I wrote about the novel Ordinary people by Judith Guest In this paper I will try to explain how can tragic events impact others lifes and their stability We will talk about that in two aspects What happened and What followed Our main character in this book is 17 years old Conrad Keith Jarrett Book begins in the moment when he wakes up on the first school day after his return home The main event happened approximately a year before the beginning of the book Conrads older brother Jordan Buck Jarr
Macbeth is a play by William Shakespear which is about the a brave warriors journey to king and eventually a tyrant The protagonist Macbeth undergoes a negative experience which was when he encountered the witches who gave him a prophecy that boosted his ambitions to become king This negative experience led to a series of dreadful bloody events as ambition was used in an immoral and unjust way This negative experience helps us to understand more about the Macbeths ambition Macbeth is the protag
Greed has and always will be our most deceptive emotion In William Shakespeares Macbeth this thought was proven in most of the main characters There own greed blinded them played tricks on their minds and deceived them into death Sheer ignorance in the face of evil brought these characters an unexpected death The chief disturbance to our outlooks on life is security the way we react to the personnel around us In this play mortals are in most danger when amongst their closest friends It is the o
Lord of the Flies Once a person tastes power his thirst and desire for power grows and if he obtains enough power to rise up and bring others under his authority he will eventually come to realize the heights of his influence Then he will be able to determine what kind of leader he will become He will either choose to become a dictator wanting an authoritarian power or become a liberal leader by using his power to create a fair society among those under him It is a tough decision because once a
As we grow up we are under the teachings of many people Theres our family teachers coaches and even our friends Each one of them has a different lesson to teach us and they will teach it under their own beliefs With all these lessons to be learned how do we know when the information we are receiving is truthful and believable This is the same kind of problem Candide faces in his journey as he travels with Pangloss Cacambo and Martin He goes through a lot but is he being practical when it comes
Charles Dickens is undoubtedly one of the greatest English writers of all time just take a look at his masterpiece A Tale of Two Cities The novel chronicles the years before during and after the French Revolution Dickens characters come to life especially the grotesque ones through their in depth portrayals The sorrow and horrors of the French Revolution are easily imagined through Dickens detailed and visual descriptions And most powerfully Dickens employs many metaphors throughout the story r
A Separate Peace Innocence is like a parent It keeps you from seeing the reality in the world Until the parent thinks the time is right someone will see everything in a simple way Only when the time is right will someone see the wickedness of the world and know the real way of life And what happens when the time is right In A Separate Peace by John Knowles he expresses the truth that the events in Gene and Finnys life prompt a loss of innocence among the boys of Devon He shows this theme throug
A Critical Appreciation of The Sentry by Wilfred Owen The Sentry written by Wilfred Owen as a result of a horrific incident the poet witnessed in the trenches of World War One tells the reader of the terrible conditions and experiences that the men endured throughout the war In the poem he focuses a one specific incident which seemed to have forever stayed with him when a sentry was blasted from his post and badly hurt Owens description of this traumatising event evokes clear images in the read
3 Pieces of Literature Art During this course I have read many great poems plays and short stories My favorite poem was My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke Even more intriguing about that particular poem was what I found out after researching it I had never read Everyday Use by Alice Walker but I found it very interesting It reminded me a lot of my own family A Theme for English B by Langston Hughes was a eye opener for me on racism during that time frame As far as being able to compare these li
A dream is just an illusion of reality It is a deceptive appearance of a sometimes hurtful truth By dreaming we can distort the world we live in promoting our wants and changing events in our advantage but this remains just as a thought in our minds where outside of this bubble there is a totally different situation Peyton Farquar in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce is quite an ideal character who portrays this idea Peyton Farquhars dream clearly distorts the reality of his p