Was there one time in your life where you felt strong and then lost hope and became weak? Well in the story The Fight By Adam Bagdasarian there is a boy who was very cocky and got into a fight. He acts like a strong boy but that all changes right after he challenges a kid to a fight. This boy sees the world in a negative way because he became scared, weak, and hopeless. One reason why the boy sees the world in a negative way is he is afraid of the fight.For example the boy in the fight said “In the moment of fear my body produce ice cold sweat”. When the boy was fearful he watched all around and in doing so he made himself more vulnerable. Another example is that in the story the boy said “the rest of the day I was in a haze or dread. The boy felt dread and afraid and so he is not thinking straight and may get into trouble. My last example is the boy said the he would have to be someone who knew how to fight but im not. He is saying that he feels that his body is to afraid and scared because sometimes when you are scared you body produces cold sweat to calm you down. This shows that one reason the boy sees the world in a negative way is he is afraid of the fight. …show more content…
One example is the boy asked god to take him out of that year and place him in another year .So he would miss the fight that proves that he is weak because he does not want to fight. Another example is the boy keeps looking at the clock and thinking how much time till he has to fight.The boy is paranoid and weak he does not want to fight and get hurt. My last example is the boy tries to postpone the fight for a couple of minutes. This shows that the boy does not want to fight and is a little scared.These examples show how the boy is weak and
Do you know someone who hides their true personality? In the short story The Fight, by Adam Bagdasarian, Will finds his true self In the story, Will is challenged to a fight, then he finds the truth about himself. In the beginning, he is confident. Towards the middle, he gets worried. Finally, in the end, he is defeated, and loses the fight. In this short story, Will finds his true self in a very surprising way.
Punch, punch, punch groan. Adam in The Fight is overconfident because he is arrogant, has a bad reputation, and he also treats people badly. This story is by Adam Bagdasarian.
Battling through life with conflict is often one of the main problems adolescents have to surpass. Conflict implies many difficulties that may harm ones dignity. This is visible in the lives of Charlie Hall in Emory’s Gift by William Bruce Cameron and Saul Indian Horse in Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese. Conflict makes the protagonists stronger as it allows them to boost their flexibility, mature, and build up their self-esteem.
The character Rocky Balboa’s speech to his son in the film Rocky Balboa is a cultural example relatable to the phrase, “Times of terror are times of eloquence.” In this particular scene of the movie, Rocky faces a major upcoming fight of which he admits he is scared to death. Meanwhile, his son is struggling at his job and reveals that he blames his father for it. In this moment, Rocky delivers a passionate speech, in which he encourages his son to persevere when he encounters obstacles, and to
He always thought his father was going to save him and take him away. As time passed by, he saw that things were just getting worse between his mother and him and his father wouldn’t do nothing about it. He lost hope and didn’t care about anything. But he started to dream at night that one day he would get out of the hell hole he was living in. He realized that if he wanted to survive he would have to be strong and beat his mother at her torturing games. He just kept thinking to himself one day I will get out of here. He started building a self-esteem. He started realizing what was happening wasn’t his fault and one day decided to tell someone at school.
