Chessboard Essays

“The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other sides hidden from us.” This quote from Thomas Huxley is evident in the short story, “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan. Waverly, a child prodigy chess player, is taking the world on as her opponent, as her strength and technique grow together. Waverly is only six years old when her brother receives a chess board for Christmas and begins to

“The heart gets confused when it is constantly told I love you by the same person who destroys it”-R.h Sin. This portrays the moral idea of billions of abused individuals , as well as the characters in Purple Hibiscus. As a human being, we are always longing for companionship. But sometimes, one is too blinded by love in that relationship to notice that love is tainted; by emotional and physical torment. This reigns true for Kambili, the protagonist , and Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda N. Adichie

Although Hester Prynne is the heroine of The Scarlet Letter, it is impossible to fully identify or sympathize with her. Do you agree? The half century between 1625 and 1675 is called Puritan period. In that period The Scarlet letter was one of the famous novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne about the puritans. In that period “It had two chief objects; the first was personal righteousness; the second was civil and religious liberty. In other words, it aimed to make men honest and to make them free” (Long

The panel has a border of black around it. The panel shows a chessboard. Orange and black contrast of colors used in the panel. The chessboard is on a table with a hand moving pieces of chess. Captions in the panel state I still have the chessboard my father made when I was a kid, and the wooden set of pieces we played with. Caption in the middle of the page stating revisiting this game of war and strategy

There were many times in the short story when she continuously persisted to get what she wanted. For example, after her brothers got the chessboard as a gift from the church's Christmas party, they began to play with it. Waverly watched them play and got very intrigued. She repeatedly begged her brothers to teach her how to play. In the story, it states, "Let me! Let me! I begged between games

Meimei’s mother playes Meimei’s life like a chess board. She parades her around showing her off conducting her every move, just like the pieces on a chessboard. “Her black men advanced across the plane, slowly marching too each successive level in a single unit. My white pieces screamed as the scurried and fell off the board one by one” Is one example of imagery. It displays a personification and

such as a sport, music, or even a videogame is a good feeling. It makes you ambitious and enthusiastic about whatever you feel passionate about. In Rules of the Game by Amy Tan, Waverly becomes passionate about chess after her brothers receive a chessboard for Christmas; her mom brags about how Waverly is her daughter to other people using her to show off. Waverly deserves credit for her success in chess, not her mom because her mom did nothing but provide Waverly with necessities. Waverly earns

He describes how “life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with…” Throughout the passage, Franklin describes playing the game to life and illustrates the chessboard and its pieces to scenarios we go through in reality. Franklin writes, “For life is a kind of chess...and in which there is a vast variety of good and evil events that are in some degree the effects of prudence or the wants of it.” The illustration

He was named The Chessboard killer because caught in 2007 and charged with 48 murders, authorities found a chessboard marked with the dates of his kills. He approached Viricheva in a Moscow metro station and offered her some work. When they arrived at a spot selected by Pichushkin, he pushed her down a 30-foot well.

"But then I dreamt of the Ankh. Of her calm gray eyes and her small, strong hands as she faced me across a massive chessboard. With a flick of her wrist, she set a large fire around us. I was somehow chained to my chair, and she forced me to play chess... and then she reached out, smiling, and patted me on the head as the flames roared and licked at the backs of our chairs... and the black tendrils of smoke snaked around us like an evil vine, as if binding us together... Checkmate, she whispered

love connotations, and the target audience was couples who could identify with the subject, chess, in this context, can be interpreted in several different ways. This being said, I believe the most plausible interpretation of the meaning behind the chessboard being ever present is due to the game of chess

for many different pieces that represent people on a battlefield ("Chess Pieces”). The board being played on, which has a checkerboard pattern, is the “battlefield.” Every piece on the board is in the “battle.” The fact that all the pieces on a chessboard are in battle shares a common idea that all the people on the earth are in the battle; one single piece or person does not go into battle by its lonesome self. One metaphor that refers to chess is “after the game, the kind and the pawn go into the

everything together. Romans first started to plan out their new city they were gonna build. They needed lots of people to help plan the city and how they were gonna build it. According to the passage," The entrie area was divided by roads into a chessboard pattern. Almost all of the blocks, call insulae were eighty yards square." They planed out this city very well. They marked off what places they weren't gonna use and they made each block eighty yards square. The people wanted bigger

Rick Riordan once said, “It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.” The difficulties of life mostly revolve around the battle of what people want to believe versus what is actually there. In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club, Holden Caulfield and Waverly Jong become puppets of their own illusions and fall to their realities which creates new internal struggles. Allie’s death warps Holden’s lifestyle; however

The poem “Chess” is by Rosario Castellanos, who felt alienated from her family after learning she wasn’t valued as much as her brother. “Chess” is about two people in a broken relationship, trying to destroy the other through a game of chess. Castellanos points this out in lines 1 and 12-13, writing that the speaker and the antagonist were once friends who sometimes loved each other, but now are playing chess in hopes to annihilate the other. The universal truth about humans that can be extracted

leader of Prussia, desperately vying for control of The German Confederation, and fearing the imminent war before him. A decade later, he was The Chancellor of a unified Germany, meticulously examining the landscape of the European continent as a chessboard that would determine the vitality of his Confederation as a whole. Overall, these documents allow us to see the transpiration of Germany’s unification, from the years

written. Even though war was never officially declared, The United States and Russia engaged in espionage, secret campaigns and other such animosities that resulted in paranoia. Despite the absence of a traditional battlefield, Vonnegut uses the chessboard as a powerful allegorical representation of war and argues that war forces regular people to sacrifice their humanity and emotions in order to survive. Bryan Kelly, as a Colonel of the US army is sometimes forced to make immensely difficult decisions

According to Jane Resh Thomas, Elizabeth won the personal respect of both enemies and friends, and she led England at the dawn of its influence as a great nation. Despite her gender and the patriarchal society, she established and maintained her power, carved a career and a life on her own, and refused to marry. (Thomas n.p.) Elizabeth was born in Greenwich Palace, near London on September 7, 1533. She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who was thirty-two years

At first glance, The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis might seem like a sympathetic fantasy, but when you search deeper into its roots, a whole universe of analogies is found. Connections found in the book not only add contrast to the Bible but also introduce the reader to new ideas. Religion and differences between heaven and hell are one of many themes that correspond to Christianity and other beliefs. C.S. Lewis is an outstanding author that gives purpose to ordinary themes like sin, free will, and

of that millions of innocent people were killed off. They were forced to live in concentration camps. No law or money could help them, they were all alone. Hitler’s views were brought in an early age. The Jewish people to him were just pawns on a chessboard. He moved them and he made them weak, he destroyed the integrity of the Jewish community without the blink of an eye. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird the black people in the town were discriminated against. They were sought after and they constantly