Sounds of giant stampede was heading straight for the plantation. Leiningen knew the dangers of the army ant's that were coming, but he wasn't afraid, he wanted to fight back! He spent 3 long years building that plantation and wasn't going to let some little ants destroy it. In "Leiningen Versus the Ants" By Carl Stephenson, Leiningen the protagonist in the story is quite a complex individual: He is brave, intelligent, resourceful and determined; together these qualities enable him to be portrayed as a hero.
Leiningen makes several hard decisions in this short story. Every decision he makes is a reflection on his character. His workers on the plantation trust his decisions. Leiningen was faced with a choice to leave or stay on his plantation
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He told the workers if they wanted to leave, they could leave and go back to their lives they had before he came along. The workers all trusted Leiningen and had confidence that they would be safe. The workers believed that Leiningen was brave and that his plantation was well prepared for the millions of ants that were coming. Lieningen told them to send there family's across the river, not for their safety but so that the workers will not be distracted by their family's when they were at war with these …show more content…
Although he put the worker's lives' in danger, he also saved them as well. He made the choice to stay and fight and he won. He was brave in doing so risking his own life to go flood the plantation and drowned the ants once and for all Leiningen never gave up and fought to the end. Leiningen; was a hero to all the workers, they believed in him and now they were all safe. After Leiningen flooded the plantation the workers had to go get him, he was torn up from the ants. After the workers nursed him up and laid him in the bed, Leiningen awoke and asked about the ants "They're gone,'' said his nurse. "To hell." He held out to his master a gourd full of a powerful sleeping draught. Leiningen gulped it down. "I told you I'd come back," he murmured, "even if I am a bit streamlined." He grinned and shut his eyes. He slept. After everything that happened Leiningen never lost hope. He had his mind on surviving and he did just that and saved the lives of most his workers. For that I believe whole heartedly that Leiningen is a brave
Authors often put the main character protagonist in a situation so that the reader feels sympathy towards them. Two boys live in different places, but both have one thing in common, they are outsiders. The first boy isn’t even a boy anymore, he has grown in size, and yet his mind remains innocent and unknowing. The other boy, his legs weak and frail, with a head too big for his own body, stares at his reflection and knows he will never be able to do the things other boys do, and his mind, unlike the other, is very knowledgeable and understands the world. The man looks into his reflection unknowingly, smiling stupidly. Lennie, the man, is from Of Mice and Men and is the character author John Steinbeck has chosen as the sympathetic character.
The inspiring documentary film, E.O. Wilson—Of Ants and Men, showcases biologist Edward Osborne Wilson’s passion for preserving the biodiversity of our natural world. E.O. Wilson not only values the fascinating creatures (particularly ants) that he comes across during his research and in his daily life, but he also takes action and participates in the Gorongosa Restoration Project at Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa. The destruction of Gorongosa demonstrates the call for us—Homo sapiens—to realize how critical it is to concern ourselves with protecting the very ecosystems that have molded us into the complex species that we are; according to E.O. Wilson, “We adapted over millions of years to wild environments…We really need them” (CITE?). The better effort we make to understand that we are a part of this large, interdependent ecological community, the better equipped we become in not only being
He is hardworking, as seen in the fact that “all day he had been walking” (194) in order to gather the “necessities” (194). He is also uncompromising, as seen in the fact that his decree to his child to stop interacting with the son of the shiftless neighbour to be “unalterable” (193). Finally, he can also be seen as sympathetic. Despite the fact that he despises the behaviour of his neighbor and the neighbor’s child, and that he was “foot-sore as well as hungry” (195), he decides to save the crying child, whom he thought was the neighbor’s. By reaching an epiphany, to listen to his conscience and save the child. The settler is also described as prosperous, owning a “substantial frame-house” ().
The white man or anyone else did not control him. Livvie viewed this control as strict, but it was obsession. Unfortunately, all this control had a very negative impact on Livvie. She lived in a sheltered world--a world she did not see. She saw what she could get out to see--almost what she could steal--even in her mind. "But what if she would walk now into the heart of the fields and take a hoe and work until she fell stretched out and drenched with her efforts, like other girls, and laid her cheek against the laid-open earth and shamed the old man with her humbleness and delight?
...e story. He shows that slaves are smart and rational people too. Chesnutt pokes fun at the long-held attitudes of slaveholders and plantation life. He uses Grandison as over-the-top sarcasm how slave masters treat their slaves. Finally, Chesnutt comments on social issues in a comical way – making the topics easier to handle, yet still pertinent.
... harsh and tragic. Similarly, Hodgins symbolizes a life full of hardships in Portuguese Creek with the death of Elizabeth, for she had been the only good thing that had come out of the war. The positives of the families and communities working together were ultimately overshadowed by the negativity of these same families and communities falling apart; only further showing readers that new beginnings are not a chance for a better life, but center stage for one that is worse.