The Johnny gasped and turned white as a ghost then red with rage. While all of the other boys were looking at the Ponyboy who was drowning, Johnny pulled a knife out of his back pocket, I gasped I knew what he was going to do seconds before he did it. “Wait!” I screamed, but the boy didn’t even acknowledge me. I turned around, I couldn’t watch. This reminded me too much of Yaqui beating me up, but this was different, these boys fought unlike we did. The way we fought it wasn’t killing each other or anything like that, but it was almost worse. Being humiliated in front of the whole school. Both Ponyboy and I got hurt though mine was both mentally and physically. The only other thing that I could see that connected our two lives was that we both fought back. Well actually Johnny fought for Ponyboy, but it’s pretty much the same, in the end the bullies both got what they deserved. No, that’s not true, nobody (even Yaqui Delgado) deserves to die. By the time I turned back around the boys were driving away in their car and the boy who had been killed was slumped on the ground not moving. The other boy; Johnny was helping to pull his friend; Ponyboy out of the water
In the story, “The Fighter” by Walter Dean Myers, the main conflict of the story is that Billy, the main character, needs to earn more money for him and his family in order for them to live a nice life. Billy is running low on money, so he needs to do boxing which is the only way he earns money, but his wife does not agree with him because she doesn’t want him to get hurt. Therefore, he is torn between either upsetting his wife to earn money or living in poverty until he could get the right education to get a good job. In the beginning of the story it says Billy is going out, though it doesn’t say where, it is to somewhere his wife does not want him to go. I know this because on page 27 it states,“Billy Giles told his wife that he was just
The United States Marine Corps is a frequently misunderstood, occasionally maligned but more frequently mythologized division of the U.S. Armed Forces. Sometimes its role is perceived as overlapping the roles and responsibilities of its military counterparts such as the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force. However, as the exhaustive text by Victor Krulak shows, it is far more often seen as enhancing, focusing and insuring the roles and responsibilities. As the original pressing of Krulak's text was completed in 1984, a great many of the sentiments that permeate First in Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps carry pointedly Cold War-related messages and imperatives. However, an open-minded consideration of the text demonstrates a particular relevance for the servicemen and women of today's U.S. Marine Corps.
The boy is very warm-hearted and appears to struggle to understand that danger could occur at any moment, whilst his father knows a lot more about what some people, “the bad guys”, do in order to survive. It could be seen that the child is very naive and therefore trusts others more than his father. However his trust in others teaches his father a valuable lesson; that not everyone is a “bad guy”. For instance when the pair come across Ely, the father is wary about him but his son is adamant that they give him a tin of food. This shows to readers that the boy has faith unlike his father. Another example is when the son sees the little boy; he begs his father to go back and help him and asks if he can go with them. I believe that he wants to help others as
In the novel, The Contender by Robert Lipsyte, Alfred Brooks is training to be a Contender and will learn a very important lesson in his life that is necessarily just about boxing. At one point in the novel, Alfred is training hard to be a contender. Alfred learns that in order to be a Contender he must put in the hard
Gwendolyn Brooks' "First fight. Then Fiddle." initially seems to argue for the necessity of brutal war in order to create a space for the pursuit of beautiful art. The poem is more complex, however, because it also implies both that war cannot protect art and that art should not justify war. Yet if Brooks seems, paradoxically, to argue against art within a work of art, she does so in order create an artwork that by its very recognition of art's costs would justify itself.
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The boys are strongly inspired by war movies and war stories told by the elderlies. The narrator has received a toy gun from his granddad. He knows a lot about it because of his big interest in war. As almost every other boy, they play games with guns and death involved. The problem is not that the boys play war, but that they cannot differentiate between where the fun stops. In this game Gavin almost killed himself, but it was not on purpose. A problem is, when the mom notices Gavin, she immediately saves him. Then she slaps the narrator. By slapping the narrator she punishes him for something that he does not know is wrong. The narrator is angry, because they have to award Gavin the price of the best death.
The boy stood with his hands balled into fists at his sides and his eyes tightly shut. His white shirt was stained with blood from the deep wounds on his stomach and arms as well as dirt from running through the haunting dark forest behind the abandoned cabin. One thing was clear in his muddled mind, and it was that he had to keep his eyes shut. No matter how much the pain he was in took over his thoughts, he had to remember to keep his eyes closed. It was the only thing keeping him and his friends alive. He was the key to getting rid of the morbid creature that has been destroying his town and killing innocent people, and if he could resist opening his eyes and looking at the creature, he could defeat it. But it isn’t as easy as it
His expression wasn’t one of pain it was one of strong concentration, hate also there. A strong hate. The man on the cliff had changed his focus from looking down to watching the boy. For that was what he was… he was nothing more than a boy… young and helpless against the forces that held him captive