In the movie, "Of Mice And Men", George and Lennie had a mutualistic relationship at first, but at the end of the movie, it turned into a parasitic relationship, because of George shooting Lennie. George's reasoning behind this was, "Every man should shoot their own dog." Throughout the movie, the relationship between George and Lennie was like a father/son relationship, George being the father and Lennie being the son. George was a dynamic character, changing drastically throughout the movie, because he seemed to love Lennie and wanted to teach him everything, but at the end, he ended up shooting Lennie. Lennie was pretty m
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One example of a dynamic character in "A Child Called It" is Dave Pelzer's mother, Catherine. In the beginning of the story, she is happily married, and treats all of her children equally, and does not beat David at all. However, once Dave turns four years old, his mother became an alcoholic and she beats Dave regularly. She can be charming and sweet when she wants to be, but if something gets her mad, or she just decides that she doesn't want to be nice, she is a very vicious woman. She also convinces the school at one point that she had not beaten Dave at all, and it was something else. Catherine's son, however, is a static character in the memoir, "A Child Called It". He is a static character because he remains in the same fighting attitude the whole story, and does not give up the whole time, even through the roughest periods. His main goal was to not let his mom win, and was determined to make it through the hard times his mother was putting him through. The only time in this story that he would be a dynamic character, is in the beginning, before he turned four years old, when he has a happy family and is a different version of the "Brady Bunch". Dave is also bullied by the students that attend his school, but he does not see this as bad as what he gets at home, but still
I thought the "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" poem by Dylan Thomas was a confusing poem. Some phrases I had no idea what Dylan was talking about, and most I had an idea at what the phrase meant. I think the poem is about the character's father dying, because near the end it says "And you, my father, there on the sad height" and then later says "Do not go gentle into that good night". I can tell that the character has a strong relationship with his father, because he is very sad that his father is going to die. The only relationship I can identify in this poem is the relationship between the character and his father, so it would be the most powerful one. I believe that I would be more interested in this poem if I had a bette
The parts of speech that I understand the basics of are nouns, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, adjectives, and conjunctions. The parts of speech that I am not as familiar with are the determiner, preposition, and interjection. I understand when to use a comma with a conjunction. Most mistakes with using commas and conjunctions is that people put the comma after the conjunction when they should be putting the comma before the conjunction. A comma is correctly used when there are two independent clauses and both are separated by a conjunction, with a comma before the conjunction. A conjunctive adverb is a word that is not quite a conjunction and not quite an adverb. A few examples of these would be accordingly, however, anyway, besides, and much more. They are used when making a compound sentence, or in the middle of an independent clause. A comma is used before and after the conjunctive adverb. An appositive is a word placed after another word to explain or identify it, and always appears after the word it is identifying. The word itself, and the word it is identifying are either nouns or pronouns. An appositive phrase is a phrase that consists of the appositive and its modifiers which may be phrases. Adverbs are used to enhance words and are used to modify verbs, clauses, and even other adverbs. Adverbs can appear in different places of a sentence, which can make adverbs difficult to identify. The easiest way to identify an adverb is finding a word that has the common “ly” ending. I know that the main parts of speech in English are nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. We need to know the parts of speech because they all help put together a sentence and enhance sentences. Parts of speech help our writing, because they describe everything that is going on in a sentence when
"Hey, man," said Dave.
"Hey, bro," asked George. "Did you watch the Superbowl a few days ago?" "Yeah, I knew the Seahawks were going to win." "I thought you were a Broncos fan?" "I used to like the Broncos a while ago." "Why'd you stop liking them?" "I don't really like Peyton Manning too much." "But he's the best quarterback in the game." "Yeah, but I like a guy that shows more excitement for the game." "Yeah, that's true, but don't you also like a guy that wins games?" "Well, he can't win the big one more than once." "He does choke a lot." "Exactly my point." "Well, it was nice talking to you, George." "You too, Dave." |