Twelve Angry Men Essay

The book I read was called “The Library Card” written by Jerry Spinelli. The setting of the story was a cold November. There are four main characters in each four sections. The first section’s main character is Mongoose, (Jamie Hill) who is a 12 year old boy with a friend named Weasel, (Bobby Morgan). It takes place in a rural area. They are the first to find the library card. Brenda is the second section’s main character, who is addicted to television. This takes place in her house.…

for each other. These things are the three ways how George and Lennie have a relationship that shows the readers the true meaning of what a friendship is. George and Lennie take care for one another by these three examples. On page 15 in Of Mice and Men, Lennie tell George, “I got you and you got me.” If that isn’t true friendship then I don’t know what is.…

In the book the Wednesday wars the main character is Holling Hoodhood and he lives in a little town just under New York in 1967. Holling is trying to survive the school year with a teacher (Mrs. Baker) who he thinks hates his guts but over the course of the year that might change. Holling is shy,caring,and kind but one of those characteristics will change. Holling Hoodhood is kind of shy he doesn’t like to talk to people very much and doesn’t like to be around people very often he likes to…

In Flannery O’Connor’s Greenleaf, the Greenleaf twins, O.T. and E.T., are different in many ways than Mrs. May’s sons. O.T. and E.T. are hard farm workers; in contrast, Mrs. May’s sons have no desire to farm, but work as an insurance salesman and an intellectual. O’Connor specifically made these characters different to show two types of society: upper and lower class. O.T. and E.T. are the understatement of twins because they practically have the same life. The twins both married a French woman…

The dog Basenji goes by many names, some of which include Belgian Congo Dog, Bongo Terrier, Congo Bush Dog, Zande Dog, and Congo Terrier. What makes this breed particularly special is that he is the only breed who has no bark. But other than the absence of bark, this breed will whine and growl like other dogs, and can express his feelings with a unique yodel or chortle sound. The Basenji does have a vocal cord. However, it is believed that the past thousands of years in training to hunt game…

“The silence was in the room again. A shot sounded in the distance. The men looked quickly at the old man.” Chapter 3 of the novel Of Mice and Men describes how Carlson, a man that works in the same Ranch as Candy, kills Candy’s old dog. Candy is an old man that works in the Ranch in Soledad, he has no arm and cleans the bunkhouse, where all the workers from the Ranch sleep in. I think it was right for Candy to let Carlson kill his old dog because he was really old, smelly, blind and had no…

George and Lennie ha George and Lennie’s friendship shows the true meaning of friendship and that they take care of one another. Lennie expresses his friendship with George by saying “because I got you and you look after me” (Steinbeck 14). Also Lennie said George could have all the imaginary ketchup “But I won’t eat none, George, id leave it all for you” (Steinbeck 12). This shows he would give up what he likes if George wants it. George also tells lennie “I was jus foolin Lennie ‘cause I want…

The American dream was a time in the 1920s during the great depression where George and Lennie attempt their success in there dream, but face many obstacles as they try to achieve it. As George and Lennie’s dream is to raise a farm with there own animals, Lennie’s minor mental disability is tough as Lennie tends to kill anything he he gets attached to. George sees Lennie stroking a dead mouse that Lennie killed unintentionally George says “you gonna give me that mouse or do I have to sock you.”…

The “cage” is a name that the men in the narrative call the elevator cat in the mine (143), and it is unmistakable that the car would impact those who would ride it as the car earns such a title. Distinctly, this “cage” does impact Billy’s father, and is apparent when he scolds Billy…

Pieter Bruegel was a perfect Renaissance man in light of the fact that the fine art he created exemplified a percentage of the essential Renaissance standards. The beliefs his work indicated are independence, elegance, secularism, and authenticity. Independence is the faith in the quality and worth of every individual and the thought of conveying everything that needs to be conveyed uniquely. Elegance is the reference to Ancient Greek and Roman workmanship and mythology. Secularism is the…