... him to live through it. The perfect solider is what Jim Conklin brings to the book. Jim never complains about war and fights as good as the next man. Many of the people look up to Jim because he is so strong willed. The regiments almost look up to Jim in a spiritual way finding peace inside of them when they think of him. It is a tragedy when Jim dies because of all of the moral inspiration he gave the regiment. True to his character Jim dies a quiet and peaceful death not distributing any of the regiment. Wilson represents the two sides of human nature. In the beginning of the book Wilson is a mean tough ...

... lot of positive pride, this is exhibited so clearly by the way they are described. The narrator mentions how professional they look, by their dress, and by the way they act when he first meets them. "The gentleman, a man of fifty, very high and very straight, with a mustache slightly grizzled and a dark gray walking-coat admirably fitted, both of which I noted professionally - I don’t mean as a barber or yet as a tailor" . In this story, the Monarch’s are portrayed as people who have a lot of self-respect and dignity, but do not have a lot of ego. The Monarchs are people who will not steal or beg because of t ...

... of the first person narrator in these two pieces is unsettling. In both instances, though, the reader is left with a much more absorbing story; one in which the reader is, in fact, a main character. With the exception of "My Old Man", which is entirely in the first person , and "On the Quai at Smyrna", which is only possibly in the first person, there is just one instance in In Our Time in which a character speaks in the first person. It occurs in "Big Two-Hearted River: Part II", an intensely personal story which completely immerses the reader in the actions and thoughts of Nick Adams. Hemingway's utilizati ...

... running his ship and questions his ability to lead his ship. During one of the first nights on board the ship, the captain demonstrates his thoughts of insecurity and self-consciousness when he does something that a captain would not normally do: he plans to take part in the night watch. “I felt painfully that I - a stranger - was doing something unusual when I directed him to let all hands turn in without setting an anchor watch” (941). The captain is so self-conscious and insecure about his actions that he reacts almost painfully to the crew’s judgement of his orders. He also states that he ...

... in Comprehensive Desk Dictionary by Thorndike Barnhart as an "opinion formed without taking the time and care to judge fairly". The main focus of part one is Boo Radley. Boo was considered to be an outcast by many of the people in Maycomb. He never came outside, except for two occasions in the book. The first time Boo comes out is when a fire breaks out at Miss Maudies, and Scout is standing outside in the cold. Boo wraps a blanket around her, without her knowing that he did. The other time didn't happen until part two, when Jem and Scout are attacked by Bob Ewell. People were prejudiced against Boo because he is ...

... the most important cliché is also included—we see the white picket fence with ruby red roses against a bright blue sky, making out the colors of the American flag. There is, however, trouble in Paradise. First we witness a man—who later turns out to be Jeffrey’s father—suffer a stroke and, after showing his helpless agony, the camera burrows into the grass revealing insects “in a ferocious, predatory, and cannibalistic fight for life” (Dirks, “Blue Velvet (1984)”, http://www.filmsite.org/blue.html). These pictures, made even more terrifying by the extreme close- ...

... the novel. It can be seen first when he was a soldier and plans a future with Daisy even though she belongs to an entirely different world. In Daisy’s world, the so-called “rich girls� such as herself, would not even consider marrying a “poor guy� who later in the novel was once seen as this. A second example that would show Gatsby as a romantic idealist is his sense of hope. He hoped for a life with Daisy and to live a life full of money. In the book, Nick, the narrator, states that Gatsby possesses “ some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life� (6). He had “an e ...

... the American Dream. Out of Fitzgerald's presentation and analysis of the lives of Gatsby, Nick, and the Buchanans comes the final theme that the American idealism has been corrupted by adopting materialism as its means. The substitution of attractive but false goals, represented by Daisy, as the fulfillment of the historical promise of America, has changed the new world (the east) from a “fresh, green breast� to a grotesque waste land where only the morally irresponsible can hope to survive. Gatsby' s destruction shows that those who try to maintain an idealism based on purely materialistic values are doomed by t ...

... action and speech, thoughts, and even by his physical appearance. Walter Dean Myers uses many examples of characterization for the purpose of developing the character in relation to the other elements of the story. Myers uses indirect characterization in order to paint a mental picture of Richie Perry. Action and speech can reveal a lot about a person’s character. We see this in the novel when Perry is going on his first patrol, for the first ten minutes he had to wipe his right hand on his fatigues at least a dozen times. He kept imagining VC popping up and him not being ready to fire. By him wiping his ha ...

... in the summer that "Dill" came to us, it was his idea to try to get Boo Radley to come out of his house. I was being wise and said, "If you want to take a broader look at things, it really began when General Jackson ran the Creeks up the creek, if he hadn't, Simon Finch would have never paddled up to Alabama, and where would we be if he hadn't?" We thought that we were too old to get into a fight over it so we asked Atticus. He said that we were both right. There were many rumors about Boo Radley, many of which, were heard by Jem and me. He was thought to have stabbed his father in the leg with scissors an ...