On the story “so I ain’t no good girl” by Sharon Flake, the main character is a young black female that attends high school. She is one of the main protagonists of the story. This character is either hated or loved by certain audiences due to her actions or background information. I will discuss about this character later in the story and our thesis is “did the author, Sharon, explain the characteristics of the protagonist?”…
He knows that he has to do right by him, by telling people the truth about Hartwell. Hartwell made the basketball players keep secrets from everyone. Hartwell did many illegal things with…
Emotions of negativity trail with Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, as Gregor’s body slowly transforms into a bug-like body size of a human; resulting in undesired “torture” from his family and himself. Although change isn't always followed with horrid results, it's hard to adjust to, since pain, suffrage and misunderstandings create obstacles. Discomforts of a specific situation leads to pain- state of being hurt- when something in movement is not welcomed. To feel loved is necessary in a human-being’s life; once loneliness wraps around one’s life, things begin to shift; and others surrounding one, gradually begins to be affected. For instance, when Gregor overheard that his sister, Grete- which was the only one who ever cared…
In “The Allegory of the Cave,” Plato uses shadows as a metaphor to show deception and limited information. In Plato’s story, there are many prisoners in a cave. They are chained so they can’t move and all they can see are the shadows that are cast onto the wall in front of the prisoners by puppeteers. The shadows are not real objects, but the prisoners believe that they are because those shadows are all they know and see everyday. This metaphor that the shadows, illustrated by Plato, can still be seen in today’s society in the media, the government, and the deception of other people.…
He is so upset because he had a small taste of what it was like to be a real Alpha and enjoyed it immensely, and this opportunity is being ripped away from him. He also doesn’t know why he is being sent away because he truly doesn’t believe that he is guilty. His response to throwing himself at Mond’s feet is another act of cowardice, and he even verbalizes and acknowledges this when he says that he didn’t have anything to do with the riot. It’s one thing to think of himself as a coward, it’s another thing to actually say it out loud. This implies that he won’t do anything to fix this…
In the book, The Metamorphosis, there are three unnamed men who rent out Gregor’s home. These three men are all monochromatic individuals who strive for absolute perfection and cleanliness. Upon first glance, these men seem like displeased and quite frankly annoying house guests. However, these men are a personification of Gregor’s obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD for short. This is possibly one of the main reasons Gregor feels he has turned into a bug, as his OCD has gotten worse with the contact stress from his job and his abusive…
There are multiple suggestions on how to live an authentic and purposeful life in Plato’s “The Simile of the Cave” from The Republic. In the opening paragraph of the allegory, it begins painting a picture of prisoners who are tightly secured within their chains. “In this chamber are men who have been prisoners there since they were children, their legs and necks being so fastened that they can only look straight ahead of them and cannot turn their heads.” Through reading the description that these men in the cave can only look one way, one can infer that it symbolizes that these men are lacking a diverse perspective, and the only thing they can look at are the shadows on the wall. They have grown up only facing one way, rather than being able…
He has an emotional breakdown but doesn’t wait on her to come home he just packed the girls up and keeps on moving to the next location and still at this point he is running away from actually grieving the loss of…
He felt completely unfair and disappointed at the unprofessional action toward him. Admittedly, some people might think judging others is not a bad action and not a big deal because they just want to protect themselves from those who look suspicious, but it is really matter for…
His tone makes it clear that he feels free not being trapped under her dominant nature anymore. His tone appears full of anger and hatred that suggests to the audience that he has gone through many pitiful experiences with his mother. This makes the audience feel pitiful towards him, but the shadow of his face in the room does not stop them from suspecting a dark intention behind his…
As dramatic of a scene as this became when he pulled her out of the car just before it exploded, the morale of this story was that there is always a chance to do the right thing. He risked his life to save hers and could have easily walked away and allowed her to die. This would have saved him from any future trouble if she wanted to press charges against him for his previous indiscretions. She had no further lines in the movie related to that scene, so we can only assume by her facial expressions that she was grateful for his work that day, yet still angry that he had not treated her with the same respect in their first…
Mister Socrates by Choi Jin-won Choi Jin-won directs and pens ‘’Mister Socrates’’, a not typical gangster film but a movie which combines comedy, crime, drama and social commentary. The main character is Ku Dong-Hyeok (Kim Rae-won), who is a high-school drop-out and low-level thug. He shows no respect to other people, he has no ethics and he just loves to beat people. One night, while he reports the accidental murder of a friend of his by another friend, he gets kidnaped by a gang.…
He is trying to dissociate himself from the events, showing just how ashamed he is of his younger self for not understanding how all the work his father did to show his…
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave brings to fore the ramifications of experiencing life through a restricted lens. The story paints a decidedly bleak portrait of human beings trapped within the confines of a cave since birth, where the shadows of outsiders casted upon the walls craft their perception of reality. One of the men eventually manages to break free, and ventures out from his two-dimensional prison and into the real world; as he adjusts to this new environment, he realizes that the truth that he had known for his life differed significantly from the real truth. Eager to share this discovery, he returns to the cave and attempts to explain his observations, only to be met with denial and death threats. Despite the story’s age, its relevance…
This is evident when he says, “she won’t forgive me. Do you understand? Never.”. This particular scene allows the reader to understand how upset it made the father to disappoint his son’s mother. His love for her and his son is so strong that it seemed as if it…