Snow Crash is the story of samurai programmer Hiro Protagonist and of youthful skateboard courier Y. T. The two live in a dystopian hyper-corporate future with a rich but commercial simulated online world underlying most of society. Partnering to go into the intelligence business, Hiro and Y. T. run afoul of a scheme to use mind control to reshape society through applications of an ancient language that speaks directly to the human brainstem.
Crash is a provocative treatise on racism woven together with a series of overlapping threads Written and directed by Million Dollar Baby screenwriter Paul Haggis Crash was inspired by an incident in which Haggis was carjacked at gunpoint in Los Angeles Racism is a universally recognized affliction but Haggis victimization at the hands of black robbers caused him to explore how living in a city where everyone is cocooned in their car contributed to the problem One theory he posits via detective
Kate Chopins short story The Storm narrated the story of a womens lies and a man lust for her being during the passing of a storm The main characters Calixta the wife and Alce ex lover have committed adultery and getting away unnoticed by their spouse From the situation Chopin implies the theme of The Storm as to lie and cheat is just a natural part of life In the beginning of The Storm Bobint and his son Bibi is taking cover from the storm in a nearby store and to wait for the storm the died d
THE STORM I The leaves were so still that even Bibi thought it was going to rain Bobint who was accustomed to converse on terms of perfect equality with his little son called the childs attention to certain sombre clouds that were rolling with sinister intention from the west accompanied by a sullen threatening roar They were at Friedheimers store and decided to remain there till the storm had passed They sat within the door on two empty kegs Bibi was four years old and looked very wise Mamall
The Green Girdle During the start of the poem King Arthur celebrates Christmas merrily with his knights in Camelot During the festivities an elegant green skinned knight wielding a holly branch and a monstrous axe crashes the party He challenges the legendary Knights of the Round Table with a test of bravery and strength Sir Gawain nephew of King Arthur courteously accepts the challenge and subsequently chops off the Green Knights head Much to everyones shock and dismay the Green Knight picks u
Billy Colman spots a Redbone coonhound in a fight with neighborhood dogs Billy chases the other dogs and helps the hound recover from its wounds When the dog is feeling stronger again Billy realizes he must set it free knowing that the hound will find its way home Growing up in the Ozarks with his parents and three younger sisters Billy wants to own a pair of Red Bone coonhounds but his parents tell him that the family cannot afford coonhounds One day Billy finds an article in a sportsman magaz
The River Brian Robeson returns from the award winning novel Hatchet in The River He survived for fifty four days in the Canadian wilderness alone with just a hatchet In Brians Winter he spent another big chunk of time in the same place with a hatchet a survival pack containing a malfunctioning signaling device and a more subdued narrator who pretty much let Brian tell the story the continuing story since Brians Winter began just before Hatchet ended and was based on the premise that the hero h
Love never dies a natural death It dies because we dont know how to replenish its source It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness of withering of tarnishing Anais Nin Anais Nin is saying that love does not just go away there is a cause to its diminishing In the novel The Poisonwood Bible multiple betrayals partake within the Price family a family that went to the African Congo to take part in a religious mission Among the betrayed was Adah
The character Brian is an ordinary city boy and he lives with his Mother Brian was flying in an airplane visit his father in Michigan for the summer The pilot is an olden man in about his fifties He is a very happy because he is flying over the woods Brian is the protagonist he is through out the whole story He was there through the easy times and the hardest times The subordinate character is the pilot he had a heart attach and caused the whole problem in the story The forest and nature would