Something there is that doesnt love a wall The speaker of Robert Frosts Mending Wall begins by claiming that there is something out there in nature that doesnt seem to agree that a wall should remain in tact It might be the earth itself that something That sends the frozen ground swell under it And spills the upper boulders in the sun And makes gaps even two can pass abreast The frozen earth bolts upward and then shrinks in the warmth of the sun and the rocks that form the wall go toppling down
Sympathizing with a Terrorist The initial reaction of an American reading Alan Moores V for Vendetta may not be hmm their fascist government seems immensely similar to our own government Why is this Is it because the American government has directed its public away from this thought After all the United States is the self proclaimed greatest democracy on Earth The government in V for Vendetta can be seen as more than just a criticism of the British government at the time it can also be seen as
Chinua Achebes Arrow of God is set in the 1920s before secularism became dominant It begins with the image of a mask when he tells his son not to carve the mask of a god for the white man The mask is a symbol of change The whole world is changing and the people who do not change will not survive The old priest Ezeulu desires change but he cannot do it He cannot force himself to leave the old ways behind and adopt the new ways Thus he sends one of his sons to learn from the white man He cannot d
Men in the Vietnam War go through different actions like being ambushed and attacking the enemy which may make them feel different emotionally These men deal with everyday death and other horrific conditions of the war The soldiers in the novel The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien have been put through emotional and physical situations in and out of the battle field To keep themselves from breaking into post traumatic stress or any other kind of emotion the men joke about death instead of lett
The story begins with a recently young married couple named Lovisa and Sigismund Lovisa and Sigismund are ages nineteen and twenty four and they are incredibly in love despite the efforts of her family attempting to keep them apart since they were more wealthy than his family Lovisa feels that she is more free by having gotten married and is delighted that she has never kept a secret from her husband Sigismund was afraid that he could not provide an ideal life for his wife which she thought was
Have you ever thought of thought of elderly people as old and stupid In the book The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway the main character is an old fisherman who hasnt caught a fish in quite some time He uses a row boat and just some line and a hook Hemingway uses this book to show that elderly people are thought of as old fashioned and unintelligent when in reality they are very wise This is shown in the book by the communitys opinions the old mans knowledge of fishing and his determinat
The Odyssey While with the Phaeacians Odysseus relates his trials and tribulations since the fall of Troy However when he arrives in Phaeacia he arrives alone all of his men have died He has had a violent and gruesome journey home Despite this loss however his effectiveness as a leader is evident He is powerful clever and determined in everything he does Odysseus shows his cunning throughout his various adventures One example is the way he escapes from the cave of the Kyklops When asked his nam
The Screwtape Letters comprises thirty one letters written by a senior demon named Screwtape to his nephew a young demon named Wormwood Screwtapes letters contain advice for how to turn Wormwoods Patient an ordinary man living in war time England toward Our Father Below Devil Satan and away from the Enemy God After the first letter the Patient converts to Christianity and Wormwood is given a severe rebuking and threatened with the usual penalties at the House of Correction for Incompetent Tempt
The Man Who Was Almost a Man The Gun The Man Who Was Almost a Man a short story by Richard Wright depicts a character who journeys toward maturity His desire to be treated like an adult causes a twist considering Richard Wright depicts his character as a curious teenager trying to discover his identity through fulfilling his desire to own a gun Wright portrayed the maturity of the young man through the ownership of a gun What Dave does when he becomes the owner of the gun builds the path to eit
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald is a novel about the American Dream In The Great Gatsby the dream is that one can acquire happiness through wealth and power To get his happiness Gatsby attempts to reacquire the love of his lost sweetheart Daisy The main problem with Gatsbys dream is that Daisy is all ready married Gatsbys personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream The pursuit of happiness Jay Gatsby longs for the past Surprisingly he devotes his adult life trying to recapture it