Meanwhile, Westley lies on Buttercup's bed and hugs Buttercup as Prince Humperdinck comes into the room. Humperdinck grabs a sword and advances, challenging Westley to fight to the death. Westley answers by saying that if Humperdinck comes near him, he's in for a lifetime of pain and torture. We know he can't make good on this threat, but it works, and Humperdinck doesn't approach. Inigo lies dying and apologizing to his dead father as Count Rugen approaches him with a sword.
Their attire was typical for the dwellers in Hallow Hill, which is in Clandestine Country. A generally pleasant place filled with thoughtful contemplation. Its rolling green meadows slope down to a babbling brook which twined through quiet neighborhoods fringed by bee-hung clover. But on the other side of tracks, the sense of serenity dissolved.
Michael MacDonald’s memoir All Souls captures a time and place of unrest with such finesse that in my own memoir piece I can only hope to produce a fraction of the masterpiece that he has created. The reader, as an outsider, receives a deep as well as insightful portrait of 1970’s and 80’s Southie. MacDonald provides a balanced, and therefore seemingly contradictory account of what is was like to grow up in such a violence riddled, drug infested, and all around bleak situation. While MacDonald captures the dispiriting side of Southie, he also illustrates the way in which Southie seemed like a wonderful place to live at the time.
Part A: The theme of “The Premature Burial” is fear can overcome us if we do not face our fears. This theme is evident in the last sentence of the story, “Alas! the grim legion of deathly terrors cannot be regarded as altogether fanciful—but, they must sleep, or they will devour us—they must be suffered to slumber, or we perish.” Although this states the theme, the theme is present throughout the story in the plot, setting, character, and conflict. The main character is a man who suffers from a disease that leaves him close to death.
Patrick Macdonald’s book All Souls memoir paints a vivid picture of life in South Boston, known colloquially as Southie, in the 1970’s and 1980’s. The memoir offers a raw and unfiltered window into a neighborhood rampant with crime, violence, drugs, and death. What is shown is not just a narrative of survival but also a deep exploration of the neighborhood's collective denial, a coping mechanism that, while offering temporary comfort, ultimately continues a cycle of harm and prevents meaningful long-term change. We know Southie has a tendency for denial from the very beginning of the novel, “We didn’t want to own the problems that took the lives of my brothers and of so many others like them: poverty, crime, drugs— those were black things that
During the Post-Classic period of Mexico, the Mixtec people accumulated a great amount of wealth, and became highly talented in artistry. The development of these art practices helped reflect on their political organization, religious practices, and social structure. In particular, Tomb 7 at Monte Alban has revealed a multitude of fascinating artifacts and remains from the Mixtec peoples. Tomb 7 at Monte Alban is one of the richest and most famous archaeological discoveries made in the New World (McCafferty and McCafferty: 1994) Along with a central noble figure and a few sacrificed servants, there lay many gold treasures, such as the famous Gold Pectorals, silver artifacts, turquoise mosaics, and fine jewelry (Coe and Koontz: 2013).These Gold Pectorals discovered both show the dedicated time it took to create such an intricate design, and significance it has to its
The Graveyard Book In the John Newbery Medal novel, The Graveyard Book written by Neil Gaiman, Bod, a orphan boy is adopted by ghosts after the tragic events that led to his family. Throughout this fictional book, Bod will learn about the importance of compassion and forgiveness and most importantly, finding out who he really came from. To begin the exposition, Jack Frost part of a fraternal organization, known as the Jack of Trades or Knaves needed to assassinate Bod’s family because of a belief for protection to guard their organization from harm. But after killing everyone, he realized the baby (Bod) has escaped.
Through chapter 16 of “The Inquisitor's Tale” by Adam Gidwitz, From the monk's perspective, Michelangelo is higher on the hierarchy than the rest of them. The narrator of this chapter is a Companion of the king named Joinville. In this chapter, Michelangelo brings the kids and Gwenforte to an abbey where he knows the monks, who are called Grandmontines. Meanwhile, Joinville examines how silent the abbey is and later explains, “The monks there are silent. Always.
A stranger traveling the roads near Ephrata on Saturday, July 8, 1768 must have wondered where all the people were going, some on horseback, others in carriages, and many walking. Their destination was the small plot of ground along the Paxtang Road subsequent generations would label Gottes Acker (God’s Acre) at the place locals called “Dunker’s Town.” Two days before, on July 6, the founder of the community, Conrad Beissel had died. Now, more than seven-hundred people had come with grief, respect, or curiosity to bid farewell to the man. They also witnessed the dimming of a light, not yet fully extinguished, but quickly fading into darkness.
While hiking up the hill to the tree he has a flashback of hassan and him running up the hill, playing and watching airplanes. With this thought he recalls on their past thoughts and his eyes gaze upon the cemetery where the author uses imagery to describe the sad state the cemetery is in. he describes it as having broken metal gates and headstones which had plants overpowering the area and covering everything. While describing the cemetery he also spots two crows and with this the author shows allusion by possibly hinting at the tale of the Deity Shani who is often represented as being mounted on a giant black raven or crow. The crow is Shani's Vahana, a Vahana is a carrier or a being in which holds the weight of another.
The Graveyard Book Theme The theme of the text, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is that fate and free will are apart of life and we need to embrace them. Neil Gaiman weaves this throughout his novel by showing how Bod is destined to fight the Jacks. He somehow gets lead to the graveyard where he meets people like Mr. and Mrs. Owens that take care of him. Thousands of years ago someone predicted Bod would defeat the Jacks.
'Transgression is often an important element in Gothic writing'. Compare its uses and effects in 'The Bloody Chamber'. Angela Carter celebrates transgression through the form of short stories. The gothic element is the understanding of going beyond boundaries and testing the limits of oppressive power structures.
The Giver teaches us that love is essential. When the Giver transmits the Christmas memory to Jonas, Jonas learns of a feeling that his community is devoid of, love. “ ‘I liked the feeling of love,’ he confessed… ‘I wish we still had that,’ he whispered.(158)” Jonas now truly understands what the community has been missing, and what the community should be like. Without love, the community could never completely experience loss, therefore the release system survived and no one questioned it nor thought badly of it.
Try to think of colorful, buoyant things in this world. Rainbows? Flowers? Animals? Our clothes?
Oedipus the King is one of the most ironic plays ever written. Sophocles, the author, is a famous philosopher of the ancient times The Play is about Oedipus, the king of Thebes, who kills his father and marries his mother. An oracle warned Laius, the king of Thebes prior to Oedipus, that his son would murder him. Accordingly, when his wife, Jocasta, had a son, he exposed the baby by first pinning his ankles together. The infant, who was adopted by King Polybus of Corinth and his wife was then brought up as their very own.
