Joey, And All Other Animals

The book is filled with dark, gruesome moments. Moments that leave the reader with a destroyed faith in humanity. At surface value this is all true, but after looking deeper into the book many values are present. These value pertain to societal change and conformity. In the book, Piggy is the stereotypical fat boy with the glasses. The book portrays Piggy to be the victim of the society the boys have established on their small island. Despite what he has been through, Piggy makes an effort to contribute to the society the boys have built. The book says, “Piggy was … so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society … that he helped to fetch wood.” (Golding 186). The book also contains values of conformity for the better. The book tells of Jack who became upset with the tribe. He decides that he will break away from the tribe and invites everyone but Ralph to join him. One by one all the boys follow Jack to restart their society; leaving Ralph behind. The boys in the new tribe began to succeed more while Ralph begins to struggle. If Jack did not break away, then that success would have been

Teddy Brewster- The nephew of Martha and Abby and the brother of Johnathan and Mortimer. He is certified insane and thinks he’s Theodore Roosevelt. He lives with his two aunts.

Ralph represents common sense and what is best for the group by valuing fire the most, because fire represents salvation. Ralph’s value of fire can be seen when he says, “‘The fire’s the most important thing. Without the fire we can’t be rescued,’” (142). Jack represents impulsiveness and personal desire when he leaves the group so he can have fun and do what he wants. If the conch represents unity, Jack saying they don’t need the conch may be Golding portraying his value of only self interest and disregard for what is best for unity. Allegorically, Piggy represents logic. His logic can be seen when Ralph goes to him for advice. Simon represents looking inwards and self reflection. His self reflection can be seen when he goes on walks alone to think. Simon’s poor communication skills may be Golding conveying how inward thoughts are hard to display outwardly. The on and off tensions between Ralph and Jack may thematically represent how your common sense does not always line up with your personal desires in

This concept provides contrast and diversity in the author’s message of coming of age as a family. After the bombing Kenny sees Joey ,after thinking she was dead, and mourns, “Oh, you’ll probably see them nest. He takes you around to see your family before you go.” (187).The startled and confused Joey then complains, “What’s wrong with you Kenny? How come you looking so funny?” (187). Although no sign of Joey’s lack of change is visible, the point of this dialogue is to show the innocents that joey represents in the novel. Her symbolism of lack of aging and maturity is important to understand because overall, her symbol adds up to so much more than inocents, it adds up to a deeper understanding of the symbolism that the author uses throughout the

Nick Carraway is the most reliable character for the choice of narrator. At the beginning of the book Nick’s father

Joey talks about what he found after his mother’s death as he was going through the contents of the house and he finds an old college yearbook with portraits of his mother, “With a magnifying glass he studied her unsmiling, competitive face, with her hair in two balls at her ears and a headband over her bangs.” This excerpt really shows how into detail Updike goes, it’s really great because it helps convey what is going on in the story so everything can be seen clearly as he wants the reader to see. Joey is going through the basement and there’s a description of how he does it and it has imagery anda use of an onomatopoeia in it, “Joey’s city shoes slithered on the smooth floor, and then thumped on the wooden cellar stairs.” (129) This really helps the reader see what’s happening as if he’s there. The onomatopoeia helps strengthen the imagery present in the sentence. Towards the end of the story Joey explores his father's toolhouse, it was a pathetic one. His father wasn’t a manly man and didn’t get much use out of it, “In the toolhouse, where his father had left a pathetic legacy of rusty screws and nails neatly arranged in jars, and oily tools, half of them broken, mounted on rotting pegboard, there were also antique implements worn like prehistoric artifacts”

John Ritter plays a homosexual male in the movie who is like a father figure to Frank and a best friend to Frank's mother. He expresses several times in the movie to Karl how scared he is of Doyle and how he thinks that one-day Doyle will hurt them.

In the novel Animal Farm, the writer satirizes certain characters, in an effort to depict society in a humorous way. This essay will focus on the characters of Boxer, Mollie and Napoleon.

1. Pony boy Curtis- The narrator of the story. Ponyboy’s love for literature and academics make him different from the rest of the gang. He’s also the youngest. Because his parents died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers. His oldest brother accuses him of lacking common sense but, ponyboy is a reliable and observant character.

In the beginning of the movie, when Terry called Joey to his death; Terry didn’t feel right about it. We can tell his conscience was troubled while doing the job because of his later statement“ Joey wasn’t a bad kid” (Terry, On the Waterfront ) As Nolan said in the secret meeting in the church “Deef 'n dumb. Somethin' c'n happen right in front of our noses and we don't see nothin'. You know what I mean. No matter how much we hate the torpedoes we don't rat.” (Nolan, On the WaterFront ), ‘ratting’ the mob out was one the most important unspoken rule around. Breaking it could bring his life danger and some serious consequences. Yet with the right guidance he spoke the truth and freed the town from Friendly's hands and gave the people improved jobs and

Curtis uses Byron to symbolize Coming of Age, because it showed that Byron was growing up and listening to his parents and grandma. “Didn’t you hear what she said.” (184). Family symbolizes Byron.This quote symbolizes Byron, because it showed that he was trying to listen to the adults., because he felt bad about what he was doing. I guess the Wool Pooh was taking Joey around

One of the characters that are introduced as a stereotype is ‘the fair boy’.The stereotype used to present Ralph is a cool boy who is only friends With other popular boys as he didn't care about the other boy from the beginning as he said “wait a minute” this show that he doesn't care about anything apart of leaving and finding his way out. This character is really important to the novel as it says ‘the’ in front of ‘fair boy’. He is one of the popular boys who has a high status as it says ‘piggy looks up at Ralph’. This shows piggy admires Ralph as Ralph is more popular and the cool boy. As Ralph has a high status piggy looks up to him. This also shows piggy has a lower status than Ralph. “The fair boy” can also show the description of him the “fair”could also be referring to his hair colour and the readers were told that in the first paragraph shows his one of the most important characters. Golding also introduces as to another character “other boy” and ‘fat boy’ he is not popular as he has a low status. Before in the novel Golding calls him “the other boy” clearly from the beginning we are shown that he is not important as we are not even told about any description about him. He is also shown as a really clever child who wears ‘specs’. In society people who

In the story Lord of the Flies, there are four main characters including Ralph, Piggy, Simon, and Jack. They are all unique in their own way, and they all think a little bit differently about there situation on the island. On the island everyone decided Ralph as the chief so he is the leader and what he says goes. Ralph and Piggy have a lot of similarities and at the same time they have a lot of thing about them that are different.

One of the main characters of Animal Farm is an allegorical parallel of Joseph Stalin. Napoleon is the pig that emerges as the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. He represents

Within the film there are four main characters; Henry Hill, Karen Hill, Tommy DeVito, and James Conway. Henry and Karen are the only characters that are followed throughout the film. On the whole, character development is kept to a minimum. For instance, many characters are introduced to the viewer during a walkthrough steadicam shot of a bar. Most of these characters will be seen later on in the film, but will only in the background of various scenes. The viewer may recognise these characters but they still know no more about them. Even with the main characters there are large gaps in time and