Now that Jerry is dead there is no one left that Alec cares about, not even his parents. “He may be better off dead. My heart doesn’t bleed for her. ” P 1 –This quote shows how bad the relationship between Alec and his parents is, he pities his father for the life he has to live with Alicia “They are treating me with the respect apparently due to my class. P1 –Importance of wealth/class “As a child I was alone. ” P 3 –Alicia’s selfish nature, isolating Alec for her own causes “I was isolated from the surrounding children of my own age, by the traditional barriers of class and education. ” P3 –Again the loneliness Alec felt as a child, hence his friendship with Jerry is so important “I never minded being alone. I suppose now that I come to think of it I had never known anything else. ” P6 “Even with them I was alone, and I was the only thing which made them less alone …
Their only meeting place was the child. P6 –The relationship between Alicia and Frederick is not a loving one, it is full of bitterness and resentment “I have no intention of remaining alone in this with you. ” P 8 –Alicia makes it clear to Frederick that Alec is not going to school as she wants him with her so that she does have to be alone with Frederick “I noticed his feet before his face. In the summer they were bare, dust grey and with soles obviously as hard and impervious to stones, thorns, damp, as the soles of my expensive black leather shoes. P8 –Description of Jerry, stark contrast to Alec’s wealth, boys come from completely different social classes “I had a friend. A private secret friend. ” P13 –Alec’s happiness at having a friend, but he has to keep it a secret as Alicia would disapprove “I’ll be leaving school in June” Jerry. P15 – Difference between Alec and Jerry, Jerry must leave school to gain money for his family “I forbid it. Absolutely. ” P 25. – Alicia’s reaction to the friendship between Alec and Jerry “Perhaps the time has come for us to get to know each other a little.
The Essay on Home Schooling Children Learn School
Motivation of Home Schooled Children Home schooling is relatively new issue that is getting a growing interest in the United States especially in the last years. Although, because of the nature of privacy of the issue, no certain figures can be confidently known about the number of people (pupils) involved in home schooling, Observers generally agree that the number of parents involved in home ...
Hey? Frederick P 27 – Unusual, as a teenager Alec and his father are only now getting to know one another despite living together all their lives, this shows the distance that Alicia kept between the pair “You have always been an ineffective man. ” P 30 – Alicia’s description of her husband “It angered her more and more as the months passed, to watch the mutual pleasure given and received between my father and myself. ” P 35 –Alicia’s selfish nature, she is jealous of the bond being formed between Alec and Frederick “I hope you never experience the humiliation of living with someone who is completely indifferent to you. P41 –Frederick is well aware of Alicia’s opinion of him and is deeply unhappy, he hopes that Alec never has to suffer the same fate “Suppose he were not your father?
” Alicia P46 –Emotional blackmail that Alicia uses to drive a wedge between Alec and Frederick, forces Alec to choose to go to war (which ironically only pushed Alec and Jerry closer together, as Jerry too was going to was at the request of his mother) “Dispossessed in a sentence. P 47 –Alec’s reaction to learning that Alicia may not be his father “Like most of the officers he wore no sword, but carried a cane with him constantly which he was very quick to use if any trouble arose with the men. ” P 91 –Description of Major Glendinning, and the cane which he used to give Alec his ‘glorious war wound’ “Let it be understood once and for all that I will have no talking between the men and the officers. ” Glendinning to Alec. P 92 –
Even in the army a friendship across the class barriers will not be tolerated “If nothing else, Moore, if nothing else I will make a man of you. Glendinning P 121 –Major Glendinning has a negative impression of Alec “In the interests of humanity, a word of advice. Tell your men to shoot straight. It’s over quicker if they do. I know they do the other from the best of motives, but …” Glendinning P 153 –Glendinning informing Alec that he is responsible for Jerry’s firing squad, hence the reason that Alec shoots Jerry, so neither of them will have to go through the trauma of the firing squad (for Jerry’s death – Alec will face the3 firing squad for his actions) “Because I am an officer and a gentleman they have not taken away my bootlaces or my pen, so I sit and wait and rite. ” P 156 – Class differences, when Jerry awaited his execution the army took all his belongings but Alec is allowed to keep his because he is an officer This entry was posted in Leaving Cert English, Quotes lists, The Comparative Study.
The Essay on Founding Father Government Man Fathers
The drafting of the United States Constitution displayed the concept of self-interest and was shaped by the founding father's personal views about economic affairs, by their distrust of a purely democratic rule, and by their belief that man's Hobbesian nature could only be neutralized with a balanced government. When the Constitution of the United States was drafted, the founding fathers secured ...
