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In the memoir Year of Impossible Goodbyes. Sookan changes from someone who begins emotionally weak and becomes someone strong, independent, and motivated. This change can be seen in three moments: When Sookan takes charge when the guide left them, When Sookan lost her grandfather and the sock girls, When Sookan and Inchun risk their lives to cross the border. The first example of Sookans change occurs when she takes charge as the guide leaves them at the hotel. At this hopeless moment it says "We would go to the train station, since it was market day you would normally see children around, and it wouldn't be so suspicious."(Choi 137). This quote shows Sookan's growing strength by taking charge when her life and Inchun's depend on it. The
second example occurs when Sookan lost her grandfather and her friends, the sock factory girls. In this sad moment it says "I sat helpless and watched the dawn break. The sun rose like any other day. It shone brightly, as if it knew nothing of our sadness."(Choi 63). This shows Sookan's independence growing also by having her learn to develop and decide things on her own. The last example of Sookan's growing strength and independence occurs when she goes through with the plan that the man at the train station gave them to cross over into the south. When this pain happens it says "The barbs dug into me. My hair was caught, my clothes ripped, and I could feel the blood pooling in the cuts on my back. I kept going, and finally, I made it through"(Choi 164). This thirdly shows Sookan's motivation of wanting to slip under the barbed fence, no matter how much pain she has to take to become safe and sound. These three moments show Sookan's growth by being emotionally and physically knocked down and then learns to just to get right back up again.
Many believe the Dust Bowl was caused solely by bad weather, but Egan shows a multitude of factors that led to the catastrophe. In Timothy Egan’s book, The Worst Hard Time, Egan believes that the syndicate and government, overproduction of the land, and drought were all factors that caused the Dust Bowl.
Lauren Alleyne uses the rigid form of the sonnet to navigate through the healing process after being sexually assaulted. Ten years after that night, she writes the sonnet sequence Eighteen, which deviates from the typical sonnet form in the aspects of the speaker, subject, and format. Playing off of the standard sonnet form, Alleyne is able to recount the emotions of that night during the first sonnet in the sequence. The typical sonnet tends to objectify the female body or one’s lover; in this sequence, the sonnets address what happens when an individual acts on these objectifications and assaults Alleyne. Alleyne deviates from the standard subject and speaker of the typical sonnet form to begin the healing process; the process begins
The science fiction novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman has a central idea, being ‘life’. This novel opens up our ideas to when a human’s life actually begins which is a sensitive topic for most people. This is a concept that everyone has their own opinions on usually based on the way you were raised; however this book opens up these ideas and decisions for you to make. It relates to abortion and the controversy over it. One example of how Shusterman gets us to think about life is when Connor (one of the main characters) is in a crate with three other unwinds. They are discussing life and what happens after you are unwound. In reality we know very little about life so we come up with our own conclusions. This unwinding experience that Connor Lassiter has really changes who he is as a person and his outlook on life.
Today’s world is full of robots that vacuum the floor and cars that talk to their drivers. People can ask their phones to send a text or play a song and a cheerful voice will oblige. Machines are taking over more and more tasks that are traditionally left to people, such as cleaning, navigating, and even scheduling meetings. In a world where technology is becoming increasingly human, questions arise about whether machines will eventually replace humankind altogether. In Ray Bradbury’s short stories, “The Veldt” and “August 2026,” he presents themes that technology will not only further replace the jobs of humans, but it will also outlast humankind as a whole. Although this is a plausible future, computers just cannot do certain human jobs.
Using the murder of Dee Ann’s mother as a means to intertwine the lives of the characters together, Steve Yarbrough examines the nature of relationships in “The Rest of Her Life.” The relationships in the story take a turn after Dee Ann’s mother is killed, with characters seeking to act more on their own, creating distance between many relationships throughout the story. Independent lifestyles prevent emotional bonds that hold relationships together from forming, thus preventing the characters from maintaining healthy relationships. The dysfunctional relationship present between Dee Ann and Chuckie in “The Rest of Her Life” is the result of the characters ' desire for self-gratification.
