“Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you” (Flynn 32). This quote directly shows how secluded and independent, Amy and Nicks relationship is. The beginning of “Gone Girl” is about a couple that moved from New York to Missouri. The husband, “Nick”, owns a bar with his sister. His spouse, Amy, is a writer who is also an inspiration to a popular children’s book, “Amazing Amy.” One day Nick came home from The Bar, and Amy was gone. Amy and Nick had a strange relationship that makes her disappearance eerie; on the other hand, Nick and his sister Margo have a resilient relationship. The adjective you’d expect to use describing a marriage is loving. The adjective one may use …show more content…
I believe that there is two different causes to Amy’s disappearance. The most common prediction is that Nick killed her. Just in the beginning of the book, Nick references the Mississippi river multiple times. “I could walk down the road and step right into the sucker, and easy three-foot drip, and be on my way to Tennessee” (Flynn 21). This quote clearly supports that Nick could’ve killed Amy and sent her to Tennessee. Based on Nick talking about what it would be like to bash Amy’s head in, I think Nick might have done exactly that. When Nick arrived at his house the ottoman was turned over, books were on the floor, and the iron was left on. I cannot imagine Amy not putting up a fight against Nick. Detective Rhonda Boney, found blood splatter in the kitchen; which certainly hints that she might have been killed. Another person that may have been involved with the case is their neighbor Carl. One may describe Carl as creepy or strange. Carl seemed to know a lot of specific details about their household. He would constantly call their house informing them that their mailbox was full, or their cat was outside. Carl was even the one who informed Nick that his front door was open, this lead to Nick coming home to a crime scene. If Carl has anything to do with Amy, I think that he took her. Their neighborhood is filled with empty houses, a perfect place to hold someone hostage. Even though the author leads the …show more content…
He was closer to his sister than anybody else in his life. They were very close, and told each other everything. They’ve been close since they were kids. Other kids used to make jokes about them having a “twinsest.” Margo and Nick always understood one another. They had a lot of inside jokes, and shared stories. Nick cared for Margo and Margo cared for Nick. One example proving that they care, Nick moved home to Missouri for her and their parents. He appears to care a lot more about Margo than Amy because he didn’t even ask Amy about moving home. A sample of how Margo cared for Nick is that she agreed to own a bar with Nick. She knew that Nick and Amy were in financial trouble and wanted to help. The problem was that they weren’t making
The meaning of pussy whipped refers to becoming totally under the control of a woman and also doing everything according to her desire by being very obedient to her. So the person who does what his wife or girl friend says always is pussy whipped. A good example of a pussy whipped man is someone who purchases his wife every little thing she desires, arrives home whenever she tells him and also carries her purse in all places they go.
Gittes makes a plan for Katherine and Evelyn to meet at the butler’s house before fleeing to Mexico. Gittes slips through Escobar's hands with the help of Curly, who promises to assist in getting the two girls to Mexico. Gittes then makes a phone call to Noah Cross, telling him to meet at Evelyn’s house and he has Katherine. When Cross asks him about the girl, Gittes says she is with her mother, revealing his knowledge. Cross is then confronted with evidence(the bifocals belonged to Cross) of him killing Hollis. He immediately evades the question, and states “at the right time and the right place, people are capable of anything”. Mulvihill pulls a gun on Gittes and demands he gives the bifocals. Mulvihill and Cross force Gittes to take them
People try to hard to be popular in Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. Stargirl becomes Susan to try to be popular, but it did not work. The most important lesson that we learned from Stargirl is that popularity does not matter, no matter how much you are hated.
I have chosen to read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. I have chosen this book based on my personal interest and interest in this specific genre, which is fiction, young adult literature, and children's literature. This book takes place at Mica Area High School in Arizona. Leo Borlock is your average eleventh grader, and he is the only one who accepts Stargirl for who she is. Sarah "Stargirl" Caraway is a unique tenth grader, and she is rejected by everybody in the school. She dances in the rain, plays the ukulele at lunch, and wears strange outfits. Stargirl had small bursts of popularity, but they've never lasted long. Soon after Leo accepts Stargirl, they began a relationship together. As the relationship
There are many characters in the book Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern. Some which are evil, some which are brave, but the real hero in the story is Westley. Westley saves buttercup twice and he also stops Humperdinck's’ evil plans that he was going to put forth after the wedding. Westly is the true hero of the story because he is brave and is always willing to help even if he is in bad condition.
