Tramp

listening his steps, he later turned around and didn’t see the Arab anymore, so he continued his journey back to the classroom. He was very meditative: Is he ok? Will he get there? Will I see him again? The Arab went the wrong way, he got into a tramp and he was almost caught. He ran and missed them and went straight to Daru’s house. Daru was tired and sweat was running down every part of his body, was about to get over to his house and there he was, the Arab, waiting for Daru, he noticed they…

d to snatch at the world with twenty hands, and not for a very laudable motive either. That was wrong, and am I to show now that not even a year’s trial has taught me anything? Am I to leave this world as a man who has no common sense? Are people to say of me after I am gone that at the beginning of my case I wanted to finish it, and at the end I wanted to begin again? I don’t want that to be said. I am grateful for the fact that these half-dumb, senseless creatures have been sent to accompany…

The actors in each film are indicative of the era in which they were made. In The Immigrant, a silent era film, director Charlie Chaplin uses a group of actors that he’s used in previous films, most importantly Edna Purviance and Henry Bergman, with the latter starting in two of Chaplin’s 1915 films, The Kreutzer Sonata and The Melting Pot, all the way to Modern Times in 1936. Many similar ‘auteurs” of the time used the same actors as well, especially D.W. Griffith, who used actress Lillian Gish…

Why do people drink? There are many reason why an individual choses to drink. Some drinks alcohol because it supposedly helps them temporarily forget their problem, helps them have a good time, makes them happy, it’s “cool” or to socialized. Why is there law against alcohol? It is to protect us and to create a safer environment. In the situation in which I have to decide a stand point whether or not the Health Committee should support the bill to decriminalize drinking alcohol in public and in…

Shakespeare’s play, ‘Macbeth’ (written in 1606) and Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ (written in 1886) both revolve around the theme, ‘Duality’. This is the quality or state of having two parts, a dichotomy and in this case two personalities. This is shown throughout Macbeth but is uncovered in the final chapter of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Many factors contribute to why both Shakespeare and R. L. Stevenson had their play and novella based on duality and the period of…

In Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin criticizes the effects of capitalism on the working class. Through a different lens, one can view this as a contemporary critique of control freaks. He uses parody and exaggeration to strengthen his assertion. Chaplin uses parody to strengthen his assertion by making a mockery of how human beings are forced to fit around and within the institution in modern society particularly in relation to the “American Dream” and “the pursuit of happiness”. The theme of…

How far are you willing to go just to fill the void loneliness? Curly’s wife, in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, is very lonely and because of that she seeks out attention. She’s lonely because she’s the only woman on the farm, her husband is jealous, and doesn’t let her talk to anyone and she dreams of bigger and better things than a small farm in the middle of nowhere. Curly’s wife, who never actually is named, could quite possibly be the loneliest person on the farm. Many arguments have…

After Mary Dempster has sex with the tramp, Amasa Dempster thinks Mary’s behavior is immoral. He locks Mary in the room to place restrictions on her freedom, because he loves her and the possessiveness makes him wants to possess Mary. However, Amasa’s love to Mary is selfish, he only wants…

conveys this idea by not giving her a name, suggesting she is merely Curley’s belonging. Moreover, she is deemed a “tramp”, a “bitch”, “jail bait” and “has the eye” for simply trying to talk to the ranch hands, while nobody judges the ranch hands for going to the brothel. Near the end, Candy rages at Curley’s wife’s corpse, blaming her for “mess things up” and caling her a “God damn tramp”. He is blaming Curley’s wife for seducing and eventually being killed by Lennie. To the ranch hands (except…

violence, the mother more concerned with the safety of her daughter as mothers often are. Seymour’s mental state, likely PTSD or Traumatic Brain Injury, isolates him from the people he is surrounded by, including his wife, who he called “Miss Spiritual Tramp of 1948”(Salinger 2), and,…