A selfless action occurs when a when a person abandons the need to pursue personal gain and instead chooses to help out others for nothing in return. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson was a selfless man. He choose to help Mayella Ewell with her chores around the house such as breaking up chifferobes and even doing it for free refusing payment from Mayella “I reckon I’ll hafta give you a nickel, won’t I?’ an‘ I said, ’No ma’am, there ain’t no charge.’’ Tom sees that Mayella lived as an outcast from the rest of the town due to her family name where she is busy with work and none of her siblings help her.Seeing this Tom took pity on her “Yes, suh. I felt right sorry for her, she seemed to try more’n the rest of ‘em—”. He did these tasks for Mayella even he
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The Nurse makes a very sexual remark hidden in the form of literal instructions. to climb a bird’s nest refers to Romeo climbing onto Juliet and Romeo will in turn have to bear the burden of juliet for the night. However not all her humor is sexual she can also be very playful such as When she is asked to retrieve Romeo’s answer to Juliet’s marriage proposal after getting romeo’s answer and coming home instead of indulging an impatient Juliet with Romeo’s response right away she chooses to stall by commenting on her aching bones saying her head feels like it will shatter to a million pieces she is tired “I am a-weary, give me leave awhile:/Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunt have I had!”,( 2.5.27-28) she does this to tease the already agitated Juliet further kindling her impatience for Romeo’s answer. The nurse’s humor is evident throughout the play and is not an isolated incident. Characters displaying acts of selflessness and senses of humor can be described as having those traits a part of their personality. Since Tom Robinson was selfless to Mayella and the nurse was funny
The Nurse makes a very sexual remark hidden in the form of literal instructions. to climb a bird’s nest refers to Romeo climbing onto Juliet and Romeo will in turn have to bear the burden of juliet for the night. However not all her humor is sexual she can also be very playful such as When she is asked to retrieve Romeo’s answer to Juliet’s marriage proposal after getting romeo’s answer and coming home instead of indulging an impatient Juliet with Romeo’s response right away she chooses to stall by commenting on her aching bones saying her head feels like it will shatter to a million pieces she is tired “I am a-weary, give me leave awhile:/Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunt have I had!”,( 2.5.27-28) she does this to tease the already agitated Juliet further kindling her impatience for Romeo’s answer. The nurse’s humor is evident throughout the play and is not an isolated incident. Characters displaying acts of selflessness and senses of humor can be described as having those traits a part of their personality. Since Tom Robinson was selfless to Mayella and the nurse was funny