The Fool in the Pond I waited for what seemed like hours at that light, the only thing keeping me sane being The Beatles’ “The Fool on the Hill” blaring through the speakers of my beat down Saturn sedan. The five A.M. streets of Eden Prairie were void of other cars as I made my way to catch the bus leaving at five thirty for Eau Claire. The green arrow finally flashed above my head and I drove onto the exit, still singing loudly along with Paul McCartney. As I drove, my mind started to wander. While my eyes were on the road, my head was everywhere else, worrying about insignificant things like whether my suit looked alright for the concert, and broader things, like whether or not I was taken seriously in life. Suddenly, my worries were interrupted by the appearance of a brown bunny rabbit hopping out in front of my car. …show more content…
This action had consequences, as it sent my car straight towards the concrete barrier to my right. In a state of complete panic, I overcorrected to my left, now headed directly into the embankment pond at full speed. Other than the memory of a loud splash and my engine shutting off, everything became a blur. I had to get out of my car that was slowly filling up with murky pond water, and I had to get out fast. Although how I got out is still not entirely clear to me, before I knew it, I was watching my car sink, waist high in dirty pond water, injury free, and was on hold with a 911
Crow Lake is Canadian author Mary Lawson's first novel，which is narrated by Kate Morrison, the second child in the Morrison family. A serious car accident left seven-year-old Kate, her one and half year old sister, Bo, and her two older brothers, Luke and Matt, orphans. Rather than live with relatives separately, they chose to live together and grow up. Luke and Matt made many sacrifices to support their family and they also got many helps from their community. The story took place in Crow Lake, a remote small farming community in northen Ontario.
As pointed out by Meagher JA in Marien v Gardiner it is not possible that the driver could foresee and react to any event that could take place within the area surrounding the vehicle. Therefore, the driver could not have breached his duty of care in any circumstance that an object by chance is to collide with a vehicle on the road.
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In the movie, “On Golden Pond,” by Mark Rydell, all the significant characters were going through a crisis and they had to overcome the situation. These crisis were known as Erikson’s theory. Erikson’s theory was created largely on the belief that life is a continuous developmental process and that maturity is not the end of psychological growth. He believed that an individual have to resolve these crises in order to become healthy and able to get on the next crisis in the life cycle. However, some may be stuck in a stage and won’t be able to overcome the crisis.
In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, our main character Tom Sawyer is seen as a foolish, mischievous young boy who smokes, plays pranks, and dreams about treasures and a gang of pirates. However, Tom has a side where philosophical ideas and great intelligence spark during the events of this novel. Most of these traits are discovered by the reader after one of Tom’s acts of ‘tomfoolery’. To find the best scenes that show these traits together, I need to first find the definition of foolery and (blah blah). Both sides are important to the chain of events in the story.
A common trait to young adults is ignorance. They all think that they have complete control of the world and have a full understanding of what is going on. The literary works “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle, “To the Virgins, to Make Much Time” by Robert Herrick, and Antigone by Sophocles all share the same theme of the dangers of ignorance. Each story can be broken into different parts of this theme, whether it be uninformed about the dangers of life, how the world works, or the bliss of being young and stupid. Ignorance is dangerous because it leaves the possibility of harm not only onto the people and places directly involved, but other people and situations that may have no connection to the original problem.
“Goose Pond”, written by Thomas Williams seemingly is a novel about the tranquil rural life but intricately portrays the mind and state of a fifty-eight year old man who has just lost his wife. Having natural and peaceful aspects, the story itself is not about the simple rural life in the woods. It depicts how Robert Hurley began to deal and come to terms with his sudden loneliness and realization of his eventual death. Including both the realistic cruelty of life alone and the expectation readers would have from a novel—such like a Norman Rockwell painting; he keeps the readers indulged in the mind and heart of the lonesome Robert Hurley.
