Passion is a strong feeling in which one feels towards an object or another person. This strong feeling can make a person do a matter of crazy things, even if it goes against his or her beliefs. In the novella Poachers by Tom Franklin, passion is conveyed in every aspect of the short story “Poachers”. In this story, there is not much to live for in the broken down town of Lower Peach Tree, but the characters manage to find one feeling that they all have in common. Delicately, Franklin brings a sense of passion through every character in ways that are both clear and hidden. From the beginning, Kirxy has always had a soft spot for the three Gates’ boys. His passion in caring for the boys is obvious through his actions. After the boys’ father …show more content…
The famous game warden was first mentioned after the death of the rookie warden, “Old Frank David himself, aint nothing ticks him off more than this kind of thing” (Franklin 141). This statement shows that he cares for the other game wardens and this makes him decide to take over as the Lower Peach Tree warden. His first act of passionate killing was Boo Gates. Although Franklin made the reader think upon first glance that it was merely suicide, further inspection shows this untrue. Right before he “shot himself”, Boo had just chopped a fresh stack of wood, got in his truck, and was found dead later on. Kirxy had thought about the death of Boo as he tried to summon Frank David, “half the back windshield had been sprayed with red blood… the rim of Boo’s hat still on his head, the top blown out.” (Franklin 170). There is a reason for thinking about Boo’s death while poaching deer, Kirxy believes that Frank is liable for the suicide of the Gates’ father. Although the narrator made the reader believe it was suicide due to loss of Boo's wife and child, further inspection shows that the "suicide" was indeed a murder. Frank David himself was at the trigger of the gun, due to his passion of preserving animals from
The authors John Steinbeck and Robert Burns approach their ideas in very different ways, while having the same themes the reader comprehends key concepts in a different light. Throughout the short story “Of Mice and Men” and the poem “To a Mouse” the theme of hope is a key concept, even though while in both stories their hope did not bring them their happiness, friendship brought them together. Correspondingly while having similar themes of friendship, loneliness, and hope, this all takes place in different settings with different characters.
In the short story “The Hunter” the author Richard Stark introduces Parker, the main character of this book. The main character is a rough man, he’s a criminal, a murderer, and even an escaped convict. He’s described as crude and rugged and though women are frightened by him, they want him. Parker is not the classic criminal, but rather he’s intelligent, hard, and cunning. In this story the author carefully appeals to his audience by making a loathsome criminal into a hero, or rather, an anti-hero. The author, Richard Stark uses ethical appeal to make his audience like Parker through the use of phronesis, arête, altruism and lastly the ethos of his audience.
McCarthy uses literal and figurative language to describe the thief which creates a sympathetic image of him and positions the reader to pity him. The use of visual imagery in phrases such as "nude and slatlike creature" adds to the thief’s already pitiful image. By comparing the thief to a "creature", McCarthy stirs within the reader the natural compassion and desire to protect animals that humans have. The word “nude” also suggests a v...
Lust makes people do crazy things. John Updike’s short story “A&P” provides a perfect example of how lust made a boy quit his job. In this short story, a boy, named Sammy, catches a glimpse of three under-dressed, attractive girls as they enter his workplace. The manager asks the three girls to leave. As a result, Sammy is outraged by the mistreatment of the girls and quits his job in protest. Sammy’s stand against the mistreatment of the girls makes him feel like a hero. Updike’s use of descriptive words and dramatic irony in “A&P” leads the reader to believe that Sammy’s heroic acts were not actions with rebellious intentions, but actions due to his lust for the three under-dressed girls.
