Peeta’s number one priority throughout the Games was to protect Katniss, and he has gone to some extreme lengths to accomplish this. The riskiest and most offensive of which was becoming allies with the Careers in order to set them off her trail. Though this was a bold move on his behalf, it allowed him to gain an understanding about who they were, but made Katniss feel as if Peeta betrayed her. Peeta first reveals his strategy when he screams “‘Are you mad?’…’Run!’” at Katniss (Collins 193). Here, he was willing to face Cato’s wrath himself rather than let him attack Katniss. Peeta was using his position as a member of the Careers’ alliance to prove to them that they are not the most cunning in the Games. This was a pivotal turning point …show more content…
His consistent personality has been described, and seen, as someone who is very emotional, not offensive or aggressive, but still willing to help anyone in a difficult situation. If Peeta was only analyzed by this one scene rather than observed throughout the story, he could be easily be made out as a traitor and very aggressive. He betrayed Cato and the other Careers when he helped Katniss which could demonstrate his instability in maintaining a loyal alliance. Additionally, he not only made sure Katniss escaped, but also attacked Cato so there was no chance of him getting her. This is where he definitively displayed an offensive side for the first time in the book. Katniss also viewed him as a traitor at the beginning of this scene. Due to the fact that he had a spear in his hand as a weapon, Katniss “wait[ed] for the blow” which was never received (Collins 193). Just the fact that she would expect Peeta, a boy that claims to be madly in love with her, to kill her in that situation shows how little faith she put in his actual loyalty. However, Peeta blatantly proved her wrong when he risked his life to save hers. In maintaining this last part of his personality, Peeta displays that he is still adhering to the person he was before he underwent the hardships of the Hunger
The Only Game, by Mike Lupica, is about a 6th grade boy named Jack that is very good at baseball. When the book starts out Jack and his old team mates are very excited that baseball season is just about to start up again. They all are out on the field explaining how it looks and smells so great. Then the day arrives that they had all been waiting for, tryouts. Jack explains how it is great to be back at it with his best friend Gus. After tryouts they found out who all made the team and it was basically the same team that they had last year. This year was supposed to be the year that they win the Little League World Series. They had all the offence and defense they needed to go all the way. Last year’s team made it to the World series
This produced the mockingjay, and as Katniss states, they were ‘something of a slap in the face to the Capitol’ (The Hunger Games, pg. 43 ) All of the mockingjays’ appearances in the story have had great meaning or importance. They were first mentioned as a reminder of Katniss’s father; the days they would go hunting and he would sing to the mocking jays. This is an important part of Katniss’s past and has shaped who she is now.
The opening lines of the chosen passage, "Tom was evidently..." immediately states Tom Buchanan's key characteristics- dominance and oppressiveness, "His presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness." People are intimidated by his hulking power. Tom oversees the crowd as he is standing raised on the steps, which creates a vivid image similar to that of a powerful dictator on a platform surveying his country, people, soldiers, worshippers, slaves. He later leaves his wife at dinner to accompany a funny gentleman, but, as Daisy knows he is really accompanying a "common but pretty" girl. Here we can witness Tom's sheer nerve, audacity and idea of self importance, as he blatantly leaves his wife to join another woman. The book makes reference to "Tom's arrogant eyes" on several occasions throughout the book (p.12, p.101). As is commonly believed and suggested throughout the book the eyes are the door to the soul, so the book is clearly implying that Tom is an arrogant and oppressing person, even when stripped down to his bare, selfish soul.
One reason Tom is unadmirable is because of the way he treats his wife Daisy. He is unfaithful and he is also hypocritical. As Tom cheats on Daisy with Myrtle, Daisy has an affair with Jay Gatsby. When this affair is revealed to Tom, he becomes outraged despite that fact that he
There was a sense of sadness in Tom’s eyes as he had said those words. Although Myrtle was killed, Tom was still very concerned about Daisy and Gatsby’s affair.
Jay Gatsby was determined to be with Daisy Buchanan again. It was apparent that he was madly in love with her. Throwing extravagant parties and hoping to find her in attendance was just one of the ways Gatsby tried to lure his love back into his arms. Gatsby would do just about anything to get what he wanted, his own friend described him as “quick and extravagantly ambitious” (Fitzgerald 101). Though Daisy never show...
