Man Forgiving The Burglary

Kat, the leader of the pack is also a father figure to Paul. One night Paul says to Kat, "We don't talk much, but I believe we have a more complete communion with one another than even lovers have."

You can tell that Paul is afraid of his older brother, Erik. Another quote that showed flashback was, “I turned around and saw Vincent Castor. He was holding a can of spray paint. Then I felt Erik grab me from behind. And I remembered Erik’s fingers prying my eyelids open while Vincent Castor sprayed white paint into them.

On Monday, 4th September 1905, an assailant raised a knife in the air and plunged it deep into Peter Lumberg's throat. The blade skewered through his chest almost to the heart. Blood gushed onto nearby bushes. Probably a fatal injury, but not enough for the attacker who unleashed a frenzied assault, punching the knife so deep into the flesh it struck bone.

At the beginning of the book, Paul is an outcast, “Hey, Eclipse Boy,” and is never noticed, except by a few people, “Unfortunately, nobody… paid much attention to me.” At first, Paul is a person no one really notices or cares about him, not even his own Dad. Almost Everyone is more focused on his evil older brother, Erik. Paul is also almost always cowardice, “I’m

On Saturday, December 1, 1900, a man named John Hossack was killed in his sleep with a hatchet by his wife, Margaret Hossack. The story told by Margaret was that she had heard what sounded like two boards banging together and by that time the attacker had fled and she didn’t catch a glimpse of him. The next thing she saw was her extremely wounded husband, John, who had a five-inch cut into his head and a fractured skull. A doctor, who came and examined John, and said there was no hope and John died the next morning. As an investigation started, a burglary was thought of as the first motive but the idea flawed because nothing was stolen so the idea was quickly abandoned. In the 4 days between the murder and the funeral, the police talked to

Therefore, after the Cruz family and Paul near the end of fighting “The Freeze”, Luis tell Paul, “‘I’m just telling you this so you’ll know. You seem kinda scared of Erik and Arthur Bauer.’ ‘Yeah. I am. Who wouldn’t be?’... Luis’s uncle walked up and started talking to him, so I drifted back inside, thinking about my fear of Erik. How could I be so totally afraid, and Luis not be the slightest bit afraid, of the exact same thing?’(229) Paul becomes aware that not everyone is afraid of Erik and he begins to question his own beliefs about his feelings towards his brother. It puts into perspective that his “big and scary” problems are not such great conflicts when one takes the initiative to stand up to them. This influences Paul to lose his trepidation for when he confronts Erik. It reduces Erik’s power over keeping Paul silent when he witnesses his older brother committing something unlawful. Adding to that, after being reminded of a familiar name, Castor, and white spray paint, Paul analyzes what really led to the beginning of his terrible eyesight. He confronts his parents and they say, “‘You were five years old, Paul. There was only so much you could understand. All you could understand was that something bad had happened… I was so terrified that you would

He realizes just like his father and his mother he is using drug and alcohol to cope with his pain is slowly killing them. Paul still didn’t know if he wants to live or die so he flirts with the idea of death, but he stops himself at the last second.

Paul’s insanity is shown early on through the snow not being actually there. Paul had been listening for the postman everyday. He is

the love and care he unknowingly needs. Paul takes on roles that disguise his own traits and turns him into what he believes to be a person nobody can say no to. When he takes on these roles, he

Comradeship is a relationship and the relationship that Paul and his fellow soldiers have form has brought them close. If Katczinsky didn’t feel some type of personal or emotional relationship to the rest of the group he wouldn’t do the things he does for them. Paul describes times where Kat has gone out looking for any food to eat, he has also come up with supplies when times have gotten extra tuff for the group. This shows two things in Kats character, one he is always looking out of his team because

This psychopath terrorized the people of Wisconsin and Ohio for thirteen years. This man committed a series of murder, rape, and dismemberment amongst his seventeen 17 victims. This paper will go one to talk about his early life, first victims, killing spree, arrest and imprisonment, and also his death.

“Forgiveness, assert Fincham and his colleagues, can help restore more benevolent and cooperative goals to relationships” Everett L. Worthington, Jr.(2004). New Science of Forgiveness.

We can hardly control ourselves when our glance lights on the form of some other man. We are insensible, dead men, who through some trick, some dreadful magic, are still able to run and to kill” (Remarque 116). Paul’s description of himself and his comrades does not sound human; rather, it sounds as if he were describing a pack of wolves. Furthermore, when Paul becomes trapped in the middle ground during a skirmish, he realizes he must defend himself. A French soldier jumps into his hole, forcing Paul to kill him. Paul “strike[s] madly at home and feel[s] only how the body suddenly convulses” without any thought (Remarque 216). The language employed by Remarque suggests Paul’s behavior is animalistic and brutal. His mad stabs into the body of the Frenchman imply the violent and impersonal nature of man that coincides with war.

The article discusses how not choosing to forgive can hinder people from fully recovering. Brief therapy says that it is natural and okay for a person to feel anger toward an abuser but instead of teaching the benefits of forgiveness and letting go of the resentment, brief therapy does not allow the opportunity for reflection and understanding of what happened and why it may have happened. It does not allow the opportunity to find meaning in the suffering of the abuse, and when we can’t find meaning in something we can’t accept it and move on. Brief therapy causes people to dwell more on their anger, making it almost impossible to improve the negative outcomes of the abuse.

Reconciliation is stated as “restoration of a state of peace to the relationship, where the entities are at least not harming each other, and can begin to be trusted not to do so in future, which means that revenge is foregone as an option” (Santa-Barbara, 174). This definition is a starting point in understanding reconciliation but does not address the spirit of forgiveness involved. It is important to recognize harms that others have done but it becomes necessary to portray these in a positive and understanding manner. This supplies the persecutor with an image that is not so negative and “monster-like” but also provides for the victim acknowledgement that there has been harm done. For reconciliation to take place, all parties involved