Written by Frederick Downs, this journal is based on the author as a Lieutenant who documents his experiences in the Vietnam War. It starts off by explaining his perspective as he arrives in Vietnam on the date of September 8, 1967. His first impression of the airfield was that it did not look like a war zone, but he knows that there will be a lot of violence. He is going to go to Pleiku in South Vietnam and the truck driver starts to tell him about the place. After that, Downs is flown to the headquarters of the 3rd Brigade.
Hot-Air Balloon “A Wall of Fire Rising” written by Edwidge Danticat tells about the man named Guy and his indefatigable desire for freedom and a better life. Guy is the head of poor Haitian family which includes his wife Lili and their seven-year-old son Little Guy. The story takes place in post-revolutionary Haiti, where poverty and hunger still flourished. As most families, Guy’s family goes through a lot of struggles because there is no food and decent job; “a few hours work” that Guy finds at the sugar mill is not enough to support his family (Danticat 240). This feeling of hopelessness that Guy constantly experiences, weighs on his neck like a heavy load; thus, he saves himself thinking of the hot-air balloon which belongs to the
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield is an epic novel about the battle of Thermopylae. Gates of Fire is a work of fiction based upon the true events of the battle of Thermopylae. Most of the story is told from the perspective of Greek Xeones, and then finished by the Egyptian king Xerxes’ squire. Xeones was brought back to life after dying in the battle of Thermopylae by the God Apollo to tell the story of the Spartans (page 8). The story went slowly and out of order but Xeones did this because “the tale seemed to be “telling itself” at the god’s direction that he, its narrator, could only follow where it led” (page 66).
Firewing The novel “Firewing” by Kenneth Oppel is a good book for anyone aged between 8 and 88 because it contains a topic anyone can easily pick up. The main message is to be selfless and not question it and betray/bail on the person you are volunteering to help. The story started with Griffin & Luna beating their wings to stay airborne, they see a cave a cave they were told not to go into. Luna desperately begs Griffin to go in, he tries to tell her not too but she goes off anyway he follows her to make sure she is okay.
All things are capable of change in our world, and the symbolism of fire in Lord of the Flies is no different. In the book a group of boys land on a deserted island in the middle of nowhere. They try to build a society built on the ideas of the adult society they came from. At first the boys seemed to be structured and ordered, but soon their primal instincts of savagery came out changing their system into a horrifying nightmare. Throughout Lord of the Flies, the strength and purpose of the fire created by the boys seems to be a meter of the boys connection to civilization, where towards the beginning it is strong and valiant, and then slowly loses its importance and burns out and finally it encircles the whole island due to its savage purposes
Life is such a… precious thing. It can be taken and given so easily and yet many of us take it for granted. Nobody wants to leave this world forgotten. We all want to leave behind a legacy. In the book Gates of Fire those men that fought in the Battle of Thermopylae, the Spartans, did just that.
Clifford J. Rogers argues in By Fire and Sword, that the Hundred Years War (1337 – 1453) should not be considered a “tourney or game,” but rather amounted in non-comparable levels of destruction within France. Rogers explains that the testimonies of chroniclers, poets, and clergyman concerned with the levels of destruction inflicted during the Hundred Years War should be taken with a grain of salt. Often do these chroniclers replace accuracy, with dramatic story telling. Rogers argues that the English were not satisfied solely with battlefield victories over the French army, as they did not yield the desired political outcomes. Instead, when the French refused to fight, the English took the fight directly to the civilian population, implementing
Hannah Arendt says that “nobody is the author or producer of his own life story”. This would lead us to believe that our lives are decided for us, either by fate or by the people around us and the actions they make during their stories Does this then create a need for external validation from other actors and sufferers in our story? Does this make us want to write our own stories? Is this why Thomas Builds-The-Fire tells his stories? Thomas Builds-The-Fire looks to Victor for validation.
Sadie and Carter Kane are out to save the world, again, except this time they have to fight the Lord of Chaos… Apophis. In The Throne of Fire, the two siblings teach other young and eager magicians like them. Two especially powerful magicians, Walt and Jaz, will help them on their journey to restore the gods and bring Ra, the God of all gods, back to Earth. Readers will love this one-of-a-kind novel, written by New York Times best-selling author, Rick Riordan. It is an amazing novel about four magicians that have to defeat a very powerful god and save the world… again.
Government organizations often use symbols to portray their power or military strength. Writers also use symbols to convey a message to the reader. In his novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses symbols to help readers track the loss of civility of the boys. The fire is both a symbol of hope and the reckless behavior of the boys.
It may seem that the story of a princess choosing between suitors is the perfect formula for a romance novel. However, this isn’t the case because not every princess thinks she needs a prince. While The Heir is a story centered around the love-life, family, and country of an eighteen year old princess, there are deep themes embedded within the text that relate to today’s world. The fictional novel
The first reason is that the princess absolutely hated the princess. In the story Stockton says “ The girl was lovely, but she had dared to raise her eyes to the loved one of the princess; and, with all intensity of the savage blood transmitted to her through long lines of wholly barbaric ancestors, she hated the woman
Once there was a girl named Grace. Grace was abandoned on the steps of the castle. The king and queen took her in and raised her to become the next queen. Now Grace is betrothed to a cruel man named Damien. Grace is beautiful, kind, smart, and a caring person.
The princess barbaric nature leads her to choose the
The queen mother told her, “…but you are not a man” when she insisted that she wanted to rule the whole kingdom. The queen mother’s statement suggested her enforcement of men in leadership, neglecting women. Here, the text skilfully employed the queen mother to disregard her daughter’s
