environment where he is forced to believe he only has one option in life? "Paul’s Case" by Willa Cather is a short story beautifully illustrating a young boy fighting to hold on to his identity in a town where his dreams are looked down upon and criticized. His struggle is displayed through characterization‚ setting‚ and symbolism. Characterization sets the stage for the beginning of Paul’s fatal battle. Paul is described as being different from what most consider a normal boy. A stereotypical
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Cather’s short story Paul’s case is an example of how an individual’s society‚ environment‚ and culture can affect the person psychologically and mentally. The beginning of the story provides an example of how Paul’s presence is felt around other people‚ “In one way and another‚ he had made all his teachers‚ men‚ and women alike‚ conscious of the same feeling of physical aversion” (195). An analysis of the story’s conflict and characters will inform you more about Paul and his story. The only thing
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Paul’s Case Willa Carter’s Paul’s Case suggests that ambitious goals tend collapse in the confrontation of reality when shortcuts are made. In the city of Pittsburgh‚ where the new industrial age brings hard work and honest livings‚ Paul feels surrounded by the dull life that lay before him. With his artistic spirit and eagerness to live more extravagantly‚ instead of working towards that dream by finishing school and earning his way to the top‚ he makes a foolish decision and loses everything
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I think Paul and Connie are alike in so many ways especially because they were both teenagers who had a special love for music. One of the way I think they were alike is that they both had great and very vivid imagination. In the story Where are you going‚ Where have you been‚ Connie spent some of her summer‚ “thinking and dreaming about the boys she meet‚ But all the boys fell back and dissolved into a single face that was not even a face‚ but an idea‚ a feeling.” This clearly indicates her how
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11/30 Paul’s Case Paul’s Case is about a young‚ Calvinist man who did not feel that he belonged in his life. He lived on Cordelia Street in Pittsburgh‚ PA. Cordelia Street was littered with cookie cutter houses‚ suburbanite-like city-dwellers‚ and a general aura of despair. Paul’s room was no different. Paul felt that his abusive father‚ uncaring teachers‚ and classmates who misunderstand him aren’t worthy of his presence and company. One of the reasons Paul may not have fit in was
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Case for critical analysis admin | March 17‚ 2009 | no comments Introduction Working with people may be one of the easiest things and or the hardest undertaking in any company or organization. Properly understanding people provides a humble base or foundation in managing them and well managed people are easier to understand. With this as a rule of thumbs‚ the goals‚ plans and aspirations may be achieved. This paper will analyze H.I.D. as a company that has a potential of expansion or else stagnate
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Without reading the assigned chapter‚ and just looking at the stages of development of critical thinking‚ I immediately labeled myself as a practicing thinker. However‚ after reading chapter two of Paul and Elder Critical Thinking‚ I realized I was not even close to being a practicing thinker. Paul and Elder list these stages: Stage One: The Unreflective Thinker (we are unaware of significant problems in our thinking) Stage Two: The Challenged Thinker (we become aware of problems in our thinking)
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Character in Paul’s Case Pauls’s Case is the story of a young man who struggles with his identity. Paul feels that he knows where he belongs‚ but his family and teachers refuse to support his choices. In the middle of Paul’s Case‚ there is a switch in narration. At this point‚ the reader can associate with Paul and his problems. Paul struggles with both internal and external conflicts‚ causing him to be quite a puzzling character. From tha perspective of his family and teachers‚ Paul seems abnormal
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2 April 2012 Simply a Bad Case Is the outcome of our lives predetermined before we are born or by the environment in which we are born into or is it determined by our own free will? “These are some of the many questions that plague humanity‚ the questions that give philosophers‚ sociologists‚ scientists‚ and writers material with which to work” (Hicks). In the short story Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament‚ Willa Cather uses these questions to tell of a boy‚ Paul‚ whom his peers do all they
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The Case of Paul Schreber April 2013 The Case of Paul Schreber Upon walking into my office I could tell right away that Paul Schreber was going to be a special case. He was sent to me via his former psychiatrist‚ Dr. Emil Flechsig‚ because of the fact that Paul did not feel comfortable with him. Paul believed that Dr. Flechsig was involved in a process that would transform him into a woman prostitute. Right away I knew that there was definitely some time of disorder at work and I just had
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