Also Katniss, Peeta, and Gale. Katniss and Gale seem to really like and care for each other in the beginning. However, as Katniss gets to know Peeta and she truly finds out he had already liked her, from their past, she starts to like him as well. Toward the end when Katniss and Peeta are in the cave, Gale sees them in the game as Katniss starts getting feelings towards Peeta because it didn’t work out between Katniss and Gale. In the same way as when Romeo cries over Rosaline, thinking Rosaline liked him but Romeo ends up getting heartbroken.
Gatsby is not formally introduced until chapter three, and due to his initial description, readers hold him in much higher regard than other characters in the novel. Nick introduces Gatsby in an extremely intriguing and flattering manner, saying, “He smiled understandingly – much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you seemed to come across four or five times in life” (Fitzgerald 48). Gatsby’s introduction is completely opposite of Tom Buchanan’s, in which Nick uses words like “physical” and “powerful” to illustrate Tom as a stereotypical dumb jock and bully (6). Yet, despite the biases created within readers by Nick from the beginning of the novel, Gatsby does not purposefully harm anyone, as far as the reader knows, which leads me to believe that he is a ‘good man’.
Apparently being wealthy is not all Gatsby wants, but also wants love from Daisy. He loves her so much he wants her to break Tom’s heart and come with him. This man is clever and cold hearted like Lord Voldemort and Sauron. Jordan glanced at Nick and told him in a calm tone, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Fitzgerald 78). Gatsby’s way of being in love with Daisy is to be a creepy stalker, never giving her space and always spying on her.
... but there are some who love it like a girl on fire. They are the hope of Panem and the hope of our world as well. They are the ones who stand firm with Peeta, saying, “I don’t want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I’m not.” They are the ones who share Katniss’s recognition that no one benefits from living in a world where evil rules. In some ways, her story is like that of the philosopher Socrates (469–399 BCE), who embodied a view of wisdom and virtue that defied the powerful overseers of cultural capital in his city of Athens. To his followers, he was a wise teacher; to the Athenian leadership, he was a heretic. Because those with economic, social, and cultural capital in Athens had the power to define what was socially acceptable, they charged Socrates with corrupting the youth and imposed a death sentence on the face of death.
His desire for Daisy made Gatsby willing to do whatever was necessary to earn the money that would in turn lead to Daisy’s love, even if it meant participating in actions that were not completely legal.... ... middle of paper ... ... When reflecting on his memories of the man he knew as Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway recalls the unique individual’s finest quality: “It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again” (Fitzgerald 2). Although Gatsby occasionally stepped off the straight and narrow, he never lost sight of his ultimate goal: Daisy’s love.
Waking up to be told to either survive or die is a hard pill to swallow. In the movie, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, she captured how post-apocalyptic life was in the nation of Panem. Not only in catching fire but throughout the entire series, Collins uses an image of a Mockingjay. Is the Mocking Jay a sign of rebellion or does the significance of the image run deeper? Upon, research you find that Collins idea of the Hunger games evolved from the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Collins describes the Hunger Games an “an updated version of the Roman gladiator games, which entails a ruthless government forcing people to fight to the death as popular entertainment”.
Everything Peeta did was for Katniss. According to Kendra Cherry, “people who rush in to help others in the face of danger and adversity do so because they genuinely care about the safety and well-being of other people” (2). Peeta could always see the bigger picture. Peeta knew that Katniss could make a different and could bring the Capitol down. He was willing to do anything it took for Katniss, including die for her. He never compromised who he was in the games. Heroes are people who act with dignity under pressure.
The act of betrayal is first seen when Tom Buchanan cheats on his wife, Daisy Buchanan with Myrtle, who also happens to be George Wilson’s wife. Tom’s actions are inexcusable as betrayal in a marriage is an extremely depraved course of action. Due to this betrayal, Daisy loses hope in their society. After realizing that the world is a very dangerous and bad place, she hopes that her daughter won’t see the world like her mother does. She desires her daughter to be naive and foolish so she can’t see the cruelty that lies within this society.
Eccentricity provides for an interesting story, it adds to the excitement of the lives of those who are eccentric, and adds to the excitement of those who live around them. The Crying of Lot 49, can be classified as a novel that’s oddities in plot makes for a more interesting story. Although sometimes difficult for a reader to completely understand how and why the characters do what they do, the Crying of Lot 49, exemplifies the ideas of a postmodern piece of literature, and critiques the traditional values and ideas of life. Using the model outlined by Deleuze and Guattari, The Crying of Lot 49 is a paradigmatic example of postmodern literature because throughout the novel, the themes of dismantling hierarchy, magnifying principles of difference, and the process of transforming and becoming are present.