Picking Fights over Strangers over Small Indignities: "King Curtis’s Echo” by Max Thayer,

No matter how open-minded a person may claim to be, everyone makes presumptions on first impressions or rumors. Despite seeing someone for only a split second, people make assumptions about others’ attitude, personality, and character! Usually, people tend to notice things that they feel are grounds to pass judgment upon. The quote “ You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it” by Harper Lee is a quote that truly signifies how people should perceive others. Rather than judging someone, people should place themselves in their shoes and try to understand their way of thinking

This is a very important part of the book because it shows the reader that the

Although, appearance can reveal a lot of information about a person, what they say can reveal just as much. The stranger states,

shocked reaction to hear beauty and prowess. Morgan goes on to evaluate that Ligon’s observation that

‘He stands up, tall and intimidating. He glares with real anger. And I can’t help but feel a blush of pride seeing it. I’ve been wrong about him’ (p. 204).

The most significant part of the entire text is that most of the readers will never feel the pain of author. The ability not to be able to relate and understand someone’s struggle is very impactful.

In the beginning, while the main character’s name is unknown to the reader, they quickly learn of his arrogance, insecurity, and lack of self-awareness through the voice he uses when narrating. For example, his arrogance is shown in the beginning when he is concerned with how the visit with Robert will affect him and dismisses the relationship his wife had with him in the past, claiming the audiotapes to be just harmless chit-chat. His self-absorbance is also shown when he states, “She and I began going out, and of course she told her blind man

“Everyone, please calm down.” His words could not be heard over the loud voices of the

The ¨ The less you know the more you believe” Jon Krakauer wrote the novel Into the Wild in 1996. Summary:

His diction let’s you sense the carelessness and monotony of the characters lives. This style of writing shows the reader that the worth and value of the individual is not

people are superficial. In almost every case, he rejects more complex judgments in favor of

I think all the problems began then our guy started the new carrier as a broker in unknown brokerage firm. The institution there he started his carrier as a stock investment broker had no such thing as business ethics.

He transitions the tone of the poem from one of despair and hopelessness to one of encouragement which adds a realistic effect to the poem while still encouraging the reader. There is a thin line between being completely discouraging and being realistic; the speaker in the story seems to keep the perfect balance between these two lines. With the skillfully organized tone, the author helps the reader better understand the mood of the story as well as the difficult

that if a war started near them he would be 'off like a whippet' and

At the beginnig, he does not want to sell all of the toxic assets but finally, he accepted and the next morning, he ordonned to his employees to do this. All of employees were performed.