They confided in one another after the shooting, about the things Kenny was joking about. Throughout the story Kenny is randomly releasing fire on things he ‘doesn’t like’. First the sign, then the barn, then the old man’s dog. At that point Tub was so irritated by his constant shots and the mouth and shot of the gun that he decided he had no choice but to shoot him. To show him he can’t keep being a bully.
Police came to investigate about the accident but Mr.Bell didn’t let them investigate. Billy was writing letter to his mother while he was writing the letter he heard some noise. When he went downstair and see he got shocked that Simon helped German’s and they killed Simon. Literary Techniques And Devices: ▸ “ In shifts of six, unsmiling, serious, scowling soldiers stood on all sides of the boathouse.” (Alliteration-pg 177) ▸ “ The sun
Review of Foley, Michael S., Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War. H-Peace, H-Net Reviews. May, 2004. Retrieved from http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=9417. I found this to be a great review of the original book by Michael S. Foley regarding the draft resistance during the Vietnam War.
After a string of snakes being found becomes strangely to frequent, Nelson, the family helper, believes he is to be the next victim. In order to help calm him down, the Price sisters come up with a plan to catch who is planting these snakes. The plan is to spread ash around to the chicken coup, where Nelson lives, to see the footprints of the guilty. In the morning, they checked their trap and it was sprung. Footprints that matches the local witch but a snake was hiding in the shadows.
The first change that White reflected upon was the tracks he walked when he was young. As White walked back to his farmhouse feeling convinced that nothing had changed at the lake, he looked down at the road not only to realize it was a two-track road but also that a middle track was missing. He specifically remembered how the middle track looked like; “the one with the marks of the hooves and the splotches of dried, flaky manure” (White, 31). This helps to visualize back when he was younger where horses and wagons must have been used. With only two tracks now, only cars were being used on that road.
The poem Digging by Seamus Heaney seems to follow the theme of heritage and family traditions in which the protagonist breaks what could be his family’s legacy. The poem being a contemporary one is written in free verse with eight stanzas and two couplets and is divided into a flashback and the present time in which the writer is writing. The first two lines are a couplet. These two lines are also a part of the present. The phrase ‘the squat pen rests as snug as a gun’ compares a pen to a gun, which could be because the author wants to portray writing as an equally masculine task or that the written word is as harmful as the wounds that may be inflicted by a gun.
In the stories “How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O ‘Brien, and “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway, both authors illustrate to the reader the effects of war on an average person, and how that plays out on their emotional being. Both authors served time in the army, at different points in time, and they both portray in their stories the lives of young men coming back home from the war and having to face “normal” life after being traumatized by the atrocities of war. In “Soldier’s Home”, the setting takes place in Krebs’s hometown, but it’s as if Krebs doesn’t feel home, he doesn’t feel like he belongs. He comes back home from war much later than everyone else; sounds like he is avoiding coming back after being traumatized by life-and-death situations that his family and friends back home could never comprehend entirely. Hemingway reinforces the portrayal of his felling “out of place” back home by calling him by Krebs, instead of Harold (like everyone else), which could probably be a war nickname he feels more comfortable with.
The ending was extended to show that the children felt sorry for what they have done to the lead character named Margot. Characters of All Summer in a Day Margot – Margot is a little, sickly girl who used to live in Ohio. She is the only child on Venus who can remember how the Earth and the Sun looked like. A "very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years," Margot was the subject of bullying among her classmates. They stuffed Margot inside the closet so she could not see the sun after a prediction came that it would appear.
When Bont adds attempted murder to his other crimes, the demoralized village finally calls him to account. Bont’s sentence and death highlight the grievous punishments given out. Bont cares nothing for his children and they live in fear of him, just as Anna did as a child. Anna also remembers the ‘scold’s bridle’-an iron cage that was fastened over the head of a woman who offended her husband- and the way in which her mother was lead around in it by Bont ‘yanking hard on the chain so that the iron sliced her tongue’. Although Bont has virtually no redeeming qualities, Brooks nevertheless elicits some sympathy for him when the shocking events of his boyhood are revealed.
This is also the only part of the text were we see Johnny’s relationship with his dad and it’s the first time he really speaks openly with anyone about his thoughts on family issues. We also understand that, although Johnny wishes he had a family (connected by blood) who loved him and cared about him, he loves his friends more. He is ready to help them and, as shown through his actions when he