In the book Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, 17-year-old Kaz Brekker, criminal mastermind and prodigy, leads five other teenagers from the slums of Ketterdam to a risky heist from a place that has never been breached. Hired by a merchant by the name of Van Eck appearing to have been sponsored by the Merchant’s Council (which he is a part of), their job is to basically kidnap a Shu man, Yul-Bayur, held in the supposedly unbreachable Ice Court. Kaz is told that Van Eck and the Merchant’s Council want him because he’s the creator of jurda parem, a drug that alters the functions of Grisha, the name for people with magical powers, to make them more powerful. With Inej, a spy, Jesper, a sharpshooter who loves gambling, Nina, a Grisha Heartrender, Wylan, the disowned son of Van Eck, and Matthias, a convict who used to …show more content…
Although they think they’re successful and free, the six don’t know that there are hundreds of soldiers waiting for them at the dock where their boat is located, and they’re about to be captured and tortured when Nina takes in a dose of jurda parem, acquired from Kuwei, and kills all the soldiers easily, leaving their path to the boat free. When they get back to Ketterdam, however, and Kaz is ready to give Van Eck the son of Yul-Bayur in exchange for the 30 million kruge, he realizes that it was an ambush and that the Merchant Council was never involved; he got tricked. But luckily, Kaz has another trick up his sleeve and reveals that “Kuwei” isn’t Kuwei, instead, Wylan, appearance changed by Nina’s Grisha powers, and in rage, Van Eck launches an attack, resorting to take Inej instead of killing them all and risking not finding the real Kuwei. This book ends in a huge cliffhanger which the second book, Crooked Kingdom, starts off
At first he doesn’t want to talk to her, but they eventually come to the conclusion that they will join forces in efforts to keep his business going. They would leave Greenwood and go anywhere they could find work for themselves. They explain their decision to their parents and to much surprise they are supportive. Kinnu decides Jay should go to Uganda by himself; it is only his wish and will to go back. Once in Uganda, Jay realizes his obsession with trying to get back was essentially in vain because “home” is wherever Kinnu is. He finally understands that suing the government isn’t worth it anymore because he already has everything he needs in Mississippi. He also saw that harboring all the anger he did towards his dear friend was wrong. When he found out Okelo had died, he felt much regret because they would never be able to reconcile.
In Kurt Vonnegut's book Slaughterhouse Five, the protagonist , Billy Pilgrim, the remains of a man who has become a traumatized war struck soldier. In creating and developing Billy Pilgrim, the war, along with family influence, shapes how Billy acts in his two different lives: life in the military and life alone. Billy Pilgrim is surely on a mission, because his excessive time travelling doesn’t seem to happen for no reason. Billy circulates around his life even through the moments of capital importance when he seems hopeless. He’s a mind boggling and confused man who tries to play the game of life the way society expects him to but sometimes has the feeling that he was meant for greater things. Vonnegut portrays our protagonist as an archetype, the epitome of a christ-like messiah who has come to save humanity.
Billy Pilgrim is born in 1922 and grows up in Ilium, New York. A funny-looking, weak youth, he does well in high school, then he enrolls in night classes at the Ilium School of Optometry, and is soon drafted into the army. He serves as a chaplain's assistant, is sent into the Battle of the Bulge, and almost gets taken prisoner by the Germans. Just before being captured he first becomes unstuck in time. He sees the entirety of his life in one sweep. Billy is transported with other privates to the beautiful city of Dresden. There the prisoners are made to work for their keep. They are kept in a former slaughterhouse. Billy and his fellow POWs survive in an airtight meat locker. They emerge to find a moonscape of destruction. Several days’ later Russian forces capture the city and the war is over. Billy returns to Ilium and finishes optometry school. He gets engaged to the daughter of the founder of the school. His wealthy father-in-law sets him up in the optometry business. Billy and his wife raise two children and become wealthy.
...fascinating insight into these five Rebels’ lives. It is such a shame that the majority of the book deals with their conflicts with the authorities, and does not reveal the person behind the argument. My only wish is that there was more space to allow this to happen. However, it has given me a taste to look deeper into the lives of these Rebels and perhaps to even research their biographies in detail.
