...The short story, “The Scarlet Ibis” tells of an older brother who fights the war of pride over love upon his younger brother. Throughout the story Brother’s haughtiness gradually shrinks as his love for his younger sibling grows. However, the issue with pride lasts too long. Brother’s pride ends up as the root cause of Doodle, his little brother’s death. Once Doodle passes on, Brother no longer feels shame towards Doodle, but rather himself. Brother, during the beginning moments of the story, finds pain and embarrassment in his brother, Doodle, due to his disability. This shame causes Brother to pursue violent actions towards Doodle. When attempting to murder Doodle, Brother stops; due to the smile on his little brother’s face. “However,...
Words: 738 - Pages: 3
...desertion issues. As the story unfolds from his older brother’s point of view, it explains how the older brother wished he had been there for his brother throughout his hard times of growing up. As the older brother puts forth the effort to lead Sonny into the right direction by welcoming him into his home, pushing him to finish school Sonny refuses to follow his brother’s guidance and turned his attention towards music. Music became his out for his internal misery he had endured. Along with dropping out of school, and the new love for music Sonny then left for good and went on to The military. Sonny’s age was never disclosed but he was under the age of 18, and all together disobeyed his brother’s wishes. The same wishes their own mother installed in the older brothers mind before her passing. All the time of Sonny being away in the military in wasn’t until he sent his brother a postcard of his whereabouts that they even knew he was alive. After the war both of the brothers returned home and joined forces again, just be apart for more time. It wasn’t until Sonny’s brothers finding in the newspaper that Sonny’s had been locked up for the use of drugs, and the death of his 2 year old daughter did he realize that he is in fact his brother’s keeper and he needs to be by his side no matter what it entitles. The brothers end up combining forces at the end of the story as Sonny gets released from prison and put his heart into his love of music. Sonny’s brother then realizes that he...
Words: 446 - Pages: 2
...disappointments, risks, and losses. A few habitual values surface from within these pages. Through the relationship of two brothers, Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It depicts the values of unconditional love, self-control, and appreciation for art. Expressed with acute emotional detail, A River Runs Through It combines positive and negative experiences to give a clear meaning to unconditional love. Maclean does not waste many pages before giving himself a conscientious loving-brother image. The first negative circumstance which would hinder Norman’s perception of his younger brother, Paul, occurs early in the story. Norman reacts to this situation by “[standing] still until [he can] again see the woman in bib overalls marveling at his shadow casting” (Maclean 37). He thinks back to a positive memory of his brother before approaching his holding cell to take him home. Norman reinforces his character with honesty when his brother-in-law, Neal, drinks so much on their fishing trip that he passes out, naked, in the sun and became horribly sunburned. Instead of dropping Neal off at a bar and hiding the truth from his in-laws, Norman walks him up to his in-laws’ doorstep and holds back any wise remarks that would have seemed like excuses. Honesty is significantly attributed to unconditional love, and...
Words: 1974 - Pages: 8
...and truly deserves everything said about him. In Eugene V. Debs statement “My Brother’s Keeper” he maintains that he has a moral obligation to keep his brother in safe hands. He makes an accurate point because any brother is family, and family should never be left in the cold. Keeping your brother by your side, leading him to the path of success, is what encourages him to become a better person, which then builds a better community not just for yourself, but for the world. As a Brother’s Keeper your liability is to make sure your loved one grow up stronger than ever, not starving, or poor. Eugene V. Debs expresses his views on this by saying, “What would you think of me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?” (Debs 1) Here Debs shows what kind of person he is by giving an example of what many people have become and how he acts. So if he see’s fellow...
Words: 447 - Pages: 2
...appreciative gesture made his stomach twist. Made bile rise up in the back of his throat. He glared at his hands, not wanting to meet Amaimon's gaze. "Don't be thankful," he snarled lowly, still refusing to meet his brother's eyes even when they searched his own gaze "...I'm a monster...you shouldn't thank me for anything." The time King stayed in his small huff for a couple of minutes until finally the red that blossomed so fully against his brother's pale cheeks and he smiled again, laughing, trying to shake of the momentary seriousness. "Hmm," he hummed quietly and shook his head " it's not stupid, I understand. I probably should have asked first, but you just looked so tired and cold," setting...
Words: 1235 - Pages: 5
...Abduction By Shelagh Delaney What do you do if you are a successful career woman with all the money you need and your dream is fulfilled, but one thing is missing: Family. There is only one problem. You are sterile, so what do you do? You abduct your own little brother. You spoil the child and make sure he has what he needs, but is that all it takes to raise a child? What about the childes independence and making a family of his own? How do you cope with the fact that your little brother turns out to be an alcoholic? This is what the protagonist of the short story Abduction is faced with. The short story Abduction takes place in London. An omniscient 3rd person narrator introduces us to the protagonist Ann, who was born and raised in the suburb Manchester. Ann is a well-educated woman, who studied medicine and is specialized in paediatrics. The suburb is not good enough for Ann; she wants the rich eventful life in London. “There is only one place worth living. London.” (p. 1, l. 25). A job opportunity in London occurs, and she moves to Kensington to start a new life as a successful career woman, just the way she wants it. She lives in a high-class society with cultural values. After her settlement she returns to Manchester, with the purpose of abducting her younger brother. Ann takes care of her brother almost as if she is his mother. She nurses him, gives him allowance and finds him a well-paid job. All in all she makes sure he has everything almost by spoiling...
