In the story “The Passage” by Justin Cronin, published June 8, 2010, a lot of amazing things happened. In this dystopian literature of vampiric takeover, there seems to be nothing that can stop it. Or is there? Justin’s main characters set out on a journey of epic proportions. As they try to save the world, it might just crumble around them. Can these blood-suckers be beaten? Can humans prove stronger and smarter than supposed “super humans”? I suppose you will just have to find out by reading this amazing story of strength, fear, and love.
In this beautifully written book we meet Justin’s main characters. In the first portion of “The Passage” we meet Amy as a child. Amy is Justin’s main character throughout the whole story. As Amy’s story gets told we see she grew up in a rather … Unconventional way. Later she meets Sister Lacey whom also had a jagged path growing up, but found a place for herself at the convent. At the same time Agent Wolgast gets introduced. Wolgast is an FBI agent working on the NOAH project, a top secret mission of course. Wolgast had a family but that family ended up falling apart. In this first part of the book we also meet Tim Fanning (AKA Zero), Babcock, Anthony Carter, Julio Martinez, Horace Lambright, Martin Echols, Rupert Sosa, David Winston, Thaddeus Turrell, John Baffes, Victor Chavez, and Joseph Morrison, all of which make up “The Twelve” or the original vampires. These “twelve” as they are called throughout the book were all taken off death row for this experiment. Most were cold-blooded killers, and just all around terrible people. Whoever came up with the idea to use crazy people is beyond me.
In the second part of the book we are in “The colony” which is a settlement of humans in California...
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...ed and as safe as possible it still failed. I believe that this book hit its mark completely. Any procedure not properly introduced, researched, and carried out has the potential to fail and we as educated people need to be aware of this fact. Any small or large experiment could fall through and prove fatal to anyone. It scares most people to think about the fact that at any time our world could change as we know it. Utopia is unachievable simply because there is no such thing as perfect.
In conclusion I wish to reiterate one more time how important it is to be careful in our world today. I also think that this book in-and-of-itself could honestly one day happen. I know this seems like a conspiracy theory but it could happen and I hope by reading this book (and you will love it) that you may be able to better see what you need to be watching for in our world today.
In 1776, David McCullough gives a vivid portrayal of the Continental Army from October 1775 through January 1777, with sharp focus on the leadership of America’s greatest hero, George Washington. McCullough’s thesis is that had not the right man (George Washington) been leading the Continental Army in 1776, the American Revolution would have resulted in a vastly different outcome. He supports his argument with a critical analysis of Washington’s leadership during the period from the Siege of Boston, through the disastrous defense of New York City, the desperate yet, well ordered retreat through New Jersey against overwhelming odds, and concludes with the inspiring victories of Trenton and Princeton. By keeping his army intact and persevering through 1776, Washington demonstrated to the British Army that the Continental Army was not simply a gang of rabble, but a viable fighting force. Additionally, Mr. McCullough supports his premise that the key to the survival of the American Revolution was not in the defense of Boston, New York City, or any other vital terrain, but rather the survival of the Continental Army itself. A masterful piece of history, 1776 is not a dry retelling of the Revolutionary War, but a compelling character study of George Washington, as well as his key lieutenants, and his British adversaries, the most powerful Army in the 18th Century world. When I read this book, I went from a casual understanding of the hero George Washington to a more specific understanding of why Washington was quite literally the exact right man at the exact right place and time to enable the birth of the United States.
But there wasn’t a California as they had imagined. In fact, the world they entered into when they arrived in California was a cold one. The locals excluded the newcomers and forced them to leave. The locals tormented the foreigners, calling them ‘Okies’ and telling them that they are unwanted. There was no work and when there was, the workers were underpaid and forced to work for low wages. California was hell.
The novel is broken into 3 different parts, the time spent in Oklahoma, the journey on the road, and the time spent in California. Each section is closely related to the three stages of the Biblical Exodus: the Israelites' time in bondage when God sent plagues to free them (chapters 1-11), the forty years of wandering in the desert (chapters 12-18), and the arrival in Canaan, the Promised Land (chapters 19-30). The plagues sent by God are
Freedom Crossing talks about how someone point of view can change completely. Laura went back North to live with her father and brother, Bert she had recently been living in the South with her aunt and uncle. One night she fond Bert talking to Joel (an old friend) in the middle of the night about whether or not Martin (a runaway slave) can stay with they until Joel could come back and take Martin to the place where a boat will pick Martin up and take him to The Promised Land, Laura said that she did not care if Martin stayed with them or not, even though deep down she knew it wasn’t right and that they shouldn’t do it. The day after they decided that Martin could stay Laura found out that Martin could read, but his master
Then by Morris Gleitzman is a war fiction novel about the life of two children, Felix and Zelda during wartime Poland. Then is first published in 2008 and is printed in Australia. Morris Gletizman’s message in the book allows readers to remember and relive the memory of the unforgettable history period of the Holocaust and the Nazis. Gleitzman wanted to show the rare kindness of people during wartime and the effect it had on children like the main characters, Felix and Zelda.
