Being Kind to Others Essay

The Prince and the Pauper, The Black Ship of Troy, The Apple of Discord, Yeh-shen all have many things alike and different but today we will only be focusing on behavior whys. In these stories, the characters, do some selfish and kind thing that either come with good consequences or bad consequences. That affect the character later on in the story. Today we will be talking about the good and bad thing in the story that they did. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain the is the first we…

Mockingbird by Harper Lee, takes place in a small town in Alabama called Maycomb. It wasn’t so happy of a time knowing that it took place in the Great Depression but it didn’t effect the Finch family too much because they were in the middle class. Being an African American, Calpurnia was from the South part of Maycomb and knew what the domestic part of life looked like. Cal wasn’t domestic to Scout and Jem but knew how to get them to listen if they weren’t behaving. Calpurnia was the cook for…

War is cruel. It takes but never gives anything good in return. In World War 2, war took the lives of over 60 million people. In the Odyssey, war killed the crew of Odysseus. The poem “War is kind” also describes war as what it truly is, horrific, terrifying, and cruel. War also leaves terrible scars on the soldiers; an article over PTSD shows just how terrible those scars are. All three works of literature show that war is cruel. The Odyssey is a collection of chapters telling the story of…

In Cathedral, a short story written by Raymond Carver, the narrator seems to have a kind of dysfunctional type of relationship with his wife. The wife seems like a kind and emotional person while the narrator is kind of closed off emotionally. This differences can sometimes lead to small arguments like the one they had when he offered to take the blind man to bowling “God dam it, his wife just died! Don’t you understand that? The man just lost his wife! (Carver, 1983)”. Even though, the man is…

and try to compensate for this by bullying those that appear to be weaker. Notice that a bully is a coward for they wont bully people that will strike back in like but will allways latch onto those that are for whatever reason unable to respond in kind. What bullies dont know is that by the very act of bullying they are showing their weakness. Yes they are weak and inferior in their mental makeup but of course they don't know this for they think that by bullying they are showing their strength,…

Tan’s article she focuses on how people are narrow minded towards those of different culture and language backgrounds. She does not criticize nor correct others language. Tan says, “I am not a scholar of English or literature. I cannot give you much more than personal opinions on the English language and its variations in this country or others.” Tan argues that it is not about the whether people are correct or not, it is about how they put their words together that make is special. Throughout…

Redemption in The Kite Runner Redemption is the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, one of the protagonists in the novel, Amir, strives for redemption throughout the novel. Amir displays a positive change in various characteristics, to be specific, Amir changes from being selfish to selfless, from showing cowardice to being brave and from being cruel to showing caring and kind traits. The significance of redemption for Amir in…

“Perelandra by C.S. Lewis he uses kind of the same way of thinking. We see it also in the continuation of his trilogy, in the novel “That Hideous Strength” also written by C.S. Lewis. He uses the same writing style, one that at first I couldn’t understand. I had to go back and reread some parts to comprehend what he was saying and kind of figure out the deeper meaning of things. Throughout the book, Lewis uses a different kind of themes and symbolism. One of them being Good VS Evil and pride VS…

people are prejudiced towards others of different races, especially black males. Staples is a dark skin man who has faced racial challenges. He has been noticed by others as being a criminal, various people feared Staples. People would take a look in his direction and see danger just by the way he walked, and dressed around the city. Brent Staples was viewed as the victim during this time. He is an innocent man who gets examined by what people see instead of knowing the kind and intelligent man…

around at all hours of the day, in very bad weather, blow freezing and in weather over 100 degrees. A Wildlife officer enforces game, fish, and boating laws. They can issue warnings or citations. They also can determine how to dispose of illegal things being used while fishing , hunting or boating. Depending on the area they are located they may have to go by vehicle , boat , plane , horse or foot. Wildlife officers can serve a warrant or even make an arrest. If that happens they have to collect…