Sin Agnes Repplier Analysis

The novel Tangerine, loyalty is everything.You need to be loyal to have friends and in this case to have a trustworthy family you need to have loyalty.For example, in the novel,Paul is legally blind,but

Loyalty and Betrayal You have been trapped in a Vietnamese camp for 3 months. They have tortured you every day trying to get you to reveal secrets about your government. You endure the pain, and with clenched teeth you keep saying no. When you are at the brink of death.

Life is about making choices, but some of them can even change our life. Two years ago I decided to come to America for my higher studies in Western Kentucky University. Although I knew it was really a challenge to me, this significant decision that I’ve made was going to change everything about my life and me. There are many things in life that can change the course of a person’s life. It can either make a positive impact or a negative impact on a person’s life. It’s always best to have the positive impact though. For me I have had a positive experience that has changed my life forever and that is coming to a different land and culture.

Decisions are shaped by one’s values and those values are not always correct. “A Secret Lost in the Water” by Roch Carrier, the narrator writes about the son that he has forgotten the “gift” that his father gave to him when he was young. His father taught him to dowse, but he did not value it, and lost his father’s treasure of knowledge. The son tries to dowse for a family friend who knows his father, but he fails at it; he is not able to hear the gushing water in his ears. He now regrets not valuing the important gift of dowsing water that he learned from his father in his childhood, and after he forgot it. The son valued writing more than his dad way of life so he made the choice of becoming a writer, he did not value it and ends up losing his “gift”. “The alder stayed motionless in my hands and the water beneath the earth refused to sing. Somewhere along the roads I’d taken since the village of my childhood I had forgotten my father’s knowledge” (page 106, Carrier). Now the son realizes that he has lost the gift his father gave him along his journey of becoming a writer. The son now regrets the decision he made of not continuing his father’s old-fashioned work.

The character of Agnes develops as the comedy continues. In the first scene she was not educated and was an indigenous maiden. The influence of love later changed her. She later became intelligent and logical. At the end Agnes falls in love with another person. She does not fall in love with Arnolphe as he had expected. Horace is the young man who Agnes falls in love with. He is the son of Oronte who is a longtime friend to Arnolphe. Horace plans to elope with Agnes. He is ignorant of the relationship she has with Arnolphes. He decides to ignore the plans that Arnolphe had of marrying her.

Another example that your state of mind during a matter of life or death situation will influence your outcome is in the speech “Truth at all Cost”, by Marie Colvin. Truth at all cost is about an author sharing her story as being a war correspondent. In Marie’s speech, she says, “journalist covering combat, shoulder great responsibilities, ...(and sometimes) they pay the ultimate price...(Colvin 85).” This example shows that your state of mind will influence your outcome because the journalists who decided to do the job of reporting back the news of war had

Agnes’s spiritual ‘atonement’, helping to ‘guide her home’ is regularly influenced by the state of the weather and natural occurrences on the landscape. Agnes is offered two experiences of redemption in the novel. One being predominately religious, aided by reverend Toti and the other being sense of belonging and acceptance to a family. In this heavily Christian society, Agnes is given a ‘spiritual advisor,’ who takes on the responsibility to ‘save her.’ As Agnes’ begins to confide in Toti and learn to rely on him the weather gradually becomes increasingly ‘miserable’ rendering it difficult for the two to meet. At the climax of the novel, ‘travelling to Kornsa in this unfit weather’ has resulted in Toti’s ‘fever’ leaving Agnes ‘scared’ and deprived of her confidant. Despite Toti representing her divine redemption, the two form an alliance stemming from predominately companionship, demonstrated when Toti ‘forgot’ his New Testament at home when going to meet Agnes. Additionally, Agnes is emotionally redeemed when experiencing a sense of belonging at Korsna. Amidst the natural process of childbirth occurring in the landscape Agnes aids the ‘newborn’ by recognizing it is in ‘breach.’ This

Our choices influence how we live and how people see us, whatever decision we make impacts not only us, but our family as well. To start off, in the movie Forrest Gump directed by Robert Zemeckis, Forrest the main character is in love with his best friend, but when he goes to marry her, she puts him down. When Forrest asks Jenny to marry him and that he would make a good husband and she responds with “you would, Forrest” and then continues to say you don’t want to marry me. – Here Forrest is hurt that the love of his life does not want to be with him, but she is only hurting him because she is afraid of commitment and afraid to let him down. She loved him, but knows she cannot commit to something she

Loyalty to oneself directly deals with doing what one believes is morally correct versus what one is forced to do when backed into a corner. The decisions between right and wrong aren’t blurred but harder to abide by when in times of war and suffering. Samurai had to make less than honorable choices such as stealing from temples, travelers, and merchants during rough times.

make many decisions and if they choose wrong, it may cost them their lives or someone else’s in

Everyone has had to have made at least one sacrifice in their life and probably still will have to. One universal truth that I know I use everyday is friendship which involves making both decisions and sacrifices. George and Lennie were very close and good friends. They both made bad decisions on their friendship

“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions,” said by Stephen R. Covey. We needed the courage to make choices in life and have to bear all the consequences whether they were good or bad. There was a short story about choices that named “ A Wagner Matinee” by Willa Cather. It talked about the narrator’s Aunt Georgiana ignored the opposition of family members and eloped with Uncle Howard to a Nebraska village; then, she had an opportunity to return her hometown to listen to a concert after 30 years.

Making a decision is never easy, but deciding whether to save your friend or continue on your duty can be difficult especially when having to decide on the spot. In the movie Snowpiercer, the character Curtis Everett decided to continue on the journey and leave his friend Edgar behind, a sacrifice he had to make in order to have the lower class people have their freedom. If he had chosen to defend Edgar, the plan would be ruined and they would lose the fight for equality and be stuck on a train where welfare is not open to the lower class. Abandoning a life to save another can have a toll on a person, doing such thing can have an affect on them having them feel guilt. When having to forfeit something it makes the decision harder to make even though it's the humane thing to do.

Can you deny love’s power to inspire the most amazing things in human hearts?” (Moliére 3. 974-981). Agnés’ feelings are the reason she goes against Arnolphe. Her love for Horace makes her choose him over Arnolphe and completely disobey Arnolphe’s orders. The love that Agnés feels is put above everything else proving that this love trumps everything else in her life.

Did you ever have to go through the time where you get something that you always wanted, but at the same time you have to give up the thing that is really important to you? In the story "Going to Exile" by "Liam O'Flaherty" successfully proves the saying "Opening one door while closing another". This story is about two adults who are leaving their country with the hope of getting enormous opportunities but at the same time they also have fear of taking risks in unknown land. Michael and Mary were really looking forward to make their life better in the place where they don't know anybody. They don't want to leave their family and the people who they really care about. They have to leave their parents who were there to support them at every step