Inherit The Wind Quotes

“I sing country, blues, gospel, and rock. Many colored think I’m a white man who adopted black music.”

Chapter 1- Philip Pirrip who is known as Pip got that name because he couldn't pronounce his real name when he was really young. Pip lives with his sister Mrs. Joe Gargery because both of his parents are dead. One day Pip winds up in an old churchyard observing the gravestones of his parents when a fearful man who had an iron leg approaches him. This man threatens Pip that he will tear his liver and heart out if he does not bring him food and a file.

Haruki Murakami said, “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” This quote is shown throughout Kate Chopin’s story “The Storm”. This story is about two families who are having problem in their relationships. Calixta and Alcee are past lovers and rekindle their love, which actually seems to improve their relationships with their spouses. The feelings between Calixta and Alcee only faded, never fully went away. They do not treat sex and love the same. Their attitudes towards their spouses and families changed. Desire stormed through their lives just like the storm raged through

The play Inherit The Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee is set in a small town not too long ago when it was illegal to teach evolution in schools. It could be tomorrow or it may just have been yesterday. The play accounts a popular Scopes Monkey Trial that took place in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925. A few characters are related to colorful figures in the battle of giants. The greatest reporters and historians of the century wrote millions of words about the Monkey Trial. Bert Cates was the character in the play who was put on trial for teaching about evolution. There were people who were true about themselves while there were people who were biased in what they believed. Cates and Drummond are the characters who are most truthful and vocal about their beliefs and stay true to themselves throughout the book.

Henry Norris Russel once said "Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe". Throughout history, people have argued about the origin of mankind and tried to explain the unexplainable through religion. These different views have caused segregation and disputes over what's right and wrong. Intolerance towards outcasts, and consequences of extreme fundamentalism are demonstrated in Inherit the Wind written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The central focus of the play is the trial of Bertram Cates, which debates the education of evolution. It reveals the importance of free-thought and the necessity for respect for views that differ from one's own. However, where there has been a disagreement about views, conflict has sparked. It is not possible for two different views of humankind's roots to exist side-by-side because non-conformity can provoke conflict.

“Shortly after we first came to Morpheus, I was Grunk's prisoner, imagine someone as powerful as Bork, only instead of helping you he's trying to get you instead, that's what we're up against. I'll make you a deal, you take care of him for me and I'll take care of one of your fears for you.”

Throughout the entirety of the play “Inherit the Wind”, the teachings of the Bible and Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species is argued to determine the fate of a man on trial. Just as the curtains are about to close, the defense lawyer, Henry Drummond, makes a significant move. Here, he balances the two books in each of his hands and then shoves them together into his briefcase. Because of the constant argument as to what book’s teachings is correct, this final move Drummond made is very meaningful. The scene’s message can be interpreted in different ways, but the most obvious thought it is trying to portray is that both sides, the church and science, can work together. There is no right or wrong as to how the Earth came to be, since no human

    William Kamkwamba, the boy who truly did harness the wind, possesses many traits that helped him pursue building the windmill of his dreams.  Of course he is intelligent, that's a given, however he is more than just a big brainiac. William has a rare spark of determination that is hard to find in many.  He is an inspiration to many as well as incredibly humble and positive. From his ups to his downs, William Kamkwamba is made up of specific traits and personas that help define himself and that assist him in making his dreams a reality.

Quote: "You couldn’t save yourself in the river today. No matter how hard you tried. The man who pulled you out saved your life." Small text treasure: A beach ball to represent the water and the boy took

Albert Einstein once said, “We cannot solve the problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” This idea is present throughout Inherit the Wind. Inherit the Wind is a play that challenges both science and belief. Its plot surrounds an educator teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in a small town where the Bible is treated as the only book that explains where humanity came from. The play’s playwrights, Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence, is justifying, through Inherit the Wind, the perils of having a limited perspective and reveals that one should expand one’s horizons to continue progressing in life, prevent ignorance, and exclusion from the rest of the world through their character’s actions, dialogues,

All stories require intriguing conflicts for them to be appealing. The dispute between central characters of Lawrence and Lee’s Inherit the Wind, enriches and develops a captivating narrative. The most significant conflict occurs between Brady and Drummond (person vs. person). Townspeople initial bias against Drummond (person vs society), creating a challenge. Reverend Brown composes an idealistic view of his religion to the disapproval of his daughter (person vs person).

A cancer victim can also live a happy life with a positive attitude and with the help of his or her family and friends as Hazel in the novel. SF Hazel Grace , a 16 year old girl who had a disease known as thyroid. SF She is still alive with the help of a lot of medication provided by Dr. Maria who is Hazel’s primary cancer doctor. Irrelevant Hazel Grace was a depressed and lonely person as she never came out of her house .She devoted her abundant free time to think about death.

In the first few pages of the book there is a divide of people; Fundamentalist beliefs and a belief in Academic freedom. For example on page 4, Howard a believer in Academic freedom suggests there is an alternative reason for life other than god and Melinda a fundamentalist calls him sinful. Later we learn that the main character Cates has taught his students in his biology class freedom of thought, but has broken the law, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. We can compare Melinda’s actions of rejecting Academic freedom to the people in the town of

I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This book is about a girl named Scout Finch who lives with her brother, Jem, and father, Atticus, during the Great Depression. They live in a small town called Maycomb, Alabama where everybody knows all of the people who live in their town. Atticus defends Tom Robinson, a black man, who was accused of raping a white woman. Turmoil in Maycomb starts to surface and the town is turning against Atticus. The town takes their frustrations out on Jem and Scout for their father’s dusties as a lawyer. In this paper I will be evaluaitng and questioning.

“You inherited only a hundred cattle and you went and spell them out on me,” quote from the story The Wise Daughter. Folktales have been around wherever communities have formed. The folktales can be made about anything from myths to legends. Folktales can tell a lot of thing in various ways, they can also be taken differently. At someone’s perspective it can mean good or evil. I read two folktales which both convey a message about greed, wealth, and foolishness. “How the wicked sons were duped” and “The Wise Daughter”. Both conveyed with me in a good manner.