In The Birth of a Nation, this idea is portrayed through the sister of a officer within the Confederate army, as she recalls the news of her brother who fell to death in the war, the sister boils with rage. The sister supported her brother’s cause in the war along with his honorable death. The brothers beliefs led the sister to recall the Civil War as a murder, along with the Unionist he battled. Isabel Worrell Ball, the daughter of a Union soldier also sided with the beliefs of her supporter. Ball proclaimed, “in my blood runs the same hot hatred of treason’s emblem that sent my father forth in defense of the Nation’s honor” (Janney 234).
Since it was almost time for the war, the Taliban came to Najmah’s household and took her father and brother for war. ‘“I have no guns,” Baba-jan says, looking at the man directly. The Pashtun Talib mutters something, and the men shove and drag Baba-jan and my brother toward to Datsun pickup trucks.’ (Page 18) After they are taken away, Najmah and what was left of her family was unbearably sad. Who wants their loved ones to fight in a war when there’s a chance of them getting killed? After Najmah’s mother and baby brother are killed in a bombing accident, one of her parents’ friend’s brother takes her with his family on a road trip to Torkhum.
Leper escapes from the army and goes home. He sends Gene a letter telling him to come to his house and help him. When Gene goes to Leper’s house, Leper tells him, “…they were going to give me a discharge, a Section Eight discharge… is for the nuts in the service, the psychos, the Funny Farm candidates” (144). Leper is telling Gene that the army had labeled him as a crazy person and he would not be able to get a job because of it. Leper was not ready to go to war; he only wanted to ski.
Before she thought that Atticus was different from the other fathers in Maycomb because he was too old and couldn’t do anything fun with them. After he killed the mad dog in one shot, Scout was proud of her father and got more influenced in him. Scout is forced to understand that Tom Robinson was being treated differently because he had colored skin. Because of that, Scout realized that people can be prejudice because her father took a case of an African American man who was innocent. It shows that Scout can actually think seriously about things when she says, “Who in this town did anything to help Tom Robinson, just who?”(215).
Than Lily finally told August the truth about how she killed her mother and how she broke Rosaleen out of jail. The falling action is when Lily confronts her father and August convinces him that she should stay in Tiburon. Section D: The major theme of the novel is the irrationality of racism. There are many racist people out in the world, even today. I do not understand why people are racist because we are all made
But after Candide, Jacques, and Pangloss ship off to Lisbon, Portugal, their hope is shattered. A great storm kills their entire ship full of people besides Candide, Pangloss, and a crewman who happened to push Jacques overboard. After the two characters struggle their way onto the shore of Lisbon, an earthquake happens. This section of the story is probably at the lowest part of Candide’s optimistic level. The Lisbon people soon have an auto-da-fé, where many people are tortured and killed.
In this book, the author reveals the ugliness of war, and examines its relationship to the pain of growing up. This is a story about a young man named Henry who wants to fight for the Union in the Civil War. He leaves his mother behind and finds himself
This can be observed when Vladek wakes up Artie early in the morning to ask him to help fix the roof (page number). Artie refuses and we can later on observe Artie telling his wife that he rather feel guilty than to travel to Queens to help his father (page number). Then once he was with his father, he started feeling guilty he asked his father if he needs help fixing anything (II, 99). The guilt of not helping his father ate up at him and he realized with wasn’t very son like of him not to help his father out. Another example of Artie feeling guilty about not being a good son is seen when he goes to see his therapist.
this arrogance by Birling is shown through his lack of care for his family and his priories are climbing the social ladder and stopping a public scandal. At the start of the play the inspector question Mr Birling on the death, Birling quickly responds violently and says “you weren’t asked to come here and talk to me about responsibility”, in the house Birling is advert and he is used to people respecting him and him talking down to other people, this way is challenged when the inspector arrives, and because Birling is arrogant and feels that because he was “lord mayor just two years ago” he is above the lower class and the working class(the inspector). And he feels that he shouldn’t even consider the less fortunate than him “community and all that nonsense” and this kind of attitude annoys priestly and this shows the dislike for Birling from Priestly and how he is portraying it to the audience of
But in the end the father says, “if there had only been time to go up to my club” which tells us that the father is very self-centered and that the only thing he thinks of is him self and his life instead of getting to know his son. The son is getting more and more ashamed of his father, because of the way he behaves at the restaurants. In the beginning he was proud and he had high expectations to this meeting but know only an hour and a half later, he know that he will never see his dad again. While standing at a newsstand the father is doing it all over again. He is being rude to the seller and he is shouting at him.