Words: 1011 - Pages: 5
...It changed my belief and thoughts about abortion. Every innocent baby and child deserves to be love and care in a positive and a good condition home. Not every child in foster care gets to be adopted, which make them go home to home where they lose self-esteem. If abortion is allowed, there will less innocent babies and children around the world suffering. She insisted that I stop, because she does not like my explanation. She said she is a mother and she wants every child to be born. I stopped her, I said you want every child to be born, but do you know that not every child is born with love. Every child need love to grow to be a healthy and positive individual. She demanded that one day when I become a mother I will understand. I told her that I am not a mother of my own children, but I am a mother to my sister's and brother’s children. I love and care for them as they are my own. She said I would not really understand until I have my own children. I just said that I will end the conservation because abortion is not a topic...
Words: 578 - Pages: 3
...James Baldwin begins the novel of Sonny’s blues with the narrator’s mother, charging him with watching over Sonny, asking him to serve as his brother’s keeper. The dynamic between the two brothers is a parallelism to the relationship between the brothers Cain and Abel in the Bible. In that narrative, Cain, after murdering Abel, asks whether he is supposed to be his brother’s keeper. The narrator, following his mother’s death, is presented with a similar dilemma. Since their mother’s death, Sonny’s life has been marred by prison and drug abuse. The tension between the two brothers is so great that after one particular fight, Sonny tells his brother to consider him dead from that point on, a statement that, again, deliberately echoes the biblical narrative of Cain and Abel. Baldwin’s sentences also contain a biblical tone and rhythm. Like Cain, the narrator turns his back on his brother and fails, at first, to respond to Sonny when he is prison. He has failed to live up to his mother’s commandment that he watches over his brother—but the failure is only temporary. By the end of the story, the narrator has taken Sonny back into his home. He finally takes on the role of his brother’s keeper, constantly watching and worrying over Sonny as he emerges from the darkness of prison and drug abuse. The idea of brotherly love extends beyond the relationship between the narrator and Sonny into the community as a whole. Harlem is plagued by drugs, poverty, and frustration, but members of...
Words: 335 - Pages: 2
...van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in Zundert, Netherlands. He was the eldest of families six children. His Father was a Protestant minister. Prior to his birth, his mother, Cornelia, gave birth to a stillborn infant named Vincent Williem. One year later, Vincent Williem van Gogh was born and became his lamented brother's namesake. Vincent was an unusual, complicated man whom had a strong sense of self uncertainty and doubt of the future. Overtime Theo, his younger brother, came to be his best friend and supported him through life. Most importantly, he provided Vincent with emotional and financial help. Theo was willing to help his brother with any financial and...
Words: 665 - Pages: 3
...courage, we later see that it has far greater meaning. “Anton was by far the stronger swimmer and he had no excuse to fail.” Simply because Anton was genetically screened, Vincent found himself loathing and constantly attempting to outshine him. He found that he was inferior to his brother. “By the time we were playing blood brothers, I understood there was something very different flowing through my brother’s veins, rather than mine.” The protagonist also found he was competing for his parent’s love. “Anton was a son my father considered worthy of his name.” His parents recognised that Vincent was inferior, as he wasn’t screened, like his loved brother. He was outshone in ability, seemingly wits, and his significant genetic status wasn’t that of his brother’s. “Ten fingers, ten toes. That’s all that used to matter.” Now, however, he found he was slowly being ‘rubbed’ out of the family picture to make room for his perfect sibling. They not only competed for honour in their simple game of chicken that they would play as children, they were now also competing for their parent’s love. Vincent constantly found himself being rejected and unloved. He sat separately from his family at meal times, and his family repeatedly reminded him of how he would be unable to achieve his fantasy of joining the space team. “The only way you’ll be seeing the inside of a space ship is if you were cleaning it.” This contributed to the growing hatred and competitiveness of Vincent. Due to his brilliant...
