Most books try to leave you with something good right? Everyone dies, but in this book it is a little different. In the middle of discouragement there is a spark of hope. In the book The Spectacular Now by Tim Sharp the main character's name is Sutter. Sutter is a high school senior in Oklahoma City. Sutter is a very laid back guy and a alcoholic party animal. At the beginning, he has a girlfriend named Cassidy. Although he is a good guy, we do not blame her for leaving him. He later on meets this new girl named Aimee. He ends up falling for her in the process of helping her. Aimee starts getting Sutter to take risks and make commitments. Sutter reduces his drinking and agrees to move with her to St. Louis for college. She convinces him to visit his dad …show more content…
Sutter talks about his flasks a lot because it is always around him. Just how it is for us to pull out our cell phones and get on social media. When things start to get intense he pulls out his phone “Good thing I have the trusty flask” (36). In this book, we can see the flask in action when he starts dating Aimee. Aimee is the complete opposite of his ex Cassidy. Aimee is nerdy, super shy, and plain looking. She tries to get close to him and tries to go out her ways just to please Sutter. He tries to help her change and build confidence. Aimee notices how important his flask is to him so she starts doing it just so they can have something in common. Sutter knows he has an alcoholic problem. In fact, he tries to quit at one point. At the end of the book, Sutter has decided to embrace alcohol as his one and only relationship in life. Basically, the flask represents his only friend and his future. He rather spend the rest of his life holding a cold hard container filled with alcohol rather than a girl who loves him. After all, his flask will not ask him to change like others do. His flask will help him live in the
I always looked at death as such a sad thing that is eventually going to occur to everyone. However, after reading this book, it made me realize death can actually be a beautiful thing. Death allows a person to go to a next life, one where they will be loved and others will be there for them. It was interesting to be able to read about stories that these hospice care workers witnessed themselves. I have experienced a few deaths within my life and I never coped with them very well. After reading this book, I honestly believe I will be able to look at the positive side of death and be able to deal with my emotions better. I can also help others surrounding me deal with a death that they are experiencing. This book was filled with information that I loved learning. For example, I never knew that a dying person can choose a time to die. The thought of this never occurred to me before. I always thought that when it was someone’s time to go, they had no choice. But, a dying person can “put off” passing on until they see a certain person or event that has great significance in their life. Nevertheless, there are still people who will wait to die until they’re all alone in the room. This book makes you think of real life situations and think what you would do in them. Taken as a whole, it was a very in depth book that changes the way you would naturally perceive
Have you ever wondered how animals felt through the eyes of a human and the animal itself? Well the the two stories The Georges and the Jewels written by Jane Smiley, and Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse written by Anna Sewell. There authors both used first person point of view in the stories. In the story The Georges and the Jewels it's about, a little girl who believes that horses have more feelings than her father says they have. In the other story Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, dives into how the horse feels and what they think about things the owners do.
The past dictates who we are in a current moment, and affects who we might become in the future. Every decision people make in lives has an influence on future, regardless of how minimal or large it is. Some decisions people decide to make can have dire consequences that will follow them for the rest of the life. Moreover, even though if someone would want to leave any memories from past behind, however it will always be by his side. Specific memories will urge emotional responses that bring mind back to the past and person have no choose but to relieve those emotions and memories again. Nonetheless, certain events change people and make them who they are, but at the same time, some wrong choices made past haunts us. This essay will discuss the role of the past in novel Maestro, that was written by Australian author Peter Goldsworthy in 1989 and also in Tan Shaun's story Stick Figures which was included in book called "Tales from outer suburbia" and published in 2008.
I loved this book, it is so incredibly moving and you want to cry and
Hope enables people to move on by providing the thought that maybe tomorrow’s events will be better than today’s. Hope is a theme that remains constant in every part of A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. Ishmael begins the novel optimistic, believing he will find his family again. This optimism is later lost when Ishmael is recruited by the army to fight against the rebels, causing him to become addicted to drugs and the thrill of killing. Three years after his recruitment, Ishmael is rescued by UNICEF-a group dedicated to rehabilitating child soldiers. During his rehabilitation, Ishmael discovers hope once more by relearning how to trust, love, and have the will to survive. The presence of hope throughout A Long Way Gone enables Ishmael to have an ability to move on and a will to survive that he lacks when he loses hope.
If my life had no purpose, no individuality, and no happiness, I would not want to live. This book teaches the importance of self expression and independence. If we did not have these necessities, then life would be like those in this novel. Empty, redundant, and fearful. The quotes above show how different life can be without our basic freedoms. This novel was very interesting and it shows, no matter how dismal a situation is, there is always a way out if you never give up, even if you have to do it alone.
The ending of the novel was inspiring. The author suggests the reader to look into great novels, and even supplies a list of novels a personally suggests. He ended with a very ...
The theme of this novel is to look at the good you do in life and how it carries over after your death. The moral of the book is; "People can make changes in their lives whenever they really want to, even right up to the end."
With her longing for something more than what she gets on an everyday basis, her growing fondness of Lenny right up to her first drink and drug use, and the symbolism of the blue and green, it is evident that she will not be able to overcome her temptations and be drawn back into the world of drugs and alcohol, only more intense this time. She has already started doing drugs, drinking, and smoking again. She has seen the sober life for way too long and she isn't happy with it. Her cigarette smoking and drinking, although not illegal, will still conform do her downfall. "When the glass was finished she would pour another. When the bottle was empty, she would buy another"(107).
Throughout the novel, crucial family members and friends of the girl that died are meticulously reshaped by her absence. Lindsey, the sister, outgrows her timidity and develops a brave, fearless demeanor, while at the same time she glows with independence. Abigail, the mother, frees herself from the barbed wire that protected her loved ones yet caused her great pain, as well as learns that withdrawing oneself from their role in society may be the most favorable choice. Ruth, the remote friend from school, determines her career that will last a lifetime. and escapes from the dark place that she was drowning in before. Thus, next time one is overcome with grief, they must remember that constructive change is guaranteed to
The presence of death in the novel looms over the characters, making each of them reflect on the
Another way these characters avoid living their life is by drinking continuously, in a way to make the time pass by faster and forget. ?Haven?t you had enough? She loses count after 10 cocktails,? (pg.11) proving to the audience her own self denial, and how she wastes every day. Unfortunately, there are many, who in society today, do the same thing to get out of a situation they?re trying to hide or a difficult time they?re going through. This relates back to their affair which they?re obviously hiding and trying to get through this time in their life.
book I was greatly troubled by its ending. I can see why it is an excellent novel, but at
To conclude, I believe that this novel gives a warning to the reader. I believe that it is telling us not to push the boundaries of reality and not to tamper with things that would perhaps be better left alone, because the consequences are unknown, unpredictable and unnatural. It tells us that death and birth are things that in the modern world we just have to accept, and that we should not even attempt to exceed mortal limitations: Playing God should be left to God.
...those struggling and it shows the love of God. If these books had ended after judgment and fire it would have left only fear, but because they end with that bit light, it leaves hope. The authors are concerned about the horrors to come, but divinity did not allow their concerns to be the sole idea.