What Was Tom's Generosity?

Tom is now sold to Simon Legree. Simon (a transplanted northerner) takes Tom and Emmeline, who was bought the same time as Tom to Louisiana and they meet other slaves. Legree hates Tom and when Tom refuses his orders Legree brutally beats Tom and wants to crush his slave’s faith in God. Tom still refuses to stop reading the Bible and tries to help other slaves. Tom soon meets Cassy, another one of Legree’s slaves. Cassy was separated from her son and daughter and killed her third child so she won’t see him get sold to another farmer. Tom Loker later returns to the story and it turns out he was healed by the Quakers. But Eliza’s family has gained their freedom across Canada. In Louisiana, Tom almost loses his hope in God. However, he has two visions; one of Eva and one of Jesus and determines to remain faithful in

The next day Tom makes his way down to George Wilson's (Myrtle's husband) house and discovers that George has learned about his wife's infidelity but not with whom. Tom tells him that Gatsby was the driver of the car that killed his wife and George is led on to believe that the killer and the man his wife was sleeping with are one in the same. He breaks and enters into Gatsby's home and shoots him in his pool he then proceeds to kill himself.

Tom Robinson’s first mistake was helping Mayella out around her house. By helping Mayella, he made a friend without knowing it. Tom thought he was only helping, but Mayella began to think of Tom as more than a friend as time went on. It got to the point where Mayella would have Tom do jobs about every time he walked by her house. One day when Tom was helping inside the house, Bob, Mayella’s father, came from the woods and saw Tom inside the house. This led to the story of Tom raping Mayella.

As the novel progresses, Tom transforms from this selfish nature to become a caring person. Several examples of this transformation are seen throughout various chapters. When the Joads are traveling west to California with the Wilson’s, Tom offers to help them when their car breaks down. “Tom said nervously, ‘Look Al. I done my time, an’ now it’s done… Let’s jus’ try an’ get a con-rod an’ the hell with the res’ of it.’” Tom is showing a little more care for other people’s problems, however, he still has a selfish side because he still does not regret killing a man. He knew he had to pay for it by going to prison, but he still believes he did nothing wrong by taking a man’s life. By offering to help out with the Wilson’s’ car, he is on his way to becoming a less selfish person. As the book draws to a close, Tom stumbles upon Jim Casy again, who is murdered in front of his own eyes. As a result, he is thrown into a silent rage and kills another man which causes him to hide in the forest. He realizes that he is a danger to his family, so he sacrifices his safety in order for his family to be safe. ‘“Ya can’t do that, Ma. I tell you I’m jus’ a danger to ya,”’ (391). There is a clear transition from Tom acting selfish at the beginning of the book to him acting completely selfless at the end. This selflessness also contributed to him being a figure committed to bettering the

7) The scene with the gymnast on the plane was included by the author to show a perspective in race. She was a white woman who seemed very friendly and outgoing with Thomas and Victor, laughed at their jokes but when a certain joke that involved race came up, there was no more laughter. Victor made a comment on how everyone is nice on planes but “too bad it can’t always be that way.” His comment allows the reader to understand the setting, a time in where whites did not socialize with indians (racial segregation).

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.

He too abandons his morals; illegally earning the money that he believes will win back the heart of his lost love Daisy. When they had a love affair long ago, she wouldn't marry him because of his financial standing. The details of his business are sketchy, when asked he usually ignores the question. Tom though, after some investigating finds the true nature of his profession.

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.

In the novel Tom Sawyer there is a lot of greedy people like Tom Sawyer, Sid Sawyer, and Joe. It starts with Tom wanting to have a bible for bragging rights. In order to do this every time he goes to church he trades for tickets to get his bible. He was greedy for bragging rights because his cousin had several of them and he wanted one. Another case of greed is Tom still chasing after the money even after everything that happened.

In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a variety of people influence Huck’s ideology. From the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson’s religious rhetoric to Pap’s brutal, uncivilized manner, many contrasting ideas shape Huck’s belief system. However, among these people, Tom Sawyer holds the greatest impact over Huck’s actions and mentality because of Huck’s immense admiration for him. Huck’s initial encounters with Tom Sawyer establish Tom as a major component of the ideology Huck maintains throughout his journey. Despite Huck’s skepticism and confusion about Tom’s imaginative schemes, Huck regards Tom’s judgements as the truth and follows all of Tom’s plans.

Tom and the slaves on Legree’s plantation show that even individuals who seem like they benefit from these religious teaching or cannot understand religious teachings are negatively affected by the environment. In many ways, to people of the time it would seem slavery is an environment that is benefits characters like Tom. The character is surrounded by masters who teach him the bible (Mrs. Shelby, Evangeline) and read/preach it to him (George, Evangeline) people would see this as a positive as it showed that masters where enlightening individuals to the Cristian way allowing them save their soul (Stowe 25-270). Going with this, there are times where Tom is described in ways such as, “untaught heart” inferring that Tom by providence does not

a deal with Roxy to sell her back into slavery, but after one year he would buy her back. But

Cindy's eyes began to grow tired as she switched off the light and gone to bed. Cindy's bedroom always seems to become muggy and hot at night, so she left her window open. Falling fast asleep Cindy never knew what or who might have been coming her way.

about his role in sustaining the king when he was a chancellor. Thomas though a tragic hero who pursed his spiritual gains but he had excuses for not to undergo the influence of being a traitor. He told the third tempter, “And if the Archbishop cannot trust the king/How can he trust those who work for the king’s undoing?(34) eventually Thomas refused that defaming offer adding that he is more powerful than the barons and he doesn’t want to be described as a conspirator. Thomas thus had shun the doors on the face of all the three tempters.

She wanted so badly to get out of the house and have her own life that she ended up making herself even more miserable than she was before. She thought that she would have freedom, and be able to do her own thing. That didn’t work out the way she hopped. Whenever her husband sees her talking to another guy on the ranch he would get mad at her. She talks about the life she wished she had. The one she wants to have instead of the one she has now. She has so much more talent. And when she tries to talk to other men she gets shut down, but when she talks to Lennie he lets her talk, and doesn’t shut her down. She trusts him enough that he was the first person she told that she didn’t like Curley. I think that she felt happy she had someone to finally talk