...nce our perceptions on reality and the concept of a utopian society. The connection between our own society and elements of the novel enable readers to recognize that although a literal utopian society is not possible, the closest we can come to perfection is to find a balance between what is and what we can imagine.
Throughout the novel, Huxley uses Bernard Marx, a young man who is “deformed by the government” (Huxley, page #) to underline the idea that a Utopian Society cannot exist. The advancement of technology has enabled this “Utopian Society” to create human life. Although the entire society is based on technology, it remains supervised by humans. No matter how “advanced” this technology may be, if humans are directing it, mistakes will be made “They say somebody made a mistake when he was still in the bottle... and put alcohol into his blood- surrogate. That’s why he’s so stunted” (Huxley, 46).
The story is set in the early 20th century, immediately following the Depression and World War II. The characters live in Monterey, California amid the jumble of the sardine fisheries, the "Palace Flophouses", Lee Chong's grocery, Dora's whorehouse, and Doc's Biological Lab. Throughout the book, Steinbeck has the uncanny ability to combine his characters' everyday problems with the twist of a utopian style of living. The end result is a novel with a strange mixture of fantasy and reality, which insists that good fellowship and warm-heartedness are all that are needed to create a paradise anywhere on earth, even in the run-down Cannery Row.
Just as it did in 1949, 1984 continues to bear enough relevance and prescience to make such the world it prophesies seem frighteningly possible. In the novel, for instance, war is used as a device for political manipulation on television--a concept presented strikingly in the film Wag the Dog.
...peake’s immigrants abruptly and terribly. Approximately only one-sixth of the settlers survived once arriving in the colony (Divine, 77).
In accordance to African American writer Margaret Walker’s quote that talks about African Americans still having their African past intact despite slavery and racism, immigration indeed affected cultural ways. The interconnection of the trans-Atlantic world brought about the rise of new cultures, music and expressions that were to be held by future generations, which is now the population of African American people. This paper will research on the middle passage and the early American slavery and how African tried to resist.
middle of paper ... ... Of course, as with a text like the Bible, not all things are meant to be taken literally. I do not concur with everything More wrote about in Utopia. However, I do believe that the overall “act with good intentions and good things will come to you” philosophy is a very important one for all humans to adhere to.
In The Search of Order: 1877-1920, (Search for Order), by Robert H. Wiebe the author writes about finding the utopia. He writes for the constant need to have the best utopia possible but as the reader reads the book we find out that he never discovers the best utopia. Throughout history, Wiebe takes apart every aspect of something that went on in a period of time and analyzes it. There are some things that Wiebe does well and other parts he does not do as well in. This can throw the reader for a spin and not understand everything that Wiebe is trying to say.
... are thought to be demons by the people who catch glimpses of them. It takes place over a two hundred year span showing how a vampire remains hidden. It displays how humans are viewed from a vampire’s eyes and how vampires view each other. This series was such a phenomenon because it is from the vampire’s point of view and shows all of the good and bad things about being a vampire. It also exhibits how a vampire feels about living for eternity.
Because they are described in a detailed manner, Utopia book itself seems to be enough to be a blueprint for the future. However, Thomas More clearly stated that he just wishes Europeans to follow some good qualities of the Utopian society—“there are many things in the Utopian commonwealth that in our own societies I would wish rather than expect to see” (97)—because he himself knows that it is impossible for any country to be like Utopia. This is apparent, because Utopia is possible on the premise that if every factors comes perfectly to create this ideal society. Even the geography has to contribute to this premise as Hythloday explains the geography of Utopia as the place where stranger cannot enter without one of them (39). Moreover, from diligent and compassionate Utopians’ characteristics and their ways of life, they seem to be successful in reaching the fullest of every aspects of their life including physical, intellectual, social, spiritual, and emotional, when it is hardly possible to even have one person like that in real