In the book House of the Red Fish, who do you think showed Tomi loyalty? Personally, I think that Billy showed Tomi the most loyalty. I think this because he was always sticking by Tomiś side through thick and thin, always helping him, and lastly helped keep tomiś secret about his katana. First i think that Billy showed Tomi loyalty because he was always by his side. Even if he didn not always agree with Tomiś decisions he was still always willing to help him out, because that is what a best freind does.…
Tom Buchanan seems like a bad person for cheating on his wife and disrespecting George. However, when Tom bought Myrtle a dog on page 28 he appears to turn a new leaf because this act implies he cares about Myrtle. Later on in the chapter Tom denotation of when it says “Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand” it affects my reaction to this character because that act of abuse makes me think Tom is a truly heartless person. Also, it was implied that Tom was becoming a more likable person. Additionally, there is irony because Tom cheats on Daisy which is disrespectful however, Tom does not want Myrtle to say Daisy because it is disrespectful.…
1. What the greenlight symbolizes makes this chapter in my opinion. It really starts the plot and let's you know the story is going to be good. It symbolizes Gatsby's goal and we'll find out will he achieve it. 2.…
How many times have we changed our minds on something in one day? All the time, too many to count! Internal and external conflicts are what control most our decisions. In, "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket," Tom wants to get a job promotion but he also wants to go out with his wife. Throughout the whole story, he fights with external and internal conflicts until he comes to the conclusion that his wife matters more than his promotion at work.…
The setting of The Grapes of Wrath sets the stage for the struggles and the change the Joad family has to face. The drought of the 1930s forces the Joads to leave everything they know and move to California in order to find a better life. The Joad family has a clue to what awaits them at their destination nor do they know what awaits them on the long journey itself. The author, John Steinbeck, develops three dynamic characters - Ma Joad, Tom Joad, and Jim Casy - to illustrate three similar, but different, journeys. They are all forced to evolve to survive and, with evolution, they lose a part of themselves, but they also gain a better understanding of their own individuality.…
To kill a mocking bird character study: Jem To kill a mocking bird, letter: from Jem to Tom Robinson Dear, Mr. Robinson I am sorry for all your troubles sir. I hope that you trial goes well and that they may find that Miss Mayella may be found falsely, and that you are set free. I know that you are innocent and I hope the Atticus may find you innocent, I know he will. My father is a mighty good lawyer sir…
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson is a book written by Mark Twain. Pudd’nhead Wilson is a northerner who arrives at a small southern town in Missouri to become a lawyer. Upon his arrival he is alienated by the townspeople who do not understand his humor. They give him the nickname “Pudd’nhead” and never give him the chance to do any of their legal work. He then gets into the hobby of fingerprinting.…
While Tom greatly shows his pain and his joy to Maria, he is not himself in front of Betsy about his feeling, regardless of his will. Tom remembers the time when he was in Rome, and he was in the fear of death and he felt he is very short on time. One of way to get over the fear, he sincerely shared his feeling with Maria. This honesty makes him remember Maria as a woman who understand him in anyway, even though their relationship is temporary in time. In contrast, Tom could not share his inter-conflicts with Betsy who lives with a promise of marriage,…
Set during the Great Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee in 1960. In this novel, there is a character named Atticus Finch who comes to represent justice and sympathy throughout the story. One of his ideas is that it’s a sin to kill mockingbirds for “they don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.” Atticus uses to these words to instruct his children, Scout and Jem, on the proper way to use their guns, but this phrase also has a symbolic meaning. In To Kill a Mockingbird, like the title implies, several “mockingbirds” are “killed”:…
He explains that his reasons for doing everything without getting paid were that “he felt sorry for her” (197). For Tom to repeatedly help someone Mayella because he pitied for her unveils how wholesome, compassionate and hardworking Tom is. These characteristics depict Tom’s resemblance to a mockingbird, as like them he pours out his songs of sympathy in a kind of blissful unawareness of the consequences.. The other reason why Tom is a mockingbird in the novel is that he is slain by injustice and racial prejudice from his society. Before Atticus takes Tom’s case, he admits that Tom is ‘licked’, and that he “was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed” (241).…
What makes someone resemble a mockingbird? The book To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee. This book, in the perspective of a young girl named Scout, is about her father Atticus having to defend a black man in court. This man’s name is Tom Robinson. He was falsely accused of raping a 19 year old girl who is part of a “white trash” family.…
The people that surround her abuse Mayella physically and mentally while treating her as nothing more than an extra hand. Scout even says this about Mayella in Chapter 19, “As Tom Robinson gave his testimony, it came to me that Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty-five years.” It was because of this loneliness that she reached out for Tom Robinson. Mayella saw something in Tom that she hadn’t ever seen in her dismal and secluded life; compassion.…
“I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people” said Maya Angelou, poet and social activist. This quote by Maya Angelou helps to explain many of the characters in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. I feel that this quote really helps explain that everyone can be a hero, and that it doesn’t matter if you’re a black man fighting the Jim Crow laws, or a young boy trying to protect his sister.…
The archetypal theme of selling your soul to the devil has been in practice for centuries back. The willingness for someone to sell their soul in exchange for something they desire or what they most want in life and not always do they have another choice and that’s when they decide to not work for what they want and go the easy way to having fame, power, revenge and beauty. Both Tom Walker from “The Devil and Tom Walker” and Queen Ravenna from “Snow White and the Huntsmen” thought they had no other way and chose to sell their soul to the devil but ended up worse than how they were in the beginning and alone with nothing or nobody by their side. Foremost, Tom Walker was a very greedy man who didn’t care about anyone but himself, not even his wife who he was married for years now, yet there was no love nor affection from both of them.…
Maycomb County, the setting of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, has a deeply ingrained culture of racism over reason. Tom Robinson’s death was unjust, yet few mourned and the eventual death did not shock anyone. The reason for this tragedy is that Tom was too confident that people would show good morals when faced with a complicated decision. He made a series of poor choices that placed him in a difficult situation that even the best lawyer could not get him out of. Although Tom was framed, it was his own mistakes that enabled Bob Ewell to prosecute him in the first place.…