... of all this is that the boys decide to be silent. They learn to suffer quietly and retreat behind the mask. This is why the boys do not express their feelings, because they are told not to. What tells them not to is the boy code. It says the men should be stoic, stable, and independent. Boys are not to share their pain or grief openly. Also this code says the boys should be daring and do risky behaviors. The most traumatizing code is the fact that boys should not express feelings which might be mistakenly as “feminine” –dependence, warmth, and empathy. This causes boys to never act this way and hide these feelings. These are the reasons the “mask” is formed o ...
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... his room before he and Finny leave for the tree. It surrounds him with the shock of his true self until he finally reacts by jouncing the limb. Up in the tree, before the two friends are about to make their "double-jump", Gene sees Finny in this new light. He realizes that Finny feels no jealousy or hatred towards him and that Finny is indeed perfect in every way. Gene becomes aware that only he is the jealous one. He learns of his hatred and that he really is a "savage underneath". Over a long period of time Gene had been denying his feelings of hatred towards Finny. Now all of the eelings come back to him and he sees how terrible he really is. The real ...
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... remembers this is because in a way she envied that girl. She did not feel like her family had anything special. “ ... I had nothing as remarkable in my own background? “(248). We remember things not because we want to but because it was something that affected as greatly. She says: “ We only store images of value... Pain likes to be vivid.” (245). Like if for instance as a child we missed out on something and we used to envy other kids who had it, we will never forget it. When she says pain likes to be vivid, she meant painful memories are always remembered. It’s like if pain wanted to always be there to remind you of your worst moments. You can’t forget them that ...
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... have to face the people of Maycomb and then they would be shunned for letting a black man go free. Boo Radley was also the victim of prejudice. The people of Maycomb county did not understand Boo, he was not seen outside of his house and people did not know what to think. They made up their own ideas of what he was like and made him out to be some sort of monster. They pre-judged him because he was different than they were. Scout later met Boo and discovered that there judgements of him were false. The second common human experience is courage. Atticus displays two different types of courage in the novel. the first is a mental courage when he defend ...
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... to have prejudice in a small town like that, after all isolation is a major factor in why prejudice and racism arise. "Men hate each other because they fear each other, and they fear each other because they don't know each other, and they don't know each other because they are often separated from each other. " -Martin Luther King The stereotypes in this novel are fairly common but the fact that they are accepted and used so openly in public is what astonishes me. I think people in the community, even if they do disagree ...
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... I reckon, and some of the other old people; but they don't know what the row was about in the first place."' (108) Another demonstration of satire is played in superstition. Here, Jim and Huck are very superstitious with a rattlesnake skin. Earlier in the book, Huck touches a rattlesnake skin, and Jim stops him from handling it before he gets bad luck: "And he said that handling a snake-skin was such awful bad luck that maybe we hadn't got to the end of it yet, He said he druther see the new moon over his left shoulder as much as a thousand times than take up a snake skin in his left hand." (53) Chapter XXV, All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle spotlights the use ...
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... was for death. This clearly points out that the other two wishes may have caused unhappiness. Also Sergeant Morris says; “I warn you of the consequences.” Clearly here, however innocent the wish, Morris knows that it will end badly. “Don’t blame me for what happens.” The major coincidence centres around the two hundred pounds. “How could £200 hurt you?” says Mrs White ironically, she will find out! There are two real climaxes in the story – one is how they get the two hundred pounds (and the fact that Herbert’s death is a shocking mutilated death) and the second climax is the tension associated with the knocking on the door. Herbert the son is himself the focus in ...
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... I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. In the above quote, Tom wants to tell the audience the main characteristic of him in the play is to escape. The last sentence of the above quote, he says "I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion" which means I like to hide the truth and run away from reality. This example shows whenever he think about escaping or wanting to escape, he will always sits beside the fire escape. The symbol fire escape is a good example of symbolism for Tom, but there is also the ...
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... American Dream and how it had become corrupted by greed andmaterialistic possessions. At the end of Chapter One, Nick catches Gatsby stretching his arms out towards a green light. At the time it is not revealed to us that this is the light at the end of Daisy's dock. he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. (Fitzgerald 26) Throughout the novel Fitzgerald emphasizes the color green as a promise of hope. Through G ...
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... (I,ii,144-147) showing how these images are used to hide the "disgraceful self" of Macbeth. Clothing imagery is also used throughout the play in order to create a that devilish tone in the play "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir. (I,iii,141-143) hides Macbeth's true intentions towards the king and he feelings on what the witches said. The play is also filled with many references to the night or darkness which would have been used to further explain to Shakespeare's audiences the mood of deception and that cold tone, considering the fact that the audiences would have been watching this play in the middle of the afternoon. The ...
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