Summary Of The Short Novel ' Gentlehands '

Cormier continues to successfully depict morally corrupt characters, such as Buddy Walker and his consistent dishonest behaviour. Buddy begins his relationship with Jane because of his overwhelming guilt about the night of the trashing. He becomes obsessed with her and is convinced on absolving his guilt, this is evident when he anonymously calls Jane, “He had not given the picture another thought until: Hello. And then: Who is this?” (p.118). The binary opposition is used to exemplify Buddy’s evil acts as

Buddy got very upset when he found out that he is not an elf but that he is a human. He flees to the bathroom and starts to cry, and his adoptive dad knocks on the door and asks him if he is okay. After Buddy cools down his adoptive dad starts to tell Buddy the truth. He tells Buddy that is real dad lives in New York. He also tells Buddy that his real dad works at The Empire State Building. Before Buddy leaves to New York, Santa tells Buddy that his real dad never knew he was born, and that his mom passed away when he was born. Santa also tells Buddy that is why he was at the orphanage at a young age.

Caitlin loves Billy’s character even though he is homeless. Caitlin is fascinated with Billy’s character rather than what he has and his status. Caitlin is engrossed in Billy because he is clean. Billy keeps his clothes clean, himself clean and his carriage clean. In the passage Billy’s cave (p. 62).Caitlin says that his carriage is clean and warm. Caitlin is also attracted to billy’s character because he is not a normal hobo. Billy is smart, clean, polite and calm. In the passage Caitlin and mopping (p. 35).Caitlin says that Billy as ‘so calm’ when he exited McDonalds. This shows that Caitlin enjoys Billy’s company despite Billy not having any

The book centers around an incident involving Allison Huguet and Beau Donaldson. One night, Allison was hanging out with a group of childhood friends when she was invited to a party at Beau Donaldson’s house. When the party was winding down, the friends decided to stay

Imagine having to fend for yourself, as an orphan, during the Great Depression. In the book, Bud, Not Buddy, Bud is an orphan and has to go off by himself. He goes with his friend Bugs to get a train to Chicago. When Bud misses it, he goes to the library. He sets off to find his father, Herman E. Calloway, in Grand Rapids. Bud, Not Buddy would have been a different story if Bud had given up because he would've gone back to the orphanage, he would have never gone to Hooverville with Bugs, he never would have met Herman, and he never would've joined the band in Grand Rapids.

humourous boy from the Chicago ghetto, and Lobel is obsessed with movies, viewing the war as

In the Christmas film, Elf, Buddy the elf is suffers from being “throw under the bus” by his biological father, Walter. Throughout the film, Walter’s goodness was damaged by his son because he was an elf. Buddy has lived his entire life in the North Pole as a human sized elf, technically a human who thinks he is an elf. The first time Walter and Buddy met was in his office when Buddy wandered around the city to find his father. The first jab that Walter initiated towards Buddy was, “Who sent this Christmas gram?” when Buddy stated, “It’s me your son, Susan Wells had me, and…and she didn’t tell you, and and and but now I’m here. It’s me, Buddy” (Favreau, 2003). After Buddy told him he was his son, he questioned Buddy as if he was just as irrelevant as a Christmas gram by the condescending tone of his voice. During this scene, Buddy has been “thrown under the bus” because he was being serious and genuine in telling his biological father that he was his son and his father completely disregards him and calls him out for being a foolish Christmas gram. The reference of comparing to Buddy to the Christmas gram was taken in a negative way because Walter was stating how Buddy was a joke. This situation damages Walter’s goodness of normalcy and having an ordinary life with a typical family because Buddy enters his life as his son with the unusual fact that he is an elf in different attire and

The plot, as mentioned earlier, surrounds the lives of two brothers named Eli and Charlie Sisters, during the Californian Gold Rush. The brothers are professional hit men who have been hired by the Commodore to kill a prospector named Hermann Kermit Warm. At the beginning of the novel, Warm is described as a “thief” by the Commodore. However, further into the novel we realize that Warm is actually an ingenious; a decent man who

