When he meets Jenny for the first time it takes a bit to get over the fact she's The Doctors Daughter, and yes, he thinks it in capitals, it's too mind blowing for him not to. The Doctor bounds out of the Tardis, and there she is, all charm and a brilliant smile, a confident bounce in her step. A wave to Martha, and then her eyes do the exploring for her. She shakes Jacks hand, they size each other up, with neither like nor dislike. Jenny takes a shine to Mickey, they share details about their favourite Big Fucking Guns, respectively. Jack winks at her when the Doctor isn't looking. She rolls her eyes, but grins at him secretly when she leaves. A message shared. A dare.
The second time he sees her, she promptly starts flirting with him. Jack tries his best to reciprocate in kind, dancing between the Doctor's incredibly dark looks. She's sweet and young and sexy as hell. Despite the fact she beats the crap out of him in an impromptu fight. The Doctor's more than a little proud when she emerges mostly unscathed, while Jack has to lean on Gwen for support as she delivers him to a snickering Martha. That's the last time he brags about his strength and stamina, when GI Jenny's around, anyway.
The third time, it's in a crisis. The world's gone to shit thanks to some alien threat or other and the Doctor has to step in to stop the end of the earth, again. Nothing new there. But Jack finds himself taking orders from her. She knows more about military tactics then he would have originally thought. He can't quite fathom why he finds himself submitting to her. Is it the fact she's like the Doctor? That unflinching stare she sets on him? That utterly grim look of determination? He doesn't get a moment to think until after, and even th...
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...ee it. "What do you think?"
It's fairly normal looking, on the outside at least. Much like the Doctor's Tardis, it's a plain looking wooden box, with a windowed door on one side. And yet, there seem to be strands of metal peeking around the entrance, growing into the walls itself, like a a kind of metal vine.
"Cool," he says. Jenny is obviously pleased. "But, why emerald green?"
Jenny shrugs and says: "It was one of the colours, of the ball of light, the terra forming device, back when I was first born. When I died." Jack nods, remembering the story she told him, of being born to war and Messaline and Hath and getting shot in the chest.
"Huh," he says.
"So..." Jenny steps back and opens the door. "You ready for an adventure, Captain?"
Jack smirks and shrugs his coat closer.
"You bet, GI Jenny."
And he walks her in, and follows her to the future.
The End
Jenny was Jethro’s sister. She helped Jethro in the fields, and made dinner. Her and Jethro shared basically everything including laughter. The only thing Jenny did not want to share was her letters from Shadrach. Shad and Jenny were in love, and all Jethro had to do was mention Mr. Yale’s name and Jenny would blush.
On that fall day in 2009, Kirsten did not know that someone as intelligent and articulate as Jack might be unable to read the feelings of others, or gauge the impact of his words. [...] But she found comfort in Jack’s forthrightness. If he did not always say what she wanted to hear, she knew that whatever he did say, he meant. (Harmon 1-2)
As the story begins, the unnamed doctor is introduced as one who appears to be strictly professional. “Aas often, in such cases, they weren’t telling me more than they had to, it was up to me to tell them; that’s why they were spending three dollars on me.” (par. 3) The doctor leaves the first impression that he is one that keeps his attention about the job and nothing out of the ordinary besides stating his impressions on the mother, father and the patient, Mathilda. Though he does manage to note that Mathilda has a fever. The doctor takes what he considers a “trial shot” and “point of departure” by inquiring what he suspects is a sore throat (par. 6). This point in the story, nothing remains out of the ordinary or questionable about the doctor’s methods, until the story further develops.
Jack wasn’t exactly the healthiest of children as a kid. When he was two and-a-half years old Jack caught the scarlet fever, both a contagious and deadly illness. Although Jack eventually got better, as a result of his history with the scarlet fever he was a very weak, and sickly child. While Jack was spending so much time in bed, from being sick so often, he read books, one after another. Jack had always loved reading history, and he had a passion for writing. He was even the only boy at school to subscribe to the New York Times. On the occasion that Jack wasn’t sick, he tried to live up to his brother Joe Jr. Joe was two years older, meaning he was stronger, faster, and smarter. All of the Kennedy children looked up to Joe, including Jack.
because of it. Jack on the other hand, gave in to the temptation of simply
Jack has no trouble weeping in these strangers’ arms until he meets another phony, Marla, a support-group “tourist” and a reflection of himself that he finds objectionable. She claims to like the emotional workout of being with these people, which is “cheaper than a movie.” However, when Marla abruptly begins to attend all the meetings he is attending. He becomes irritated by her presence because she is a fraud too and doesn’t belong in his grandfallon. Her company reminds him that he is impostor and he doesn’t like that. They workout a deal where they split the days up between them. She gets the breast cancer and emphysema group while he takes the testicu...
