Contreas/ Ms. Karten English 10, Period 1 November 2nd, 2015 It’s okay to be YOUnique In The Twilight Zone episode “The Eye of the Beholder”, and the short stories, “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan and “Initiation” by Sylvia Plath, the protagonist desire to fit in leads them to sacrifice part of themselves. The female protagonist, Janet Tyler, in “Eye of the Beholder” is willing to undergo numerous surgeries in order to look like everyone else since she doesn’t look “normal”. The nurses and doctors
Ernest Hemingway’s protagonist in The Old Man and The Sea is is said to be a spiritually fulfilled man who knows his true existence. In William Handy’s quote about The Old Man and The Sea, Handy points out that Santiago is a spiritually fulfilled man, but while reading the book the reader is shown that Handy’s statement is not entirely true. Handy also points out that the old man has achieved true existence during his life. Readers will find out that Santiago has achieved what Handy calls true
The Free Fish and the Hooked Fish In the very first few pages, a quote by psychologist Karl Menninger describing the behavior of a hooked fish and a free fish is put in place for the reader to read. In the novel, The Chosen by Chaim Potok, the two protagonists Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders are their respective fishes. After Menninger's quote, the reader can interpret this quote to assume that Reuven is the free fish, growing up to follow his dreams and pursue the education he wants. On the other
far more impressive is the path the sea presents to many as an escape from the tedium of terrestrial life. The mystery of the sea presents a path for man to escape the monotony of human life. Potentially deadly trials and tribulations await any man who might live to tell his tale from dangerous encounters with the briny depths; there is no promise that he will simply escape unscathed. The mystery of the sea thus provides man a chance to flee his personal, never-ending human mystery. In The Old Man
pondering on the after-world, Poe’s attraction to the ominous and mysterious side of un-being, all show different aspects of this multi-faceted subject. In Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying”, death itself can be considered to be the protagonist, and even in the mind of a child, Vardaman, who cannot fully understand it yet, it remains an obsessive and haunting thought. The youngest of the Bundren children, Vardaman is at the age when the world abounds in new experiences and things to discover. He is an “observant
In the first compartment that appears in the film, which is the trail section, people do not hesitate to take any action in order to survive. Curtis, the protagonist from the tail section mentioned that “You ever been to the tail section? Do you have any idea what went on back there? When we boarded? It was chaos…You know what I hate about myself? I know what people taste like.” This dialogue shows that inhabitants
is a comedy film that conveys examples of Psychological disorders in a humorous approach; through the protagonist, Bob Wiley. The movie uses comedy to project an understanding of what a person having many disorders and phobic behavior may act like in the real world and affect those around them. The protagonist, Bob Wiley inhibits maladaptive behavior therefore, Bob lives alone with his pet gold fish, Gil and works from home due to problems and difficulties he has when going outside of his apartment
After returning home from his final year of college, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), the lead character and protagonist of Mark Nichols’ 1967 film, The Graduate, engages in an extramarital affair with Anne Bancroft’s, considerably older character, Mrs. Robinson. Surrounded by a material culture which is reinforced by the adults in his life, his parents especially, Benjamin seeks a life that does not compensate for happiness through physical possessions, rather, a life in which he is truly happy
As Jim Hightower once put it, “the opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” In Gabriel García Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, as the novella’s protagonist, Santiago Nasar, falls victim to an honor killing, the inhabitants of his community fall victim to the bystander effect. The unfortunate turn of events was sparked by rumors alleging him guilty of raping a local girl. Throughout the novella, Gabriel García Márquez suggests issues of
Spanish vessel Tryal in 1805. In his novel, Melville depicts Delano as the protagonist and follows his ships encounter with a Spanish vessel where the slaves have overthrown the Spanish sailors. The protagonist Captain Amasa Delano closely embodies the ideals that not only John Winthrop illustrates in his 1630 sermon, “A Model of Christian Charity,” but Benjamin Franklin describes in his 1784 essay, “Information to Those Who Would Remove to America.” He hails from the city of Duxbury in Massachusetts