Beloved is a movie full of pain, love, and triumph. This film is constructed and created from the works of Toni Morrison’s novel. Beloved can be considered a ghost tale based on how the main character Beloved magically appears and disappears with no warning signs. The movie takes place in the summer of 1865 in Ohio at 124 Bluestone Road in a little white house on a plate of land.
In conclusion, all of these changes in Soka’s personality change the story in their own unique way.
What if you could reveal the secrets of others thru their dreams? Well in the book Fade written by Lisa Mcmann, Janie is a regular girl with the unusual power to see people's dreams, but it is a burden. She can see their terrible secrets and their scariest thoughts, and by using her power she can help stop the pedophiles who are harming teenage kids at school just like her. Janie is brave enough to risk her life, and put a stop to the pedophiles endangering her fellow classmates.
What really resonates with me is the 2008 platinum-selling hip-hop album “808s & Heartbreak” by American rapper and producer Kanye West. Kanye is someone driven only by ego, in other words, a human pop star. Unfortunately, at the time, he and his fiancée broke up and his mother, Donda West died from complications after cosmetic surgery. Kanye blamed himself for his mother's death and went into a deep depression. Talking about his own pride, wealth, and quest for glamour and celebrity. What does he do? He makes “808s and Heartbreak,” which as the title shows is an electro-pop album filled with pain, sorrow, and regret. On “808s & Heartbreak”, Kanye sings everything through auto-tune instead of rapping, a decision that turned some people away from listening.
The third and final part of the essay deals mostly with Baldwin’s father’s funeral. The day of his father’s funeral was Baldwin’s 19th birthday and he spent most of the day drinking with a friend. At the funeral, his father was eulogized as a thoughtful, patient, and forbearing Christian. Baldwin says this is a complete misrepresentation of the embittered and angry man they all knew. Nonetheless, he concludes, given the burden a poor black man with nine children had to bear, such a eulogy was somehow just. His father may have been cruel and distant, but he also had to contend with raising children in a world he knew hated them, and the hatred he felt in turn for this world had consumed and troubled him in ways unknown to anyone but him.
In the book, Life in Year One, Scott Korb painted a picture of life in Ancient Palestine. The thought of how people performed everyday tasks and how they lived was open to speculation and imagination for many. Korb helped readers to peer into the world of the Palestinian inhabitants. The food habits, religious practices (meaning of uncleanness), the extreme justice system, the woman’s place in society in the first century Palestinian society are some of the things considered.
“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us”(Samuel Smiles). The book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, written by Katherine Boo, depicts a troublesome slum that is trapped in a rapidly revolving culture. Where time is progressing continuously for the rest of the world, the slums of Annawadi are stuck in it’s backlash. In a place invisible to ignorant eyes, the future of Annawadi was doomed from the start. Annawadi was polluted by society and the people who call its slums their home. Annawadi can even be called an eternal illusion that traps and manipulates its people. In a place where misery and pain is guaranteed, a light a created to keep out the dark. Hope falsely created by the people of
The poem “Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep,” by Mary Elizabeth Frye, uses literary techniques to connect to the reader; it is an elegy because it is inspired by someone’s death and structured so that it moves toward a resolution, an acceptance of that death.
In 2009, the London School of Economics estimated that the number of illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom was anywhere from 670,000 to over a million. With such high numbers of illegal immigrant located in the United Kingdom, it can become easy to lose sight of the hardships faced by these people and instead focus on statistics. Sunjeev Sahota presents a novel view of the story of immigration through dynamic characters and interactions in the novel Year of the Runaways. Following the stories of four individuals, all coming from different backgrounds, Sahota intertwines their lives in a narrative that exposes the day to day life as well as the larger concerns. Each individual faces a different set of circumstances as to how they arrived
“A Bachelor of Science certifies that you have been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history.” once said by John Ciardi. In the short story “Another School Year – What For?” written John Ciardi is a response to a question (from one of Ciardi’s students) as to why at a university you must take classes that require you read books of philosophy and/or art and/or books that some subjectively believe don’t assist in the completion of the degree they are pursing. Ciardi gives his response in such a complex way that it questions the student as to why they’re at a university, which the he uses to try to persuade his audience of what he believes the purpose is of a student attending a university. According to Ciardi universities