City Of The Beast Summary

One of the themes that was pointed out through the book is, family is worth dying for. Alex proves this over and over again when he chooses to walk to Warren where his family is. He could have easily stayed and found a safer way out but he needed his family so much that he risked his life to walk through ash and snow just to

Alex is a pilot in the Navy that is very proud of his military discipline and high standards. He came to see Dr Paul after he bombarded a school in Baghdad thinking that it was an insurgent safe house. As soon as Alex gets in the doctor’s office, he adopts an arrogant position and almost does not let Dr Paul talk. Alex tests Paul all the time, trying to control the topic of the

Alex Garcia is more suspicious than the other persons of interest because he was the last one to see Anna alive. He went to Anna’s house to discuss some paperwork, the night before Anna was found dead. It is said that Anna and Alex went through a nasty divorce. He remarried a younger woman, Erica Piedmont. They are now expecting a baby. It is said that they are having financial difficulties. Alex knows that he is still Anna’s beneficiary on her life insurance plan. It is

Alex matures and grows through his experiences in China and is now aware of the human consequences that war has. Alex’s growth and maturity is shown when his dad is captured by PLA. Proof of this is when Alex and his dad are talking over the two way radio before Ted gets captured. He is very concerned for his Dad at this point in the book. This event is the beginning of Alex’s awakening. This event hits Alex hard and makes him realize the reality behind war. Another event that helps Alex articulate his new vision of war is when he sees Lau Xu die right in front of his eyes. He even describes the details of the shooting when he says “Crack! Lau Xu spun around, his arms flung skyward. Before he fell the AK 47 spit flame again and the burst blew Lao xu off his feet” (Bell 114). Another example of Alex’s growth leading up to his epiphany of hating war is when Xin-hua gets shot. This happens when Alex starts to beg the officer to let her go and says” Please let me talk to your commanding officer. I just want to-...CRACK. The sound of a single gunshot. I turned to look into the trees where they had taken Xin-Hua. Oh God no, I moaned. No, No ,Nooooooo!” (Bell 183). Alex is now fully aware of the horrible consequences of war after witnessing the death of his friends and his father getting

As he grew up to become a writer, we see pain in the story he tells. “I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life” (pg.18). Alexie wanted to be someone greater than what others expected him to be. People would put him down constantly, but he fought back just as much. He tried to save himself from the stereotypes of being just another dumb Indian. He had more determination to prove others wrong when it came too exceeding in reading to further excel in his daily life.

Alexie also illustrates throughout his stories the lack of community among his people. In This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona he illustrates his opinion of the tribal council. In this case he shows the robotic attributes of the council through the use of repetition when he asks the council for assistance. Though his father is dead and the urgency of the matter the council still offers minimal help. Alexie is also ardent in showing the hypocrisy that surrounds most of the situations in his stories, such as the character that looks at his white girlfriend the same way the store clerk

On his seventh day he got into what is referenced to as " the weirdest fist fight " of his life. At this point Alexie composes a list called " The Unofficial and Unwritten (but you better follow them or you 're going to get beaten twice as hard) Spokane Indian Rules of Fisticuffs. Basically, this list says: you have to fight even if you only think you 're being insulted. By putting this list in his story Alexie is creating a portal into society 's expectations of the Spokane Indian reservation to give the reader a better understanding of the Native American culture.

Alex realizes that at eighteen he is no longer a child, but rather an adult who has not yet amounted to anything. He comes to realize that he would like to start a family of his own, with a wife and son like Pete. He makes a comparison between youth and a windup toy, saying how they continue moving forward in one direction until there is something to block its path. He says that this is a fundamental fact of youth: youth will always make mistakes, as he has, and that this is what leads to the growth into an adult. He realizes the connection that exists between violence and youth, and that free will is more than just violence but making choices based on morality and thought rather than

Alexie appeals to the adolescent memories and emotions of his readers by using straightforward connections and allusions to exhibit how unconventional he was growing up. The premise of his story is the process he undertook to educate himself; he reveals that the beginning of his education started with learning to interpreting Superman comic books. By including the allusion of Superman in his story, he is comparing his personal experiences to the well known superhero. The first experience Alexie includes was the action of Superman knocking down a door; this acts as a symbol for his process of overcoming mental roadblocks. As his intelligence grew on the Native American reservation, he became more out of the ordinary, and his high level of education was almost a superpower parallel to the capabilities Superman possessed. But similarly to Superman’s weakness around kryptonite, Alexie was also weakened by his

Alexie uses first hand experiences all throughout his article to depict the reality of American Indian’s lives. By appealing to the pathos, he gives his readers the ability to empathize with him, experiencing both the trials and triumphs. His use of analogies provides his audience with visuals that portray his experiences more accurately. When Alexie writes about himself in

The Alaskan wild, a desolate, harsh terrain that should only be navigated by knowledgeable and precise individuals. In the book Into The wild by Jon Krakauer, readers follow the journey of Alex McCandless, on his nomadic journey through the vast American country side. “To the dessert go prophets and hermits; through the desert go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality” (chapter 4). Alex presents extraordinary intelligence and social skills but his yearning for the outdoors overweighs the constraints of society.

The author uses imagery to help further depict Alex's journey through maturity. When Alex and the other expedition members were eating Allende says, "Compared to venison, it was rather bland, but Alex decided that in any case it was better than the rubbery pancakes his father prepared" (Allende 140). At the beginning of the expedition, Alex refused to eat anything besides a very select few types off foods, but when this quote was taking place Alex was

In this paper I will be questioning and predicting. On some parts in the book I was confused. Here are my questions I had while reading this book. Why is Alex doing all these dangerous jobs, when it seems he does not want to? I think he is doing these things to keep himself save and here is why.

This shows the dysfunctionality between the three of them and how they don’t understand how to be around each other at that point and time. When Marie uses Alex’s illness against him like

However, youth like Alex cannot be caught in the expected rubric of life and hence, they retaliate. Nevertheless, one cannot justify Alex’s actions worth applauding but Burgess seems to favour their actions as the only possible outlet for suppressed angst. In the first act, fourth chapter, Alex says,