The novel In the Lake of the Woods by Tim OBrien is a very confusing book that touches many different topics some of which are tough to read about and discuss This book has many different themes throughout In the Lake of the Woods is a uniquely written book as it reveals the story bit by bit and doesnt go in chronological order It also does not ever officially give you a traditional ending The reader if left to themselves to decide if the main character John Wade is innocent or guilty of killin
Almost anything taught in childhood relates to individuals actions in adulthood without a proper upbringing these individuals will never meet their one ultimate goal to be self satisfied Many people start out as self absorbed and childish individuals but learn to evolve Some people do not evolve and continue as a selfish unsatisfied adult To be truly self satisfied one should have developed good values as a youth In Fifth Business by Robertson Davies there are many instances where this has happ
Cold Mountain People usually begin a journey to achieve a goal or arrive a destination but more importantly through the journey they can find a self they have never noticed before or create a new self who adapts to the current environment In Charles Fraziers Cold Mountain the Cold Mountain is the destination the Inman wants to arrive at Although not physically starting a journey Ada goes through a mental journey which causes physical and spiritual changes in her Metaphorically she reaches Cold
Beauty and Power Who will Survive The word equality has become one of the terms on which society puts an honorable coat Modern American society seems to believe in gender and racial equality and its social implementations and the rhetoric of equality is a key concept repeated in politics education and even in advertisement Is gender equality a reality or is it a fashionable idea that people merely love to mention and rarely practice Today gender and racial equality have only been partially impl
The Global South Who Really Cares A global disease is one that does not care about borders doesnt care if a country is developed or developing if a country is in the global north or in the global south all it cares about is infecting as many people as possible A global disease is one that travels throughout the entire world infecting and destroying as much as possible In his book The Hot Zone Richard Prestons describes the spread of a global disease of a filovirus known as Ebola Throughout the
This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that tells the story of Amory Blaine from his youth to his twenties As a youth Amory travels through out the country with his high class and extravagant mother Beatrice After living a life like no other he leaves his mother and enrolls in St Regis prep school in the Northeast There Amory tries very hard to fit in but with his unusual childhood it is very hard He is very intelligent but an underachiever in his work From here Amory attends Pr
In literature it is not uncommon to have a heroic figure as protagonist especially under influence of ancient Greek tradition to have a tragic hero The tragic hero is one who possesses good qualities and enjoys good fortune at the beginning of the story yet suffers a miserable end either due to ones character flaw or environmental factors In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe the tragic hero is the protagonist Okonkwo who enjoys great fame since his early years from his strength and h
Things Fall Apart Essay That man was one of the greatest men in Umuofia You drove him to kill himself pg 170 That is what happens when peoples customs and beliefs start to be bullied around and forced to change This includes peoples religon politics and judgement People should not be forced to believe in something they dont want to When people start to lose faith in what they believe in things there for start to fall apart Before the white man came to Umuofia the clans religon was strong and ev
T S Eliot writes very deliberately including just the right details and organizing the poem so that each phrase and section is arranged in the most effective way possible The following passage is from Eliots The Waste Land There is shadow under this red rock Come in under the shadow of this red rock And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust 25 30 This passa
In Tim OBriens novel The Things They Carried Kiowa a dedicated Baptist everyone respects tragically falls victim to a bomb raid that traps him under a field of shit Kiowas death in a sense tests the psychological states of his fellow comrades as each soldier falls victim to the acidic nature of guilt slowly burning a hole in their consciousness as they look back at that night wondering if they could have done something different to change the outcome Guilt ultimately becomes inevitable in the f