Crake Persuasive Essay

Jimmy Cross knows Martha does not love him that not a bomb cell of his life. However he still clinging, and hoping and fantasizing on the idea of Martha is in love him. Martha is connected to life back home that is wonderful and beautiful. O’Brien writes “He would image romantic camping trips into the mountains in New Hampshire.” (O’Brien). She represents everything soft, tender like poetry. “About her respect for Chaucer and her great affection for Virginia Woolf. She often quoted lines of poetry,” (O’Brien’s). That is, unlike than the super masculine world of war that he is facing now. He is now living hard, harsh and difficult world of war all the time. First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross needs obsession with Martha because that is his brain’s survival mechanism. Martha writes Jimmy Cross about the world she belongs at, gives him fantasies of the world back home to help him survive The Vietnam

Jimmy Cross's soldiers use their weapons as probes in order to find Kiowa's corpse. As the soldiers wonder which coordinates to march, Cross dives into his flashback. He compares the tactically failure of camping in a waste field to the municipal golf course. The accident was only a happenstance where one soldier turned on a flashlight and allowed the enemies to spot them. Kiowa immediately submerged into the waste due to explosions. Soldiers tried to get traction and salvage Kiowa's carcass. After witnessing the cadaver, Azar finally can understand the feeling of condolence. Cross arrived at a conclusion that no matter where the blame is placed, for example to the makers of munitions, consequences will never disappear.

Dramatic tragedies often result in an unhappy ending. In a tragedy the flaws of a main character brings about their downfall. A tragic hero has the power and respect, but struggles with a tragic flaw which he or she later acknowledges. Though there are many tragic heroes in The crucible, John Proctor has characteristics that best exemplify a true tragic hero. Like all tragic heroes, John has a tragic flaw which he struggles with but in the end, he recognizes his flaw and takes responsibility for his actions.

Psychically, he cleanses himself in same water that sourced his loss. He does not keep these feelings to himself, like he so easily could, but instead he accepts them. The further he gets into the mucky water, the more his mindset begins to shift for the positive. The guilt lifts and the story he is planning to tell changes narrative: “Near the center of the field, First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross squatted in the muck, almost entirely submerged. In his head he was revising the letter to Kiowa’s father. Impersonal this time” (176). Though the impersonalization of his thoughts seems like a negative quality, it actually shows improvement. Jimmy is further into the water, and feeling less responsible for the sudden death. He no longer thinks of his own opinions on Kiowa, just the facts. He died. It was an accident. The order was from higher up, not even Jimmy. No one can be blamed. No one should be haunted by the guilt. By being in the moment, and the setting, he is able to clear his mind and come to realizations about it all. He sinks into the filth, and ironically, becomes clean again. Eventually, he lets himself go into the water, ignoring everyone and everything in that moment: “But First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross wasn’t listening. Eyes closed, he let himself go deeper into the waste, just letting the field take him. [...] With his eyes still closed, bobbing in the field, he let himself slip away. He was back home in

He causes himself to embody his own weakness during the course of the story because he is distracted, he is pathetic, and an underprivileged leader. One trait of Jimmy in the short story is that he is lethargic. Jimmy weeps of Martha and how he misses his homeland, which causes him to forget that he is in a war. Jimmy physically does not do much and that allows him to become a sad and careless soldier. He lets these traits and ideas of weakness embody the mind of a soldier that ultimately makes him lose sight of his goals of being a lieutenant. Jimmy causes these events in the story until the death of Ted Lavender. Jimmy metaphorically humps his burdens of war and attempts to push through the insinuated

In the play “ The Crucible” John Proctor is the main character and a tragic hero. He is a tragic hero because he has a downfall and suffers throughout the story. John Proctor is a thirty year old man who is a farmer that is really tempered, powerful of the body, and not easily led. Now in the play John Proctor has some weaknesses, those are his affair, he has with Abigail, him not trusting himself, being born a sinner. These things can make him a tragic hero because these are errors and sufferings he does in the book. John Proctor is just a really tempered guy in the book.

He says it is “something that would never go away” (O’Brien 26). Jimmy Cross feels responsible for Ted Lavender’s death because he had been

The first reason Jimmy Valentine should stay free is that he stopped robbing. In the letter he sent to his old friend Sullivan he decided to get rid of all of his tools and started over. He also stated in the letter that he wrote that he's living a better life and fell in love. This means that now he realizes what the real world is he will stop robbing and start new.

Within the short story, the audience learns that Jimmy Cross carries letters and pictures from his crush from back home, Martha. Multiple times within the story Jimmy Cross consults these pictures and letters to distract himself from the war providing a bit of comfort in his harsh environment. With progression through the story, readers find Jimmy Cross continuously reviewing the pictures and letters from his dear Martha, letting his mind drift off thinking about her, distracting him from his duties at hand. These distractions happen more and more often, eventually leading to the most harrowing consequence. First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross’s divergence from his important tasks at hand, result in Ted Lavender being killed while under the supervision of Cross himself. This being the key turning point for Cross, as he starts to realize his lapse in judgment and focus, had directly cost the life of one of his soldiers. This resulting in him discovering that the pictures and letters from Martha, he was using as hope for his future back home, and comfort from the issues at hand, were the stemming source of all his problems and distractions, which ultimately cost the life of his soldier. Because of this realization, Cross burns the pictures and letters from Martha, which he was holding onto in hopes that she

Likewise, Crake is very obscure at first until Jimmy watches the death videos with him and they play Blood and Roses and Extinctathon together. By feeding Crake’s odd passion with death, violence, and evolution, Jimmy unearths Crake and becomes a little wary of his future plans.

This war had claimed too many of soldiers in the past and many of his own men and thus Jimmy Cross realizes that he needs to change his approach if he wants to prevent any more deaths in the future. Therefore, Jimmy Cross not only sacrifices his love, but he also sacrifices his emotions to prevent any further casualties among his

Jimmy started doing terrible things that not only did it affect him but his relationship with his family. His mother couldn’t cope with the fact that Jimmy became a drug addict. After Bobby passing Jimmy started hanging out with his other friends and they influenced him to do wrongfully

Crake’s main goal for his society from the start of the novel is to create a perfect version of humankind. He planned to do this through the creation of the Crakers. Crake wished to create an immortal

After being released out of prison his brother in law and himself went on a mission to the village of Dolores where they realized that residents were being tortured by Orapronobis. Jimmy decided to help by evacuating all the people from the village to a church where they would be safe and away from any danger. Jimmy had a lot of bravery for staying to help the village put. He always put other first before himself. For example, when Esper, his former ex-girlfriend was kidnapped, without any hesitation he told his wife, Trixie, he would go out to look for her and because regardless of her being his former lover he continued to care for her. This film displays the amount care and responsibility that Jimmy along with each character had to take on when events such as kidnapping and killing would take

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