From a moral critical approach Young Goodman Brown was a challenge to stomach You can tell a lot from a story from just how it begins As his newly married wife asked him not to go on that that night on his journey and he disregarded her fears and told her to go to bed at dusk was a downhill battle from there It was a dark tale as he walked and talked to the Devil apparently an old friend of the family The only way that that is story can help me is to remind me to stay away from the Devil and no
Where Are You Going Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates involves a fifteen year old girl Connie living in a patriarchal society She has to learn how to deal with her mom forcing traditional gender roles on her and being compared to her sister June Through traumatic events in Connies childhood she develops a low self esteem to cause a negative behavior and rebel her parents The reader can see Connie giving up and walking toward the stranger as negative effect of patriarchal ideology giving
Who Is Really A Hero Who is really a hero Todays modern day heroes are everywhere from the little things like someone who stands up for somebody who is getting bullied to the big things like soldiers who fight for our country every day Heroism is a selfless act preformed by an ordinary person doing extraordinary acts of kindness In the storys The Crucible and To Kill a Mockingbird there are a few characters that showed selfless acts and that they were a true hero The question still stands who i
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
In Things Fall Apart there are two main cultures that are developed The main culture is that of the Clan and is developed in great detail throughout the novel The second is that of the missionaries who try and convert the Clan to believe Christian beliefs The Clan has a lot of trouble adapting to the Christian values being imposed on them They have had a tribal way of life for as long as they know and have only been aware of their own culture It is because of how different the two belief system
Things Fall Apart Passage Analysis Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man But his whole life was dominated by fear the fear of failure and of weakness It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic the fear of the forest and of nature malevolent red in tooth and claw Okonkwos fear was greater than these It was not external but lay deep within him It was the fear of himself lest he should be found to resemble his father Even as a little boy
The Story of an Hour Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour is a bittersweet story that leaves out many details which the reader has to fill in The story kept my attention from the first sentence until the last My first response after reading the piece was shocking I had many questions and conclusions Did they have children How old was Mrs Mallard How long had she had a heart condition Emotions such as crying shock grief and guilt are normal reactions when a loved one dies therefore it was easy to s
In our lives we can have a lot of joyful and beautiful moments but we must not forget that sooner or later challenges appear on our way Louise Erdrichs The Red Convertible gives an example of lifes most difficult challenge Lyman must accept that his brother Henry has lost the will to live after fighting in war The purpose of this essay is to use Erdrichs story to show how much war can change someones life for worse When young men go off to war they painfully become aware of their own mortality
The Outsiders The Outsiders written by S E Hinton is the story of Ponyboy Curtis a greaser in the 1960s who lives a fairly ordinary life until one day he and his friend Johnny are jumped by several Socs members of their rival gang and his world is turned upside down This book shows the struggles that young people have to face through the themes of class divisions death of loved ones and loss of innocence S E Hinton is one of the few authors in American history that actually acknowledges the soc
In Homers Odyssey there is a very clear causal relationship between an individuals actions and the outcome of their endeavors Through interactions the gods often influence the actions of mortals If one resists the guidance of the gods there are almost always ramifications In this way the Odyssey suggests that human beings should be reverent and obedient to the gods At times it proves to be hard for mortals to remain in the favor of the gods even if they may be in good favor with one or more god