The Life You Save May Be Your Own is an interesting title because of the fact that he chose to save his own life and ditch a person he brought into the outside world. The entire story revolves around the character that has never lived a life that involved him being tied down in the world. He even tells Mrs. Crater that he has worked several types of jobs in the past, and the fact that he was only twenty-eight years old should have worried her. It was interesting to see how fixed on one person just because of how desperate someone could be. Mr. Shiftlet felt pressured into marrying Lucynell and did so to satisfy Mrs. Crater. In the end of the story Mr. Shiftlet ended up running away from the girl that he had just married, the only reason why he did was because he felt depressed for tying himself down when he wasn’t ready for it. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is a fitting title, and even pops up on the road Mr. Shiftlet is driving on; it fits by showing how he did save his own life by choosing his own fate, leaving the girl to find her own fate, and how life will never turn out the...
In O’Conners “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” the villain is a one armed hobo named Tom T. Shiftlet. Using his gift of gab and the promise of “fixing the place up.” He manages to take up on the remote farm of an old woman named Lucynell Crater and her mentally retarded and completely deaf daughter “Lucynell Crater”. The old woman quickly decides that despite his handicap she would like to make Tom her son in law. His goal soon became, fix up the old car he was sleeping in and hightail it out of there with the car and some of the old womans money in his pocket. On the pretense that he would need it for a honeymoon trip, he convinces the old woman to fix the car and give him some cash. The story ends with him marrying the retarded daughter, leaving with her on a honeymoon trip, then abandoning her in a rundown diner on the side of the road.
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.
Some similarities about the story are that you can take chances and it may be good or it may not be as well. Like in the story Boy's Life. He can take a chance by doing the writing competition and he may win or he may not, we didn't find out if he did or not. If he did then that's good because he wouldn't have done it if it wasn't for his teacher. If he did not do it than at least he thought about doing it. In Emancipation was kind of in the same way because the animal wasn't too sure to go out of the cage or not. It did and it found happiness because he wasn’t trapped in a cage all
In conclusion, Jane has been through oppression and depression but she stands up for what she believes in. Jane gains her femininity, socialization, individuality and freedom. Her husband, who has been oppressing her for so many years, is no longer her prison guard. Jane defies her husband, creeps right over him and claims her life” so, that I had to creep over him every time” (Gilman 1609). Jane is now her own personal freedom through perseverance.
Social identity, a powerful driving force in human beings, develops early in life and strengthens throughout adulthood based on chosen roles. In the short story “You, Disappearing” by Alexandra Kleeman, the main character struggles to understand her former boyfriend’s need to maintain his social identity while struggling to find hers in a new reality. As things start to disappear in the apocalypse, her former boyfriend chooses the consistency and predictability of maintaining his position as an architect. However, she regresses and has become depressed trying to live her life without structure. This conflict within the main character seems to distract her from making a plan for when the end arrives. By giving the main character a real human emotion to a disaster scenario, can this help relate the story to readers on a personal level?
freedom and independence. In the story “The Story of an Hour” Ms. Mallard experiences a moment of liberation from her marriage due to the sudden
At the ending Admas and Camillia gets married and go to California for three weeks. Then during the vacation Admas and Camillia goes to the city's and Hollowood ad to the beaches. Then they go to a hotel because there are tired and hurry. Later they ate and went to bed and the magic happens. The next day Camillia has headaches and couldn't move at all. Few months past by and then Admas is becoming a father and Camillia is becoming a mother to triplets at ones.
This story by O'Connor is about a woman named Joy who lost her leg in a shooting accident when she was young. Joy lives with her mother Mrs. Hopewell and their hired help Mrs.Freedman. Joy legally changed her name to Hulga because of her truly unhappy nature and it was the ugliest name she had come across. Then one day a Bible salesman named Pointer came to sell bibles to Mrs.Hopewell and later asked joy on a date. The date was at first very rushed and Pointer seemed to be pushing Joy into kissing him and saying that she loves him shortly after meeting him. Pointer proceeds to take off her fake leg in what seems at the time to be a caring matter. But he then changed his tone and confesses that he not only is not who he had said he was but is stealing joys leg and that there was nothing she could do. The overall theme that O'Connor portrays in this story is that things are not always how they appear.
Marcel was on his way to the banquet when he saw something that caught his eye. He was trained to look for these things, and as he walked over he saw it was a horse. The horse was small,brown, and shaggy. It looked like it was very hungry.
“Here, I got you something, perv.” Turning around hearing Beck's voice she shook her head catching the outfit he threw at her. Rolling her eyes she placed it back on the rank of clothing as she continued to look at things. “You know, I can't help wanting to look good when I go to bed. It's not like I'll be sleeping naked any time soon.” Casciana spoke sarcastically looking down at the clothes on the rack, pulling out a skimpy black number she held it up looking at Beck before biting her lip. “So, what do you think?” she asked holding up the little see-through black lingerie she tilted her head slightly. “Oh, and about your question. I learned everything I know from Thelma and Louise. Do you remember how that was the only movie I would watch
The theme is forbidden freedom from grief of marriage; to understand forbidden freedom a marriage must fail and stop the cycle of societies beliefs on women. In this society it is hard for a woman being alone because it is not the norm. On the other hand, this is Louise chance to become what she really wants in life and not allow society to stomp on her, but to rise from it. Therefore, Louise future is without a husband because she knows it is the only way to have freedom.
In the story of an hour we see that is driven by freedom because Mrs. Mallard does not know how to live her own life because she has to obey her husband’s rules. She does not have a mind of her own because all of her decisions and her life style is all because of her husband. She does not know the meaning of freedom because of the mental and physical abuse that is stode upon her. Mrs. Mallard’s sister comes to inform her that her husband as just be killed in a train accident, when this happens is very excited because she can now do what she wants to do and does not have to answer to anyone, she can now be
A dark haze filled the night air. Happy birthday to me, Mist thought as she slipped through the abandoned street. It was an hour past curfew and if you were anyone else you wouldn’t dare to creep around in the night, but Mist wasn’t anyone else. Her misty blue hair and unique black attire was known all along the land. People feared Mist but they also respected her. Although her father, Captain Hook, who feared little boys and stayed hidden in his broken down boat, was a laughing stock, her tough exterior and excellent skills with a sword brought her reputation up. When Mist was younger, before her father went completely crazy, he used to spend hours among the broken down ship deck teaching Mist the art of swordfighting. That was the only thing she ever thanked her father for otherwise she couldn’t care less how much longer he lived. Mist’s manipulating, deceitful, and downright evil reputation helped her among the little land they called Miscreant. Two people outranked her on Miscreant. Baba Yaga and her son. But since no one had ever seen Baba Yaga’s son, Mist had no competition in the villain department. Baba Yaga ruled over the villainess crowd and was the most feared thing on the island. Not human, no one quite knew what she was. The only time
After reading Sherry Turkle’s book Alone Together, I was left with mixed feelings. Ill thought the book was poorly written, and could have been structured better. The way Turkle structures the book made me bored and uninterested. On the other hand, it enlightened me about the conditions that technology has done throughout society.
The book thief stood next to me and laughed at my response. “Haunted by humans?” She repeats. I nod, “Despite all the suffering you go through, you manage to get through it just fine. How is that possible?” Liesel shrugs and puts down the book. “I suppose it’s the will to live.” She responds blatantly.