In The Scorch Trials by James Dashner, Thomas a teenager learns that WICKED is untrustworthy. To begin with, Thomas and the gladers defend the Safe Haven from WICKED. There forth, Thomas and the gang escape from WICKED’s test facility. There, they meet scorch survivors Jorge and Brenda at the crank asylum. From there Thomas and Brenda get split from the group, in which they meet up at the Safe Haven.
The Iron Trial is about a 12 year-old boy named Call and his 2 friends Aaron and Tamara. Call’s dad is a mage (magician) but he hasn 't used magic since his mother died in the cold massacre in the 3rd war of the mages against the very powerful Enemy of Death. They use air, water, fire, earth, and chaos magic. Neither Call nor his dad like magic. When the time comes for his magic school test to get into the magisterium he is picked as an apprentice even though he is ranked last and tries his hardest to fail.
When reading the text “The Scorch Trials” by James Dashner, I combined the use of many reading strategies, For example, I used background knowledge, making connections, inferring, predicting, and questioning. Firstly, based on my background knowledge it isn’t a good idea to trust someone who you just met. This is because you don’t know if their motives are pure or not. While I was thinking about this, I remembered Officer Toni telling us two years ago about how many kids got in trouble when they trusted someone they didn’t know. My connection led me back to the book and the author (James Dashner) describing how Thomas felt when Jorge entered, “Thomas felt a belt of tension cinch inside him” (page 145).
Eric Foner’s “The Fiery Trial” is like no other book written of one of the most influential figures of American history paired with one of the most popular issues of American history, Abraham Lincoln and slavery. Foner deliberately strays away from the commonly written biography of Lincoln"s regular life by choosing to follow the path of his political career instead. By taking onhat would seem to be an obvious topic, Lincoln and slavery, and manages to cast new light on it. . This is a wise move since Lincoln was a politician to the core.
Slowly Thomas starts to learn the truth of what is going on in the world and why he is dealing with the hardships he has been dealing with. The book has trouble with the way it is planned out. With predictable outcomes, and bits of the story that didn’t really lead to anything. The book is supposed to be confusing, and it is, but in all the wrong ways.
John. Ascher-Roberts 4/9/15 ARLT-100: Emily. Zeamer Communal Good Versus Personal Strife Within Fools Crow
The ideas of justice and morality is questioned constantly through out the short story.
The book, The Scorch Trials by James Dashner is the second book to the Maze Runner series. The book is set in a dystopian world where there is a disease called the Flare that turns affected people into “Cranks,” which are people who act similarly to zombies. The Flare doesn’t come into effect immediately, so the people who has the disease slowly turn zombie-like rather than all at once. Scientists called the WICKED, run an experiment that uses kids to see how they react in terrible situations like these and it is the kids’ job to survive the harshness of the world and get to a safe haven. When the experiment started, one kid was assigned the role of the leader.
The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a play that expresses the life of the Puritans within Salem, Massachusetts around 1692. The Puritans had a very strict sort of lifestyle that was influenced by their religious views. This caused a theocracy-based town that had no tolerance for witches or God’s enemy -- Satan. When people were accused of being a witch, hysteria would plague the town; many innocent lives would be taken in attempts to ‘cleanse’ the town of any sign of the Devil. Arthur Miller had the Puritan way of life (and their belief system) extremely accurately; the play connects extremely well to what actually happens.
One literary text that we read throughout this semester that led to consequences that had lessons about making ethical decisions that I choose is “On the Western Circuit” this text has many lessons that someone today can relate to. This text taught me my own lesson, “On the Western Circuit” is the short story about the three main characters Anna, Edith, and Charles and the consequences of each character’s actions. Charles and Anna fall quickly in love, Charles courts the young Anna, she comes come from nothing and starts working for Edith. During Anna and Charles courtship, he starts writing her letters, and Anna soon confesses to Edith that she doesn’t how to read and write, Edith agrees to read and write to Charles for Anna. In, the text
The Nuremburg Trials In 1933, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi government implemented policies to persecute German-Jewish people and others who they considered enemies of the Nazi party. Over the next ten years over six million European Jews and an estimated four to six million non-Jews were murdered. In 1943, the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and other countries formed allies to bring justice to the ones who were responsible for these killings. Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, and President Roosevelt were leaders of the allied nations who wanting to punish the Nazi leaders for their inhumane involvement in the Holocaust.
“Tests and Trials” The test for Elizabeth Proctor seemed to never be kept at bay. Feverously throughout the story “The Crucible” Elizabeth had been pushed to her wits end and still held strong to her sense of character and morals. A crucible is defined as “a severe test or trial; a vessel that can withstand intense heat and is used for melding substances” and this quote embodies the strength and courage of Goody Proctor.
Within this aspect is shown the dismal repetition of rejection and being an outcast. Throughout the story, Abner derives an almost joyful mindset to the dismay of others. The cumulative outcome of this ethos is displayed during the duration of this narrative and the repercussions are starkly illustrated. The first manifestation eluding to Abner being an outcast is the whisper of “Barn burner” after the conclusion of the first trial (259).
The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The story begins with a group of girls practicing witchcraft and one in particular, Abigail, took part in the practice to harm another woman, Elizabeth. To explain, Abigail tried to kill Elizabeth because she is the wife of John Proctor, the man she loves and had an affair with. Then, one of the girls became ill after participating in witchcraft and so panic spread through the town as everyone believed that others participated and are conversing with evil forces. Soon after, the town accused people of witchcraft and began taking people to court and sentencing others to death.
Whilst Shakespeare explores the negative connotations of unresponsiveness to discovery, Wells explores the corruption of an individual’s ethical values ensuing from an individual’s response to provocative discovery. Prendrick, upon initially arriving on Dr Moreau’s fictitious island, adopts a firm stance against vivisection accentuated in the dialogue “Where is your justification for inflicting all this pain?” to Moreau. However, Prendrick ironically empathises with Moreau’s unethical valuing of scientific progress over life through one of the monsters, Montgomery, who rhetorically questions “We can't massacre the lot, can we? I suppose that's what your humanity would suggest?” before repeating “The creatures are sure to change.
