believe a possible theme would be to always be prepared. Throughout the book, we can see that Columbine was completely unprepared. They did not have a set plan of what to do so students and teachers were running around panicking. This is one of the reasons that there were so many casualties.
PLOT SUMMARY AND THEME OF THE NOVEL: Magnus Chase and The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan is the story of how Magnus Chase, a son of the Norse God Frey, meets his untimely demise at the hands of the fire giant Surt after learning of his heritage. After being revived in the Norse afterlife, Valhalla, Magnus is taken back to the world of the living to fulfil his destiny as being the harbinger of the Wolf. Along the way Magnus meets many mythical creatures including: a talking goat, a deaf elf, and a tall dwarf. In the end Magnus and his new found friends rebind the Wolf Fenris and defeat the fire giant Surt. The Theme of Magnus Chase and The Sword of Summer is that when things are at their worst it can always get better.
Each Kindness and The Other Side share many differences, similarities, and valuable life lessons. In the book, “Each Kindness”, the new girl Maya wanted to acquire “true” friends, She aspired to “fit in” with the girl at her new school. This book conjured people of all ages, leaving them inspired to be kind and accepting. In the book, “The Other Side,” Clover and Annie's, two girls of different races wanted to be friends, but segregation got in the way. The fence of segregation deified their friendship.
In the book An Invisible Thread, the author often provides examples of parents that have a poor quality of parenting. First there is Laura’s father Nunziato Carino, who’s a bartender. After he is done with his shift, he would often come home drunk and yell at his son, Frank who is Five. Frank will quickly hide under his bed sheet as his father dammed his name again and again. This happened frequently and every one would hide in their rooms as unfortunate Frank takes his father’s heavy word beating each night.
A Lesson After Dying “I turned from him and went into the church. Irene Cole told the class to rise with their shoulders back. I went up to the desk and turned to face them. I was crying.” (Gains, 256)
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” (Martin Luther King Jr). Love is the invisible force that wakes you up in the morning and puts you back to sleep, hoping to relive the moment again, or in a simpler sense, it might be random acts of kindness among people that makes up happy, selfless communities. Or it might be a deadly trap for the weak when its powers are abused, but whatever the case, love is important for everyday customs and habits.
The story gives insight to each of our struggles between good and evil. Although failure is part of human nature, also is the ability to redeem
In the undead fiction, the characters can be divided into two major parts: the living characters and the undead characters. The main plots will develop through the interactions between these two parts. The interactions can help the reader to understand the theme. In the book “The Restless Dead”, there are different types of undead stories. The stories I’m going to analyze are Chris’s “The House and The Locket”, Marcus’s “The Heart of Another”, Bram’s “Dracula” and Annette’s “Kissing Dead Boys”.
My’yonna Pride Professor Suderman Enc1102-20946-002 Them of Innocence/Power of Literacy Theme: “Loss of Innocence and The Power of Literacy “ To live is to die and to die is to live again, in the short story fiction “Lives of the Dead,” by Tim Obrien, either seems true. When a loss of innocence is experienced traumatic events, such as death, has created awareness of evil, pain, and or suffering. Obrien experiences a loss of innocence, by death, at the age of 9, when his childhood girlfriend dies of cancer. Physical the dead may never be able to be brought back to life but, mentally, through The Power of Literacy anything is possible. Many of the Character in “Lives of the dead” are deceased; however, they are able to live again, through the power of literacy.
Books are a gateway to knowledge, in order for individuals to gain innovative knowledge from a book, the book must first teach. Two books that demonstrates effectively upon how books teach are “Doomsday” and “Great Mortality”. Although they both fall under different genres, they both develop skills and lesson to obtain. Doomsday being that it is a Fictional book, has an insufficient chance of genuinely guiding readers mind to a positive outcome, as the book Great Mortality, a nonfictional book, does the same. Doomsday demonstrates metaphors and imagery through dialogue, while Great Mortality communicates through the act of citing facts placed in chronological order, with some eager use of metaphors, additionally, using statistics to guide
The Dying Masterpiece “Fool as de woman!” Old Behrman cursed as he put on his stained jacket. The room was dark. Empty bottles lay scattered across the floor as well as perched upon every drawer and cupboard.
In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the main protagonist, Prince Hamlet, is tangled with the theme of death. During the play, he presents how his life is surrounded with death after his father, King Hamlet, dies. Death theme is the most occurring theme Shakespeare writes about in his plays, which most of his plays have a very dramatic death ending and involve the death of the main protagonist. Throughout the play, Shakespeare presents the idea of life, which is the never ending cycle of revenge and death. Shakespeare starts the death theme with the death of King Hamlet, which stimulates Hamlet to seek for revenge with his various soliloquies considering death from various points of view and certainly leads to a dramatic ending.
Fate, by definition, is the universal principle by which the order of things is seemingly prescribed. (Webster) Essentially, fate is events that are inevitable that we have no power to change. It is debatable that fate exists among everyone; however, humans are subject to making their own choices- free will. No matter what choices people make, they do not change our fate.
Response Paper # 1 The novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold was written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1981. This is a non-linear story that told by an unknown narrator, who has a connection with the main character, Santiago Nasar. This book also reveals different kinds of power between men and women in a male-dominated society. According to social norms of Columbian society, women are not allowed to have sex with others before they get married. However, Angela Vicario is a character that found she is not a virgin on her wedding night, and she confesses that Santiago is being held accountable for taking her virginity.
In the essay, “Their Deaths Are Not Elegant: Portrayal of Animals in Margret Atwood’s writings” Maria Moss Analyzes Margaret Atwood’s works and presents an argument that implies an underlining meaning in her stories and novels. Moss asserts that Atwood’s works present animals as independent individuals and as entities that do not promote humanistic uniqueness. Moss is right in her claims that animals are independent of humans, but she seems on more dubious ground when she claims that the animals in Atwood’s poems are independent in the notion of promoting humanistic uniqueness. In this essay I will contend that Atwood uses her works to compare humanistic and animalistic traits in a way that foreshadows human uniqueness. For instance, in Our Cat
