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pressured to play with his children, such as, “Atticus was never too tired to play keep-away, but when Jem wanted to tackle him Atticus would say, “I’m too old for that, son (118),” but, “When he gave us our air-rifles Atticus wouldn’t teach us to shoot” (119). Scout and Jem don’t really have a chance at…

“Free? Free to do what, Sam? Free to mock your king? To shoot your neighbor? To make a mess of thousands of lives.”( ) In the novel My Brother Sam Is Dead, the authors, Collier and Collier, introduce the life during the Revolutionary War. During the novel this war has affected many people's lives. The authors explain throughout this story which side of the war they are on. The Revolutionary War, in the novel, My Brother Sam is Dead, is worthless. One way the authors argue against the war…

the intended use of the weapon will be. Wendell stated that “Along with the action type the next question should be what is this rifle intended to do? A heavy-barreled varmint rig with a powerful scope should generally shoot anywhere from an inch down. A big-bore double intended to shoot elephants at close range is a viable rifle if both barrels will overlap at 4, 5, or even 6”. Elephants and Cape Buffalo have a huge kill zone compared to a Prairie Dog and are shot at much closer range.” I can…

and wondering when I could finally get to go and experience what it was like myself. I always watched my dDad come home and have a little buck in the bed of his truck and I thought how come it wasn’t like in the hunting shows where they go out and shoot a massive buck. He told me that wasn’t real hunting and they hunt them in fenced in areas and that deer around my property didn’t have the chance to become that big and no one in the last 150 years of owning the property has anyone shot a big…

Tragedy When reading A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor most recreational readers believe the short story to be gothic and even twisted. However, when the story is read from the of O’Connor’s view point it takes on a different tone and meaning all together. Much of what at first glance seems to be terrible and horrific events are actually lessons which O’Connor hoped to bring to the reader. O’Connor uses several key characters and settings in the story to express her beliefs to…

The shooting that happened live on the news a few days ago was very tragic. Two journalists that were on live TV, were shot and killed. The man that shot and killed them was Vester Lee Flanagan II. He is forty-one years old and lives in Roanoke. I don’t think he should’ve killed himself afterwards. He deserves to go to jail for what he did. Taking his life was not the right thing to do. The suspect, Flanagan, should’ve been sentenced to life in prison or at least should be kept in prison for…

important role in the foundation and execution of Nazi policy. The idea of struggle played an important role in the formation and implementation of Nazi policy. When the authors brought up a story up of how Hitler would have dealt with Gandhi he stated, “Shoot Gandhi and if that does…

his way. He resolves to violence immediately. He was going to go on a hunt after he had beat one of his wife’s, and while he was leaving another wife murmured “a gun that never shoots.” The way Okonkwo thinks, what she just said was very offensive. It causes his mind to tell him that since that gun never shoots, he never shoots any animals, which means that he is failing. His temper goes out of…

George didn’t kill Lennie out of anger or hatred but out of love. He tried to reason with Curley by saying “But listen, Curley. The poor bastards nuts. Don’t shoot ‘im. He didn’t know what he was doin’.” George believed that if he didn’t do it, then Lennie would have suffered greatly because of the quote in the novel from Curley, “I’m gonna shoot the guts outa that big bastard myself, even if I only got one hand. I’ gonna get ‘im.” Lennie would have suffered a lot more if Curley and the other…

Character Analysis Tub is a like-able person who is treated poorly by his friends in the story "Hunters in the Snow" by Tobias Wolff. Tub is like-able because he is gullible and everyone seems to joke around with him. Tub is also a good friend even though his friends are not the nicest to him. "Frank, when you've got a friend it means you've always got someone on your side, no matter what. That's the way I feel about it anyway" said Tub. Tub seems to have poor luck because everything he…