Can Normal People be a Brave as Shane in "Shane" by Jack Schaefer?

John Grady Cole starts on his journey to live the dream of a cowboy with his companion, Rawlin. Both are searching for a better life as they wander the plains waiting for

Terry’s guilt begins to be harder to bear as he gets closer to Edie. He is starting to look at Johnny Friendly as a criminal, a man that shouldn't get away with murder, instead of a powerful man in which he should fear. Terry’s values are shifting as he starts to ponder testifying. He sees the pain in Edie as she wants answers of who killed her brother.

• What are the characters’ emotions, attitudes, and behaviors? What do these indicate to the reader about the character?

Throughout the book Bruno's idea of his friendship with his sister changed, the protagonist also recreated his friendship with the “The Hopeless Case” - pg 21. In the beginning of the novel he is cruel and optimistic about his sister's life worthiness. This is portrayed on page 21 -

Readers have to look at characters and their actions in order to reach the true heart of

Throughout the short story "Spunk", Joe Kanty, (the husband of Lena Kanty) plays a certain role that deals a lot with disrespect, miscommunication, and the morals of specific boundaries that need to be set when dealing with the rights and wrong doings of your spouse. Joe is the type of character that sort of stays in his shell, meaning that he doesn't necessarily express his feelings as much as he might want to. He is very scrawny and quiet, and is afraid to stick up for himself. As if he allows people to run over him because he's too shy or too trapped in himself to actually speak up about what's on his mind or bothering him the most. Joe would be the type to probably let someone walk all over him. He could say something to other characters in the story, and then as the reader, you might think to yourself "he doesn't seem too sure", or "he might not actually mean what he's saying, he's just trying to talk big in front of his friends, because in reality, he seems a little unsure of how he really wants to address his situation." With this being said, Joe could be gloomy when it comes down to the fact of him seeing his wife and knowing that everyone else is seeing his wife with another man. The way he goes about addressing the fact though is harsh and he could've handled the situation a little better than what he did. For example, in the story, after Walter and Elijah were talking to Joe about seeing his wife with another man, it said how he “stood there silent for a long

James W Hewitt is the author of this book. He is president of the Friends of the Center for Great Plains Studies. This story was published in 2015 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. James W Hewitt returns to McCook, Nebraska to see the scene of the crime that scared the small town of McCook.

In the first place, a person with a kind and sympathetic nature is a person that will do good deeds like Ponyboy, even if he’s in a gang that is supposed to be barbarous, vicious, or even acquire ways to convert into a criminal he is kind hearted. For example, on page 78 it says,“You ain’t like any of the gang. I mean I couldn’t

Barb blames Janice for Anne's death to hurt her and make her feel guilty, not knowing that Janice already feels guilty but does not express it. However, Barb does not think about the challenges Janice might have endured but is angry because she is not the ‘ideal Janice’ that she had been expecting. Barb is too busy and eager wanting to express her anger towards Janice that she cannot relate to Janice’s problems and the struggles that she goes through. Barb’s lack of sympathy towards the unexpected changes in Janice’s life only results in a bigger gap in their relationship. Once Barb and Janice start talking, Barb is again angered by Janice’s quietness and her unwillingness to strengthen their relationship. However, she does not make an effort herself to understand why. Barb says to Janice: “You told us the facts. I don’t know one damn thing about you, the person” (36). Barb is annoyed and frustrated by Janice keeping to herself, she cannot understand her. Barb wants a strong relationship with her as sisters. For Janice, the sister relationship is too difficult and would rather prefer being friends. However, Barb does not acknowledge or accept Janice’s different views but expects Janice to want the same. Barb misunderstands the quietness of Janice and takes it personally, thinking that she wants to keep a distance from her and does not want to open up. Barb does not think of the opposite. What if Janice can’t

But where the story began to take a turn was when Marla, the woman that he met in the support groups, called and stated she was in the process of committing suicide. He pretty much blew her off when Tyler took the initiative to go to her apartment where he becomes her coping mechanism by using sex. But while the narrator (Edward) thinks that he is having some sort of nightmare not understanding it is actual reality. Then noticing the tension between the two the narrator states that they Marla and Tyler remind him of his parent because he never sees them in the same place at once. The only time that they spent in the same room was during sexual intercourse. He narrator was jealous because of the way he felt for Marla, but just too afraid to express it because she was already sleeping with Tyler. This is why the tension was so high.

is shown as selfish and not trustworthy. Nick Carraway, the narrator, realizes this also. While

He found Allie to be the most beautiful young lady at the state fair and in theory he was experiencing openness with Allie by being adventurous just approaching Allie while she was on a date with her friend asking her to dance. Allie kindly turn Noah offer down to dance in a mindfulness way not to hurt his feelings or be rude to her date. Now Allie is thinking about the decision she made by talking it over with friend, this is called social support. That Allie perception of Noah was she was just not into him and they way he approach her was kind of rude while she was on her date. However Allie is experiencing implicit personality theory which means she is making an assumption of Noah personality of who he real is.

Shane being all too familiar with the consequences of violence is unwilling to see them destroy Joe and the community he has worked so hard for. Instead he expresses the depth of his love for this family and their way of life by taking on the violent showdown himself, in the process excluding himself from ever belonging. Shane understands that with the killing of Wilson and the Ryker’s “he is too dangerous, too threatening to the community” (Costello 269) to ever truly belong again, if he ever did in the first place. With this final act of violence, he saves the homesteaders and their community, but kills his place within and so rides off to an uncertain future, possibly even to his own

Even in her state of anger she cannot help but once again be the restrained and subdued one in their relationship. Despite all of the happiness she has found with Rochester she still cannot bring herself to stay in a relationship in which she sacrifices part of herself, because she doesn’t know how to reconcile her need feel like she belongs and is taken care of while at the same time remaining uncorrupted.

Joe is challenged rather than submitted to. Understanding this reasoning may give one a better understanding into Mrs. Joe. One may infer that Mrs. Joe did not blame herself for the mistreatment of her brother and husband but felt that they brought it on themselves (Tomes 334). Mrs. Joe expressed no regret or guilt after being abusive to Joe and Pip, as most abusers did not.