William Sleator

In the story Martin, we take a look into the childhood life of Vaca and his friends. Quick to defeat his neighbors in this run-down town, they rule the neighborhood. However their power would in fact be challenged by a bizarre figure known as Martin. In their encounter, Vaca would learn that appearances can be deceiving.

Thesis: In Maus, by Art Spiegelman, the message of fear is to overcome fear and not to let fear overcome you.

Furthermore, when Marlow first arrives at the Central Station, he spots the manager. “His eyes, of the usual blues, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an axe” (Conrad, “Chapter 1,” Paragraph 52). Consequently, after Marlow states that the manager's eyes are very intense, it appeared as if the manager transpired someone who was quite aggressive and very scary. Correspondingly, the characterization of the manager continues to be as someone who invigorated anxiousness, “he was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness” (Conrad, "Chapter 1,” Paragraph 52). Not to mention, although he inspired uneasiness and anxiousness, Marlow describes the manager as someone who occurred to be an extremely uneducated person that sustained the manager profession owing to the fact that he was never unhealthy. “He had no learning and no

“When my friends came over they were amazed”(p.g.119)this shows that Martin’s friends were amazed at the story's Martin’s grandpa stories. Another quote that proves this is “My friends were so respectful and quiet.”(p.g.120) This shows that his fear of his friends laughing at his grandpa is not true. Another quote to prove this is “As they left they shook grandpa’s hand.”(p.g.120) This shows the theme by Martin’s friends shook his hand.

What is fear? Fear is is something you have when you are scared of something or in shock, so in the book The Elevator A boy Martin is scared, of course he was always uncomfortable in elevators afraid they would fall,but there was something especially unpleasant about this one. There scary and they can break down at anytime without you knowing.it could fall, and the lights could go off and you can't get help right away .He was walking down the stairs and he broke his leg because he was too scared to scared to ride the elevator with the big old lady.He is claustrophobic,paranoid,and may suffer from Cacomorphobia and Scopophobia. The elevator was so small that is felt uncomfortable and crowded even when there was

Dark uses the conversation between Janet and Martin to prove her theme of this story - Do not take anything for-granted. Janet does not take anything for-granted and spends as much time as possible with her son before he dies. Martin on the other hand does not, he takes everything he has for-granted and just leaves. He does not stick around and never once comes to visit his son. Because of Martins selfishness, he will live the rest of his life full of regrets.

Martin Vail is easily manipulated by the youthful, innocent appearance of Aaron Stampler. Martin did not believe that Aaron was innocent at first but upon spending much time with the young boy, he begins to unconsciously sympathize with him. This behavior is explained using the psychodynamic perspective because he does not realize that the reason he believes in Aaron’s innocence is because of his appearance and

His outlook in life was pretty bleak, he had a very black and white attitude. When pirate that tricked Candide attacked a Spanish ship and lost, Candide said that crime is punished and that he received his deserved fate (p. 51). Martin’s free thinking responded “Yes, but why should the passengers be doomed also to destruction? God has punished the knave, and the devil had drowned the rest. (p. 51).”

Kenneth Slessor, an extremely well known Australian poet of the 20th century, but does he really deserves to be highly regarded? This is a very complex and interesting topic. Kenneth Slessor was a war poet, however, he wrote about other complex topics as well. Slessor has many poems about interesting popular topics of the early 20th century. There are many reasons why Kenneth Slessor deserves to be highly regarded such as the period he was born in, his background and poetry style and the way his poems are written.

Martin is a character who is pessimistic through experience. After discovering that Cunegund is dead, through hearsay Candide reassess the situation feeling like a fool for leaving El Dorado. “I have nothing to do but follow her. Alas! how much better would it have been for me to have remained in the paradise of El Dorado than to have returned to this cursed Europe!

In the short story, "The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane, the situations the character encounter cause fear and the need for control; however each individual has a different reaction. The story displays the characters' attitude to each other, as well as, their reactions to their own feelings of fear and the need for control. “The Blue Hotel” explains an eerie investigation through one's journey to overcome their fears. The character's fears advanced them to what they wished to avoid.

Although Martin’s family faces dilemmas, the love in the family remains evident. Initially, the devotion that Martin shows towards his children illustrates his good nature. Martin views his children’s faces as “radiant as flower petals, equally loved” (103). Moreover illustrating his love for his children, Martin “kissed the tiny hand that lay palm-upward” (103). Furthermore, Martin’s hope to hold his family together exhibits his affection for his family. Martin constantly attempts to calm his wife in order to avoid displays of anger(101). “Please go upstairs,”(101) Martin begs of his wife so the children do not get upset seeing their mother frustrated. Lastly, the physical and emotional desire for Emily that Martin has, further shows how he cares for his family. Comforting his wife, Martin exhibits his love for her(104). Martin watched Emily as she slept and his “old anger vanished”(104).

The viewers can feel the tension between Martin and Laura before the physical and emotional abuses occur. After these incidents, Martin apologizes and gives gifts to Laura. In order to leave Martin, Laura “risked everything and escape, started a new life.” And even after she left Martin, she shows some “conditioned behavior” that she takes with from her marriage life. Martin has OCD and he expresses severe anger whenever he finds something unorganized in their house, such as hanging the bathroom towels out of order.

Throughout the novel Martin John had made multiple enemies but his most challenging enemy is a tenant who goes by the name of Baldy Conscience. In his illusion Baldy Conscience appears to be a fearsome enemy who is trying to steal his home and his freedom. But in reality, Baldy Conscience is nothing more than a typical tenant whose in need of a place to stay. The tenant was able to single handily cause Martin John nothing but fear and paranoia. This was evident in the novel where Martin John states, “They don’t know that Baldy Conscience is after him full time. He is on the run from Baldy Conscience even in his own home” (Schofield 142). This quote displays the significance of his fears. In his case, he is afraid of losing his home and since

1. Throughout the story suspense is aroused and maintained excellently. This is achieved by the character the author creates. Mr. Martin is characterized as a neat and cautious man, who never took a smoke or a drink in his life. Our suspense is aroused when the author states that it has been “a week to the day since Mr. Martin had decided to rub out Mrs. Ulgine Barrows”. This arouses our suspense because we are told Mr. Martin is planning to murder this woman. The suspense is maintained with Mr. Martin’s thoughts. We as an audience are given his thoughts through the use of the 3rd person omniscient point of view. His thoughts are mostly on the issue on his dislike of Mrs. Barrows. Because of this, he