The Go Between and Spies

But this is rooted into what his grandpa taught him. As a child, Stephen was reprimanded by his grandpa many times for not doing things right. When Stephen is deciding to go with the group from Settlers Landing, the voice of his grandpa reminds him, “Don’t trust anybody.” The relationship between Jenny and Stephen is awkward because he is at first angry with her. The fight caused Stephen to distrust Jenny, but his love grows as he sees how much Jenny cares for him. As the book progresses, we find fewer mentions of Stephen’s grandpa, and Stephen becomes more open. The setting in the book changes as well, from Stephen’s desolate salvaging world to a home with civilized things that modern America has, with the exception of one thing: technology. The reason that Stephen was able to relate with the people of Settlers Landing was because they did not have the pleasure to be lazy. This made the transition gradual and kept Stephen’s trust levels to not have sudden drops. The setting change also changed him because he has been so used to disappointment from his grandpa reprimanding him to his mom dying, to where everything seems too good to be

However, as true today as it was then, and perhaps even more so, there are those brave enough to summon their courage; standing tall, battling against these injustices, and defending those that are unable to do so for themselves. Stephen is one of these brave people and even though she often doesn’t realize it, others do. During Stephen’s disastrous relationship with Angela, Puddle wishes she could encourage Stephen to choose this path.

Stephen’s father begins to notice all the time his son and Leka spend together talking, laughing, and enjoying each other’s company and so do the other pulp-cutters. They make ridiculous assumptions as to why Stephen and Leka spend so much time together, and they judge Leka, saying he is odd and has weird intentions just because he s from another country. Stephen s father orders his son to quit spending time with and talking to Leka because of the embarrassment it is causing him. At this moment Stephen feels scared and pressured by his father to obey because he is his father after all, and in the end he is convinced to distance himself from Leka. Although Stephen makes this decision that appears to show he‘s reverted to his old ways and beliefs of his father, we are given hope as we see Stephen still cares enough to wake Leka from a nightmare. Stephen grew up surrounded by men who believed they needed to be strong and fearless to be the best men they could be. He adopted these beliefs as his own because he didn’t know any better. When Leka began sharing his stories, Stephen was exposed to

Stephen begins to break his desire to conform and create his personal desire to be free from the pulpcutters ideology. The pulpcutters speak only when they have “criticisms or commands,” Chris has never had a pulpcutter apologize to him nor has he apologized to anybody because “men did not tender apologies.” Stephen becomes angry with Leka who later apologizes to him; Stephen ignores him but later apologizes to Leka. Despite not knowing how to apologize saying “look” at first Stephen gets over his requirement of not tendering to apologies and says sorry to Leka because he feels that he fits in with the tenderness of an apology. Stephen feels a connection between him and Leka because of his kindness and his stories. Stephen “shamefully” listens to Leka’s “fairytales” hoping that the other pulpcutters do not find out. He begins to pull away from the masculine ideology he is consumed by and starts to imagine cathedrals and Cracow allowing him to feel like he fits in as they both speak about fantasies Stephen continues his rebellion on the idea of conforming to the pulp cutters by accepting Leka’s advice about how to cut through the tree. At first, Stephen had gotten angry with Leka for telling him to be gentler with the pulp saw because men did not accept another’s advice, but later accepts the advice and is capable of cutting down the tree. Stephen feels like himself around Leka and finds it “fun” being

Stephen describes himself as a scientist, researcher, husband, and father. Although his physical abilities have been affected by his disease, he says that his mind is stronger than ever. Stephen is an intellectual man who has been interested in science since a young age. He stated that most of his thinking revolves around scientific concepts, even for non-scientific daily tasks as his goal in life is to create a theory that explains the existence of everything in the world. Stephen struggled with motivation in his early

At least he thought of how She would feel marrying that liar, Garang.” Also, In chapter 3 page 23, Stephen agrees that Naomi should marry Wol, This line shows that Stephen cares about who his sister Naomi marries. However, Stephen's mom thinks he shouldn't marry him in chapter 3 page 2, Stephens mom says, “Go, I told you. And anyway, how do you know why Wol said that?How do you know that he doesn’t want to marry her because She is beautiful, because then the people will speak well of him?What if She becomes ill and loses her beauty?Will he take a second wife? A third? He’s young, and we don’t know his character yet.” This line shows that Stephen's mom disagrees with Naomi marrying Wol.She has a whole different opinion on Wol wanting to marry Naomi.This shows how Stephen and his mom have very different opinions on

In both of these literary works, the low socioeconomic status of the main characters is made well known to the reader early on. This status is

My topic is spies during World War II. During World War II, countries used spies to gather information about each other. It is a specific and broad topic. Since the fifth grade, I have enjoyed World War II history. It’s very fascinating to me. It is a very tragic and fascinating time period. Recently in May, I visited the Holocaust Museum with my school in Washington, D.C. and fell in love with this time period even more. I felt more connected with it. This war was so raw and has great stories behind it. I also feel somewhat connected to it because it was not even that long ago that this happened, we at least all have relatives that are alive that can remember hearing about it, that is what makes it so real to me. Just knowing about World War II occurred was not enough for me; I wanted to know who was behind it all.

Conrad applies an apparently crystal clear literary narrative technique in the tradition of conventional realism, a narrative method that appears deceptively simple. The Secret Agent holds great deal of the social concerns. It is considered supreme masterpieces, it is a brilliantly depicting an ironic narrative of London's seedy and dispossessed underworld of revolutionist and anarchists.

When you think of the Civil War you think of bloody battles, muskets exploding, bayonets sinking into enemy soldiers, and people giving their lives for the sake of either the Union or Confederate States and what they believed in. But most people do not think of one very important factor in the Civil War. Espionage. Throughout this paper we will be exploring the secretive world of espionage in the Civil War from both of the opposing sides.

From the start the novel is laden with the pressures that the main characters are exposed to due to their social inequality, unlikeness in their heredity, dissimilarity in their most distinctive character traits, differences in their aspirations and inequality in their endowments, let alone the increasingly fierce opposition that the characters are facing from modern post-war bourgeois society.

Throughout his childhood, women continue to contribute to Stephen's development as an artist, though he seems unaware

Throughout the novel, Stephen heavily relies on sensory experiences to perceive the world around him. In the beginning of the novel, almost all his memories are accentuated with the use of numerous sensory details that are often paired together. For example, the novel opens with Stephen’s description of his father’s hairy face and his mother’s nice smell, hot feelings are paired with cold, and so forth, which enhance Stephen’s perspective and how he views and understands the world. As the novel progresses, however, less sensory details are used, and Stephen starts to associate thoughts and feelings more to the sounds of words. Stephen is heavily impacted and almost traumatized by the word, “eternity,” which sets off a train of unpleasant feelings in him, causing him to later question religion, as he matures from childhood to adolescence and finally adulthood.

Stephen starts as an object - Baby Tuckoo - in his father's story of his early years and is thus without his own identity. Later, at Clongowes, he is either gripped with embarrassment as he fails to connect with his peers or speechless at a family Christmas dinner as debate and anger rages around him. He is isolated, associating only with the sounds of words (belt, iss, suck) and other stimuli. He doesn't understand the schoolboy argot and his consequent victimisation is all too predictable as his peers react with typical schoolboy nastiness to a boy who doesn't fit in.

During his adolescent years, Stephen is forced to stay at home due to his father's financial problems causing him to reject his schoolmates and