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    Someone once said that “Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure” In our society this would mean that people become wiser and more experienced through failure. Some people believe otherwise‚ bad experiences may make people believe that they should be bad because they don’t want to learn what’s wrong from right. Two literatures that relate to this quote are To Kill A Mocking Bird by: Harper Lee and Of Mice And Men by: John Steinbeck . In the novel To Kill A Mocking

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    03/02/11 Essay According to the critical lens by William Saroyan‚ “Good people… are good because they’re come to wisdom through failure.” In other words that a person can learn from mistakes and become a better person. Two literary works that agree with this statement are The Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. The novel by William Golding‚ The Lord of the Flies reveals with a person can learn from mistakes and

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    "Good people...are good because they come to wisdom through failure." According to William Saroyan‚ this means that a person can learn from mistakes and become a better person. This statement is confirmed in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies. J.D. Salinger’s Holden is constantly trying to preserve the innocence in children throughout the novel. In addition Holden also attempts to keep his brother Allie‚ alive in his thoughts and actions. William Golding’s

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    William Saroyan is an Armenian-American author whose family immigrated America before Saroyan was born from Bitlis‚ Ottoman Empire. He was born in Fresno‚ California and at the age of three‚ his father died. But there’s a strict thing that you can notice in his writings‚ Saroyan is influenced by his father too much. Because of the fact that he decided to become a writer after his mother showed him some of his father’s writings. Saroyan usually writes stories‚ stories of ordinary people

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    Gaston By William Saroyan

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    In the short story Gaston by William Saroyan uses the bug‚ Gaston‚ and the peach to symbolize the girl’s father. In the story there is a girl whose parents are divorced and during the story she is with her dad. Her mom is also so rich and her dad is poor. The girl’s dad buys a kilo of peaches and within the peaches‚ there is a bad peach with a a bug. They continue to have a conversation about Gaston and the girl soon wants a peach with a bug inside of it. The father leaves to go get more peaches

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    Analysis of ”Good People” by David Foster Wallace‚ 2007 The short story is set at a park by a lake. “They were up on a picnic table at that park by the lake‚ by the edge of the lake‚ with part of a downed tree in the shallows half hidden by the bank.”1 The downed tree sets the mood to be sad and dark. We also learn that the main characters Lane A. Dean‚ Jr. and his girlfriend Sheri Fisher are sitting very still on the picnic table2‚ which tells us that the atmosphere is quite intense. It does not

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    the universe that conquers all‚ makes our lives worth living‚ and chooses our direction. In the two short stories the authors use their style‚ symbolism and point of views to best portray two different scenarios that both revolve around love. In “Good People” by David Foster Wallace 19 year old college student impregnates a girl he’d been seeing and is plagued with many uncertainties of life and love and is forced to make a difficult decision in the case of an abortion. In “What We Talk About When We

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    Good People It is difficult and complicated to define a good and a bad person. We all have different opinions on what is the right thing to do and what is the wrong thing to do. People have their own set of personal unwritten rules – also called ethic – which they live by. However sometimes the person himself does not know what he thinks is ethical right or wrong because he has never have to deal with the situation before. In the short story ”Good People” which is written by David Foster Wallace

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    Allie Medina 2/20/13 “GoodPeopleGood Stories Many characters in short stories or novels can relate in one way or another whether it be the place or time period they are set in‚ their personalities‚ or their involvement with other characters. The storylines in “Good Country People” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” are very similar‚ but the characters are somewhat different in how they act when put in a stressful situation. Flannery O’Connor uses her knowledge of religion in her stories

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    edge of the lake‚ with part of a downed tree in the shallows half hidden by the bank. Lane A. Dean‚ Jr.‚ and his girlfriend‚ both in bluejeans and button-up shirts. They sat up on the table’s top portion and had their shoes on the bench part that people sat on to picnic or fellowship together in carefree times. They’d gone to different high schools but the same junior college‚ where they had met in campus ministries. It was springtime‚ and the park’s grass was very green and the air suffused with

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