If in the five year search for Halliday’s easter egg, someone found one piece to the enormous hunt, why would that somebody never speak a word of his scrutinized findings up to this point? Wade is as normal a boy as anyone else. He wakes up in the morning, enters the OASIS, and goes to school. He, however, has found a piece to the seemingly forever-long hunt for Halliday’s easter egg hunt. He is the first person in five years to have found anything. He doesn’t have enough money to ever go to other planets so he spends his days on the planet Ludus, a peaceful planet where the schools are located. Wade hasn’t yet spoken a word about his discovery since the introduction of the book. This could be the past and it’s building up to the part where …show more content…
When he died, he left an easter egg in the OASIS that will grant the first person to find it an opulent prize of all his billions of dollars, his home, and OASIS itself. It also speaks about how a boy named Wade finds one piece to the egg, a copper key. “After five long years, the Copper Key had finally been found, by an eighteen-year-old kid living in a trailer park on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. That kid was me.” (Cline 9) This quote will help figure out the mystery of whether he has already found the key and kept it a secret or if it is still yet to adroitly find the key. In the quote he says he is eighteen-years-old. Up until this point, he is in his senior year of high school. Usually you are either seventeen or eighteen-years-old by that time. It is true, he does live a trailer home, but does the quote mean to say that he was at home when he found it or just implying the fact that he lived in a trailer home. So far, the only time he has been home, he only watched movies from the eighties and got his laptop confiscated by his aunt to pay for the rent. So this could mean that he will still go back home and find it later in the story. He hasn’t yet spoken about the key in the story so he probably hasn’t found it yet. There is still so much to the story that will help answer this question but this is about all the clues that could be mustered
They gave up after some time in which many others came flocking to the area to continue digging. Supposedly, this was towards the end of the pirate era and many believe that Captain Kidd must have left his treasure on that island. There were a few “mysterious” objects that were unearthed; wooden planks, discovered the hole was a shaft, chains, and a stone of inscriptions which was supposedly translated to, “Forty feet below two million pounds are buried.” This is a red flag for several reasons: 1. The stone was translated in the late 1800’s which has been discovered in class to be a very problematic year for gaining any valid information on anything. 2. The stone was anonymously translated so no mention of who the expert was other than that it was a Halifax professor. 3. After it had been translated, the stone “mysteriously” disappears and no one sees or hears of it again. So far, the series are turning out to be quite the
One of the most important Schliemann’s works was his discovery for Troy. Schliemann started excavation in Hissarlik, which is the modern name of Troy, before archeology became a developed professional field. In May 1873, he found gold and other objects in the site of excavation and named it “Priam’s Treasure”. Later, Sophia Schliemann, which is his wife, wore the jewels Schliemann found in Troy excavation site to the public. The Turkish government then cancelled the permission Schliemann had to excavate and sued him to share the gold he found. However, Schliemann claimed that he smuggled the treasure he found out of Turkey in order to protect it. So, the conclusion of the excavation in Troy was the gold and treasure Schliemann found.
He was eventually found by mobs, attacked, and his house
his story from his childhood. He tells us that when he was ten, he had
Family Destruction Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis clearly shows the existence of family dynamic. For a better understanding, what this refers to is how family members interact and relate to one another. Family dynamics can relate to many situations, whether it is good or bad. Many of these can be influenced by communication, behavior, emotions and so forth. Usually, people desire love and support from their own family, no matter the circumstances.
to build a hotel and casino in the middle of the desert that he would call the flamingo.
Metamorphosis in Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong The story of the "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" is no typical Vietnam war story. It is a story that involves no bloods, guts or glory. This story isn't so much about the physical damage caused by war as much as this story is about the emotional changes that effect not only the males.
It is very difficult to make a set definition of what a monster is. Monsters may look frightening, have unnatural body proportions, or even a dark and evil aura. We often see monsters as ghosts, werewolves, vampires, or artificial creatures, but it is still hard to say exactly a monster is. I believe monstrosity is made within the eye of the beholder. “Monsters” are what you make of them. Most “monsters” are just different and unique and that’s what makes them monstrous- because they are different from what people perceive as normal. That is how Gregor is turned into a monster in The Metamorphosis.
The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka both incorporate “irreal” elements throughout their works. These elements provide an alternative point of view where the lives of main characters are recreated and imagined as part of their surroundings. It’s almost as if the characters are watching their lives from an outside vantage point, rather than living in the moment, which makes it easier to cope with their difficult circumstances. These two works are complementary in establishing relationships, exposing internal conflicts, and escaping the reality that these characters yearn for in their lives.
The identity that people often desired were neglected due to the lack of attention that they provided themselves which caused them to forget who they truly were. In the story, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello, are about self-identity and how people were more interested other than themselves. By owning a name, this allowed people to have an identity and also defined who people were rather than roles that only claimed what people did. The family in Six Characters did not have any names which caused them to seek for an author that would allowed them to be discovered who they were and rather be the actors for their story in the play as the father mentioned this in the play to the
In The Metamorphosis Kafka illustrates a grotesque story of a working salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking up one day to discover that his body resembles a bug. Through jarring, almost unrealistic narration, Kafka opens up the readers to a view of Gregor’s futile and disappointing life as a human bug. By captivating the reader with this imaginary world Kafka is able to introduce the idea that Gregor’s bug body resembles his human life. From the use of improbable symbolism Kafka provokes the reader to believe that Gregor turning into a bug is realistic and more authentic compared to his unauthentic life as a human.
What does The Metamorphosis. suggest about caring, patience, communication, love, loyalty, shame, secrecy, duty in the context of family life?
The feelings of loneliness and betrayal are feelings that we all feel one too many. Some have these feelings for a few simple days, and then those feelings soon pass. For others, however, this is a feeling that is felt for most of their lives. Our loneliness may make us feel alone, when our loneliness is actually common. In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the topic of alienation is an ongoing theme from beginning to end. I have interest in this passage because it reveals the writers understanding of a feeling that we all get from time to time. This novella helps us relive these emotions with an understanding that we are not alone in our loneliness.
Life is a never-ending metamorphosis. It is always changing, always transforming. Sometimes a change is followed by positive results, but on the darker side, a metamorphosis can lead to damage or suffering. But of course, the concept of metamorphosis can also be related into the wonderful yet unrealistic world of magic and sorcery. Metamorphosis can mean a rapid transformation from one object to another or a distinct or even degenerative change in appearance, personality, condition, or function. The concept of metamorphosis is commonly used in pieces of literature to describe an extreme change in character or form.
The stone angel is symbolic of the Currie family pride and values. The stone angel memorial is purchased and brought from Italy by Jason Currie at great expense and placed at the grave site of his wife, in the Manawaka cemetery. The stone angel is the largest and most expensive memorial in the cemetery. Although the stone angel is intended to be a memorial for Mrs. Currie, it was not really suitable because Hagar describes her as being meek and a feeble ghost. The angel is not intended for Mrs. Currie, but in fact, represents the materialistic and egotistical values that characterizes Jason and later, Hagar. Jason purchases the stone angel in pride and not in grief over the death of this wife: "bought in pride to mark her bones and ...