In a futuristic London, similar to the 1960’s, that is heavily based around sex, a charismatic hoodlum named Alex is the 15 year old leader of a gang of “droogs”. His main interests are rape, Beethoven and ultraviolence. In the night Alex and his 3 droogs go to the Korova Milkbar and have laced drinks to prepare to torment civilians for kicks. After one particular night of torments, Alex get caught after his droogies turn him in. Alex is sent to prison but is given the opportunity to be released early if he
The book finishes with the letter Jekyll wrote for Utterson being presented to us as though he is reading it. Utterson is to rejoin Poole in the house at the stroke of midnight, no later, in order to call the police and inform them of the murder. We will start the chapter three weeks after the discovery of the corps.
The short story "The Birds" was written by Daphne du Maurrier and was filmed and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It has a very interesting and suspenseful plot. The short story was well written and the film was well played, both are very similar. Although, they have a few differences the film and short story have the same mood and theme. Would the differences in the film and the short story affect the suspenseful and frightening plot?Alfred Hitchcock did an outstanding job filming the movie matching it with the short story. In both the short story and film flocks and flocks of gulls, robins, and sparrows join each other.
...e rest of her family and becomes determined to stop this horrible situation. Her brother, dad, and Four’s abusive dad join her in her journey. They head toward the Dauntless headquarters. They head towards the top level where the simulation causing everyone to act this way is being run from. On the way Tris’s father is killed trying to fight off some Dauntless guards. Tris makes it to the top and finds that her love, Four, is running the simulation. She knows she has to kill him. They get in a big fight and at one point she has a gun pointed straight at him, but she can’t kill him. She turns the gun around and gives it to him. This confuses him and wakes him up from his trance. They then stop the simulation and escape together. The book ends with Four, Tris, Four’s abusive dad, and Tris’s brother riding away on a train away from all the chaos on the city.
‘Post-traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.’ This is a quote by Dale Archer, a famous psychiatrist, and the quote explains the central theme of Night and Slaughterhouse-Five; Traumatic events in your life can haunt you. MORE EXPLAINATION
Daniel Song2/2/2018“The Raven” Analysis“The Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe, is a poem about the narrator's grief over his lost love, Lenore. Sunken in deep sorrow, the narrator encounters a raven. From then on, the conversation between them reveals the narrator's unconscious reliance on the raven, hence expecting this new “friend” can set his soul free from deep despair. Unfortunately, raven's repeating of one-word “nevermore” fails to comfort him, hence not being able to accept harsh reality, he is eventually driven to psychological and emotional breakdown. The overall plot clearly conveys the theme of how excessive disheartenment and depression can easily cloud one's senses. In harmony with this theme, theentire poem is written in a despairing,
Upon his departure though, she and the rest of the town discover that he's not being sent to a good job, but instead to fight a war against rebels in the Outer Provinces, a death sentence. The townsfolk are given a special red pill to forget what they just learned, but Cassia only pretends to take hers, instead smashing it in the dirt. She wants to remember Ky, even if it hurts, and she's determined to find him.
...o terms with his new identity, a survivor just like Kien. He hoped that the novel, The Sorrow of War will open the eyes of many who are oblivious to the effects of war and will at the same time help anyone that are in the same boat as him. By the end of the novel, Kien regained his self-confidence and focuses more on making his life better in the future instead of reminiscing on the past. The Sorrow of War ended in such an abrupt manner that shocked most, if not all, of the readers. Ninh commented on that fact by claiming that the only reason why the he chose the ending to be like that was to reflect on the suddenness of the Vietnam war. He also admits to having a strong personal connection to the novel, and in many ways Kien and Kien’s troop represents him and his troop. Aside from everything else, Kien will always be a part of Ninh that nobody but him understands.
The four men all made it until the end and the oiler had passed away from the waves of Florida that has drowned him. The author says that the brotherhood that they have throughout the whole book has been built from the core. They always shared rowing so they are able to get to where they wanted to be. They got help in the end when they all were about to give up hope. Crane says that the brotherhood had a big part of the theme and it all came together. After all the things they have went through, they finally made it to the sore and lost one of their brothers that they went through along journey with that made them even
Satire defined is 'A composition in verse or prose holding up a vice or folly to ridicule or lampooning individuals… The use of ridicule, irony, sarcasm, etc, in speech or writing for the ostensible purpose of exposing and discourage vice or folly'; (Johnston, 5). In other words, satire is the use of humor to expose moral behavior of man. In the Aristophanes' play The Birds, satire is used to mock the common Greek's dream of ruling the gods that they worship. It mocks the power that they seek to become the supreme ruler of the world. To understand Aristophanes use of satire, one must first understand the role satire plays in sending out its message.
Before the boat can reach Kurtz's outpost, it is "attacked" by the local natives. M...