“August 2000, our family of six was on the way to a wedding. It was a rainy day, and Gregg was not familiar with the area. The car hit standing water in the high-way, and started hydro-planing. Greg lost control of the car. Then, the car went backwards down into a ditch and started sliding on its wheels sideways. After sliding for 100 feet or so, the car flipped, at least once. After flipping, the car came to rest on its wheels, and the passenger window broke out.
Feste, the fool character in Twelfth Night, in many ways represents a playwright figure, and embodies the reach and tools of the theater. He criticizes, manipulates and entertains the other characters while causing them to reflect on their life situations, which is similar to the way a playwright such as Shakespeare interacts with his audience. Furthermore, more so than the other characters in the play he accomplishes this in a highly performative way, involving song and clever wordplay that must be decoded, and is thus particularly reflective of the mechanisms at the command of the playwright. Feste is a representation of the medieval fool figure, who is empowered by his low status and able to speak the truth of the kingdom. A playwright speaks the truth by using actors and fictional characters, who are in a parallel low status in comparison to the audience, as they lack the dimensionality of real people. Thus, the role Feste plays in the lives of the characters in the play resembles the role the play itself plays in the lives of the audience watching the performance. This essay will explore this comparison first by analyzing similarities between the way in which Feste interacts with other characters and the way the playwright interact with the audience, and then focus on the similarities between the aims and content of these interactions.
Deceit and trickery can be lifesavers. In the, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, deceit and trickery are essential traits in Huck’s life. Huckleberry Finn is a young boy living in the South in the late 1800s. Being in such a racist environment, Huck is not prevented from associating himself with African Americans. When Huck runs away from home, he runs into one of his own family’s slave who is escaping. Huck soon befriends the slave named Jim and both of them travel on a raft to the North seeking freedom. Jim being a runaway slave, presents many problems for both Huck and Jim. Huck must use different styles of trickery and deception to stay out of danger, and also help his companions. Twain suggests in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, deceit is essential to function in a corrupt society.
The Role of the Fool in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare In English Literature, a fool is a person professionally counterfeits. folly for the entertainment of others. They are always regarded as comic figures, which provide mediation under tensional circumstances. As Twelfth Night is an atypical romantic comedy, the jester is not the.
Fitting in is an important part of life because it has almost everything to do with how people turn out in life. When people try to fit in with the people around them, they are forced to change. Fitting in is not easy and sometimes people get rejected when trying to fit in. In the story, “The Witch of Blackbird Pond” by Elizabeth Speare, a young girl named Kit is forced to go sail off the island and live with her Aunt Rachel when her grandfather dies and she finds is difficult to be welcomed and fit in. Kit’s arrival to Aunt Rachel and Matthew Wood’s house was abrupt but after settling in, Kit’s life is turned upside down and she is sometimes getting in trouble but she turns out to be very caring and a very smart person.
A precautious individual, I began to pedal at a slightly increased rate. Still I didn't feel as though I was in any real danger, until the car flew past me, grazing my arm. An excessant shriek erupted from the car as it grinded to a halt at the coming stop sign. Then, to my greatest horror the white lights on the rear of the car ignited......the car was going in reverse.
Knowing how to drive a car myself, I can’t expect an accident to occur. It just happens without your knowledge and sometimes without your fault too. It’s better to take precautions just in case such a thing happens. This will surely help you financially for the repairs of the vehicle.
As we were eating some sleazy greasy food, I obviously had to tell my friends about running from the law and my involvement. After telling all my friends about my night so far they all had a good laugh. Later that night when we were leaving the Waffle House the law was behind by my car running the tag. Once the law left we definitely decided it would be a good decision to go home. However, when we started to leave I put the petal to the metal. We fish tailed the car sideways, and as I was trying to regain control of the wheel I accidentally over corrected. If one knows anything about driving cars to fast and or wild, one of the biggest mistakes one can make is to over correct. Following my big mistake the car spun out of control off the road, into the ditch, up a hill, and finally came to a rest once I had hit a power pole with the rear bumper. As if the night had not already been embarrassing enough for me, this car accident put the amount of embarrassment I felt over the