English First Semester Final Essay To many readers, the most enjoyable stories are the ones that take place without sorrow, and betrayal. While these are both tragic topics, some pieces of literature are fantastic, while still broaching topics that may be harmful to the characters themselves. In the novel Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, the play A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare, and the novella The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, all contain examples of the these specific topics. These pieces of literature all share common themes of family, magic, and betrayal.
In the extract from “Maestro” by Peter Goldsworthy, the author discusses the protagonist, Paul, and how he and his family moved from the South to Darwin. They stay in a motel room the first night and the next day they visit their new house. It shows the relationship between the family and their environment, expressing their feelings about the situation. In the prose extract, the author illustrates a rough atmosphere which the protagonist immediately loves, unlike his family, in order to create characterisation through the family’s first impression of the new town. The text conveys Nancy as a strong-willed person by her initial rejection of her new circumstances and then she improves them by quickly moving forward with the situation, showing
In the midst of all the turmoil and cynicism in the current media, one can find that there is some good beneath it all, like a flower that blossomed from a sea of concrete. Victor Villaseñor acknowledges the fact that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel when he reflected upon his keynote address, where he criticized on English teachers, bashed, smacked, and tortured, their students. Based on the novel, Burro Genius, by Victor Villaseñor, the story displays Villaseñor’s education and his struggles with abusive teachers. In an excerpt from his book, Villaseñor affects the reader emotionally through the use of stylistic devices and imagery to depict the intensity of afterthoughts of his keynote address. Villaseñor uses these rhetorical
When you’re a woman in the 1900’s it isn’t going to be easy for you, especially when you’re a sixteen year old girl working as an epidemiologist’s assistant and one that is interested in the field of medicine at that. Deadly, a novel by Julie Chibbaro, is about a sixteen year old girl named Prudence who is working with a epidemiologist, Dr. George Soper, to help stop the typhoid epidemic. She has to help convince Mary Mallon, a human typhoid disease carrier, to work with the department. While she has this job she has to face many obstacles along the way. The three most developed themes in Deadly are, individuals versus society, and how the people you know won’t always be on your side, wisdom of experience, and how you won’t always know what’s
There are so many life lessons in this book that are very important for people of all ages to know. One of the many themes in this book is simply having hope. Sure, it sounds like it shouldn’t be a theme but it is because of all the hope Esperanza had when she saw others not giving up. While reading this book, Ryan shows that it 's very difficult to be an adult or adolescent and to cope through all events of
The Missing Ark: Analysis of Loss in “Destroyed by the Waters” by Rachel Swirsky Derek saying, "You can't even tell anything was here", is how Swirsky immediately introduces him as a character dealing with loss in “Destroyed by the Waters”(1). “How to cope with loss?”, is a question thematically seen after reading the short story, and is prevalent as a fundamental question concerning life, in many texts, notably the Christian Bible. The Bible shares similarities with the short story, and is alluded to after Zack and Derek’s son, Noah is mentioned. The allusions of the Bible in “Destroyed by the Waters”, aid in answering the fundamental question of “How to cope with loss?”, and retell a realistic“Noah’s Ark”.
Among the Hidden Themes One theme in Among the Hidden is “survival”. This is a theme because when you're a third child you have to know how to survive. You have to hide, or you’ll get caught and killed. Luke hid for so long until one day, when he saw a face in the neighbor's window. This leads us to our second theme of the story.
In the novel Antonio tends to have vivid dreams that are realistic and filled with fear and sorrow that have a deep meaning. In his dream, Antonio explains, “It is la llorona, my brothers cried in fear, the old witch who cries along the river banks and seeks the blood of boys and men to drink!” (Anaya 28) This moment shows how intense Antonio’s dreams are especially of someone of his age. Antonio’s dreams are composed of violence, intensity, and despair.
At first glance, it seems like an aimless reminiscence by a starry-eyed boy about a romanticized girl. But as the novel progresses, it becomes so much more. Antonia coarsens as she works like a man in the fields, cavorts with the boys in town, and eventually unmarried motherhood. These incidents only reveal that the story is not about Antonia’s perfection—it is about the old country and her fierce devotion to it. Antonia’s poor choices made her a “battered woman”, but returning to the country replenished the “rich mine of life” in her soul and made her as insurmountable as “the founders of early races” (Cather, 127).
The main character, Jess, meets a wonderful girl named Leslie. Throughout the book, she changed his opinion of imagination, and he fell in love with her. Soon following this, they experience a fallout. Throughout the novel, Patterson displays themes of significant tragedy, grief because of the people stressing the tragedy, and the quest for identity.
Throughout ‘A bridge to Wiseman’s cove’, James Moloney introduces to characters who are in despair. However, the reader is shown how the characters are rescued with the support of each other. The protagonist Carl Matt is in despair after moving to Wattle Beach, because his mother and sister leave him and his younger brother. Joy, a middle-aged woman is also portrayed as a character who is afraid to give love to her daughter. Another individual, Graham Duncan, commonly known as Skip is a character who is rescued from despair.
His Dark Materials also uses ancient myths in order to embellish the story. The myth of Oedipus Tyrannus can be compared to the King Bear, Iofur Rakinson. The myth of Oedipus is well known and referenced by many ancient sources. For example, the myth was referenced within the Odyssey by Homer within Book 11 in which Odysseus met Oedipus’ mother. The most famous source by which we know of the Oedipus myth is Sophocles.
The natural attraction between the young couple seems too good to be true at first. Full of love and joy, the two live a happy life only for a moment of their lives. Had it not been for differences in us human beings, the two would have been a match made in heaven. While most of the blame can be put onto Armand, we must take note that the unjust hierarchy set in time weighs down upon her husband, almost forcing him to make such a rash and irresponsibly decision. A love story set and ripped down by fate ending in three if not many more broken hearts.
All the themes of the novel link together, as family and friends resolve Taylors story arc by giving her a place to belong. Ultimately, the themes of the novel are used in such a way that allows readers to gain a better understanding of the characters. The themes of the novel are themes of the major characters worlds, essentially giving readers a look inside the characters head. Melanie Marchetta applied language techniques to furthermore emphasise the themes of the story. Overall, the authors use of themes created a fictional world full of complex and realistic
Everyday, people are faced with the task of making decisions. Most people decide when to wake up, what to eat, what to wear, who to interact with, and countless other choices. In a world surrounded by choices, people are confronted with easy-to-make and, conversely, challenging decisions. A decision can be influenced by one’s own experience, logic, and feelings. Making a decision is synonymous with a result; whatever choice one accepts, results in a particular outcome.
