First They Killed My Father

pretends the novel was written by S. Morgenstern. The novel includes interjects by S.Morgenstern and William Goldman.In the novel The Princess Bride William Goldman conveys the universal theme that life isn’t fair, but works out better in the end. The first way the universal theme is shown is through characterization. Inigo Montoya is a character in the novel who goes through many hardships. “As to Inigo’s personal life, he was always just a trifle hungry, he had no brothers or sisters, and…

When Nwoye is walking home in the night he hears to babies and a mother's footsteps, at first he seems confused but he realizes it's twins, and in the culture twins are seen as evil and killed. Sickened by the murders, he thinks “Nwoye had felt for the first time a snapping inside…

forgiveness for killing King Hamlet. But, Hamlet does not want to kill him while he is praying. “Now might I do it pat, now ‘a is a-praying, and now I’ll do’t – and so ‘a goes to heaven, and so am I revenged. That would be scanned. A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven,” (3.4.73-78). Hamlet wants to kill the King; however, he wants Claudius to go to hell. For this reason, Hamlet does not kill Claudius while he is praying. Instead, he waits…

is left without his beloved father. Hamlet’s mother remarries and makes Claudius (Hamlet’s uncle) king of Denmark, leaving the heir Hamlet in the dark. Hamlet finds out about the truth of his fathers death and plots his masterful revenge of Claudius, who killed his father. In the aftermath of his father’s death Hamlet begins to question life, he begins to think life is meaningless. Hamlet begins to get demented with the fact that Claudius killed his father. At first Hamlet is depressed and…

Hamlet himself. First off, his father died and his mother married is uncle within a matter of months. This is terribly hard on poor Hamlet. He lost his father, a man he deeply loved and admired which is terrible in itself. To add insult to injury she marries a man that is his father’s brother, and of whom he thinks very little. This puts poor Hamlet in an awful state of mind. His Step-Father Claudius says in Act 1 Scene 2 Line 67, “How is it that…

Both “Daddy,” by Sylvia Plath, and “My Papa’s Waltz,” by Theodore Roethke are poems centering around the parent-child relationship between the authors and their fathers. At first glance, Plath’s “Daddy” pivots around an abusive father, and Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” revolves around the joy filled evening of play that the narrator and his father participate in. While Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” parent-child relationships are seemingly quite different, once one…

course of time, grudge, revenge, and inheritance have been key elements leading to conflict, and ultimately death. In William Shakespeare’s theatrical play, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Prince Hamlet, Prince Fortinbras, and Laertes have all lost their fathers due to tragic circumstances. Death, sexual promiscuity, and treachery permeate the entire play. Despite the dark plot of this play, it has become known as one of Shakespeare’s most famous literary work. Throughout the play, revenge and…

This story is titled, The Death of Tommy Grimes, because when Tommy shoots a black man, a small part of him dies along with the man he has killed. Before Tommy kills the man, he is waiting for something to come for him to shoot. In the beginning of the story, he never wanted to hurt anything or anyone, but now he was waiting to kill. When Tommy is outside he thinks to himself, “There was something out there! The happy-scared feeling ran up and down Tommy’s back and his breath came in painful…

must persevere in order to survive. In contrast, when my father went to college, he had to learn so much more than how to adjust to his new life, but how to persevere and always perform everything as best as he could. Although Buck and my father went though very different experiences, they both learned how to persevere. Being pushed into a new life takes almost everything you may have. For Buck, it almost took his life. However for my father, it almost took his whole future and a college degree…

not to stay the grinding of the axe, my head should be struck off” (V.II.23-24). At first, he believes that the two of them are long time friends of his. But he realizes that they are loyal to Claudius and Hamlet begins to act more upset. So as that being said Horatio is more of a loyal friend to hamlet because he sticks by him all the way towards the end. In the play Horatio agrees to help Hamlet with his plan to determine if Claudius actually killed his father. Horatio is the only true friend…