This story vascillates between the everyday humdrum life of Water Mitty, the hen-pecked husband sterotype, and the extravagant adventures he lives in his daydreams. Mitty flits in and out of reality, his daydreams concocted by a stream of consciousness association triggered by the sputtering of his car's exhaust pipe, a pair of gloves, and finally a freshly lit cigarette. In such a way this docile "hubby" gets to be the captain of an icebreaker, a famous surgeon, a defendent in a murder trial and finally a fighter pilot taken captive distaining a firing squad. Mitty's imagination is his "second life," which nurtures his deflated ego and helps hims escape the insufferable mediocrity of his existence.
If you do a graph of the plot line of this story, it would look very much like a cardiograph printout, with the steady horizontal line of Mitty's real life intermittantly broken by the highs and lows of his "virtual" existence.
Answer:
Alice is placed in the second rank as one of the White Queen's pawns, and begins her journey across the chessboard by boarding a train that jumps over the third row and directly into the fourth rank, thus acting on the rule that pawns can advance two spaces on their first move.
Answer:
Jonas obeys all the rules, but does not agree with any of them. This shows that Jonas has a very respectful and peaceful behavior.
Explanation:
The question above is about "The Giver", a book written by Louis Lowry, where we are introduced to a society that wants to provide equality for all citizens, allowing everyone to act in the same way and have all the same resources. Although it seems like a utopia, this book presents a dystopia, since this attempt is corrupted and has bad results.
The protagonist of this book is called Jonas, a boy who was chosen to be, the giver, a person who must store the memory of the whole society. It is because of this duty that Jonas begins to realize that he lives in a society, that instead of providing equality and freedom, it provides for imprisonment, sadness and limitations. Jonas finds himself in a society full of rules, where it is forbidden to question, forbidden to lie and forbidden to reflect. He disagrees with all of this, but obeys all the rules, as he is an obedient, respectful and peaceful boy.
