Tuck Everlasting 'The Man In The Yellow Suit'

With her being the only one who knew his true identity, he had the chance to lie to the townspeople about who he really was in order to protect not only himself, but he wanted to uphold his reputation as well. This is proof that lying leads to nothing good and it also shows Americans today that what you say can truly cause some situations to spiral out of

guts and that he wanted to survive. In return for his favor of helping the guard,

“By the end of that year, it (Memphis) would suffer losses greater than the Chicago fire, San Francisco earthquake, and Johnstown flood combined.” This sentence from the book really stood out to me because it really shows how deadly yellow fever was. I have heard about all of these disasters and they must have been horrible to the people they effected, but for a disaster to be worse than all three combined, it’s unimaginable. It cost the Mississippi Valley over $350 million in today’s standards. During the epidemic, Memphis pleaded to the president for help and he responded with “greatly exaggerated”. President Hayes completely ignored Memphis and as a results thousands died. Most people who died in Memphis had minor cases of yellow fever and died of starvation because there were not enough healthy nurses to help the sick. If President Hayes would have sent in additional help, many people would have been spared a slow death. Main Street, a street that was once lined with hundreds of cotton bales, now was covered with bodies and lime to try to cover up the stench. Once President Hayes found out the actually amount of damage that was caused, I believe he must have felt extremely guilty.

     Billy Pilgrim has been through many cruelties in his life. As a child his own father was cruel to him. They had gone to the Y.M.C.A. to teach Billy how to swim. A horrible, traumatic, event that would stay with Billy for the rest of his life. “Little Billy was terrified, because his father had said Billy was going to learn to swim by the method of sink-or –swim. His father was going to throw Billy into the deep end, and Billy was going to damn well swim”(43). Roland Wear was a very cruel man as well. He even to it as far as to try and kill Billy by kicking

A great noble person who happen to have some flaws in them, those flaws happen to make them make a bad decision and turns into a mistake very quickly that same mistake happens to become his weakness that makes this person suffer greatly through everything happening. John Proctor comes to mind he fits that description perfectly. John Proctor has made a terrible mistake in his past and it is gonna be part of the cause of the whole accident going on. John Proctor is a very noble person, he helps his town in many different ways. John Proctor built the door of the church, goes into town when he is needed.

The angels telling him what to do were all in his head. He was imagining a life that he probably wished to have and therefore killed his family. He believed he might have been in a better situation without them, but in the end, he regrets his actions. Whats striking about this

The narrator had so much pride in helping Doodle that he couldn't help it by making Doodle get out of the woods alone.While claiming he did it cause he did not want a crippled brother, the narrator said that his cruel side kicked in which is what made him leave Doodle. He really didn't seem to care about the work he put in to helping this poor boy.The narrator had so much pride in Doodle that he made him do everything.The narrator pushed Doodle to do everything like row, run and swim which is the factor that killed Doodle because his body couldn't handle it all.The narrator was originally trying to help Doodle but for some reason meanness kicked in and he left doodle.After realizing doodle was not with him he went back to look for him. After finding Doodle dead under a tree, he realized that Doodle was never meant to be normal.

What is pride, is it a good thing? Pride is a feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions, that are widely admired. According to Paul Bryant, “If  you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride and high, but so are the rewards,”which means pride is a good thing. According to C.S. Lewis”Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you provide the pleasure of being above the rest.

to me is Mr. Dave. He bled out waiting for the help that never came yet at the end of the day he

because he was a lying cheat. He just helped the old lady because he wanted

he was the eldest son of waknuk’s chief, and yet he was sent away to the fringes. Another thing that makes people afraid of being caught is the consequence. Anyone who is caught is exiled and sent to the fringes. The fringes are a very depressing and horrible place to end up.

He also knew what the risks were, but continued to go on anyways. His actions were not noble in this way either, like stated previously, he could’ve taken different measures to get away from the abuse that him and his family were enduring. His actions could be seen as almost cowardly, he ran away instead of thinking

so he could earn enough money to live in a worn out shack in the middle of the desert. even though he was

because he lost all that he had, and all that was coming to him. He

Equality and his discovery of the the tunnel made him realize that spending time alone was one thing he liked. Although he didn't dare defy the laws of the council, he still wanted to explore more of the world he was living in. His love for nature and the Science of Things took him further to the tunnel where he