Comparison Of John Green And David Levithan's 'Sarah Smiles'

Lennie Small is a stable, but physically strong man who is George’s partner and is his constant and trustworthy companion. He has a habit for soft things, considering the fact that he is a big person and that he enjoys little, soft items in which that some of these can lead to trouble for him.

The article "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates who notes that it is for Bob Dylan, a musician whose music plays a significant role in the context. The text centers on a young American teenage girl, Connie who is rebellion and has a distant relationship with her family that resulted from her mother constant comparing her with her sister. A man comes with a mystery, Arnold Friend who shifts Connie from reality to fantasy and pushes her spiritually to obey him. An important motif from the text, the music, reveals the true identity of Connie and becomes a weapon used to dictate her along with Arnold Friend's voice, and Bob Dylan's song has all contributes to the central theme of the story, domination.

Lennie Small is a character that readers are drawn to right from the beginning of the book. His innocence stands out from the grimey coverings of loneliness and hopelessness that the other characters wear. The reason Lennie is so innocent is because he has a mental handicap, one that prevents him from understanding complex human emotions such as guilt, or concepts such as death. In addition Lennie has trouble remembering things, “" I tried and tried [to remember]...but it didn't do not good." Consequently, Lennie has trouble fitting in with society. Ultimately his mental disability is what leads to Lennie's demise at the end of the book. Another trait that is an essential part of Lennie's innocent character is his devotion to his closest friend George. In fact, the only times Lennie is shown to be angry is when George is insulted or threatened. When Crooks, the crippled, black, stable hand, implies bad things about George, this devotion is clearly shown. “Suddenly Lennie's eyes centered and grew quiet, and mad. He walked dangerously toward Crooks. 'Who hurt George?' he demanded" When it comes to George, Lennie would deviate from the normal passive motives of his persona. More support can be found when George is the only one who can convince Lennie to “get him[Curly]” when Curly attacks him, as well as being the only one to stop him. Perhaps the most prominent support for Lennie's childlike innocence is in his utter belief of George and his dream. No matter how

The age fifteen is often mentioned in Taylor Swift’s “Fifteen” and Five for Fighting’s “100 Years” because of its effect and importance towards one’s future. The songwriters use the age not only comparing it to the years of a human’s life, but instead referring to the age when one aspires to live in a romantic fairy tale. In this stage of one’s life, they transition between the innocence of childhood toward to the maturity of adulthood. One is not yet fully developed, or independent, but are still gaining new knowledge. Fifteen, an illusion created by preconceived ideas, is focused on through song to display when one discovers or questions their identity.

The short story “Greenleaf” by Flannery O’Connor tells of Mrs. May, an old, bitter, and selfish woman. She thinks badly of everyone around her, including her own two sons. It also compares her family to that of the Greenleaf family, who Mrs. May sees as inferior to her. O’Connor unveils the story of Mrs. May and her demise through the use of point of view, character, and symbolism. She uses the third person omniscient view to give the reader a sense of Mrs. May’s character, and the symbols of the bull, and the conflict between the bull and Mrs. May to show Mrs. May’s destruction as well as give the story a deeper meaning of God’s grace.

Lennie Small is one of the main characters in the book. He is mentally disabled and has the mind of a child. Lennie is a misunderstood character who has good intentions but doesn’t understand the impact of his actions. The only character Lennie has a close relationship to George, who sees him as a burden blocking the way to his American dream.

The latter, a clumsy, naïve, mentally disabled giant, Lennie Small’s diction is underdeveloped and gleefully childish. As to achieve realism, Steinbeck writes with the diction of uneducated farmhands. Yet as simplemindedly blunt they appear to be, diction verbalized by both George and Lennie furthers their fraternal companionship. In the opening paragraphs, the two men approach the pool. Lennie inhales gulps of water, only to abruptly halt when George warns him that if he drinks too much, he “gonna be sick like [he] was last night” (Steinbeck 3). Initially, George’s diction renders him a degrader of his mentally disabled counterpart. However, his sole purpose is to protect his companion. As the story progresses, it is revealed that George intends not only to protect Lennie from murky waters, but from the alienation and predation of the world. The crystal pool setting of Of Mice and Men serves as an important symbol for the novella. As it is introduced immediately, it gives the reader the sense of prosperity that George and Lennie so often wish

Social status often establishes one 's credibility and integrity within a society. The power that social status has, encourages people to heavily focus on it. With this focus on social status ever pressing, one’s identity often gets intertwined with and reliant on their place in the hierarchy of society. People become fixated on one idea they have of a person in a certain social class, that anybody who breaks out of specific stereotypes may often cause anger amongst others. In the short story “Greenleaf” by Flannery O’Connor, the main character, Mrs. May, is obsessive about the way others perceive her and her place in society. Mr. May’s identity is so strictly tied to her desire to get to a higher social class and her notions how society

