Alex Gonzales Massy Honors English 4 8 March 2024 Thematic Statement essay It was bottom of the eighth and we were losing by 3 with bases loaded we needed to hit a home run to acquire a grand slam and the lead. “STRIKE 1” I was thinking in my head that I couldn’t do it. “STRIKE 2.” I was ready to give up, but my coach got up and yelled “you can do this, focus on the ball and just swing.” I did exactly what he told me to, and I hit the ball. I hit the home run to keep us in the game. That shows determination just like the four-time Super Bowl champions the Kansas City Chiefs. They were determined to win the Super Bowl after a bad start to their season. The book A Long Way Gone also shows determination from a young boy named Ishmael Beah …show more content…
In Chapter 8, Ishmael is determined to get out of the woods. “The next morning I was determined to find my way out of the forest even though my back ached painfully from sleeping in the trees” (50). His back was in pain, but he still kept going. He was alone and scared but was determined to reach where he was going and that was to get out of the forest and survive and to do what he needed to eat. He found fruit to eat, and then he remembered something he did with his grandfather. “I thought about when Junior and I had visited Kabati and would take walks with our grandfather on paths around the coffee farms by the village. He would point out medicinal leaves and trees, whose barks were important medicines” (51). This would help him in case he ate poisonous fruit: “I looked around the forest for one of the medicinal leaves that grandfather had said remove poison from the body. I might need it if the fruit I had eaten was poisonous” (51). This shows he was determined to survive the forest, but not only that, he was determined to see his family. Later in the book in chapter 11 Ismael was determined to see his family especially after the death of his friend Saidu. “Finally, we approached the village. We’re seeing our families as actually a possibility. I couldn’t stop smiling as coffee trees began to replace forest and footprints appeared on the
“The clock stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions. He got up and went to the window. What is the 'Standard'? She said. He didn’t answer the question. He went into the bathroom and threw the light switch, but the power was gone.” This scene is where the apocalyptic event takes place in Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 sci-fi novel The Road. During the story, the readers follow a father and a son in an apocalyptic world with harsh conditions like cannibals and burnt-dead
in life, one of the greatest accomplishments. Authors such as Charles Dickens reflect this great desire to seek and find truth, using many varying mediums to express their opinions or discoveries. From the opening lines of the book, Dickens uses the method of thematic opposition to illustrate pure truth and evil lies. In A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens consistently opposes characters, settings, and even his theme of revolution, presenting juxtaposed viewpoints and actions that demonstrate deeper
cultural impact of Dante’s Divine Comedy is widely seen through a sundry of literary works, television programs, films and even video games. Yet, one of the most prominent works the Divine Comedy has impacted is C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Lewis’s book is greatly indebted to Dante’s work, as both try to teach the reader how to achieve salvation. Furthermore, Lewis and Dante’s protagonists discover the path to salvation through choices, and learning what causes one’s refusal of God. Both authors explore
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This book focuses on different types of calendars from a number of different places all around the world. This specific chapter, even more specifically this section, focuses on the Mayan calendar. These calendars were written by honored members of their aristocracy and were held to be of great value. The Spanish invaders believed them to be instruments of the devil and burnt great quantities of them. E. G. Richards explains that only four Mayan books are survive in the libraries of Europe, and one
Blade Runner uses the themes relationships among female sexuality and male vision, and technology. However, Gender roles and technology seems to be the most important part in both films. Blade Runner became a cult classic. “The film may have survived long enough to benefit from a renewed taste for darker, more violent sci-fi. It’s appeal has less to do with a fascination for outer space (which does not feature beyond reference in a few lines of dialogue) than with a vision of earth and humankind in
history. Chapter Four - Exploring Lauren as a ‘Bildungsroman’ In this chapter I will analyze my creative project which is a ‘bildungsroman’ novella titled Lauren. In addition to discussing the process of writing my novella, I will also explore the thematic and structural construction of my work. Finally, I will argue how my novella can be appropriately belong to the ‘bildungsroman’ genre. Chapter Five - Conclusion The final chapter will be the concluding chapter of my thesis. I will discuss the implications
Portraits in Pain: The Psychology of Inspiration in Prose Poems by Lynn Emanuel Reconstructing notions such as potentiality and inspiration, Emanuel’s prose poems, whose thematic range spans from involvement with the paintings of her renowned father Akiba Emanuel (a model and ‘pupil’ of Matisse) to the ‘portraits’ of Gertrude Stein, illuminate the interrelationship between language and world, and the psychology of inhabiting both through inspiration. This paper will address the question
In Love With Shakespeare "About any one so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong." --T. S. Eliot (Eliot 107) Like all great artists, William Shakespeare is thoroughly conscious of his medium. His plays consistently call attention to the theatrical. "With Shakespeare the actable and the theatrical are always what come first" (Frye 5). In fact, the metaphor of
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transferred to Othello only when Iago has succeeded in infecting the Moor with his jealousy. (22) In his book of literary criticism, Shakespearean Tragedy, A. C. Bradley gives an in-depth analysis of the brand of evil which the ancient personifies: Iago stands supreme among Shakespeare’s evil characters because the greatest intensity and subtlety of imagination have gone to his making, and because he illustrates in the most perfect combination th... ... middle of paper ... ... 1996
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the features of a fable in that it strives to teach a moral. Yet this play, even though it adopts these traditions, puts a different twist on what people would expect from a comedy or morality play. Jonson presents his audience with an unconventional way of approaching the subjects he is satirizing by creating a new form of comedy that embodies aspects of all three genres. Since we are considering Volpone to be a comedy, What type of comedy is it? Rather than the city comedies that were popular at
Baldwin predominantly uses Hella to represent David’s attempt at fitting into the world. One of the ways that Baldwin does so is through the usage of arms as symbolism of what satisfies someone. David saying that his arms are “home” and that Hella “fitted” in them is a principal example of Hella bringing comfort to David. By calling them “empty” while
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