“[Suddenly there was a tremendous explosion, Doc and Roberts clutch at the desk] ‘Roberts: Oh, my God! Doc: He wasn’t kidding’”!(400) They turn around to find Ensign Frank Pulver wearing a tattered uniform and a blackened face. This just one of Frank Pulver’s many childish and naive stunts in the play Mister Roberts by Joshua Logan. Throughout the play, Frank Pulver is indirectly characterized as being immature and foolish through his actions, humor, and dialogue. Frank Pulver’s actions throughout the play Mister Roberts leads the audience to believe that he is immature. One example that shows this is when he sets off an explosion in the laundry room. Pulver is planning on putting “a firecracker under the Old Man’s bunk”(400) but during …show more content…
the testing, he blew up the entire room. This foolish prank that does not go as planned can be seen as a sign of his childishness because it shows that he is unable to control his disdain for the Captain. One other example is when Pulver refuses to salute the Captain but finds out that the Captain does not even know who Pulver is. Pulver reacts with,”That son of a bitch! Pretending he does not know me!”(372) This shows that Pulver is unable to make up his mind about what he wants which is a sign of immaturity. Through Pulver’s actions, he begins to be indirectly characterized as being immature. Joshua Logan also characterizes Pulver through immature humor such as Pulver’s “sexual feats”(354).
One example of this is inappropriate humor is when Doc and Roberts discuss the stories of Pulver such as when he “ conquered a forty-five-year-old virgin by the simple tactic of being the first man in her life to ask her a direct question”(345) and when he “rendered pregnant three girls in Washington D.C., caught the eleven forty-five train, and an hour later performed the same service for a young lady in Baltimore”(345). These two stories shared over drinks are humorous, but also make Pulver seem like a sleazy and immature person. One other example of the humor is when Frank Pulver create a story that he is the Executive Officer, but finds out that he should stay true to himself. For example, when Roberts says he “stays true to alcohol and orange juice”(375) to joke with Pulver, they find out that “a lot of the girls at the hospital swear by orange juice and alcohol”(376). This is a humorous moment, but it shows that Pulver is not mature enough to stay true to himself and feels as though he needs to lie about who he is. Through humorous moments throughout the play, Logan is able to make people laugh, but also see Frank Pulver as extremely
immature. The final way Joshua Logan is able to indirectly characterize Pulver is through dialogue. One example of the use of dialogue to indirectly characterize Pulver was when when Roberts says,"I also think you are the most hapless... lazy... disorganized... and, in general, the most lecherous person I have ever known in my life”(361). This statement shows that Pulver is lazy and does not do his work, which is a sign of immaturity. Another example is when Pulver explains what he is going to do: “I’m going to get me some of that black powder from the gunner’s mate. No, by God, this isn’t going to be any peanut firecracker-- I’m going to pack this old thing full of that stuff they use to blow up bridges”(366). Through this description of the mischievous plan to scare the captain, Pulver can be seen as being even more naive and childish. By using dialogue throughout the play, Joshua Logan is able to continue characterizing Pulver as being immature. Throughout the play Mister Roberts, Logan is able to indirectly characterize Ensign Frank Pulver as an immature and childish person. He does this through Pulver’s actions, humor, and dialogue, depicting the nature of his character to the audience. Indeed, Pulver changes for the better in the end, progressively maturing and cultivating his being. Yet, he continues to display traces of his old, immature self and it is arguable whether he truly evolves as an individual.
A friend has asked the narrator to find Simon Wheeler and to ask him about the Reverend Leonidas W. Smiley.Simon Wheeler doesn’t remember a Reverend Smiley,but he does start to tell a tale about Jim Smiley,a man who loved to make bets.We learn from the start that Smiley loves to gamble,but more importantly perhaps,he likes to bet an animals.”I found simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room store of old dilapidated tavern in the ancient mining camp of Angels.”Here explains how Simon is,his behavior this part shows he's a lazy an old school sleeping in a ancient camp that looks like from Angels.”Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blocked me there with his chair and then sat me down and rolled off the monotonous narrative which
Anne Frank: The Biography, by Melissa Muller, proves that Goodrich and Hackett are not justified in using dramatic license in The Diary of Anne Frank because they changed the character roles, removed the emotions of the SS officer, and removed the characters from the play from real life.
To the 20, to the 10, to the 5, touchdown! Charlie Gaines is a football phanatic. He knows all there is to know about football. From his favorite team the Los Angeles Bulldogs to the New England Patriots Charlie knows it all. Above all this Charlie truly wishes he were a better football player like his bosom buddy Kevin Fallon. All in all he is still a decent middle linebacker for the Culver City Cardinals. A kid known as the “Brain” because of his freakishly good ability at fantasy football, Charlie Gaines is a very interesting character.
Hazel Bergeron in “Harrison Bergeron” is perhaps not the most obviously important character, when compared to the intellectual abilities of George Bergeron, she does not stand out. When comparing her to the great force that is Harrison, or the great beauty of the ballerina, again, she does not stand out. However, Hazel stands for much more than any of the other preceding characters, even Harrison himself. In the story of “Harrison Bergeron” Kurt Vonnegut establishes Hazel Bergeron as the light, sympathy, and, in some ways, foundation of the story; illustrating the kindness of humanity in the worst of times.
In the short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, the government takes fourteen year old Harrison Bergeron away from his parent George and Hazel. This all occurs during the year of 2081, and amendments 211, 212, and 213 are in play during this time period. Hazel is only allowed to have average intelligence, and her husband George wears a helmet on his head, which limits his thinking. Hazel and George are watching the television as two ballerinas dance, but they are wearing radios, which restrict them and make them dance the same. Hazel said if she was a handicap general she would make chimes ring on Sunday to make it religious. Hazel tells George to take a nap because he look tired from wearing the handicap bag that weighs in at forty pounds. She suggests he takes some weight out but for every weight he takes out he goes to jail for that many years. Also everyone would go back to his or her competitive ways in the community, and he doesn’t want that.
1.)a. Rudy asks the kids he was playing with, if he didn’t have to play all time center. He wanted to try out different football positions in order to see what he is good at. Since he never got to play any other position, he had no chance to improve. Rudy loved playing football and had dreams he wanted to achieve.
In this essay we will see the kindness of Rob Hall and Scott Fischer man and their greatness and leadership and how they tried to save the other from danger and you will see what danger they all faces.
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Royall Tyler’s The Contrast presents many conflicts, and each character’s story demonstrates an American crisis of cultural identity. The Contrast focuses on this internal conflict that befell the United States following the Revolution, and Tyler particularly emphasizes the importance for Americans to depart from the past with the intent of “starting over.” He challenges the ideals of the old world in favor of the ideals of the new. The Contrast is not merely patriotic, but also a subtle critique of the social duplicity of the old European culture and the new, emerging culture of the United States.
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