...Mary Lou English 102 Compare/Contrast 10/09/2011 Professor Robinson Murder is never a good thing and should never be taking for granted. For Dick Prosser (black male) in the story The Child by Tiger he seems to be a very nice guy who suddenly hit his breaking point and begins a killing spree one day. In the story The Most Dangerous Game General Zaroff (white male) was a very good hunter. But, hunting animal’s wasn’t appealing to him anymore, so the general decided to hunt for something that can reason and match his wits (humans). Both men had their own reason for their motive to kill. However, there outcome was still the same. Dick Prosser was a religious man who was recently discharged from the army and was adamant to find work as soon as possible. Quickly he found a white family The Shepperton’s who hired him to work for them and let him in their basement .The way Dick Prosser carried himself and worked around the house said military. From the chopping of wood and how each piece was almost symmetrical to how he kept his living area. The floor was always swept, bare table with a bible on it which has been read multiple times due to the worn out pages, a plain straight chair, iron cot always covered with a coarse grey blanket with a straight edge, he had very little possessions. Everyone felt and thought of Dick Prosser as a very pleasant and respectful, Mr. Shepperton “the smartest darky that he’d ever known”. As a black male in that era, racial barriers and disrespect...
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...W.B. Yeats's "The Second Coming" W.B. Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" was written in 1919, just one year after WWI ended. The beginning of this poem reflects on how evil has taken over the minds of good Christians, and the world has turned into chaos. It is apparent that Yeats believes that a Second Coming is at hand, and he spends the last half of the poem discussing what that Second Coming could look like. Turning and turning in the widening gyre (line 1) Yeats imagines the world in a cyclical sphere known a gyre (shape of a cone). In Yeats' note on the text, he states that "the end of an age, which always receives the revelation of the character of the next age, is represented by the coming of one gyre to its place of greatest expansion and of the other to that of its greatest contraction" (2036). Yeats believes that the two thousand years of Christianity will be coming to an end, and after a violent reversal a new age will take its place. The widening part of the gyre is supposed to connote anarchy, evil, and the loss of innocence. The falcon cannot hear the falconer; (2) The falconer in this analogy is most likely God (or Jesus), and the falcon is the follower (or devotee). Humanity can no longer hear the word of God, because it is drowned out by all of chaos of the widening gyre. A wild falcon can symbolize an unconverted Gentile; someone who has sinful thoughts, and does sinful things. A tame falcon (one who listens to the word of God) is a Christian convert. In the...
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