Descriptive Essay Humbert - 1380 Words

We just got to the hotel, and my oh my, Humbert Humbert can be so weird sometimes. I don’t even know where to start talking about today! When he first came to pick me up at Camp Q, he seemed, oh I don’t know, different. He was bigger, more powerful, and much much cuter than the little Hummy I remembered. He looked like he had stepped right out of the poster above my bed, with those big hairy arms, his icy blue eyes, and that smile that made my heart flutter. He had seemed to turn into a real life Cary Grant. Who knows? Maybe it was because he was my dad now. Or maybe it was because of what I had learned this summer. Honestly, it was probably just cause the only guy I had seen all summer was that lard-ball Charlie Holmes. While he†¦show more content†¦Oh, I don’t know. But still, it might have been fun to see dad try and talk his way out of something like that with a police officer. But I’m sure he could. He is very smart. I think that is why Charlotte loves him. She probably thinks that people will think she is smarter cause of him. Whatever. If she won’t be nice to me then I won’t be nice to her. I bet she sent me to camp to get me away for the summer. She wants to have him all to herself. Why can’t she ever let me have anything?! Well, I know that my Hummy cares about me. I can see in the way he looks at me. Deep down in those steely, blue, European eyes, I know he cares. I bet his eyes look are the same color as whats it called. That place in Europe. The Medityranny? Yea that’s it. His eyes are definitely the same color as The Medityrannical Sea. I can picture it now. A calm beautiful surface extending far as the eye can see, and just filled, filled with life and commotion underneath; I can tell that no matter what those eyes show, there’s even more going on underneath. I know he loves me. Even if he can’t show it very much when other people are around. But it makes me so sad and mad sometimes though. I want people us to see how much he loves me. And how much I like him. But he scares me sometimes too. I can’t put my finger on it but there is something that I can’t quite describe; scary isn’t right, not weird, but†¦ Why is it so hard to find the right word sometimes? I can senseShow MoreRelatedEssay about Humbert the Pedophile1965 Words   |  8 PagesHumbert the Pedophile Lolita, the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, tells the story of Humbert Humbert, who is a perfect example of a pedophile. Although the character Humbert Humbert describes his feelings toward the twelve year old Lolita as love, in actuality, it is obsessive lust. Nabokov does an excellent job displaying the characteristics of pedophilia through this character. Reading Lolita makes us conscious of the need to be more aware that pedophilia is alive and well in our society today. InRead More The Rich Diversity of Meanings of the Pardoners Tale Essay5609 Words   |  23 Pagesbetween language, and more specifically art, and the self. This essay will be as much a critical discussion of Chaucerian criticism as an interpretation of the Pardoner for much of our current understandings of the Pardoner and his performance come from nearly six hundred years of scholarship on the subject. What exactly do we now about the Pardoner? Much of our understanding of him as a literary human being rests on several key descriptive statements in the text, most about his appearance. They fail