Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen is a novel in which the main character , Cole Matthews, finds himself struggling with his own downfall. He also finds himself fighting his own spirit. Cole is banished from Drake, Alaska because he has committed a crime. His classmate Peter Driscal had told on him for breaking into the school. Now, if someone told on Cole Matthews, they were going to have to pay the price.
Do you know any tricksters? In fact, I know several trickster tales, and I read some recently called "The Bear Who Stole the Chinook" and "Coyote and the Pebbles. " A trickster is someone who betrays and disrupts others. For example, Bear steals the Chinook, and Coyote messes up people's portraits by tripping over pebbles. Also, Bear is the better trickster because he's more aggressive and selfish than Coyote.
Is economic profit more valuable than moral standards? Jay Erskine Leutze’s book, Stand Up That Mountain highlights this conflict. Both Paul Brown and Tony Cook place high value on money. Paul’s mining industry exploited Belview mountain, extracting materials “out of the risen earth with disregard for their other value, for their inspiration, their standing” (Leutze, 2013: 103).
‘Narrative text relates a sequence of events’ (Gamble & Yates, 2013, p. 70). The narrative structure within We’re Going on a Bear Hunt is repetitive, with particular elements of the story reoccurring. This repetitive nature within the narrative makes the story easily understood and engaging by participating what is going to happen next. Though there are reoccurring and repetitive elements within the text, all narrative contains suspense and surprise (Gamble & Yates, 2013). The suspense is developed when the family find the bear and chases them home (Oxenbury & Rosen, 2009), which disrupts the repetitive nature of the book.
The character Penny is a protagonist in Byatt’s story “The Thing in the Forest”, and is presented in two lives or stages: childhood and adulthood. As a little girl, Penny is described as “thin and dark and taller, probably older than Primrose, and had a bloodless transparent paleness with a touch of blue in her lips” (Byatt 3). In the later stages of the story, Penny is described as having a “transparent face that had lost detail – cracked lipstick, fine lines of wrinkles – and looked both younger and greyer, less substantial” (Byatt 12). This later description can be taken as a representation of the battering from life that Penny had taken from the encounter with the thing to separation and placement with strange families, a predicament shared by Primrose who now had the same
Throughout this semester I have learned a lot about different writers and how their stories have formulated and how some of the different stories have related to the other one. When taking this course I was so confused on what the term of Major American writers meant and I have learned because of the books we have read and I have learned a lot about the different themes and what I liked most was learning about the author’s history and their story and how they related it to the themes of the book. Throughout the semester, we read five books called My Antonia, Winesburg Ohio, In Our Time, “The Bear” and Tracks. Each book had a different theme to it and followed different aspects of nature and all the characters in the book.
Student Name: Kayla Stradomski Course # and Section/Time: COMM 101 DAH; Monday, 11:00 a.m. - 1:50 p.m. Topic: Alzheimer’s disease General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose Statement: To educate my audience on the aspects of Alzheimer’s disease. INTRODUCTION Attention Getter: Can you imagine your life if your memories and cognition slowly started deteriorating?
Throughout the novel, Go Tell it on the Mountain written by James Baldwin, there is a shift between time periods. The way that James Baldwin wrote this novel, kept readers attentions and also provided readers with background information in regards to each of the characters’ lives and the events that were being taken place. James Baldwin’s writing technique switches time periods from the past to present time. At first, I found this writing technique to be confusing because often times I would find myself thinking that things that happened in the past of the character’s lives were really happening in present time. For example, on page 11, the narrative breaks from past time to present time when Baldwin goes from describing how Ella Mae and Elisha were no longer seeing each other after school to talking about Johns birthday.
Guy Vanderhaeghe, author of “Dancing Bear”, explores both internal and external conflicts that man faces within society and within himself. Vanderhaeghe’s writing is intended to point out the importance and struggle of survival in literature. His work also presents the lives of those living troubled or dealing with a disability (Heath). The struggles of man versus man and man versus society are strongly spoken of within “Dancing Bear”. Vanderhaeghe describes a story of emotional battles of survival.
In A.S Byatt’s “The Thing in the Forest”, the author uses the elements of a short story to craft a dark, mature fairytale. The title of the story, “The Thing in the Forest”, in the sense that it foreshadows the main idea of the story. The audience expects more than just a "thing", as listed in the title. Byatt emphasizes through figurative language that the main characters, Penny and Primrose, are dealing with more than just a creature in the forest that affected them for the rest of their lives, and that with this use of symbols to express a larger meaning to objects in the story. A.S Byatt emphasizes more on plot and setting, characters, theme and symbols.
Dementia is a disorder which causes the brain cells to deteriorate therefor causes a decline in several symptoms and affects a person’s mentality, capacity and how they go about their everyday life. NVQ 1.2 2) Describe the functions of the brain that are affected by dementia. There are many brain functions affected by dementia depending on which form of dementia the individual has. The temporal lobe’s functions affected are Memory loss for example forgetting things you have just been told or something you have just said so repeating yourself several times, balance, posture and vision can also be affected due to decline in health of the temporal lobe. Frontal lobe affects behaviour for example becoming withdrawn.
Grizzly Man is a documentary film released in 2005 and followed a bear activist named Timothy Treadwell, he decided that he wanted to live with bears in Alaska. For thirteen years, during the summer month, Treadwell camped in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. During this time he had to hide from the authorities, he was on a personal mission in order to better protect the population of grizzly bears. He believed the park service rangers were not doing their job well and it was his duty to go out into the wilderness. The film depicts the past by including the original footage from Treadwell, this is because he always had the movie camera with him.
Other symptoms include the person having trouble making decisions and having a sudden burst of
The winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, Alice Munro, is justifiably considered one of the most prolific short story authors of the past century. However, despite her spectacular success as a writer, she is ultimately undeserving of the Nobel Prize. Though her literary legacy satisfies the award criteria of being “the most outstanding work”, it fails to fulfill the requirement of also being “in an ideal direction”(The Nobel Prize in Literature). By awarding Alice Munro the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy ultimately sacrificed their annual opportunity to advance or reward an author whose work has helped progress society towards “an ideal direction.”
SUMMARY Thinking Like a Mountain is a phase used in he book “A Sand County Almanac” by the famous author Aldo Leopold. Aldo Leopold is considered to be a renowned ecologist and a forester who taught Wildlife Management at the University of Wisconsin. He was considered to be one of the foremost writers in America. Thinking Like a Mountain is a narration of the Leopold when he first time watched a wolf die and he wonders what the mountains might know which the other people never realized.
