The Taste of Melon Character Analysis What was the turning point in this story for the narrator? Why did he do this; what was he trying to achieve? The turning point is when they start to smash the seed melon and he found out the melon was to feed the neighbourhood and to make his wife feel better so he went to the area where he smashed the melon and grabbed all the seeds and went to mr wills house and promised that he would help plant all the seeds next season Did he achieve his goals? What else happened that he might not have intended to happen? He did, but he felt really guilty and wanted to help so he went to the farmer and made a new goal to help him plant the seeds Put yourself in the boy’s shoes…. You are going into highschool
defeat the British in the war, but he did more than that. That is what
The story carries a certain message behind the narrator's plight. The story shows the narrator to be suffering the consequences of his actions and that he could be far worse off for something less. When it came down to it, he finds that trying to prove himself as a bad ass resulted in getting him nowhere. He had his limits and that night he found them and nature has shown him that there will always be some greasy character willing to do worse.
Ultimately, this is what he accomplished.just in a much different way and aided by a much bigger ally. Works Cited Wikipedia contributors, "Charles Colson," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson (accessed February 14, 2014).
politician, war hero, and a leader he put his heart into it. Sure he may have made a
...hrough the mountain passages to the south and into Pakistan. By him doing this, we expected his approval rating by the Taliban would diminish quickly. This too was not true; he continued to be the well-respected leader of al-Qaeda and gain numerous followers through his illusiveness.
During his journey to Jefferson, he had to overcome many obstacles to get to his goal like the flood, the crossing of the river, and the fire that was set by Darl. His main goal was not to look foolish but that was very unlikely because he was with a coffin with his son sitting helplessly on top with a concrete cast on his leg, and because of the hole in the coffin, the corpse smelled terrible.
revenge on the rebels who had taken everything from him by taking part in the fight against
learned that he needs the help of others. His men for instance helped him fight in
These are some of the most important accomplishments that have occurred in or after his life.
...large step towards world peace, thus this is way I believe he was an effective visionary leader.
He got his workers back and sort of hid them making them do “work”. He is credited with saving more than one thousand people during his lifetime. My last reason would be that, while Miep was taking care of the franks, Van pals, and Mr.Dussel, she still hid a boy in her apartment.... ... middle of paper ...
In the beginning of the story, the narrator feels very uncomfortable knowing that he will
paragraph of the story, the narrator begins to defend himself by saying that he is
He begins to think how he had just killed a man and how him and his friends had tried to attempt rapping a girl. As he is walking in the lake he touches a dead body and gets freaked out even more and began to yell. Then the girl hears him and scream there they are and began to throw rocks into the lake trying to hit the narrator. He then hears the voice of Bobby who bought him relief and sorrow at the same time. He felt relief because he discovers that the Bobby is not dead and sorrow because the Bobby was alive and wanted to kill him and his friends.
beliefs and did he really achieve what he set out to do in the quote