In writing A Voyage Long and Strange, Tony Horwitz’s goal is clear, to educate others on early America and debunk ignorant myths. Horwitz’s reason for wanting to achieve this goal is because of his own ignorance that he sees while at Plymouth Rock. “Expensively educated at a private school and university- a history major, no less!-I’d matriculated to middle age with a third grader’s grasp of early America.” Horwitz is disappointed in his own lack of knowledge of his home country, especially with his background history and decides not only to research America’s true beginnings, but to also follow the path of those who originally yearned to discover America.
“The Glass Castle” is a biography, drama written by Destin Daniel Cretton; it portrays a young girl (Jeanette Walls) and her family as they struggle in poverty stricken towns with a mother who is an eccentric artist and her alcoholic father who she blindly puts her faith in. The film was released on August 11, 2017 and features Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts among others. The big question, “What do I think about “The Glass Castle” film? The film was dissatisfying overall, I did not feel same emotional attachment that I felt with the book. They did not show enough of Jeanette and Rex’s connection to each other.
The article “Tarmageddon”, written by Andrew Nikiforuk,starts by stating how Europeans felt towards Canada before and continues by explaining what has changed their stance towards Canada. He then bulges on by describing oil and the specifics of the oil Canada is refining while perceiving its problems along the way while portraying how Canada changed, explaining why those changes happened. Towards the end of the article Andrew looks into the government’s approach on the matter and how it is ignoring the entire incident. Finally, in the end he comes to his conclusion and warning about the country’s future and how it will become if nothing is done. In short Nikiforuk, elaborates about the negative effects of the tar sands on Canada.
The Glass Castle is about four children and their mom and dad, who struggle to get by. They go from day to day with little food and barely a roof over their heads. In this book, it shows how children overcome little guidance and abusive parents while growing up. Jaennette introduces us to her father in the beginning of the book, Rex Walls. He is a father who can't provide for his family because he can't keep a job and focuses more on himself than his children or wife.
Fires of jubilee is a book written by Steven B Oats, a well known writer who has written many books and his style of writing makes his book popular which has earned him many honorable awards. In this well written interesting book, Oats concentrates on the story of a slave who wanted to be free right from childhood. By using Turner as his main character, Oates creates a lot of pity on the predicament of slaves in the hands of their controlling masters. He frequently uses the word "n-gg-r" to stress the contempt under which Nat Tuner labored, or the word "darkie" to indicate how even the best of whites spoke patronizingly of blacks slaves. There are different occasions in the book where Nats’ life takes unfortunate twists.
Political Death Politics is fueled by corruption. It causes government-involved citizens to use their power to manipulate others to achieve what they want. In All the King’s Men, written by Robert Penn Warren, Warren distributes politics to show how Willie Stark transformed. His character gradually deteriorates as a person throughout the political novel leading up to his death. Warren writes to exemplify politics and how it ruined the lives of well-rounded people.
In Nothing But the Truth there is one thing that stood out to me throughout the entire book. The whole book is full of lies. Philip Malloy tells lies about everything and to everyone. He lies to his parents, the principal, and even to a reporter that is interviewing him. Throughout the book we continue to see the lies play out until the very end of the book when Philip finally decides to tell the truth.
Does an individual's role in self-perception play a role in seeking to reconcile the conflict between illusion and reality? In Jeannette Walls "The Glass Castle," Rex displays hidden trauma from when he was a child, which leads him to create a false reality to shield them. In doing this, the false reality will lead them to struggle to find the difference between what is real and what is an illusion. As an adult, Rex displays minimal remorse for anyone in his life when they are harassed. This is most prominently displayed after Rex's mother touches Brian, and when Rex gets back to hear about this, instead of taking his own son's side, he instead tells his kids "Brian's a man, he can take it".
Diagnostic Writing “Shakespeare in the bush” by Laura Bohannan is a story where the author goes to an African tribe to spend his summer and learn new things about Hamlet. Once, Bohannan arrives at the tribe, she stays at her residence and only reads Hamlet, meanwhile other members of the tribe drink all day every day. Tribe members tried to convince the author to drink and party along them, but she often refuses them. They find it suspicious that how can a person stare at a piece of paper whole day and not get bored. One night, a tribesmen asked her to explain the book to them, but Bohannan thought that they won’t understand anything.
“Equus” proves to be a timeless drama that delves into the darkest depths of human life. The concepts of adoration and praise are intimately related in “Equus”. Religious identity is the driving force of Peter Shaffer’s literary work. Throughout the play, Shaffer mulls over religion and the idea of unorthodox exaltation negatively impacting an individual’s morale. Alan creates the character Equus and his horse religion, which parallels Christianity.
Some things in life cannot be controlled, such as thunderstorms, hurricanes, or the actions of other individuals. However, certain people throughout the world try their hardest to manage other people’s lives as if they are their own. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and Romeo + Juliet by Baz Luhrmann, Lord Capulet, head of the Capulet house and father of Juliet, features a controlling personality that impacts the love story of Romeo and Juliet and eventually leads to the tragedy at the ends of both the film and the play. For example, in Shakespeare’s
The name of the book that I read was “Wild Man Island” by Will Hobbs. The setting of the story begins on the last day of a sea kayaking trip on Admiralty Island in the southeastern part of Alaska. The basic situation is when Andy wants to go to the island where his father died, so he packs up in the middle of the night paddles to the island. The complication in the story is when Andy is thrown into the freezing cold water in the middle of a rip current and washes onto the shore of an island with nothing but his clothes, very close to hypothermia. He finds he is not alone on the island, and there is another man on the island also.
Kaylee Ross Mr. Jonathan Miller English 10B 27 January 2017 In the documentary, Before the Flood, by Fisher Stevens, Leonardo DiCaprio
The movie, which gave me great impression was the “The Tempest” directed by Julie Taymor in 2010. “The Tempest” is based on the Shakespeare 's very last play “The Tempest”. Taymor has generally portrayed the Shakespeare play’s amusement and touching moments into her film, so although I’ve already known the whole plot I still entreatingly watched the movie. The genres of “The Tempest” are comic and drama, so I laughed, but also I held my breath during the movie. From the film, there are several characters who leads the film.
In the poem Manfred, Lord Byron writes that, “Sorrow is knowledge,” so inherently there is something “dangerous” to come from knowledge. In fact Byron conveys that the greatest sorrow is knowledge. The poem leaves it to be interpreted that the knowledge packed with a sorrowful punch is the actuality and realization that the more someone knows, or thinks he knows, and the more knowledge someone gains, the more one realizes that the knowledge that is so sought after will not make their life more full and meaningful by itself. The greatest minds in history, including Albert Einstein, William Shakespeare, and Pablo Picasso all had something in common, other than their great intelligences in their respective fields of study, they realized true wisdom
