In Kim Addonizio's poem “31-Year Old Lover”, Addonizio introduces two characters, a 31-year old man, and an older woman. Through these characters, Addonizio attempts to portray youthfulness as a godlike state, by contrasting it with the process of becoming old and weary.…
Geraldine Brooks’ compelling novel, “Year of Wonders”, explores the various facets of human behaviour invoked when experiencing a traumatic and deathly event; the bubonic plague. The negative side of human nature is revealed when the villagers collapse under the pressure of the plague and begin to lose themselves within their scapegoating, greed and witchcraft. Untimely deaths rack the village with suffering and fear, with people not knowing which moment is their last and having no hope for the future. However, through this plague, there are events of great significance and joy, such as births and solid friendships that strongly…
The old woman is used in the novella to aide in the delegitimization of Pangloss’ character and the philosophical Optimism that he…
In the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, he implies that even though humans are so vulnerable to fera, that fear can still manipulate many aspects of a person’s life, such as Tim not wanting to go to war, when Mary Bell’s changes, and Rat Kiley’s greif.. In the world today,fear till influences many things, but it is up to the individual too how it will affect…
Sal fears that everyone will leave her like her mother did. In addition, from the book “ I don’t know what came over me. Even since my mother left us that April day, I suspected that everyone was going to leave, one by one”(Creech 59). In here Sal describes her fear after her mother left she thought that everyone will leave her one by one. In conclusion I want to say that fear is an unpleasant. Because it is the feeling we get when we are afraid or worried that something bad is going to happen. After Sal’s mother left her she was living in fear and it was unpleasant for her. Because she thought everyone will leave her like her mother…
In the novel, A Long Way Gone, there were a lot of acts of violence that revolved around the main character, Ishmael Beah. Much of this violence was similar to the violence in chapter 11 of How To Read Literature Like a Professor. The many types of violence in this book have different functions.…
“There’s no way I’d want to be 10 anymore. I have so much more freedom now. I’m making money. I can do whatever I want.” But what if you asked him what it would be like to be 40? “It would be awful. I’d be stuck in the rut of a job. I’d be stuck with a wife and kids.” And so on. But the end of Dr. Tornstam’s analogy is our concept of old age. For some reason our culture fears old age. In general we fear becoming elderly. Our concept of old age is associated with a lack of contentment with life.…
“A Long Way Gone”, a memoir about a Sierra Leonean young boy who is a “child of war” has many themes in the novel but what is the most important? Relationship, I believe that this is the most important theme because without relationship, Ishmeal Beah, the author of “A long Way Gone” and a human rights activist would not have survived nor would he have recuperated from the war in Sierra Leone.…
He is the father figure when Ishmael goes into battle. His words motivate the young boys to be willing to give their lives against the rebels.…
When we think of childhood, most of us have an image embedded in our minds of a place blessed with ceaseless joy and happiness. It’s a time in our life during which an individual is free of responsibilities but subsequently begins to learn right from wrong. Bless Me, Ultima by Ruldolfo Anaya, however, offers a differing viewpoint on childhood and adolescence; one denoted by an inauguration into adulthood and maturity. Antonio Márez, the protagonist of Bless Me, Ultima, is a six year old boy whose childhood is marked by many conflicts and events that administer a lasting impact on his life. Ruldolfo Anaya, through the character of Antonio and his brothers, presents to the reader a childhood marked by a loss of innocence and progression into adulthood through the development of moral independence, expectations from family and culture of what one has to become in the future, and development of the judgment of what is good and what is evil/or a sin. Through the culmination of these three factors, we can see how Anaya’s representation of childhood contributes to the meaning of this fine piece of literature, which is one of a transition from innocence to experience through moral independence.…
A topic that is shown throughout A Long Way Gone is the desire to escape the war. Ishmael Beah had the want, the need, and the desire to escape the war that was happening in Sierra Leone. He had to escape those who turned on the country and became rebels. Running away became part of his life for many years until he join the soldiers. There he would fight for his country to escape from the cruelty the rebels were bringing to Sierra Leone. Ishmael was a very brave child to be constantly escaping and running away from guys who were setting villages on fire and carried AK47s and G3s with them. After being put into a rehabilitation center he had to escape those fears and awful thought from the war. He needed to make those thoughts go…
Love in the Time of Cholerais not an engrossing love story as some will tell you; it is nothing more than a brilliant essay on the illusions of love. Set in the late 1800′s, Florentino Ariza falls in love with Fermina Daza, they have a three year long affair in letters and then she ends it with one short phrase: “What is between us is nothing more than an illusion,” and then marries another. Fifty one years, nine months, and four days later, her husband Dr. Juvenal Urbino dies and her teenage flame Ariza presents himself again at the funeral. Despite all his many sexual affairs throughout his life he has supposedly saved his heart all these years for Fermina Daza alone.…
In Franz Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" and in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's " A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," an understanding of the cruelty of mankind is revealed through an examination of the themes and the characters in both of their stories. Although these stories are both written in two different styles, there are a few common threads within them that make them interesting to compare. By comparing these two stories one is able to fully understand the struggles incurred by those individuals who are different from what society considers being normal.…
Often times people believe that there are no consequences in loving a person dearly, because being with the person you love will make life a happily ever after. In the book, “Like Water for Chocolate,” Laura Esquivel takes on this misconception and states otherwise. She beautifully writes about the love story between a secretive couple, Pedro and Tita. Though their love for each other is real and grounded in truth, they face many challenges and hardships that separate them being together. Then once they are allowed to have each other, they discover the consequences their love had cheat them into. Through the romantic symbols of Tita and Pedro’s relationship, the author makes the comment that true love cannot be achieved without facing the eternal…
People now-a-days want to be forever young, they think it’s better to be young than to be old, but the way Morrie saw it “If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy because it will happen anyhow.” Instead why not just embrace it beside age is more important that youth because you’ll be wise, mature and able to achieve your dreams.…