Reading minds isn’t something that humans are normally able to do. Each person has their own mind and their own lives, everyone is their own. Many people have their own points of views that don’t always add up to what others may see. Books have great ways of showing that. Sometimes when a situation is happening or a character is thinking, to other sources they do not know this. Where She Went and To Kill a Mockingbird show many examples of this, through internal conflicts, being someone no one else knows, and being different on the outside than the inside. These examples show the universal theme, things aren’t always what they seem, in the two novels One reason, things aren’t always what they seem is shown in the two books is through, Mia
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It’d ruin my reputation if you did’” (Lee, 227). This passage shows that Dolphus is said to be drunk all the time, but in reality, he just pretends. In his paper bag is actually just Coke, not the alcohol that Dolphus is rumored to be drinking all the time. He wants to hide his true self rather than show that he likes to be with the African Americans and pretends to be drunk to have society allow him to do so. Then, in Where She Went, Adam portrays emotions that he seems to be having. In the book it states, “Suddenly it’s all too much..how do I tell Aldous how do I tell any of them, the love, all the things that migrate how hard this has become, all of that’s gone? All that’s left is this vortex” (Forman, 27). The theme is shown in this novel because Adam is feeling sad and uninspired by what he loves to do, but to the public he seems to be happy and therefore he tries not to let his true feelings show. Adam doesn’t really want the fame or the music anymore, he’s feeling down and it becomes too much for him to handle his lifestyle because he lost his happiness. Adam’s trying to tell them but his appearance to the outside world of his love of music is hard to get rid of and change. Despite Dolphus and Adam’s appearances on the outside, they are both faking what are truly feeling therefore they aren’t always what they …show more content…
Based on the passage from Where She Went, “I almost quit the band. I’d moved out of the house I’d been sharing with Fitzy in Portland and into my own place. I avoided those guys” (Forman, 134). This shows that on the outside, Adam’s band is still together making music, Adam is slowing fading away from them. Adam shows that he’s feeling distant and indifferent about his band. He had originally been close, and toured with them constantly, always around, until he began to stop touring and hanging out with his band mates. To the press, it didn’t seem like much, he was just busy, but he truly felt disconnected and he chose to be disconnected from the band. To support the theme, in To Kill a Mockingbird it states, “‘...still think your father can’t do anything? Still ashamed of him?...besides playing the Jew’s Harp, Atticus Finch was the deadest shot in Maycomb County in his time’” (Lee, 111) This is evidence that, even though Atticus seems boring and old, Jem and Scout soon realize that their father has great talents that they never knew of. Atticus had been quiet about his abilities and though he was getting older and not as up to date with the other fathers around Jem and Scout, he has talents that don’t come out often but do show that Atticus is more than just and old man. . To the world, even the people who are closest
It’d ruin my reputation if you did’” (Lee, 227). This passage shows that Dolphus is said to be drunk all the time, but in reality, he just pretends. In his paper bag is actually just Coke, not the alcohol that Dolphus is rumored to be drinking all the time. He wants to hide his true self rather than show that he likes to be with the African Americans and pretends to be drunk to have society allow him to do so. Then, in Where She Went, Adam portrays emotions that he seems to be having. In the book it states, “Suddenly it’s all too much..how do I tell Aldous how do I tell any of them, the love, all the things that migrate how hard this has become, all of that’s gone? All that’s left is this vortex” (Forman, 27). The theme is shown in this novel because Adam is feeling sad and uninspired by what he loves to do, but to the public he seems to be happy and therefore he tries not to let his true feelings show. Adam doesn’t really want the fame or the music anymore, he’s feeling down and it becomes too much for him to handle his lifestyle because he lost his happiness. Adam’s trying to tell them but his appearance to the outside world of his love of music is hard to get rid of and change. Despite Dolphus and Adam’s appearances on the outside, they are both faking what are truly feeling therefore they aren’t always what they …show more content…
Based on the passage from Where She Went, “I almost quit the band. I’d moved out of the house I’d been sharing with Fitzy in Portland and into my own place. I avoided those guys” (Forman, 134). This shows that on the outside, Adam’s band is still together making music, Adam is slowing fading away from them. Adam shows that he’s feeling distant and indifferent about his band. He had originally been close, and toured with them constantly, always around, until he began to stop touring and hanging out with his band mates. To the press, it didn’t seem like much, he was just busy, but he truly felt disconnected and he chose to be disconnected from the band. To support the theme, in To Kill a Mockingbird it states, “‘...still think your father can’t do anything? Still ashamed of him?...besides playing the Jew’s Harp, Atticus Finch was the deadest shot in Maycomb County in his time’” (Lee, 111) This is evidence that, even though Atticus seems boring and old, Jem and Scout soon realize that their father has great talents that they never knew of. Atticus had been quiet about his abilities and though he was getting older and not as up to date with the other fathers around Jem and Scout, he has talents that don’t come out often but do show that Atticus is more than just and old man. . To the world, even the people who are closest