Maturing in life. At the beginning of life, people are innocent, with life not having a chance to tamper and corrupt them. At the end of life, they 've known loss and heartbreak and life has messed them up. But imagine if people were born all knowing and died as innocent as a baby.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz layers storytelling and meaning into its plot, with plenty of underlying messages, if the reader is willing to hunt for them a bit. From the relationships between similar characters like Lola and Beli to polar opposites like Yunior and Oscar, the reader sees different relationship and friendship dynamics play out and how such relationships are affected and looked upon by society. Oscar is a lonely, fantasy loving nerd who does not have much of a life, while Yunior has that machismo aspect that is focused on heavily in the story, from start to finish. In the story, Yunior and Oscar are both going to the same college, but Yunior has been rejected from every other residence, and when Lola asks a favor of Yunior to watch her brother Oscar, he gladly accepts since he has nowhere else to turn to. In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Diaz uses Yunior
World War II was one of the most destructive conflicts in human history, with an estimated 60 million deaths, America's use of the atomic bomb to end WWII gave rise to a debate on the ethical justification for using such weapons. The carnage began in September 1939 the day that Germany invaded Poland, and in 1945 it ended with a mushroom cloud enveloping Nagasaki. This bloodshed involved two main powers, the Axis powers made up of Germany, Japan, and Italy battling against the Allied forces of the Soviet Union, Britain, and the United States. This war was caused by the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles and the economic depression in Germany, leading to the German conquest of regaining former power. After Germany's defeat, sights were
In “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality”, Gretchen Weirob and Sam Miller conduct a philosophical debate about the possibility of a continued existence after death. Weirob argues that she herself cannot exist after death because her identity is composed of her body, rationality, and consciousness. In Derek Parfit’s “Personal Identity” he ponders how the concept of identity works, and how the true nature of our identity affects some of the most important questions we have about our existence. I believe that Velleman did a better job of exploring the idea of identity than Weirob did.
The themes of the realistic fiction story, Boy’s Life and the fable, Emancipation: A Life Fable are very similar. Both develop ideas about freedom, however, the exact way the theme develops is slightly different. The overall theme in each text is that freedom comes with patience. In Boy’s Life, the main character desperately wants freedom. It is the last school day of the year, and he wants nothing more than to begin summer vacation.
A very interesting hypothesis is presented by Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet who assumed that the leading role in the death of Macomber had Robert Wilson. He says that he is a professional hunter, he can adopt to his client's standards but has his own standard of kill-ing. He definitely has ethics about people, but from the opening of the story he is guiding everything. He tells Macomber what to drink, what to do and how to hunt. Unfortunately, during the buffalo hunt Wilson made a mistake and both, Margot and Francis recognize it.
Among the numerous books that celebrate the importance of being black and their heritage, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me remains paramount. As a poetic and exquisite piece of writing dedicated to his son, this story recounts Coates’s experience of living inside a black body in America. Countless moments within his life have built up to become an endless number of morals and lessons about the meaning of life. Utilizing ideas from other poets and from the influential people surrounding him, Coates is able to bring to life the true meaning of inhabiting a black body. His experience with writing blog posts for The Atlantic only propelled his career to reach this new height as a writer whose message is understood.
This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity: The history of humanity is very dissimilar to short and sweet, if not the mere opposite. Learning the background of humankind can be very intimidating and daunting to the everyday AP World student and even the everyday AP World teacher. David Christian, a world history professor at San Diego State University, wrote a short and sweet 100 paged book on the history of humanity, with the goal in mind to make it easier for the everyday AP World student and AP World teacher to understand. Christian achieved his goal by breaking apart history into 3 specific eras, and also by taking other historians explanations and addressing them.
Have you ever thought about what is the meaning of life? The novel Tuesdays with Morrie created interesting perspectives on life. It makes people think about what they are doing wrong and ways to change their actions. The discussion of life and its lessons are learned every Tuesdays with an old man named Morrie, and a young man named Mitch. Together they have a special bond and connection in between them, that cannot be broken.
Interactive Oral Reflection - Chronicle of a Death Foretold The discussions conducted during this interactive oral centered on the deeply personal aspects of Márquez's life reflected in Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Márquez first wrote literature as a journalist in college while studying law, and stayed a journalist for a large portion of his life. The narrative of Chronicle of a Death Foretold has a journalistic style to it, and the narrator himself is a reporter, thus mirroring Márquez's own experience in wiring. Some of characters in Chronicle of a Death Foretold bear the names of Márquez's, and the magical realism within Chronicle of a Death Foretold is the legacy of the narrative style of Márquez's grandmother.
It’s Friday, November 6, 2015 in St. Louis Missouri. At 7:15 pm, and Jace gets a call from Doctor Green. “Start heading over to barn lot right now!” said Doc. “Why? What do you want to show me?”
Ernest J. Gaines as a Storyteller In order to be successful as an author and engage readers effectively, one must incorporate certain elements. Ernest J. Gaines included multiple stylistic elements in his novel, “A Lesson Before Dying”, therefore, he is quite effective as a storyteller. One rhetorical device included in the novel was metaphor. Another device Gaines used in “A Lesson Before Dying” was personification.
1.The ordering of the events in the novella was one of the interesting techniques. The ordering of the events in this fashion is interesting because of the 'hook' to keep readers reading to finally get informed about the murder of Santiago. After reading the book over the summer I was confused and resorted to using chapter guides from online to sort of keep my brain on the right track in order to follow how the novella is progressing. The first page starts off with "On the day they were going to kill him..." (2), which is starting in the middle of the over arching plot from Chronicle of a Death Foretold, throwing the reader right into the details of the plot line of Santiago.
When I woke up I was still in the dumpster. My stomach roared like a lion in a cage. I was so hungry I think I was considering eating the rotting banana peel next to me. Hungry, with nowhere to go, I decided I couldn’t just sit here for the rest of my life.
Memories allow us to have past knowledge so that we can better understand and relate to people. The New York Times article states “...Kate McLean, a psychologist at the University of Toronto in Mississauga. “This meaning-making capability — to talk about growth, to explain what something says about who I am — develops across adolescence.” (Benedict Carey). This backs up the point that through memories a person starts to more about their inner self.
