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?”…
In the Book Theif by Markus Zusak one thing I learned from Hans Hubermann is to always be compassionate. Hans is compassionate because he helps many people throught the the book. To start out he helps out Leisel Meminger by taking her in and being her foster dad. He teaches Leisel how to read and he protects her. Another way he shows compassion is when he takes in a Jew named Max Vandenburg.…
There are so many different texts that are out there. “Our Secrets” by Susan Griffin is a transcultural text. A contact zone is the space in which transculturation takes place. Mary Pratt defines “Transculturation as a process whereby members of subordinated or marginal groups select and invent from materials transmitted by a dominant metropolitan culture” (323). Pratt uses “transcultural” to describe the dominant groups or cultures because there are so many groups and cultures that are dominant in this world.…
I want you to start and stick with me during our journey of searching for the opinions of being or not being judgmental, and how I believe in karma. We will see how I perceived the judgmental process of too short stories. The short stories we will cover are “Young Goodman Brown” (Hawthorne) and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (O'Connor). The first story I want to bring to your attention is “Young Goodman Brown”. I believe that it is in the end his own judgmental ways that ultimately destroy him.…
“‘Well then, why don’t you pray?’ She asked trembling with delight suddenly. ‘I don’t want no help,’ he said. ‘I’m doing all right by myself’” (O’Connor 386).…
I predict that Sam will not go through with the marriage to the giant, Thyrm. The first point I believe this is because she is betrothed to a man named Amir. She had made a sacred Muslim vow that she will not marry anyone but him. This supports that she will not marry Thyrm; she would not want to break the oath. Another fact supporting this fact is she truly loves Amir and he loves her too.…
Voltaire once said, “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do” .Similarly, Spiegelman feels guilty for not being the ideal son to his father. There are many instances where one can see guilt in this book. Vladek feels guilty for killing the German soldier on the war front. Vladek and Art Spiegelman both have a sense of guilt for Anja’s death. They both are responsible to some extent.…
The Death of Ivan Ilych Ivan’s life is ironic. In front of people, he puts on a big facade, but he is different from the way he acts when he is out of public eye. His family is a front. His entire ministry is a lie, and he eventually dies, scared and alone. As far as his family is concerned, Ivan Ilych is living a lie.…
The protagonist of Maus, Vladek, and that of Schindler’s List, Oskar, are both heroes because they happened to ignore this trend, continuing to help others at their own expense. Both Oskar and Vladek possess traits such as going out of their way to help those that they have sympathy for. Oskar, originally with the intention of receiving profit, ends up creating a safe haven for Jews and losing all of his money as a consequence. His intentions changed entirely when he became conscious of the pain and suffering the Jews were subjected to by his colleagues. When Vladek realizes that his colleague, Mandelbaum, is in extreme need of a belt, spoon and pair of shoes, when the opportunity comes, Vladek doesn’t think twice about helping his friend out (Maus II 34).…
The ability to distinguish a good person from an evil person is usually a simple task. Although in most literary works, it can be more difficult to differentiate between the two. In society people are quick to draw a line between good and evil but as people grow and face new experiences that line can become blurred and morals and values begin to change. In the novel, Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov can be branded as a morally ambiguous character. Raskolnikov can be viewed as morally ambiguous because he is portrayed as if he has two different personalities.…
A Good Man is Hard to Find Analysis The battle between good and evil can be found throughout all of human history, but what is a “good person”? Is it someone who gives to others, or someone who has compassion for all? Is it possible for criminals to be “good”? Questions like these have started endless debates on what a “good person” is.…
A major theme of Flannery O 'Connor 's “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” is what makes a person good. There is no clear answer, neither in the text nor in life. It is safe to say that a good person can be defined as one that is honest, kind, and always tries to do what is right. It is ironic then, maybe even a bit hypocritical, that the Grandmother is one of the most immoral characters in the story and yet she spends much of her time talking about what makes people good, judging others based on little to no information about them, and trying to convince the Misfit, a serial killer that just murdered her family, of his own goodness.…
As the title character of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich takes his final breaths, he mutters “death is over…there is no death,” (134). In the same way, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a story about the life leading up to death, rather than death itself. Through both Ivan and the rest of the characters, Tolstoy offers moral advice regarding how to handle the ultimate buildup to death. Ivan’s family and colleagues’ grandiose materialism is strikingly contrasted with the servant Gerasim’s selflessness. In fact, Gerasim’s personality is so divergent from the rest of Tolstoy’s characters he is often depicted as an impractical one-dimensional character.…
Sergei’s paranoia is his main attribute that forms his other traits and persona. It leads to his hostility as too protect himself because of his belief that no one would want to create a ny sort of relationship with him without an ulterior motive. This results in him having no social relationships, making him lonely.…
Particularly in the Road, where all moral and cultural institutions known to humankind have been extinguished, religion and the belief in supernatural beings are at the forefront of the father’s thinking. In a world where humanity and kindness are mostly extinct, it is evident that the father adheres to the thought there might be a God-like figure. Religious and spiritual terms are often used throughout the novel, although the man often doubts the existence of a God and repeatedly curses him: He started down the rough wooden steps. […] Coldness and damp.…