Words: 324 - Pages: 2
...How did Anne Boleyn contribute to King Henry VIII divorce? * She knew what she wanted and knew what she needed to do * After her marriage to the heir of Ormonde fell through, she began an affair with Henry Percy, also a rich heir. Cardinal Wolsey put a stop to the romance. This is why Anne hated the Cardinal so much and could be why when he could not give her and Henry what they wanted; she supported Henry in the decision to dismiss him. * Anne also knew that if she was able to cut off connections from the Vatican she would be more likely to be Queen because Henry would be able to get a divorce so therefore she encouraged Henry to break from the Vatican and the Catholic Church. * She was very persuasive * Anne suggested that Henry leaves all connections to Rome and follow new radicals in Europe who believed that monarchs should rule their countries church not the Pope. * She made her case so strong and made Henry wanted a divorce so badly that Henry ended up creating the Church of England. * She wanted to stand out and therefore refused to be another of Henry’s mistress. This way she could tease Henry by flirting but not giving him anything meaning that he was drawn to her more than the other mistresses in his court. * Anne liked Thomas Cranmer because he did what she wanted. He went to Germany to learn more about Lutheranism, he supported the translation of the bible into English and once Archbishop of Canterbury he declared Catherine...
Words: 551 - Pages: 3
...How did Anne Boleyn contribute to King Henry VIII divorce? * She knew what she wanted and knew what she needed to do * After her marriage to the heir of Ormonde fell through, she began an affair with Henry Percy, also a rich heir. Cardinal Wolsey put a stop to the romance. This is why Anne hated the Cardinal so much and could be why when he could not give her and Henry what they wanted; she supported Henry in the decision to dismiss him. * Anne also knew that if she was able to cut off connections from the Vatican she would be more likely to be Queen because Henry would be able to get a divorce so therefore she encouraged Henry to break from the Vatican and the Catholic Church. * She was very persuasive * Anne suggested that Henry leaves all connections to Rome and follow new radicals in Europe who believed that monarchs should rule their countries church not the Pope. * She made her case so strong and made Henry wanted a divorce so badly that Henry ended up creating the Church of England. * She wanted to stand out and therefore refused to be another of Henry’s mistress. This way she could tease Henry by flirting but not giving him anything meaning that he was drawn to her more than the other mistresses in his court. * Anne liked Thomas Cranmer because he did what she wanted. He went to Germany to learn more about Lutheranism, he supported the translation of the bible into English and once Archbishop of Canterbury he declared Catherine...
Words: 551 - Pages: 3
...In the world there are many things that can break a person. People can break physically, mentally, and emotionally. The healing process is different for each one. Physical injuries heal easily and without much effort. On the other hand, emotional trauma is difficult to recover from. When someone is broken inside, it takes a lot of work and time in order to heal. In the novel, Ordinary People by Judith Guest, the main character, Conrad Jarrett, is recovering from his suicide attempt. After his brother's death, his life starting falling apart, which led him his attempt. After spending a month in the hospital, he finally comes home and that's when he starts his journey to recovery. Throughout the novel, the reader can clearly tell what events...
Words: 972 - Pages: 4
...‘Family’ Leaper: * Footy player * Coastal town origin – from White Point * Surfer dude * Loves sport in general – footy especially * Doesn’t get on with the family – mum left, dad useless, max mixed emotions. * Indecisive about future plans * Max ruined footy for him * Loves the burn of training. * Always discretely wanted to receive attention from Max – tried to be accepted and be like his older brother * Always copped the abuse as a joke until he later realised he was a ‘bullying bastard’. Max: * Older brother to protagonist * Lives in coastal town - White point * Envied Franks natural talent * One wife and two nieces – possible family issues * Recently fired * Loves his footy too * Surfer dude * Hard-ass/aggressive bully * Embarassed about brother’s antics from football. * Hasn’t left his comfort zone Plot Outline: * Leaves the city with all belongings in the old ‘HK’ van. * We discover that in fact he is an ex elite footballer. * Arrives in his coastal home-town of ‘White Point’ * Decides to go for a surf for the first time in years – pees in his pants * Discovers his brother out at the break * Long, grueling, arduous argument about his failure in his football career between his brother * Goes through a series of flashbacks into the childhood memories between him and his brother * While surfing, Max is ironically attacked by a shark. * The shark attack...
Words: 1056 - Pages: 5
...contain examples of how jealousy can affect a relationship. Jealousy never builds up or adds any positives, it only tears things down and destroys anything good in its path. The only thing that can heal what jealousy wreaks is God’s love and forgiveness. Jacob was jealous of Esau’s birthright and blessing, so he stole both. Rachel was jealous of Leah’s ability to bear children, so she became bitter and resentful to her own sister. Joseph’s brothers were jealous that he was their father’s favorite, so they plotted to kill him. Jealousy can tear families apart as early as relationships. Jacob was his mother’s favorite and the second born. While Esau was his father’s favorite and the firstborn. In Biblical time the firstborn received the birthright and blessing from the father, Jacob would have received less than his brother. Jacob was jealous of what Esau would receive, so he decided to trick him into giving up his birthright. But jealousy is not that easy to get rid of, Jacob was not satisfied with just his brother’s birthright he wanted more. This caused him to deceive his father and steal his brother’s blessing. After stealing both Esau’s birthright and blessing, he ran away. Even after all that was done to him, Esau displayed forgiveness and love that only comes from God. He...
Words: 599 - Pages: 3
