The Killer Angels, a book written by Michael Shaara that explains the crucial Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War, along with the perspectives and lives of both the leaders of North and South. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War is explained through the eyes of the leaders of Union and Confederates in a way that is breathtaking and exhilarating. Even though South was determined and bold; The North was able to wear the confederates down because of their leaders who had a strategic plan and clear concept of war to take in prisoners and win for the sake of freedom. The essential concept of war for the Unions meant to free the prisoner slaves and restore the balance and freedom to the country they had fought from the British.
In writing A Voyage Long and Strange, Tony Horwitz’s goal is clear, to educate others on early America and debunk ignorant myths. Horwitz’s reason for wanting to achieve this goal is because of his own ignorance that he sees while at Plymouth Rock. “Expensively educated at a private school and university- a history major, no less!-I’d matriculated to middle age with a third grader’s grasp of early America.” Horwitz is disappointed in his own lack of knowledge of his home country, especially with his background history and decides not only to research America’s true beginnings, but to also follow the path of those who originally yearned to discover America.
Flying is a thought that everyone wishes to do, however some wishes don’t come true. “Waxen Wings” by Ha Songnan is about a girl named Birdie, a nickname she earns because she wishes to fly. Birdie tries to fly, but struggles every time. Throughout the story, Ha Songnan utilizes cause and effect, second-person point of view, and repetition of ideas emphasize the importance of rising after a fall. Songnan uses cause and effect structure to show structure in the story to highlight the importance of rising after a failure. When Birdie attempts to dabble in gymnastics, her achievement falters because of her body.
Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton work entitled the “The Squatter and the Don” captures the essence of Michel Foucault’s proposition on discourse and power by drawing from the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848. She illustrates the racism and deprived rights the Mexican-American faced after being falsely promised to be given citizenship. The discourse of Burton’s work is the written laws that any citizen living within the state is supposed to abide by. Don Mariano is a man of the Alamar family who resided in San Deigo with his wife Dona Josefa and their children.
Stephen Puleo wanted to tell the story of The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, so he did. Puleo is an author, historian, university teacher, public speaker, and a communications professional. Some of his works are the “Boston Italians”, “A City So Grand”, and “Dark Tide”. While I was reading this book, I was amazed of how big and fast the Molasses was moving down the streets of Boston. You wouldn 't think of molasses moving fast.
A significant motif of The Painted Bird is the comparison between the primitive aspects that the boy experiences in the countryside that contrast his upbringing in civilization. The child’s strongest memory of his past life is his “appendix operation when [he] was only four years old” (Kosinski 10). There he had access to modern medicine and recalls “the glossy hospital floors, the gas mask doctors placed on my face” (Kosinski 10). This directly contrasts with his experiences in village life. During his time with the village healer, Olga, the boy witnesses the many rituals she uses to heal people.
Family is the most powerful weapon for people to live a delighted life. In the book, “Before we were free” and “In the Time of the Butterflies” by Julia Alvarez spoke about the brave families who struggled to bring freedom to the entire country. All the Mirable sister supported each other when they need each other help. “In the Time of the Butterflies” by Alvarez mentioned about Minerva, the main character of the book who fight against the dictator, Trujillo. Similarly, “Before we were free” Alvarez talked about Anita’s father and his fellow who fought against the ruler and bring freedom to the country.
Imagine what it is like to be an indigenous palm islander, and suddenly becoming a victim of police brutality while in custody, to the point that a tragic death had occurred. This is what happened on the 19th of November 2004, when Indigenous Palm Islander man Cameron Doomadgee was a victim of manslaughter by Palm Island Police Officer, Sargeant Chris Hurley, in a prison cell. Not only was Hurley not charged with the most serious form of homicide (being murder), but it was also downgraded to manslaughter, eventually found to be not guilty and acquitted. This controversial case consequently led to civic disturbances on the island, and a legal, political and media sensation that carried on for multiple years. This disturbance within the community
In The Book of Negroes Aminata was captured, and became a slave. In The Painted Bird the young boy had to be separated from his family because of the Holocaust. Aminata’s journey through slavery was only tragic at the beginning and continuously shed the tragic tone. However, The Painted Bird’s main character’s journey remained tragic. As the story goes on he faces continuous betrayal from the villagers and because he didn’t know who to trust, he developed severe loneliness.
The title of an essay regularly gives the reader with directions of the substance of a paper. Since the title the title happens to be what a reader first reads, it likewise permits them to make presumptions about what 's in store all through whatever is left of the essay. Keeping that in mind, (The Lonely, Good Company of Books) was unquestionably an intriguing title for Richard Rodriguez to pick subsequent to composing his article about the perplexing relationship he had all through his youth. Starting with a detailed account about his youth days reading with an nurse, the argument of the article appears to be unclear. Later he implies that he didn 't understand the significance or purpose of reading; the main clarification he
The wrongships of human testing In the novel A Cage of Butterflies the author Brian Caswell strongly pushes a stance against human research through the characters, events and themes. Caswell demonises the drugging of the “Babies” by showing the lead researcher and main antagonist Larsen as a quite evil man. The novel shows Larsen to be a greedy, fame hungry man who cares little for those around him and wo is willing to sacrifice people to reach his goals. Caswell uses Larsen to portray his anti-human research messages and makes the readers see that researchers should not do their work in the hopes of fame and fortune, but instead to help those in need. To further portray Larsen as an evil man he tells the audience that over half of the children
They intend to ignore him, but all of their neighbors are extremely nosy about who he is. They begin “making all kinds of conjectures concerning the captive’s future,” (2). They assume things without knowing anything about him. One of the characters, Father Gonzaga, judges him rather harshly saying that he “did not understand the language of God or know how to greet His ministers,” (2) after he attempts to speak with him and he cannot understand his response. He does not give the angel a chance to prove himself.
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, describes the spectacle of an angel that falls into the yard of a village family. Told by a third-person narrator, a unique character is discovered outside of Elisenda’s and Pelayo’s home. They precede to place him in a chicken coop on display for all of the village to see. The old man is an attraction that people travel near and far to observe. The atrocious conditions in with the decrepit angel lives in are a direct result of the village peoples’ scorn for oddity.
In A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, author Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses imagery, simile, symbolism and metaphor to describe the mistreatment of an ‘angel’ that fell from the sky, revealing the theme that assumptions can lead to unwarranted misfortune for the one being judged. This theme is first presented when characters Pelayo and Elisenda discover a man with wings. “He was dressed like a ragpicker… his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away and sense of grandeur he might have had” (Marquez, 975). Through visual imagery and simile, describing the winged man as a great grandfather and a ragpicker, he is connoted as grotesque, malformed, and of no use. These assumptions piled negative connotations on the old man without
In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, there is a clear theme of the coexistence of compassion and cruelty, which exists in the hearts of the people of the town. Although compassion and cruelty are direct opposites, it is still possible for the two to coexist. That is one of the points that is made clear in Garcia Marquez’s short story, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings. The story, written in 1955, focuses on the theme of the coexistence of compassion and cruelty in the hearts of the people of the town. (1) When an old, weak, and dirty man with huge wings appears in Pelayo and Elisenda’s yard, the couple is compassionate enough to let him live and stay on their territory.
