Jerry's Cruelty: A Short Story

THE BOY HITCHHIKING on the back-country Kansas road was nineteen years old. He had been dropped there by a farmer in a Model T Ford who had turned off to the north. Then he waited for three hours. It was July and there were no clouds. The wheat fields were flat and went straight to the horizon. The boy had two plums and he ate them. A blue Plymouth coupe went by with a man and a woman. They were laughing. The woman had blonde hair and it was all loose and blew from the window. They didn't even see the boy. The strands of straw-colored hair seemed to be waving to him. Half an hour later a farmer stopped in a Ford pickup covered with a layer of dust. The boy clambered into the front seat. The farmer took

The lawn boy had recently turned 12 years old and his grandmother had given him a ride-on mower that was recently owned by his grandfather. Although it took him a few minutes to figure out how to work this mower he later figured it out and he started to mow his very small lawn. After he was done with his lawn, someone approached him and asked him if he would mow their lawn for $20. That was when his business started. After he was done with mowing that lawn, several people approached him and

According to Ann Marie Paulin in “Cruelty, Civility and Other Weighty Matters”, the mass media are discriminating against overweight people, which creates a society where being fat is looked down upon. Paulin argues that, “the media are notorious for getting things less than accurate” (243), therefore we shouldn’t believe how they depict fat people on tv, magazines and other media sources. The author believes that not all overweight people are like, how the media portrays them, but rather their lifestyle is influenced by the culture we live in. She claimed that, “Sugary or fatty foods are often available in grab and go packages that are so much easier to take to work or eat in the car than making a healthy snack” (245). She believe there are evidence to show that humans are naturally attracted to unhealthy foods, but society continue to manufacture them to make people eat more (243-249). I agree with Paulin about how the media need to stop fat shaming because it’s not only making people feel bad, but it is promoting obesity.

His grandma went to the grocery store as Max was pushing the cart his grandma wanted to make roast with mash potatoes and corn and other groceries makes was carry five bags and gallon of milk his house was close to the store walking distant as the car needs to be fixed something is wrong with the motor why old cars will never work as Max was thinking walking back from the store. Max help his grandma put the groceries away and help with dinner as his grandma had smile on her face Max wanted to learn how to cook something different to do as school was cancelled for a snow day. Three days passed Max was happy to go to the store acquire with money for his pictures. He went to the counter the lady found his pictures Max paid cost was $7.99 max gave her eight dollars with penny back for change. He went outside and open the packet for the pictures all of them were awesome he favorite was the one with his grandma Max went home to show his grandma the pictures she loved them too. The next day the sun was out and Max was wondering snowman would melt? Freezing temps as forecast under 30 degrees the snowman will be here another day Max thought as he went outside to see the snowman with smile on his face. Max wanted to do something fun as he was setting on the steps on the porch watching the cars go by he was bored. He missed Kevin wondering what he will do if he was here. Max was wondering if Kevin

How does Hallie characterize cruelty? Why does he think that institutionalized cruelty is the worst kind of cruelty?

In the Narrative of the Life Frederick Douglass he writes about Colonel Lloyd's cruelty. Douglass states it in such a matter that makes one feel as if the experience with Lloyd was terrible "If any one wishes to be impressed with the soul killing effect of slavery, let him go to Colonel Lloyds plantation." (Gates, 324) Colonel Lloyd kept a garden which offered employment for four men. Throughout the plantation this garden seemed to be the biggest attraction. It produced a verity of fruits that appealed to the eyes of many boys and older slaves. If slaves were to dare and steal fruit from Lloyd's garden they would have to take a lashing for their actions. The Colonel tried using different methods in attempt to keep the slaves out of his garden. The most successful one

Abandoning, ridiculing, criticizing, and other cruelties can be done to loved ones for many different reason spawning from different causes. Some of the causes can even make people perform cruelties intentionally.

The novel “Night” shows that there is great inhumanity and cruelty displayed from this personal journey of Elie Wiesel. The Nazi are the ringleaders behind it all gradually making the Jews feel like nothing and only pawns for work. The Germans strip the Jews to nothing and take away everything close to them, separation from loved ones, isolation, transportation and the ruthless, cold actions towards them in the camps such as starvation, selections of the fittest and the struggle of survival becomes essential for their own self. However there are humane acts within the book which help Elie overcome some struggles and survive the brutality of the camps and war.

of Darkness: the chain gangs, the grove of death, the payment in brass rods, the

This book was disturbing, unimaginable cruelty to any human being and indescribable for a defenseless child. I was perplexed and left with many unanswered questions about Dave’s perspective on the responses from the father, the siblings, the neighbors, the school system and the grandmother. How does a mentally sick individual, Dave’s mother, have the mental capacity to be able to hide her cruelty and manipulate so many people into believing Dave was properly cared for? According to Dave’s memoir, he was physically dirty, inappropriately dressed for the seasons, physically bruised and broken body, and visibly obvious starvation. All of which account for legal child neglect, why were the legally mandated reporters in Dave’s life not protecting

May all the world know how he has suspended important for many, and as they are suspended he neglects them; and for others we will not oblige simply until those people shall relinquish the right of representing the legislature, a formation of tyranny. At times we shall be at peace, he puts forthwith independent of and superior armies, much without our consent; with the intention to put through the efforts of death, desolation and tyranny, and he has already started this cruelty that is simply unfit for a civilized

Jerry was considerably neat, he liked his stuff put away nicely, there was a spot for everything. He was off to college when he saw the name of his roommate, Tander Gander. Tander was the messiest kid on earth. There was junk in his room toothpaste on his mirror and a dirty sitting under his bed (that by the way was not made).

“All cruelty springs from weakness,” said Lucius Annaeus Seneca. To me, this quote means that cruelty comes out from a person who is feeling weak. A big question people ask each other is “Why are people cruel to each other?” In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, there are many incidents of cruelty. Cruelty appeared in the book when George yells at the mentally handicapped Lennie in the beginning of the book. This trend of cruelty continues throughout the book. Characters that were notably cruel in the book are Curley, Curley’s wife, and George. The three things that motivate people to be cruel in the book are: when people feel they are powerless, when a person wants a feeling of short term enjoyment from

Helen’s marriage to Huntingdon causes her become a shell of her former self. Her temper seems to flare more often than not, and she finds herself close to despair at most times. She can know that technically she must remain married to Arthur, but in her heart she has left him and become a single woman. Not only does her husband not value her enough to stay faithful to the vows that mean so much to her, but he is willing to share Helen with other men that he finds worthy.

The next day the police said the hair turned out to be sheriff Jerry's but he was still on the loose he was nowhere to be found but everyone in the neighborhood was on the search for him there happened to be a new person in town no one knew who he was. They heard his name is jimmy because he spoke to one of the detectives no one knew what house he lived in and it seemed suspicious.