Life is full of many hard decisions that people have to take, often on the spur of the moment. Some we get right others turn horribly wrong. Joe Keller, the tragic hero of Arthur Miller's play All My Sons, was no different. His whole life was dedicated to his family and their well being but all his plans were undone by one fatally flawed decision.
The audience can relate to Joe and feel sympathy for him because he was a good man who did many great things for his family and in the end paid the ultimate price. Towards the end of the play, Joe's son Chris anguishes over the fatally flawed decision made by his father, thus eliciting the sympathy of the audience. However, this is not enough to detract from the audience relating to Joe as a
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Joe doesn't have many bad qualities in him the only times the audience do see such qualities is when he speaks ill of Steve to others like when he says, "I owe him a good kick in the teeth"(Act 2, p47). However, the audience knows he does not really mean these things but only says them to cover up his fatal mistake. So we forgive Joe his mistake because as Plutarch, the Delphic priest, said almost 2000 years ago, "to make no mistakes is not in the power of man " and also because Joe tries to rectify his mistake by offering to give Steve a good job when he gets out of prison and offering to help Steve's children.
Joe has spent his life making many decisions most of which appear to have been good decisions resulting in his family enjoying a comfortable life. The audience admires him for this. Unfortunately, late one night Joe made a hurried decision, which he believed he could get away with. The reasons for his decision comes to light near the end of the play, in Act 2, when he tells Chris why he made that decision, "I'm a business man, a man is in business; a hundred and twenty cracked, you're out of business, you got a process, the process don't work you're out of business; you don't know how to operate, your stuff is no good; they close you up, they tear up your contract what the hell's it to them? You lay forty years into a business and they knock you out in five minutes, what
Sunset Boulevard is a film noir movie that was released in 1950. When looked at, the main character Joe Gillis, portrayed by William Holden, can be seen as an anti-hero. Joe shows his anti-heroic behavior in many ways. For example, he is dishonest, he uses the people around him, and he also is only focused on elevating himself. One of the many examples of the dishonesty of Joe.
The source went on to say that Joe and his handlers tried to clear up the situation by a stop at Starbucks on the way to jail, but it just didn't work out. Insiders even shared that this could cause Joe to get deported and maybe even before he is done with his time in jail. Joe's lawyer knows nothing about any of it though. Joe's attorney, Miles Feinstein shared his thoughts.
Injun Joe's death came as a shock to me. I'm not sure why, but I almost looked forward to the nonexistent page where Joe comes out of the cave, is found guilty of murder, and is placed in jail while everybody else lives "happily ever after." However, just as Tom feels a touch of pity when he sees the man's dead body, I also felt a little sorry for Injun Joe; not necessarily because he died, but because of how he died. Starving to death seems horrible enough, but the description of Joe eating candle wax and bats in an attempt to survive forced me to feel sympathy. Some people may say that Injun Joe got what he deserved, but I don't know that I can agree wholeheartedly. In many cases, a cruel and violent person is also broken and hurting. I
Joe, I believe, maintains most of the control throughout the play. The reason he has gained so much of the control in this drama is because he is a curious and intelligent person who is good with his money and he helps the people around him especially when it comes to the character Tom. Joe repetitively gets Tom to do all the random tasks that pop into his head such as placing bets at the racetrack, getting him a watermelon and toys, and also getting him a gun. Tom does all of these things for Joe is because he had helped him three years ago when he got sick. Joe paid to bring him to the doctor and for his food and rent until he got better so he believes that he owes him.
Joe-Boy is confident. He went to the ravine because he wanted to, not because his friends want him to. One example from the text is, “But then Starlene and Joe-Boy said, ‘Come with
Imagine how gruesome it would be to get hit in the head by a hard solid object at ninety miles per hour, “It was not the sound of Joe being hit. What we heard was the sickening thud of the baseball cracking into flesh and bone” (Grisham 112). Believing that Joe might be fatally injured or dead can be very scary. One minute Joe was being cheered on to hit a homerun and the next he was lying on the ground in extreme pain. Joe was determined to get better and come back strong as fast as possible. Family, friends and fans prayed that Joe would make it back before the Cub’s season was over. People wrote letters to him from all over, every one of them posted in the same spot where they were collected every day. Joe would later on end up reading each of them when he was physically able. The saddest part of all was that people didn’t know Joe Castle would never again put on his jersey and play a game. Joe was stripped of his career in a matter of seconds, and there was no fixing what had happened. Sympathy was established in this situation because Joe’s injuries were portrayed as fatal, ending his
Joe was a drafted soldier, meaning he had to take on varying responsibilities and expectations such as following orders from the higher ranked. This led him into combat where he sustained his life-threatening injuries. “Quote on injuries” These injuries made a huge impact on his life that sets his experiences and Charlie’s experiences apart. Charlie’s reason for going into war contrasts from Joe’s in that in was voluntary. He decided to go to war because he wanted to get his son back, he was not forced into it.