She tries to relate to sex through popular music that romanticizes relationships and life. The short reveals how it affects Connie when she is listening to a popular radio station, “…bathed in a glow of slow-pulsed joy that seemed to rise mysteriously out of the music itself and lay languidly about the airless little room” (Oates 424). Additionally, Connie felt her date with Eddie was similar to “the way it was in movies and promised in songs”(Oates 424). She felt she was living the dream and was beginning to relate to this sexualized, romantic media. In Marie Mitchell and Olesen Urbanski’s literary review of the story, they state “the recurring music then, while ostensibly innocuous realistic detail, is in fact, the vehicle of Connie's seduction and because of its intangibility, not immediately recognizable as such” (1). However, Arnold Friend was quick to remind her of her young age and innocence at the end of the story.

Like many teenagers, music plays a large role in Connie's life. She drifts off into daydreams and desires when listening to music. It plays in her head, even when there is no music around. She dreams of boys and love, "sweet, gentle, the way it was in movies and promised in songs" (par. 12). When Arnold and his friend Ellie first pull up into Connie's driveway, the music on the radio has an effect on her. Like many teenagers, Connie is intrigued by the music. It allows a connection between her and the strangers in her driveway. She becomes interested in the boys. They listen to the same station on Ellie's transmitter radio that Connie plays in the house. Although she has never spoken with them before, Connie feels more comfortable and less tense as she begins to listen to the music from Ellie's transmitter radio and the music coming from inside her home as they blend into one sound. Because of Connie's relaxing state, she allows herself to become intrigued with Arnold and

The main characters of the book are George and Lennie. Even though these two seem to have each other, they are both lonesome in a way. Lennie's mental retardation isolates him from many people. George is the only person he can spend time with and many times their relationship is more then just friendship, but dependency. George feels responsible for Lennie, but knows he would be better off without him. George has to look after Lennie and clean up the messes

Scott Mescudi is a hip-hop artist whose music captures the mind of his listeners through his depressed melodic harmonies. As a child he suffered a traumatic incident that led him to become what he is today for better or for worse. His father died when he was eleven years old inspiring him musically and as a person. With Scott’s father dieing he became depressed (Jaliman). He struggled through life dealing with his depression as a kid through when he is an adult. The only way for him to feel an escape from his sadness and lonesomeness was through his artistic ability in creating music. Through that Scott expresses his passions and demons. On his album “Man on the Moon” and other popular works such as his single “The Prayer”, Kid Cudi speaks

With the little bit the trout is in the story it symbolizes Donny losing his childhood, his father drinking, and him keeping his family together. Growing and Inch relates to the units theme with pride and persistence. Donny has a crush, Mitzi, and sometimes has to cancel play because of dad drinking. He never tells Mitzi about the drinking problem, but instead says he's always sick. That is showing pride in Donny because he is to proud to tell her that his dad is a drunk alcoholic. Donny has to keep his family together and never breaks. He may get frustrated, but he does everything for the family to keep them together. Donny shows persistence in never giving up on the family and always dedicating his life to the family. This novel shows pride

The time I’ve spent over the summer I listened to a lot of music and its was mostly hip-hop and R&B and rap, but I liked pop as well as a genre in music and while I was sulking over my old life in Wallingford school I developed a close attachment to music to deal with the emotional tension that was going on within myself. At the time school at Branford had started and I didn’t know it exactly at that time but this was the point where I was started to write music I was hooked on all the music from over the summer I guess my mind started translating beats and words and I can recall these beats and words because these became my first song ever written while I came to Branford. The periods I spent over the course of the first year at Branford had been socially and emotionally traumatic for me I cannot lie; the people there were nice some friendly and some not and I found myself alone most of the time. At these point in school I started to question myself and my social skills with others and my self-esteem continued to drop.The epiphany I had happened when I felt as though I wasn’t important anymore and when that happened I started to write songs to express these feeling inside of me;I hadn’t said anything about my days at school to anyone besides my mother, but even with her she couldn’t fully understand what I as in my situation was going

Despite the album being solely based on a one-sided relationship, anyone and everyone can relate, in so manner. Sam Smith based the album off of his traumatic situation of falling in love with a heterosexual man, despite Smith being a homosexual man. The album conveys nothing but a story of sadness to a feeling of relief and contentment. Sam Smith begins his album with a song that not only makes listeners want to cry, but, also engulfs them into a feeling of helplessness. Through his use of slow melodies to an upbeat tempo, listeners are taken on an emotional journey with the artist. This album does not only display every emotion imaginable for a human but, teaches them life lessons within each song. The sound of this artist’ music is full of life and the wonderful, but stressful battles that each and everyone may