MASCULINITY IN THINGS FALL APART Things Fall Apart is set in the 1890s during the coming of the white man to Nigeria The novel portrays the clash between the whites colonial government and the traditional culture of the Igbo people The novel is about a very strong mans rise to great prestige fortune and power which in the end were overshadowed by his inevitable death Okonkwos demise was not because of colonization but rather his downfall was attributed by his obsession with masculinity Okonkwos
Walking Along the Branches of Life Does Mother Nature truly nurture In Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie is affected by the nature of Mother Nature Janie seeks to harmonize with nature and its realm sparks her ambition to reject the burdens and discrimination placed on her because of her race and gender As a result she gathers strength and develops as a person on her path to true freedom Throughout the novel the theme of nature reflects Janies journey of self discovery thro
Graham Greene s The Quiet American is a story about love The main focus of this love is from Pyle and Fowler to Phuong Through the novel Fowler and Pyle battle for this women s love but the reality is that Phuong s love is not obtainable The two men even speak of her in the third person which reflects their idea of her as an object Phuong sells herself to the highest bidder and is just looking for the best situation for herself Phuong s whoring personality is seen through her relationships with
As a society we know that no one is perfect We all excel and fail in different areas in life While some of us are strong in our convictions others can see our views as misguided Some people might seem to never stand for anything while in reality they hold their tongues until they find something worth saying making their silence speak volumes It is true that the strongest person can have the most significant weaknesses just under the surface and the weakest people can surprise you with Hercules
Parents often sacrifice themselves for the benefit of their children In the novel The Chosen by Chaim Potok Reb Saunders a Hasidic rabbi sacrifices his relationship with his son Danny Danny doesnt want to follow in his fathers footsteps and become a rabbi and tzaddik After many years of struggling Reb announces to his sons friend Reuven Let my Daniel be a psychologist I have no more fear now All his life he will be a tzaddik He will be a tzaddik for the world And the world needs a tzaddik 280 R
The Birds Emilee Guerra The short story The Birds by Daphne DuMaurier and the movie that was directed by Alfred Hitchcock also called The Birds are both very good and suspenseful Both story and film kept me on the edge of my seat The methods of creating suspense in the movie and the short story are varied yet effective The silence parts in this film were really suspenseful When Lydia goes to the Fawcett farm you expect noise but there isnt any As she walks down the hallway no music is playing n
Siddharthas path took many twists and turns throughout his journey It wasnt a straight shot to his goal although no ones ever is I feel like while no one will have the same journey as another parts of his journey will mirror parts of others journey Everyone has had their accomplishments and achieved some of their goals and everyone has also had their setbacks and broken dreams Overall I think that everyone just wants to find happiness in whatever form they think it exists whether inside themsel
Of Mice and Men is written by John Steinbeck published in 1937 The novel is set in the 1930s during the great depression in California The two protagonist characters George and Lennie are farm workers who have a dream of one day owning their own ranch They find work in a ranch near Soledad after escaping from Weed because of Georges incident They are met by different characters on the farm that all have a dream To be lonely means to lack friends or companionship and to feel isolated Most of the
Hay Fever was a comical play with a strong message The actors throughout this play steadily used others to gain their own attention The message this play left behind after many laughs was do not use others plain and simple The space was a well constructed thrust stage however the stage was not raised off the ground and the seats appeared to be mobile which lead to the belief that this is an Environmental Theater As for the layout of the stage there was a couch and a table in center stage for th
The soliloquy by Hamlet favors more the expression of pathos The reason for this is because he says everything from his heart because he is seriously considering suicide He impacts the reader by making them feel bad for him and the situation in which he is in In the soliloquy pathos is used in a way to make the reader feel a sense of sadness because Hamlet makes it seem as though there is no point to life He says For who would bear the whips and scorns of time which means who would deal with li