Lois Tyson writes, “The protagonist believes that being well liked is the necessary and sufficient currency for purchasing success in the business world.” Society’s interest is in the man who makes a name for himself and his family through hard work and dedication, not being well-liked. Willy believes his only possible identity lies in his occupation and allows selling to become his identity instead of his occupation. He praises Dave Singleman’s career to Howard: “And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want” (1876). Willy’s belief that his brother Ben makes a fortune by the same dream of success he pursues and fails to achieve further damages his identity. Ben reveals, “Why boys when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich” (1860). Ben represents what Willy hopes to achieve in life. Tyson explains, “Willy’s failure to see the obvious unscrupulous underside of Ben’s financial success . . . is not the result of innocence or ignorance, but of selective perception.” Willy struggles to adjust to the changes of his job as a salesman. He is unable to establish a business relationship with the new generation of customers because he believes his old style and techniques of selling is successful. Willy fails to live up to his version of the American dream to achieve success and falls victim to society’s demands and expectations. He

him, he realizes that Sonny is his own man. The trouble the narrator had with Sonny is

As he was approaching Officer Hawkins, Mr. Pugh was on his stomach with Officer Hawkins behind him and an older male, now known to be Phillip Stoughton, standing behind them both trying to pull on Mr. Pugh's legs. At the moment he did not know if Mr. Stoughton was attempting to help Officer Hawkins or hinder the arrest of Mr. Pugh. Officer Francis watched Mr. Pugh push up onto his hands and knees with Officer Hawkins behind him trying to gain control of his arms. Mr. Stoughton had backed away from Officer Hawkins and Mr. Pugh as Officer Francis ran to aide Officer Hawkins. Officer Francis stated he yelled "stop resisting," twice and witnessed Mr. Pugh throwing his elbows toward Officer Hawkins' head in an attempt to strike him. To prevent an assault on Officer Hawkins, Officer Francis knew he had to quickly subdue Mr. Pugh. Officer Francis stated Officer Hawkins was holding on tightly to Mr. Pugh’s back, while Mr. Pugh thrashed his head back and forth throwing his elbows toward Officer Hawkins. Officer Francis thought the use of mace may miss Mr. Pugh’s

The characters are from a poor socioeconomic background, but they are still able to find the Christmas spirit. The wealth of their friendship and the gift of giving make them oblivious to the depression around them. In one particular scene, the friends are baking fruitcakes. They decide that the cakes are for “friends. Not necessarily neighbor friends: indeed, the larger share are intended for persons we’ve met maybe once, perhaps not at all”(Capote). This illustrates their giving nature regardless of their own dreary circumstances. Buddy is a reflection of Truman Capote himself. Capote’s childhood was filled with misfortunes, but yet he was still able to find peace in his friendship with his cousin.

The one trait of personality that Teddy and Sibyl share is the kindness. The kindness is evidence in both, Sibyl’s treatment of Seymour and Teddy’s behavior. When Teddy 's sister tells the young boy that he “is the stupidest person [she] ever met” (176), Teddy kindly defends and reassures the young boy. In his journal it is discovered that all Teddy writes about are small kind acts that he wishes to do for other people: he wants to find and wear his father’s dog tags because he thinks it will “please him;” he wants to write a condolence letter to someone who is ill, and he wishes to be “nicer to [the] librarian” (180-1).

To start off, Buddy doesn't have a family to fall back on except for his cousin, he makes sure that his cousin is always well taken care of and is always happy. When his cousin was sad, he cheered her up by saying she was “Not funny. Fun. More fun than anybody.” (68) Buddy makes sure that his cousin is always happy and cheerful, he doesn't want to see her upset and he is the one person who can make her laugh in her time of despair. Buddy tries to do what is best for his cousin and makes sure that she always stays in good spirit. Buddy will do absolutely anything for his cousin, just as she would do for him. Buddy went to pick out a tree far from where they had gone before because it made his cousin happy, “Queenie wades the stream first, paddles across barking complaints about the swiftness of the current.” (69) Buddy would never go against his cousins wishes knowing that it would disappoint her, Buddy goes to get the tree with his cousin even though he knows that is it dangerous. Buddy knows that the tree is something that she wanted and it meant something big to her, she is the only person Buddy has ever really had to care about, he wants the best for her no matter what it is that he has to do.

If Willy is not totally unsympathetic (and he is not), much of the goodness in him is demonstrated in his devotion to his wife, according to his lights.   Though he is often masterful and curt, he is still deeply concerned about her: "I was fired, and I'm looking for a little good news to tell your mother, because the woman has waited and the woman has suffered."  Biff is attached to his mother, and Happy's hopelessness is most graphic in his failure to be honest with, or concerned about, his family.  The family's devotion to one another, even though misguided, represents a recognizable American ideal.