Jack’s reaction shows evidence of his happiness of his new found brother. The same man that played his brother in their mind games with friends and family.
Throughout the short story, O’Connor uses color imagery to allude to innocence and corruption. Lucynell is described as a beautiful woman, multiple times.
Owen first describes in extreme detail the reality of war with graphic imagery in Stanza III. This can be seen in the quotation: “He lost his colour very far from here”. The action of the protagonist losing his colour is a metaphor that Owen uses effectively to symbolise the protagonist losing a lot of blood, which gives the reader a first hint about the brutality of war. “Colour” can also be interpreted as the fruitful and colourful events in life, in which now the protagonist is going to be deprived of, since his life is fading away. Owen mirrors “light – blue trees” in Stanza II with this quotation, in which the two colours are in binary opposition. The colour “light blue” depicts and creates a sense of euphoria and romance. As the protagonist has now lost this “colour”, he will no longer experience elation or affection, and will now live a “grey” life, as mentioned in Stanza I. The phrase “very far from here” also suggests the difficulty for the protagonist in finding this “lost colour”. As he had lost this “colour” very far from here, Owen suggests that his loss maybe permanent and adds to the tragedy and pathos of his situation.
Throughout this whole episode The Doctor is low context in every conversation he has. This is best shown at the beginning of the episode and at the end. In the beginning when he meets Amilia Pond and he demands that he wants an apple. When they go into the kitchen, she gives him an apple, and he takes one bite out of the apple and says “I hate apples; apples are rubbish.” This goes on for about five minutes with him demanding different foods and then saying that he hates it. After he finally finds something that wants to eat, he starts asking Amilia questions about her personal life: “Are we in Scotland?”, “Where is your mum and Dad?”, and “So your aunt, where is she?” He completely disregards her feelings about any of the personal questions and keeps probing her for more information.
He is respectable gentleman in Victorian society even though he does not seem to enjoy the obligations of being such. He is the guardian of Cicely Cardew, and believes that since he is a guardian he must be very moral even if he doesn’t not enjoy it. He states that “A high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one’s health or happiness” (Wilde 6). John is not content to live by societal expectations so to fulfill his wants while remaining respectable he assumes the identity of an imaginary brother named Ernest. Contrasting Siddhartha, Jack does not outwardly follow his ego but conforms to society and fulfills his desires through
Jack 's mother, Ma, helps him develop his intellectual skills in "Room". They often played made up educational games one of which is " 'Parrot,
When it comes to Jack’s fear of not being chief, it brings out the worst in him and it has an effect on others. For instance, when the boys are deciding on who should be the chief, Ralph wins by a landslide. “Even the choir applauded; and the freckles on Jack’s face disappeared under a blush of mortification” (Golding 19). That is the first physical evidence of Jack being humiliated by Ralph and judging by Jack’s personality, he is not used to failure so it has a big impact on him. This motivates him to destroy Ralph and the rivalry between the two begins. Another point is that Jack uses fear and threats to control the boys. For example, when Robert tells Roger “’He’s going to beat Wilfred.’ ‘What for?’ Robert shook his head doubtfully” (Golding 176) it shows that Jack is violent and is using his...
If he [the doctor] were to allow his fondness for the girl to stop him, the result might be much, much worse for her [Mathilda] than the short-term discomfort she would undergo
Owen uses colours in order to put emphasis on the substantial change between the past and present. ‘Glow-lamps budded’ is a metaphor used by Owen to describe the life and hope of young men before war. ‘Glow’ meaning brightness connotes hope, creating an atmosphere filled with dreams and belief. Thus, it links to 'budded' as it symbolises new life by creating an image of a new plant shoot, showing how the young man had just started living his life with ambition. This contradicts with the phrase ‘waiting for dark’, which is used to describe the soldier after war. The word ‘dark’ also creates a reference to death, suggesting that the soldier, who was once full of life, is now little more than a ghost, uncared for and unloved. Also, the word 'waiting' suggests that he has given up ...