In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway gradually grows annoyance with Daisy and Tom Buchanan and their selfish and luxurious life. Daisy, on the other hand finds Nick to be her “trustworthy genuine cousin”. Tom thinks of Nick as his old friend from college who is always there for him; however fraudulence lies between all of them. Thus, representing how each of the characters perceived their friendship differently. To begin, throughout the book Nick grows to become more and more disgusted with the actions Daisy and Tom fulfill; especially towards people. Nick represents this when he says, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them
Gatsby: Oh Jesus,you just hit that girl we should go back and help pick up her body and bury her
There are several instances in The Great Gatsby that support the fact that when a person is observing a relationship, it is easy to see its true dynamic. In the presented scenarios, a character on the exterior of a relationship, mainly Nick, is observing how two parties relate and seeing the reality of the situation rather than the superfluous attitudes the characters display in front of one another. Though it can be argued that in a relationship one knows the other’s sincere feelings, one can also hide their feelings in order to maintain an ideal relationship, as to avoid flaws.
Immediately preceding his statement about being one of the few honest people he has ever known, he admits to both falsely proclaiming his love and perpetuating a "vague understanding" he had no intention of fulfilling. What's more, Nick takes his long-belated decision to now, finally, deal with the situation as evidence of his perfect honesty-ignoring entirely the preceding weeks and months of deception!
3. In the beginning of the chapter Holden wanted to be with a girl. He kept trying to get a girl to hang out with him, Holden said “I told him to ask old Valencia if she’d care to join me for a drink” (Salinger 165). This quote shows that Holden wanted to have a drink with a girl. He didn’t just try once, after he tried to be with Valencia, Holden went and called Sally Hayes.
The extent of Nick's time with Gatsby -therefore our time as readers -might make Gatsby seem like Nick holds greater sympathy for Gatsby. However, by the end, Nick is growing disgust for Gatsby's obsession with Daisy, especially when it tosses morality out the window. Nick gives little report on Wilson, in fact, he seems to always report what's going on with Wilson with little interest.
1) The literary term being used is speaker where the main character, Holden, was speaking when it read "I said" to his little sister Phoebe.
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” This famous line, by Abraham Lincoln, highlights the fact that everyone is of equal value. On the other end of the spectrum is the idea of discrimination. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café was written by Fannie Flagg, a well-known American author. This novel takes place in the Deep South and switches back and forth between the 1980s and the early 20th century, when discrimination was rampant. Discrimination has two main definitions. Firstly it is defined as “the ability to recognize the difference between things that are of good quality and those that are not” (Webster). A second definition is “the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people” (Webster). The latter
Nick knows that Gatsby lies because Gatsby wants people to respect him and he does not want to face the reality that he comes from a poor family. Moreover, Nick knows about Daisy and Gatsby's past relationship and how Gatsby cannot face the reality that Daisy is married to Tom. Gatsby presses Daisy to tell him that she never loved Tom. Gatsby wants to deny the truth and wants to bring back the old days he spent with Daisy.
On the subject of rage, an attack on Kino in the book was not the only attack. The malicious pearl causes family to go against family. Juana knows that this pearl has brought the family bond down so she decided to grab it and leave the house. For this reason, Kino strikes at his beloved wife."He struck her in the face with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders, and he kicked her in the side." (59) Kino doesn't care about the harm he is giving to his family, his mind is only focused on that one pearl. Owing to the fact that Kino is a man, Juana does nothing in defense. "She knew there was murder in him, and it was all right; she had accepted it, and she would not resist or even protest." (59) She showed no sign expostulation