Plot Development Biff and Happy return home after having left Willy alone at Frank’s Chop House. They bring Linda a bouquet of roses which she knocks down to the ground in anger at the boys for having abandoned Willy. Linda insults her boys and accuses them of not caring about their father. Happy acts innocently and downplays what he has done wrong whereas Biff accepts what he has done wrong and even degrades himself by announcing that he is the "scum of the earth." Biff wants to speak to his father
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As Sebastian Shimada got up from his soft and warm bed he did his usual routine every morning which was to brush his teeth‚ clean his bed‚ fix his spiky black hair‚ and drink his miso soup. Then‚ Sebastian would begin his day in his black‚ leather samurai armor at Usuki‚ a ninja training center to focus on his training. Being the respectful Emperor Jimmu’s son‚ Sebastian was always treated with respect and kindness from other people in his village. Apparently‚ Emperor Jimmu have always dreamed of
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As Tom was clenching his fist tightly in a ball about to teach this fool a lesson‚ he had an instant flashback. This flashback took him back to his childhood. Tom’s flashback took him back to a very young part in his life where he was being bullied at school by some older boys. He got circled around and pushed to the ground and got his stuff taken away and his lunch money stolen from his own pants pockets. He got picked a ton when he was younger. His parents weren’t around much so he was pretty much
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Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman identifies the loss of identity and a man’s inability to accept the change within him and within society during those times. The underlying thought of the play is the consistent theme of the “American Dream” that Willy believes he’s living by but in reality his interpretation of the dream is slightly flawed. He believes that by becoming successful you have to be well known by everyone and well-liked by everyone. But the American Dream is actually if you
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"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will" (Charlotte Brontë). This quote represents what the women in the book Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez would of wanted in their lives‚ but instead their freedom was taken over by man’s greed. In the 1900’s‚ women in Columbia were not able to make many choices for themselves. They were raised to suffer. Once they married a man‚ they were only their to please men and nothing else. Angela Vicario
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A Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Reading Log 1 Quotes: “She had a well-earned reputation as an accurate interpreter of other people’s dreams‚ provided they were told her before eating…” (Page 2) I find this quote significant for two reasons. The first‚ because it has a supernatural element within it. Santiago’s mother is known for her precise interpretations of others’ dreams‚ which is quite mystical for a normal story‚ however‚ it is said very casually in the novel‚ and almost dismissed by the
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often introduce a childish character who is shown to change from a hardship they face. In American works such as The Death of a Salesman‚ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ The Scarlet letter‚ and The Body children‚ or childish characters‚ are introduced to bring light to their ever changing personalities and the forces and events that shaped them. In Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman‚ Biff‚ the protagonists son‚ creates his personality off of his father’s own hopes and dreams for his sons. “Biff
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Pressures In Human Society A common idea presented in literature is the issue of the freedom of the individual in the constant pressures of society. In the play “Death of a Salesman” by‚ Arthur Miller‚ Willy Loman is a good example of this‚ as well as a sixteen year old boy named Holden Caulfield in the novel “The Catcher in the Rye” by‚ J.D Salinger. They are both men living in a controlling society‚ and feel it is too hard to keep up with all of the
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In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman‚ societal expectations to achieve the American Dream cause Willy and Biff Loman to struggle in freeing themselves of this notion. The American Dream holds the expectation of success‚ and for these two characters‚ it causes much hardship in their lives. Willy possesses a skewed idea in obtaining this idea. As a result‚ Biff feels trapped because of his father’s unwillingness to compromise his own view of the American Dream with Biff’s perspective and desires
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In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman‚ Happy Loman is discontent with his life because his father Willy gave him false hopes that made him slave to the American Dream. Happy is still trying to find his way in life‚ but comes off with a false confidence that he believes he is actually on the right track. Since family is one of the prominent elements of the American dream Willy has continuously ingrained in his sons head that prosperity and success are the key to having a happy and fulfilling life
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