...outstanding leader because he goes out of his way to help other countries when they are in need. The expirences in his early life help him to become a good ruler when he does acend to the throne. Beowulf’s adulthood (in the story) focuses more on his encounters with leaders and his warrior as opposed to his youth which focused on his heroic feats. In Beowulf’s encounters with Hrothgar he learns many valuable lossons such as not to give into pride, and that good events may turn into bad events very quckly. One of the more important lessons he teaches Beowulf is that power may consume a person. He warns Beowulf not to “let the power go to his head”. When Hygelac dies Beowulf helps his son insttead of rushing to claim the throne. This shows the paitence that Beowulf learned from Hrothgar. Another important event in Beowulf’s adult life is the fight with the dragon. Only one of Beowulf’s warriors (Wiglaf) is brave enough to help him fight the dragon. This shows how a strong ruler an influence his people. The willingness that Wiglaf shows is reminescent of a young Beowulf. Both of them were ready to help defend their kingdom. Even though Beowulf is old the warrior code will not allow him to back out of the fight. Beowulf appears no match for the dragon as it melts his weapon and later bites him which kills him. Seeing that his King is dying Wiglaf kills the dragon and before Beowulf dies he names Wiglaf his replaced as king of the Geats. Throughout the poem it is clear that Beowulf posses...
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...All my sons blogs 1. Money is not the only thing in life to make people happy but it can be a huge influence to people of how they think and act. There are two different kind of people towards moolah the “Joe Keller” where you believe that money is more important than everything else and usally get there lives controlled by the greed and there desire to obtain it. The other kind is the “Chris Keller” where you do not have to have alot of money to make a happy life becasue there are more things to life rather than money. In the play All my Sons Joe kellers passion to get money for his family ends up destorying him, Joe does whatever he can to pay the bills in the tough time of the war. In the time of the play it was very hard to build an establishment to support yourself and even more challenging to support your family. Joe does what he thinks is best when sending broken plane parts to the army to get the quick buck, because it will give chris and his family an easier future. Mr kellers attempts to get the easy way out which leads to bigger things then he can handle when the plane crashes killing many man and some might think Larry. The keller family secrets soon get revealed destroying there relationships with there neighbours and them selves. The secrets over power joe forcing himself to commit suicide. All Joe wanted was to keep his factory running and let his family use the money he had earned and be proud of joes hard works and “good decisons”, but his family had...
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