In the short story, “King Curtis’s Echo”, by Max Thayer, the author mostly focuses on his revelation that in the spirit of self-preservation, picking fights with strangers over small indignities, is a bad idea and can have fatal consequences. He does not bring to light the other obvious point in his tale: possessing people skills to begin could have prevented the situation altogether. A little tact, patience, and forethought would have gone a long way in sparing the author the plethora of indignities that he ultimately brought upon himself. Approaching the deli patron with a little finesse would clearly have helped Max Thayer’s cause, but it is obvious that he does not possess such character …show more content…
If Thayer had thought about what sort of out come he wanted before he left his home perhaps there wouldn’t have been further obscenities exchanged over something as inconsequential as a parking space. He shows the reader that he is reacting to every little nuance this man projects, “He smirked when we passed each other.” And, “Our eyes met as he smirked again.” Thayer is highly reactive, a loose canon, and since he does not notice this, it leads the reader to believe that he may not notice more of his own character flaws. Such as, that the author’s self-righteousness is preventing him from being aware that he could be unfairly judging this stranger with his own prejudices. Thayer has never met this man, yet has made several assumptions about his character based on his physical appearance, “… fit and full of himself, nonchalantly waved off the appeal and sauntered around the corner…” Having forethought and social grace could have really helped Thayer’s cause, but he never picks up on this. Stepping back, taking a breath or two, and having patience for other people would surely have been an asset to this exchange. After he felt antagonized too easily by the man’s response that he, “calm down”, he could have taken that for an astute observation and realized that perhaps the
The ¨ The less you know the more you believe” Jon Krakauer wrote the novel Into the Wild in 1996. Summary:
‘He stands up, tall and intimidating. He glares with real anger. And I can’t help but feel a blush of pride seeing it. I’ve been wrong about him’ (p. 204).
“And that's not all,” Henry smirked, he wouldn't, “she told your father that she wanted to run away.” I glared at him, ohhh, I would love to wipe that smirk off his face! Lushanya gave me the same, your crazy, look as her father. Gosh, she is so much like her father! I thought.
This is a very important part of the book because it shows the reader that the
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people are superficial. In almost every case, he rejects more complex judgments in favor of
In the beginning, while the main character’s name is unknown to the reader, they quickly learn of his arrogance, insecurity, and lack of self-awareness through the voice he uses when narrating. For example, his arrogance is shown in the beginning when he is concerned with how the visit with Robert will affect him and dismisses the relationship his wife had with him in the past, claiming the audiotapes to be just harmless chit-chat. His self-absorbance is also shown when he states, “She and I began going out, and of course she told her blind man
shocked reaction to hear beauty and prowess. Morgan goes on to evaluate that Ligon’s observation that
that if a war started near them he would be 'off like a whippet' and
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I think all the problems began then our guy started the new carrier as a broker in unknown brokerage firm. The institution there he started his carrier as a stock investment broker had no such thing as business ethics.
The most significant part of the entire text is that most of the readers will never feel the pain of author. The ability not to be able to relate and understand someone’s struggle is very impactful.
Although, appearance can reveal a lot of information about a person, what they say can reveal just as much. The stranger states,
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At the beginnig, he does not want to sell all of the toxic assets but finally, he accepted and the next morning, he ordonned to his employees to do this. All of employees were performed.