“In a simple allegory, characters and other elements often stand for other definite meanings, which are often abstractions” (Kennedy 234). Since everyone in the town is involved in the stoning, they do not view their sacrifice as murder, but as something needed to be done. “‘All right, folks,’ Mr. Summers said, ‘Let’s finish this quickly.’” (Jackson 259). The young boys in the town are excited about the lottery, but the girls stand off to the side because it is in a boy’s nature to be brutal, yet the women of the town seem just as excited as the boys, and the men calm down as the girls. “The boys’ eager and childish cruelty will turn into the sober reluctance of their fathers, whereas the childish apartness of the girls will become the grown women’s blood lust” (Whittier 357). Most people associate winning a lottery as coming into a large sum of money; but on the contrary, the winner of this lottery must pay with their ultimate sacrifice. “Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon” (257). Jackson’s use of allegories is sublime, drawing her readers to the central
Candy, an aging swamper and former ranch worker, is a character that experiences the heartbreak of becoming lonely. Many can attest to having an extremely good friend that they lose whether it be because of work, personal reasons, and in Candy’s case death. When occurrences like Candy’s incident transpire one can feel as if the world is crumbling all around them. A gaping hole is left in Candy’s heart after his dog was shot, and regret is present because he did not do it himself. Candy loses the only friend he has, and his disability and age hinders his chances of gaining new friends. Loneliness can envelope an individual and make their logic warped and more susceptible to the idea of utopia and serenity. This can be seen in people today especially in teenagers who are willing to please others in exchange for friendship and similar concepts which mostly ends in bullying and broken hearts. In this circumstance Candy is willing to believe i...
Passion is the key to every person's actions: passion for a career fuels people through school, passion for another human leads to the next generation, passion for life is what makes each of us get up every morning. However, an extraordinary amount of passion can lead people to rash decisions and actions, which is exactly what happens in Peter Shaffer's play, Equus. Passion of this amount, when expressed, is usually known as insanity, or madness.
Love and hate are powerful and contradicting emotions. Love and hate are also the subjects under examination for several centuries yet even to the present day; it remains to be a mystery. For the past centuries, writers and poets have written about love showing that the stories of love can never fade way. For this essay, I will discuss three English literature sources that talk about the theme of love and hate. These are the poem Olds "Sex without Love”, the poem Kennel "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps and the story by Hemingway "Hills like White Elephants. I will use the poems to compare the traditional stance of sex that are within the parameters of marriage and love versus the belief that love is in itself an act of pleasure
Early in Horney's essay, she defines passion and discusses why it is rare. People do not feel safe putting all of their faith and trust in only one other person. Horney explains that self-preservation is part of human instinct, and people have a fear of losing themselves in their loved one.
The power of love is often portrayed as a tool to develop characters and their bonds with others. In Johns Steinbeck’s novella of Mice and Men and John Lee Hancock’s The Blind Side are no exception to this and uses the power of love and all its varieties to strengthen the bonds between their characters. Both authors use the power of friendship, the power of romance and the power of family to strengthen the relationships between characters but also to develop their characters as well.
“Into The Wild” by John Krakauer is a non-fiction biographical novel which is based on the life of a young man, Christopher McCandless. Many readers view Christopher’s journey as an escape from his family and his old life. The setting of a book often has a significant impact on the story itself. The various settings in the book contribute to the main characters’ actions and to the theme as a whole. This can be proven by examining the impact the setting has on the theme of young manhood, the theme of survival and the theme of independent happiness.
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There are many different emotions that make people do many different things, yet love seems to be the strongest emotion of all. Love is the reason people fight for there country, or why a mother lion protects her young. In the short story “the Rocking-Horse” by D.H. Lawrence we see a little boy use his undeniable gift to help his materialistic mother with money issue. Yet in the book “The Stranger” by Albert Camus we see a man who seems to be lacking love or really any emotion at all to turn into a uncontrollable man with many different ideas about life. These two stories show how a innocent boy who only wants the best for his mother and a sociopath that doesn’t feel the repercussions of his actions spiral into a downward disaster.
In Literature and Life, Love is a powerful force. Sans love; feelings, desires and relationships may seem empty. This force however, can also be destructive, even may end a marriage. Marital discord, arising in general, due to infatuation, lust or affection for a third person, may crop up primarily facilitated by adverse familial, economic or societal conditions that do frequently find their mention in the written word. Some of these concerns like family, marriage, sexuality, society and death, are notably illustrated by the authors, Gustave Flaubert in Madame Bovary and Laura Esquivel in Like Water for Chocolate.
Anderson makes effective use of fantasy to teach a moral lesson. He builds up the story in such a way that the reader does not care for the validity of the incidents. The moral lesson is that the proud and the disobedient must suffer.