tube to X-ray to keep him satisfied. This is an example of how he was turning to a smarter and more experienced person.
Stanley was overweight and kids in his school always made fun of him. He was bullied everyday by a boy named Derrick Dunne at school. Because of that, he had a l...
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... him. At the end of the story, when all the charges against Stanley were dropped and Stanley’s lawyer came to get him, he could not leave the camp without Zero. They both saved one another.
In conclusion spending time at Camp Green Lake changed Stanley’s life in so many ways. I believe he was never a weak person, because living in such hard circumstances did not turn him to a violent person or a bully, like most of the people in the camp. He became a better and stronger person. By the time Stanley left the camp, he outgrew his fears and his lack of self-confidence. Stanley turned to a smarter and more experienced person. He made a lot of friends and more importantly he created a strong friendship with zero. Stanley became to love himself, be happy and be optimistic. Camp Green Lake magnified the good qualities he already had in himself, but he was unaware of them.
This episode of The Simpson’s suggests that there are similarities between the characters traits of Homer and Stanley. Director Llewellyn, in The Simpsons, describes Stanley as “thoughtless, violent and loud”. Meanwhile, the viewer sees similar actions from Homer when he yells to his daug...
Stanley first meet, it is easy to see that Stanley feels as if he has
The character Stanley represents the theme of reality. Stanley Kowalski is the simple blue-collar husband of Stella. His actions, reactions, and words show reality in its harshest most purist form. His actions are similar to a primitive human. For example he doesn’t close the door when he uses the restroom. This rudeness represents the harsh reality that Blanche refuses to accept. Moreover, when he was drunk he hit Stella. This attack on Blanches sister could be a symbolic “wake up” slap to the face of Blanche.
Stanley is, at first sought to be a dominant, rough individual but William’s use of stage direction implies an opposing thought. For example, Williams describes Blanche’s bed near the bedroom of Stella and Stanley’s, but what is so vital about the position of the bed readers may question. Conclusively, Stanley’s...
Stanley does not take notice of his wife’s concern, but instead continues on his original course, asserting his own destiny, without any thought to the effect it may have on those around him. This taking blood at any cost to those around him is foreshadowed in scene one, with the packet of met which he forces upon his wife. It is through actions such as these that Stanley asserts power, symbolic of the male dominance throughout patriarchal society. He also gains a s...
Stanley rape Blanche, so she can not reclaim her purity anymore. Her only solution is by living in her imaginary world which she can create free of adversity. She no longer survive in the harsh world of reality . Stanley decided to send her away to a mental institution. When Blanche is told that she will be leaving. Blanche further expand her imagination to Shep Huntleigh. She believed that Shep Huntleigh will take her away. The only thing that she can conquer her adversity is by using her imagination ,which result her a complete loss of identity. She is send away to her last exile and entrapment. Having proven unable to adapt her identity in order to overcome
Stanley is Eugene's 18-year-old, older brother. Stanley can be described as a person who stands up for his principles. Eugene is constantly looking to him for advice with his pubescent "problems". Stanley had to work young to support the family. We later see him losing his paycheck from gambling and almost joining the army.
Their similarities helps them understand each other; through their experiences. For one, they are both outcasted socially. Stanley has no friends and always bullied, by Derrick Dune in school, and by X-Ray and his gang in Camp Green Lake. Speaking of Camp Green Lake, both have nicknames given by X-Ray and the two are just children. Similarly, Zero and Stanley were unlucky at some point. Stanley bears his family curse of luck, while Zero lost his mother and is homeless. Zero and Stanley are misunderstood. For example, Stanley was accused for stealing Clyde Livingston’s shoes; and Zero being assumed to be dumb. Finally, to end in a happy note, Stanley and Zero are rich at the end of the
“The third day- it was Wednesday of the first week- Charles bounced a see-saw on to the head of a little girl and made her bleed,” (1). In the short story “Charles” written by Shirley Jackson, Laurie, the main character of the story, is a young kindergartener who is able to run around causing trouble at school and at the same time, pretend that it is only another boy in his class that is making the trouble. “Charles” teaches you that parents do not know everything about their child even though the child lives in the same house as them. Laurie’s parents do not know what he is like at school. Laurie is flamboyant, and arrogant yet creative and those characteristics make him the perfect troublemaker.
coming home from a day of work. Stanley is a superb specimen of primitive, unthinking,
Also, the repetitive comparison of him to an animal or ape is the perfect image not the id as it is the instinctive part of your psyche. The way this passage leaves the reader is very powerful saying that “maybe he’ll strike you” is a good example of Stanley’s aggressive nature, and when Blanche says “or maybe grunt and kiss you” is a very good example of his sexual nature.
Billy is bullied in school because of his size, as he is a lot smaller than all the other children, he is mistreated by his mother by his fellow peers and by his teachers, but not all his teachers, Mr Farthing is probably the only person that Billy trusts to be around Kes because, he understands, he understands that Billy isn’t the sharpest tool in the box and that his bird is the only thing that set’s him apart from all the other children in his school. Where many would have just given up trying to tame the bird, Billy has exceeded he is now confident enough to give a speech in front of the whole class because in his mind he is one thing that all the other boys aren’t, he is unique.
[More laughter and shouts of parting come from the men. Stanley throws the screen door of the kitchen open and comes in. He is of medium height, about five feet eight or nine, and strongly, compactly built. Animal joy in his being is implicit in all his movements and attitudes. Since earliest manhood the center of his life has been pleasure with women, the giving and taking of it, not with weak indulgence, dependency, but with the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens. Branching out from this complete and satisfying center are all the auxiliary channels of his life, such as his heartiness with men, his appreciation of rough humor, his love of good drink and food and games, his car, his radio, everything that is his, that bears his emblem of the gaudy seed-bearer. He sizes women up at a glance, with sexual classifications, crude images flashing into his mind and determining the way he smiles at them.] Blanche is uncomfortable and draws involuntarily back from his stare. She is keenly aware of his dominant position and reacts as women of the day did. Through all of this he is the leader of his group and in full control of his household. Any opposition to his leadership is quickly put down by physical force. He beats his wife, fights his friends and eventually humiliates Blanche by raping her.
Macbeth is the main character in William Shakespeare 's play “Macbeth”. Macbeth goes through a few drastic changes in personality and in character throughout the course of the play. He changes, in simple terms, from good to evil. Many different events and pieces throughout the play cause these changes in him.