Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch Albom is a true story of the love between a man and his college professor Morrie Schwartz This true story captures the compassion and wisdom of a very unselfish man who had a superior heart and who lived his life to the fullest up until the very last breath of his happily fulfilled life It is a story of an extraordinary bond of friendship that was lost for many years but never forgotten and simply picked up again at a crucial time of both Morrie and Mitchs
I bet when people read this story and respond to the questions being asked for responses the first thing that comes to mind is probably the ordeal that Mr and Mrs Weiss went through I couldnt help but think about the part that the Baker played even though it was small I thought it had some significance A Small Good Thing is a sad story about a little boy named Scotty who gets hit in a hit n run and then dies in the end The story begins with the mother going to the bakery to pre order her sons b
White Noise The fear of death is undoubtedly the most feared topic in human existence In White Noise that fear is so strong it becomes the controlling factor in the lives of Jack and Babette Gladney Both of them are in such a constant battle to overcome death and their fear of it they let life slip right by and never get the chance to live that life to its fullest Death and the Gladneys morbid fear and fascination with it are present throughout the entire book going so far as to lead Babette in
Gender role stereotyping permeate everyday life Children are usually educated about gender roles very early in their lives probably before they learn to walk certainly long before they begin school The behaviors that cause of these gender roles often go unnoticed but their effect is endless writer Joan I Glazer analyzes these views when she states when you read books to children be aware that you are showing them one perception of how the world is structured Glazer 134 Although parents teachers
Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeares most popular comedies and yet it has the most complex of endings How much of this is due to the cruelty to be found interlinked with the comedy One would not think of Twelfth Night as a typical Shakespearean comedy Although the ending does have weddings they are very rushed and some of the newlyweds for example Lady Olivia and Sebastian hardly know each other Also at the end of a typical comedy very few or no characters are left alone or unhappy however in T
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee shows many symbols that depict society Based in the 1930s racial prejudice was a huge part of everyday life The symbol of the snowman can be seen as mixing both races together while the symbol of the mockingbird can be seen as segregation from those who are different Both of these major symbols give depth to the novel and help people see problems of the time The theme of prejudice in the novel can best be perceived through the symbol of the mockingb
Mysterious Ways of Tim OBrien Have you ever heard a war story Has anyone in your family told you about the Vietnam war Well these stories have many real and truthful fact But how do you know theres not lie in them Based on all of that your still hooked on hearing the story In The Things They Carried author Tim OBrien explains how telling a true war story is mad of lies exaggeration and real fact about the war through the use of metafictional devices If and when a war story is told pay attention
Staging of The Tempest It is clear that The Tempest depends for much of its success on a wide range of special effects such as sound lighting and fantastic visions of the natural and supernatural worlds Ariel the mystic spirit and his cohorts provide some eerie and some wondrous musical sounds painting pictures with their voices of settings the audience saw For example when luring the spellbound Ferdinand towards his future wife Miranda Ariel and his fellow sprites caress the shipwrecked prince
Who can you trust In the short story The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe this theory proves to be true The narrator opens the story by telling the reader that he doesnt know why but that he wants to kill the old man that he takes care of The old man didnt have gold that pleased the narrator it was just something deep down that every time he looked at the old man he wanted to kill him Maybe was it because of that eye Yes the narrator describes the old mans eye as being the eye of a vulture a
The Stone Boy Isolated by his family betrayed by the community and silenced by an accident Arnold Curwing a child shot his brother by mistake and his actions touched everyone In the short story The Stone Boy Gina Berriault walks us through a twenty four hour period of Arnolds toughest time not the death of his brother but the neglection by his family and community What started as a good day for Arnold ended with his world shattered with him having to grow up Abandonment is one of the important