The text follows a lost boy who was sucked into a perilous journey and facing situations where a split second could be the difference between life and death. This essay will be about how Salva, the main character in Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water is able to survive and overcome a variety of challenges through his hard work, relationships, and perseverance. Salva survives the first few challenges because of his hard work. Readers learn that hard work saves Salva’s life when he is left alone in the barn by a group of refugees but labors for the woman who own’s the barn so as not to burden her.
An Undeniable Friendship Pop Art, a story written by Joe Hill, draws you into a friendship between a 12-year-old boy and an inflatable. Within the first few moments of the story it is apparent that they are both very different from the rest of society, but come together due to their common misfortune of having no other friends. The bond is very unique due to the character’s obvious differences. Not only are they both physically diverse from one another but they are also very different spiritually.
Each character has experiences hardships in their life that have left them feeling isolated and alone. Some similarities include family members passing away, parents leaving, and abuse. However, as the novel progresses, the characters begin to realize that they are not alone in their struggles. They form connections with one another and find strength in their shared experiences. Daniel Gonzales loses his brother, Manny, through drug violence but his friends Calvin and Charles Johnson show they care and connect by losing someone important.
Every day, we hear the term ‘love’ in several different situations. So, what is love? According to Shakespeare, in sonnet 116 - The first quatrain describes love as an unchangeable force in the lines “Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds, / Or bends with the remover to remove: / O no! it is an ever-fixed mark.” Shakespeare enforces the fact that true love always perseveres, no matter what it’s up against by using the metaphor, “That looks on tempests and is never shaken” in the second quatrain.
The poem Eurydice by Ocean Vuong, is constructed off the famous Greek Mythology legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. The many similes, metaphors and allusions to the story, represent the famous story in a more ambiguous style, that conveys Ocean Vuong’s occurring theme throughout his poem as the many different sides of love, including happiness, sacrifice and hurt. The abundant metaphor and simile represent and emphasize the feelings present throughout the poem, as well the transition from radiant happiness, to emotional hurt. The literary devices and symbolism employed through the poem, underscore the underlying messages in Eurydice.
The mighty ruler of the sea had such a feeling of heartache, as if he had hit absolute rock bottom. Denial was the only thing stopping the ever so fragile hearted God from being with a woman who held such poise and beauty. For she was a human being, who lived in a small village along the Polynesian Sea. Her beauty seemed to radiate off of her, rather it being her crystal like blue eyes, or the way her hair blew slightly as the
In the story the narrator describes the sea as snarling and violent , however at the end the waves just pace and fro, while not being any less violent. Hope and friendship is something that all characters do experience, the narrator gives a description of the budding sense of friendship between the characters. Hope is a prominent idea present in the story, since hope is essentially all the characters have while they are stuck at sea and is something that binds the characters together. However, disappointment is also present and is linked to hope. An example which illustrates this is the scene where the men find a lighthouse and are
“Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral” (Zweig). Love is a force that cannot be measured, which is why it is such an amazing power and intrigues many people. Love has the ability to bring people together despite having impossible odds. There are many stories and poems written that praise the power of love, however people fail to recognize that love does not always conquer all.
Immortal Love: The Power of Love in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (ROUGH draft) “Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” This is a part of a poem by Emily Dickinson about love; now to elucidate just what it means. “Unable are the loved to die…”, to many who have lost loved ones they know this is not true. It is not saying that they never die but more referring to the power that love has. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, many tragic events take place.
Irving understands that love is more than a desire to be loved; it explains how love
Diotima asserts that love is neither mortal nor immortal but “halfway between mortal and immortal” (plato 555). While the conception of offspring and philosophical notions are mortal elements, the existence of both create immortality. While the distinction between earthly and heavenly love is rejected the superiority of love based in wisdom is still in place because ideas last longer
I believe that love has the power to ruin or uplift a person. In the four texts about, the common theme of the affect of love. The four texts I studied are; The Fault In Our Stars directed by Josh Boone, Heavenly Creatures directed by Peter Jackson, The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Dustbins written by Witi Ihimaera. I will write about the texts separately and then make my connections.
Love and romance are a common genre found in poetry, where one is able to express their true emotions toward a particular person or thing. Love itself has come to represent both the emotional and personal connection between two lovers. Pablo Neruda, a renowned Chilean poet, explores the concept of love and separation in the form of the poem, “I can write the saddest verses.” In this poem, Neruda communicated his longing for his past love, whom he still loved at the time. While the words of the poem create an effect and feeling in the reader, which is related to the sad aspects of losing relationships, more can be uncovered about Neruda.
Hemingway presents the elements of failure and suffering in The Old Man and the Sea by depicting several instances of suffering and failure which the Old Man, Santiago, has to go through throughout the course of the novel. According to Hemingway, life is just one big struggle. In the beginning of the novel itself, The Old Man, is presented as a somewhat frail old man who is still struggling with his life as well as his past failures. His skiff even had a sail which bore great resemblance to “the flag of permanent defeat”, with its multiple patches all over.
When I was younger I was very close with my grandmother and loved her very much. Our relationship was complicated, my grandmother had Breast Cancer and her schedule was very unpredictable with chemo and radiation treatments and after those we did not know how she would feel. Likewise, in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and The Sea, Santiago loves the sea, but he also recognizes its unpredictability for he does not know when the sea will change. Hemingway portrays a relationship between a love for a man and woman to reveal the difficulties of a relationship and its tie to being unpredictable. Hemingway reveals a story symbolizing the love of a man and woman.
