Little John Quotes

In the novel, Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, death is a recurring figure throughout it. Her death in this novel affects the meaning of the work as a whole, and contributes to the whole meaning of the book. She is shown as shy and gentle in this book, and she stays that way throughout. She is an example to her sisters and mother by the way she handles things and is easy tempered.

George, the main character in the novel, uses expert power to help his friend Lennie. Expert power is someone who is using a high level of knowledge that others do not possess. In the novel, Lennie has a lack of intelligence. So because of that George uses his expert power to take care of Lennie and make the decisions for him. For example George once said, “Don’t ever speak to him. If he comes in here you move clear to the other side of the room” (Steinbeck 29). In this quote George was talking about how Lennie should stay away from Curley, because he believes that Curley will stir up some trouble for Lennie. This quote showed how George used his expert power to protect Lennie, because it showed how he gave Lennie good advice by using his power. George helped Lennie stay out of trouble by using his prior knowledge and helping him make the decision.

People aren’t always who they seem to be. In ‘The Possibility of Evil,” by Shirley Jackson, this idea is explored in story form. One character, Miss Strangeworth, is the literary representation of this idea; She is polite and nice in person, but at the same time, she anonymously writes hurtful letters that spread false rumors to the whole town. Firstly, Miss Strangeworth’s character can be analyzed by considering what she says and does.

Furthermore, another character that proves that Victor Hugo is trying to say that human nature is basically good is Javert. On page 336 it states, “Javert felt that something horrible was penetrating his soul, admiration for a convict. Repose first for a galley slave can that be possible? He shuddered at it yet could not shake it off… Javert bent his head and looked. All was black. He could distinguish nothing. He heard a frothing sound; but he did not see the river…”. This quote by Victor Hugo emphasizes on this unusual emotion of goodness arousing within Javert. It’s revealing a transformation of Javert’s character from a hardened law worshipper directly to someone feeling for a convict. Javert is seen gaining his conscious and eventually

What would you do if you had the chance to get back at someone who has wronged you? Would you do something that could ruin their life or would you turn the other cheek and forgive them and not do anything? In the novel Johnny Tremain, Johnny, a fourteen year-old prideful boy, is an apprentice for a silversmith. He is a hard worker, gifted and clever in the work that he does and holds it over the heads of the two other apprentices. He bosses them around constantly, is always getting on to them for the work they do, do not do, or do not do well enough, and never says a kind word even if they did finally do something right. All in all, Johnny was not pleasant to be around most of the time. When Johnny’s hand is burned, he is forced to find a new way to

The story Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes, took place in the mid 1770’s in Boston during the Revolution. The events up to and during the Revolution happened because the colonies were trying to break away from the British and become free and independent. The main character in this novel, Johnny Tremain, had many of the same characteristics as people today have. Esther Forbes used many examples to show that not unlike real people, Johnny had courage, yet fear, affection, but also hate, and he made mistakes with the things that he said. There were many examples for Johnny being courageous, yet having fear.

and farmer. John looked up to his father, more than anyone. Recounting later in his life

Have you ever thought to yourself,”I’m losing my head!” Well this is what legitimately what happens to the main character Travis Coates in my science fiction book Noggin, by John Corey Whaley. Travis has cancer from his neck to his toes and was running out of time. He was one day greeted by a doctor coming into his house, saying that the health foundation has an idea to help him “come back”. The doctor had suggested they decapitate him, freeze his head, than when science was capable, they would put his head on someone else's body.

… No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory. His last word had been my name. He had called out to me

Johnny Tremain is a book written by Esther Forbes in which the protagonist, the books namesake, joins the Sons of Liberty in fighting for freedom after having his right hand crippled as a silversmith. It is classified as a classic historical fiction novel, but what makes a book a classic? Length and monotony? Years of circulation, and an author long deceased? The piles of essays on various desks addressing differing aspects of the book?

The extent of Ma’s personality continues to unfold throughout the book. The Joad’s are centered around Ma and the way she shows leadership and growth. In the beginning of this section, Ma is simply a common woman, a woman of faith, love, strength, and courage. Everything that happens to the Joad’s, Ma feels in her heart. She gives us an example of what it is like to be women during the dust bowl/ depression.

We live in a world that is not perfect, but it's important to have an education and learn to work around the setbacks and disappointments life hands us everyday. Having an education opens up new doors and opportunities in life. In Nightjohn, by Gary Paulsen, readers quickly realize that knowledge is power. To begin with, life as a slave was tough.

. . . Often, awaking suddenly at midnight, he shrank from the bosom of Faith, and at morning or eventide, when the family knelt down at prayer, he scowled, and muttered to himself, and gazed sternly at his wife, and turned away. And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave, a hoary corpse, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grandchildren, a goodly procession, besides neighbors, not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone; for his dying

When thou livedst not thou called John Little, but now that thou dost live indeed, Little John shalt thou be called, so christen I thee (Robin Hood, pg.10).’” Little John changed from a stranger to a fellow outlaw with Robin Hood.

Yoko represents old traditional Japan, she is the embodiment of restrained manners and ceremonial nature. Her face never shows emotions, “Her face, like a mask, wore an expression of such utter earnestness that it was impossible to tell whether she was angry or surprised or grieved”. And this is in many ways the image of the traditional Japanese character- restrained and self-disciplined. Yoko never does not let her emotions or feelings to be seen. Her manners are also restrained, her words and attitude toward Simamura are full of formality and politeness, “’May I come in?’ It was Yoko. Komako asked me to bring this.’ She trust her hand out like a postman. Then, remembering her manners, she knelt down awkwardly before him” (Kabawata 92). Such restrained polite manners are also an image of the traditional Japanese personality.