A sequence of events leads up to Joe becoming almost completely isolated from the outside world. During his time in the isolated continent, Joe becomes addicted to narcotics; he escapes his pain and anguish by succumbing to detached and paralyzed state of mind. Throughout his journey in this secluded continent, he is faced with his hatred of the Germans and his desire to enact vengeance upon them for all that he has lost. When he meets a German geologist exploring the frozen tundra, he inadvertently kills him. Joe experiences ironic feelings of remorse after so many years spent obsessing over the destruction of the Germans. There was no gratification or fulfillment, for Joe, in the German man’s death. Joe felt repulsed and an abhorrence in himself for his
How does the character feel? In The Last of Us the game main character Joe is sad and anger due to the loose of his Daughter at the start of the game.
To the rest of the world Joe was like a machine, he was fed, bathed, clothed, and was being taken care of by other people. But this did not stop him from being able to think. Joe may not look like a person, but he still could think like one and he was very observant to sounds and vibrations. Joe uses the shadows and patterns of heat that he could feel to tell the time of day, for instance he said “Give me some idea of when the sunrise is coming and then I’ll be able to catch it.”(132). Joe used the resources around him to help learn how to figure out simple tasks that we normally would take for granted. Joe did not want to lay around for the rest of his life. He was pleading for someone to help him do daily tasks that are sometimes taken for granted. Additionally, in “The Living” half of the book, Joe invested all of his time in continuing to keep on tapping. Most days he wanted to just give up considering how draining it was, but all he could think about was the end result and “SOS. Help” (163). Most people would have just given up when they got to the point that Joe was at, but he thought of clever and unique ways to communicate with everyone. When he got an idea he knew would work, that is all he invested his time into. Joe had more dedication and perseverance than the average bear and that helped him be able to communicate and achieve his goal. Physically and mentally Joe
Though all the members of the team are important characters, Joe Rantz is undoubtedly the novel’s protagonist. Trace Joe’s character development from his childhood to his gold- medal finish in Berlin. How does Joe grow as a character? What does he learn about himself and the world, and in what ways does he change?
As opposed to communicating his outrage he tries to avoid panicking. This is either an indication of incredible resilience or utter shortcoming. There, on the other hand, is a moment when Joe demonstrates that his pride has been harmed, to be specific when he leaves the coin under his wife's cushion in the wake of laying down with her. This is a sudden turn in an identity that is apparently unequipped for harming someone else. Anyhow who can accuse the poor man for he has seen his entire world go into disrepair after the treachery of his loved one. The integrity of his character is completely shown in his pardoning toward the end of the story.
By telling Joe to stop looking for the attacker is only feeding him to keep going because children usually like to do the opposite of what their elders tell them. Joes’ childish instinct to kill Linden in the end only intensifies the idea that while his parents did not keep him within their “web”, his action was not right because Linden’s right to be free in the world was said under law orders. Even though Joe’s dad pleaded for him to stop, he felt that standing up for his family was best because it only felt like it made sense to him at the
So he stands up for himself, which shows he is strong. Joe-Boy is a bad friend, he was teasing Vinny about the dead boy in the text it says “ Are you going to let your mom control your life or what”? And” you going to jump down and touch the dead boy’s face beneath the rock”. That shows that he is getting out of Vinny’s comfort zone, which makes him a mean friend.
Because of these changes in emotion and attitude that have occurred in both Joe and Violet, Joe feels that he needs to find a way to re-sensitize himself to emotion: As he describes to Malvonne in the apartment, it is the quiet that he cannot take with Violet, he is “just hoping for a lady friend. Somebody to talk to” (49, 46). Joe needs to express himself to someone, but Violet is not letting Joe do that. The narrator describes Joe’s lover as being “Joe’s personal sweet—like candy” (120). Candy, though, as Joe describes in a totally separate incident, “is something you lick, suck on, and then swallow and it’s gone” (122). By providing the image of Dorcas as the temporary candy, Morrison shows how the relationship is not what Joe believes it to be. Yet, Joe wants to convince himself that his affair with Dorcas is more than the transient taste of a peppermint stick, and as he describes in his speech to himself, “This was something else. More like blue water and white flowers and sugar in the air” (122). Joe wants to have a deep relationship with Dorcas—a relationship where he can talk with her and share his feelings, but it is just his mind fooling him into this belief that the relationship is built around a deep bond.