But suddenly, something awful happened. Mr. Leeroy suddenly got a heart attack and died. Elijah was stunned. But, listening to Mr. Leeroy’s last words, he did not give up. He kept looking for the preacher. A man told him the Preacher was heading towards a little farm somewhere. Elijah followed his directions, and met his destination. He knocked out a big dog in the way, and entered in. He was really scared because he saw several figures in the dark, but when he finally got used to the dark, he realized he was looking at several slaves, the dead body of the Preacher, and a sleeping slaver. By what he was looking at, it seemed like Elijah had found out that the Preacher was murdered by some people and the money was all stolen. It was no use trying to get the money back now. But, there was something else to worry about now. Elijah found out that there were slaves in the place. Elijah and one of the slaves named Cloe started to talk to each other. She asked Elijah about how far away was Canada. Elijah told her it was about a few miles North. She also seemed surprised about Elijah’s literacy. Elijah felt a lot of sympathy for her and the slaves. Then, thoughts he never thought of came to his mind. He wanted to shoot the Slavers and try to help set them free. He realized the true meanings of Slavery. He found out that slavery was wrong and wasn’t what he thought it was like. But Cloe
One of the themes in the book Lyddie by Katherine Paterson is slavery. As the novel starts, Lyddie has been forced to work in Cutler’s Tavern because of her family’s debt. While there, she listens to a conversation about the rewards issued to those who return runaway slaves. As one of the men states, “ ‘You pay for something, it’s yours. If the law says a man can own slaves, he’s got a right to go after them if they bolt.’ ” (32) This quote clearly shows the stark issue of slavery. Lyddie is forced to choose between doing the right thing, or receiving the $100 reward. Is a person’s life worth $100? Or is her family’s debt more important? Lyddie must choose what is more important to her, a person’s life, or $100. Another example of slavery is when Lyddie, Betsy, and Amelia discuss factory rights.
Over all, Celia delivers a convincing portrayal of slavery—even as it existed outside the Deep South—as a brutal institution. And it offers vivid possibilities for showing how the legal and moral assumptions that upheld slavery got tested from the bottom up. Making Freedom showed how slaves went through a lot to try and gain freedom. And it showed that Venture worked hard to get his freedom and his family’s freedom. Moral dilemmas are shown in both books and the slaves that go through these dilemmas show great strength and courage to continue their lives.
The narrator’s father is being freed from slavery after the civil war, leads a quiet life. On his deathbed, the narrator’s grandfather is bitter and feels as a traitor to the blacks’ common goal. He advises the narrator’s father to undermine the white people and “agree’em to death and destruction (Ellison 21)” The old man deemed meekness to be treachery. The narrator’s father brings into the book element of emotional and moral ambiguity. Despite the old man’s warnings, the narrator believes that genuine obedience can win him respect and praise.
The narrator is haunted by his grandfather's dying words. Speaking to the narrator's father, the narrator's grandfather expresses his guilt and shame he is burdened with for being “ a traitor” to his race. The narrator's grandfather urges his family to kill the white man with kindness and obedience. After his grandfather's death, the narrator is invited to give his graduation speech to the city's upper-class white men. His speech is contradictory to his grandfather's last words by urging the black race to advance forward in society by humility and submission to white society.
In the middle of the night, four white men storm into a cabin in the woods while four others wait outside. The cabin belongs to Alice and her mom. The four men pull out Alice’s father along with her mom, both are naked. Alice manages to scramble away. The men question Alice’s father about a pass, which allows him to visit his wife. Her father tries to explain the men about the loss of the pass but the men do not pay any attention to him. Instead they tie him to a tree and one of the white man starts to whip him for visiting his wife without the permission of Tom Weylin, the “owner” of Alice’s father. Tom Weylin forbid him to see his wife, he ordered him to choose a new wife at the plantation, so he could own their children. Since Alice’s mother is a free woman, her babies would be free as well and would be save from slavery. But her freedom “status” does not stop one of the patroller to punch her in the face and cause her to collapse to the ground.
Since Northup wrote this book himself, it was able to provide readers with the truth and the experiences of living as a slave in the South. The good experiences written about by Northup seemed to be few and far between in the story, but the moments were big. In the beginning of the story, he talked about being with his family and the experience of being a free black man in the North. Once his freedom and family were taken from him, the next good experience he spoke of was when he met friends, either on the boat rides or on the plantations. These friends, although he was once free and most of them were not, had many things in common with Northup, and they all had similar views on slavery. A third positive experience that Solomon wrote about was when the officials came to Ebbs’ plantation to take him back North to freedom, which Ebbs could not believe. Although Ebbs wasn’t happy about it, Solomon was excited to go back to the North and his family. Being reunited with his family after ...
However, through a more careful and close observation of this segment, this revolt goes beyond the simple cultural divide and exposes the deeper, underlying theme of the entire novel as a whole: tyranny. Through this act, the slaves set forth a brutal cycle of tyranny and oppression, which, upon first glance, appears to be likely to lead to their liberation. And, although they do eventually receive ‘freedom’ from their imperial masters, the black inhabitants of the island are continually held down by whomever is in power at the time. In terms of this segment and chapter, the slaves see an opportunity to seize the freedom they so desperately desire and believe they deserve. However, when they do achieve this sense of freedom, which can be represented by their successful raid of the plantation house, they immediately engage in the vices of the white men by drinking the liquor in the basement and acting in an uncivil manner.
Ants, Little but Mighty. What is an ant? Ants are insects, they have six legs and each leg has three joints. Ants legs are very strong.