The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier depicts a story of a teenage boy named Jerry struggling to fit the characteristics of the social norm As the story unfolds you see Jerry battle his fear of isolation by conforming to his peers As the battle continues Jerry faces the moral dilemma of abandoning his values to fit in or defy their constraints and be isolated Jerry soon starts to reach a level of a mature state until he gives in to something he truly doesnt agree with doing From Trinity High Scho
F Scott Fitzgerald uses the theme of class in The Great Gatsby as a strong role throughout the story He starts off the book not even the story with a poem in the beginning that demonstrates the theme of class There is a wealthy man that is trying to astound a woman by drawing attention to him while looking foolish doing it Of course the woman falls for the man and his money Money is everything to the upper class Without money they think theyre lives are nothing The wealthy also lack many morals
Conflicts in The Pearl All throughout history there has been the race of man and with it accounts of the conflicts that were created and resolved The novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck portrayed the idea of the numerous conflicts within human nature The main character Kino is a poor Mexican fisherman who has a wife named Juana and a young son named Coyotito Kino is living a simple life until one day Coyotito is stung by a scorpion forcing Kino and Juana to panic and try to help save their chil
In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon audistic 15 year old Christopher Boone finds his neighbors poodle Wellington murdered The neighbor Mrs Shears discovers the dogs death when she sees him holding it covered in its blood She has him arrested for killing Wellington without finding out why Christopher was in her garden to begin with She assumes that because he was trespassing and was found with the dead poodle that he killed the dog despite her previous knowledge t