Tom: A Tragic Hero

There were a lot of characters almost too much but it fits the book and didn’t ruin the plot (whole book). One of the characters the in the book the author described well was Vera Claythorn (3,4,5). It talked about her personality and her previous job as a games mistress (4). She has to take any job she can get to have some extra money. Also, the author does a good job talking about Dr.Armstrong (10,11,12). Even though the suffix gives it away Dr.Armstrong is a doctor. Dr.Armstrong is also pretty wealthy.

In the book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, By: Mark Twain, Tom is a very naughty boy who would also like to be a hero. He is a boy with great ambitions: becoming a pirate, marrying, discovering lots of treasure at a haunted house, and many more. His aunt doesn’t know where she went wrong. Throughout the book, Tom makes many risks with great consequences that are both good and bad. He does not try to hurt anybody through his decisions but wants to have people’s attention to revolve around him.

Although loved by many, Tom Sawyer is the most selfish character in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. This could be the opinion of many people if it wasn’t for adult characters such as the Duke, the Dauphin, and Pap Finn; Tom Sawyer is a young boy, therefore, his antics are seen as comical and there is less resentment towards his character. The character of Tom Sawyer is extremely egocentric and selfish because he displays blatant disregard for the practical way to make plans in life-or-death situations, doesn’t understand the gravity of murder and robbery, and he will do anything, no matter how crazy or impractical, to make himself seem like a hero.

In the novel The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck delves deep into each character thoroughly. Throughout the book, Steinbeck uses intricate descriptions in order to depict the development and subtleties of each character. Each character has a unique personality that essentially develops into new qualities and attributes. Such development is seen in many characters throughout the book, including Rose of Sharon. She is seen as immature at the start of the book, but by the end, she quickly learns to take the world into account and grows to become less selfish. This is only one of the substantial growths in character can be seen in the characters of this novel. One of the many characters in this novel that greatly

Similarly, the significance of Tom’s occupation and success as a black proprietor in this tale substantiates the presence of material determinism, as his service provisions as a barber tie in with how the needs of the white elite controls and regulates his livelihood: “Many an envious eye had been cast upon [his shop]. The lease had only a year to run. Strong pressure, he knew, had been exerted by a white rival to secure the reversion” (Chesnutt 251). Although Tom maintains a sense of pride in his achievements, it is an irrefutable fact that his success depended upon the white elite. Whether as customers or as part of his competitive rivals, Tom’s success was in jeopardy regardless of which party he succumbed to. Should he have chosen to

I jumped into the t-bird car and rushed to the rumble because I can never miss a fight. If you know me I was one of the best fighters of all time, to this day I have never lost a fight. We got to the rumble and here come the socs in there blue mustang, they hop out of there car and it was on. Everyone started fighting each other so I jumped in and started hitting people, the socs got scared and they forfeited and the greasers won the fight. ran to there car and . We jumped in the T-bird and were gone. We got to the hospital and johnny was laying there on his last breathe. We told him we won the fight and he smiled and was gone. I was so confused because I thought that it was all just a dream. Johnny was the only person that I loved out of everyone.

The only complaint of the novel that I have is its lack of details of the characters. Through most of the story tall soldier, loud soldier, tattered soldier, and the youth are used. I would have like to see more details to help me further visualize the characters in my head. While visual descriptions are very important to me, I think the author might have done this to bring more attention to the inner thoughts and feelings of the main character, Henry.

By the time Peter arrived at the castle the sun was close to setting. He sat down in the solar to read for a little before Adelina came to collect him so they could walk to the chapel together. Afterwards, they walked back to the castle and Adelina finished preparing the deer meat that Peter had caught that day. They didn't like to waste time in eating fresh meat, as it would go off quickly. Adelina was a great cook and Peter loved the vegetables she prepared from the gardens. The two of them ate the meal and chatted about how the estate was going.

Tom Wilkes lurched forward from his usual nightmare with sweat dripping from his face. He didn’t notice his hands were shaking more violently than normal as he reached for his glasses. This particular routine was nothing new, but this was the fourth night without a break from the violent awakening. The alarm clock read 4:40 A.M. Tom was surprised it wasn’t earlier, he let out a deep sigh and began his journey to the living room. The apartment was dainty but the lack of things furnishing it skewed the perception. The living room only contained a small futon and a 13” JVC Television, the television was unplugged and hadn’t been on for months. The small kitchen table was littered with empty royal crown and spring water bottles. Tom walked to the

Two years ago I would never have thought that he would be dead now and that she would be happily smitten by somebody else.

African American men often do heavy jobs. For example, plant tobacco and other things. And their masters often use lots of dollars to buy them or transfer them with a huge price. And if the slaves have special skills, they often will worth more. Then a lot of tragic things happen, when their masters have debt which they can repay them. They will use slaves to repay. Even Kentucky men still do those things. Just like this book’s protagonist Tom’s master to repay the debt to sell Tom. However, the women have different situation, but it also decided by their masters. Good masters will treat them very well, if their master is terrible, they will dead by tired of working. To their masters, they thing African women’s duty just is doing some easy jobs and generation. And these mothers often will lose their children by their master’s actions.

Tom and Gatsby both seem like characters that you want to look up to. Gatsby coming from rags to riches and Tom having the ideal physique and being this star of an athlete of any sport he chooses to play. They both seem perfect, but like most humans we have flaws and everyone on this earth has done this more than once in their lifetime. This thing that i’m talking about is lying. Throughout the story these two are keeping secrets to people that they care about. For example, Tom. Tom is keeping a major secret to his wife. Due to his wife being catholic they don’t believe in divorce. The secret that Tom is keeping from his wife is him cheating with his mechanic’s wife, Myrtle. Everyone knows about Tom cheating on his wife. Her cousin, Nick also

The ceiling opened up over a section of the complex revealing a spot to fly and land aircrafts. As soon as this happened, 12 guards armed with shotguns came into the room. Jamal began firing at them quickly. He killed 5 in an instant the guards began firing into the room Jamal was able to avoid the spray of gunfire but OJ was not as lucky. OJ fell to the ground gripping his chest and struggled for air. Jamal immediatly picked up a shotgun from a dead guard and opened fire all over the remaining guards. After each guard fell to the ground Jamal kept firing until the weapon was out of ammo. Jamal rushed over to OJ in tears. OJ wasnt in good shape. His lungs were severely damaged and he struggled for every remaining breath. OJ looked at Jamal and was

The first ever comic book came out in 1936, the hero in the comic was in the first American publishing. The hero is still a famous hero around the world to this current day. This book was called the Phantom, he was the first costumed hero in a comic book. His specialty was fighting crime and using stunts to take down his enemies, he wasn’t a superhero just an ordinary guy. A comic book is usually consisting of art panels that show individual scenes.

Tom Wingfield has a dual role in The Glass Menagerie. The first Tom is the narrator, who introduces his second self, the character. In his fifth soliloquy, Tom the narrator indicates that time has detached him from the drama, "for time is the longest distance between two places" (Williams 1568). In the closing soliloquy Tom recounts how he lives and re-lives the story in his memory, though he is detached from the participants in the original affair. Like his father, "a telephone man who fell in love with long distances," (Williams 1523), Tom has fallen in love with the long distance that is time.