Persistence is the Key!
Ashok Kallarakkal, an Indian author said, “If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want” (132). This particular enchanting and audacious attitude has clearly influenced Rich Cohen’s biographical novel, The Fish That Ate the Whale. The writer has mainly focused on how Samuel Zemurray was motivated to start a fruit company and grow it into an empire and portray the development of the United States. In addition, many people might believe that destiny and future of the nation is dependent upon the grandeur speech giving politicians, but the ones who are crazed and driven, have innovations and ideas, and push themselves beyond the reality are the ones who built the pillars for a promising nation. In The Fish That Ate the Whale, Cohen takes the biography of an immigrant striver, relates it with the American Renaissance, and points out the consequences of the character’s act. Although Cohen provides a boatload of perspectives for his biography of little known anti-hero, Samuel Zemurray, presenting his story as an allegory of American Capitalism and Imperialism, and often juxtaposing different races and cultures of people, a tangible story arc emerges in Zemurray regarding the hunger to establish self-identity, and obtain power.
The struggle done by Zemurray is established in the first chapter, “Green”, in which
Zemurray’s struggle for existence is described, as he does a series of odd adventurous jobs. Zemurray not only had an idea, but also had a rudimentary and unusual plan to nurse a ripe banana business:
It was life: move the fruit now or you’re ruined forever. He became a gambler by necessity-a risk taker, a salesman, a brawl...
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... the time to build up excellent portraits of intriguing human behavior i.e. how a human can have single-minded focus to move ahead with the never perishing drive and motivation, fulfill the vows one has made, and desire to remain on top of a chain. Based upon the positive aspects, Zemurray’s character has inspired me a lot. Motivation is a very important factor, which I can relate to in my everyday life, but I need to foresee what my appetite is going to lead me towards. While jumping over a hurdle, there might be a pit that follows the hurdle, and it must of paramount importance. The story supports a motivated character, but implicitly portrays that being blind to reach a certain point might not be the best option. If I were Zemurray, I would have moved on the same footsteps, but for every move I would have tried to make rehearsed and calculated decisions.
The narrative begins in the unassuming, yet ardent voice that carries the reader throughout his life story. He makes his plan...
Zeitoun could courageously confront all the frustration and live under any conditions because he had experienced a lot. He was born in Jableh, fishing town on the coast of Syria. He began fishing when he was only thirteen years old. His father had passed away when he was twelve years old. He and his brother Ahmad grew up in a poor family. After Zeitoun moved to New Orleans and built his own business, he had finally improved his standard of living. Moreover, Kathy helped managing the company regularly. One day, Zeitoun and his worke...
Wallace, Daniel. Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions. North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012. N. pag. Print.
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The complexity of the plot starts when the reader is introduced to a man lost in a cave and his source of light goes out and continues when the man realizes that “starving would prove [his] ultimate fate” (1). Readers get a sense of hopelessness the man is feeling, and this is where the tensions begins to build. Alt...
This I was sincerely excited for, because I was given an opportunity to relate and or disagree with a character as a whole. This allowed for so many connections to be made from my own life to Rodger, the character I was assigned. In this paper I wrote 4 years ago, I made connections to Rodger through reading the novel Lord of the Flies. At the time I did not understand the literary limitations holding me to writing the way I was for example, rhetors, audience, exigence, kiros, and constraints.
She compares India to “a silk cocoon frozen in time where we are sheltered by family and friends” (Kothari). The metaphor gives the reader a descriptive image of a haven that Kothari’s parents experience when visiting their homeland. She describes the cocoon to represent something safe and familiar (Kothari). Kothari also uses symbolism to describe American students. When she speaks of the “tuna eaters,” she is representing the American children, creating a separation between herself as a non-tuna eater (Kothari). Kothari goes on further to show her differences from the American students by ironically stating: “The tuna smells fishy” (Kothari). She makes it clear that tuna is a foreign food for her, though it is the representative food of the American students (Kothari). Kothari employs rhetorical devices and strengthen the depiction of her struggles with her identity by using different symbolic and figurative techniques. For readers to understand Kothari’s purpose through these devices, her main points are effectively strengthened since there is a level of analysis added to her piece that forces reader to think
Into the Wild by John Krakauer is a rare book in which its author freely admits his bias within the first few pages. “I won't claim to be an impartial biographer,” states Krakauer in the author’s note, and indeed he is not. Although it is not revealed in the author's note whether Krakauer's bias will be positive or negative, it can be easily inferred. Krakauer's explanation of his obsession with McCandless's story makes it evident that Into the Wild was written to persuade the reader to view him as the author does; as remarkably intelligent, driven, and spirited. This differs greatly from the opinion many people hold that McCandless was a simply a foolhardy kid in way over his head. Some even go as far as saying that his recklessness was due to an apparent death-wish. Krakauer uses a combination of ethos, logos and pathos throughout his rendition of McCandless’s story to dispute these negative outlooks while also giving readers new to this enigmatic adventure a proper introduction.
In the world of economic competition that we live in today, many thrive and many are left to dig through trashcans. It has been a constant struggle throughout the modern history of society. One widely prescribed example of this struggle is Upton Sinclair's groundbreaking novel, The Jungle. The Jungle takes the reader along on a journey with a group of recent Lithuanian immigrants to America. As well as a physical journey, this is a journey into a new world for them. They have come to America, where in the early twentieth century it was said that any man willing to work an honest day would make a living and could support his family. It is an ideal that all Americans are familiar with- one of the foundations that got American society where it is today. However, while telling this story, Upton Sinclair engages the reader in a symbolic and metaphorical war against capitalism. Sinclair's contempt for capitalist society is present throughout the novel, from cover to cover, personified in the eagerness of Jurgis to work, the constant struggle for survival of the workers of Packingtown, the corruption of "the man" at all levels of society, and in many other ways.
...it up to each reader to draw their own conclusions and search their own feelings. At the false climax, the reader was surprised to learn that the quite, well-liked, polite, little convent girl was colored. Now the reader had to evaluate how the forces within their society might have driven such an innocent to commit suicide.
Many of our today as “normal” considered values are everything but self-evident. One of the most striking aspects in the novel is time; and our relationship towards it. “ We yearned for the future. How did we learn it that talent for insatiability. ” In this particu...
It subtly exposes the tragedies that people with instinct of self-interest could control their own fate in the unpredictable future, while others who paralyzed in past success and unrealistic fantasies could not. It also shows how those who were unable to update themselves from 1.0 finally became the prey of those 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and so on. It is a story about self-interest is the winner.
In this book review I represent and analyze the three themes I found the most significant in the novel.
When trying to understand these particular characters’ experiences, it is very important to consider their worldviews, which promote “[th...