“The Trusty” is a work of fiction, written by Ron Rash, that tells the story of a man and a woman who try to escape their lives. In this short story, Sinkler is depicted as a scandalous but also as a distressed character. Many painted events lead to the illustration of a peculiar setting in which Sinkler is experiencing some abnormal instances. Sinkler is not dead, and his characterization has lead the audience to believe his flawed mental state is the reason why. Arguably, some readers may be lead to believe that Sinkler is not dead due to all the supporting evidence which imply this theory. First of all, the audience may interpret Sinkler as delusional because it could be easily said that Sinkler shows a desperate appeal when approaching One way the author conveys this idea of desperation is by writing, "Eighteen months, a year and a half, had passed since he’d been with a woman. After that long, almost any female would make the sap rise" (1). This pushed readers to think that maybe Sinkler is making up Lucy and these events to fulfill his loneliness and urges. Given the setting, Sinkler and Lucy are alone and far from civilization in Asheville, North Carolina. Sinkler 's surroundings are described in this sentence, "He filled the second bucket but made no move to leave, instead of looking around at the trees and mountains as if just noticing them" (1). The trees and mountains may be a metaphor for isolation since then he proceeds to tell Lucy that she must get lonely due to how far away everything is. Loneliness and, certainly, desperation can drive people to lose their consciousness and their sense of themselves and reality. This may be why he imagines himself running away from being a prisoner of his thoughts of solitude with a woman who also wishes to run from her confinement, which includes her older husband and lack of decent valuables. In the second last paragraph, Rash states just before Sinkler got attacked, "Someone
This short story had a very effective exposition. The author, David Klass, did a good job introducing the character. He introduced Duker very well by describing him and his personality. The st...
Much like Madeline, Lucy becomes a victim of involuntary sleepwalking where she too is stuck in a “dream-world,” yet looking at Freud’s theory of dreams, how can we completely agree on the idea that she was not also acting on her ID? (???) states that “The symptoms (of sleep walking) are not simply a matter of individual affliction-they point to a shadowy world of dreams, repressed desires and the supernatural outside the rational daylight world of an increasingly affluent, increasingly materialistic Victorian society.” The idea of “repressed desires,” exposed in our dreams described by Freud is evidently seen in Lucy. By walking out alone at night we see the emergence of the New Woman being revealed through her sleep walking. This contradicts the “Angel in the House” figure who is “Dearly devoted” to a man, because a typical Victorian woman
Bearskin: An unwanted ex-soldier desperately makes a grueling deal with the devil receiving all the money he desires, at the price of his human form.
Such a series of tragic events has a great toll among the two main characters (Cox ) . For a vicious, careless indivi...
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true” (Kierkegaard)- Misleading oneself by accepting things as true or valid when they are not is a common phenomenon of nearly every human being, especially when faced with life changing of threatening situations. Self-deception can therefore be considered an option to escape reality in order to prevent oneself from dealing with the weight of a situation. Basically, those strong influencing psychological forces keep us from acknowledging a threatening situation or truth. However, oftentimes people do not realize that they are deceiving themselves, for it is mostly the action of the subconscious mind to protect especially the psychological well- being. This psychological state is depicted and in Ambrose Bierce’s short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. He shows that people try to escape reality and seek refuge in self-deception when confronted with life-threatening situations, through characterization, alternate point of view, and the fluidity of time.
The story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction short story that has themes connecting to what is happening now, and what will happen in the future. “The Veldt” was written in 1950, where notable technological advances were made. Things such as the first TV remote control and credit cards (although, known as the “travel and entertainment” card at the time) were made. 8 million televisions were also being used in homes around the US (The People History. Retrieved from http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1950.html). As technology is advancing, things are getting easier; people are starting and continuing to become more leisurely. The story “The Veldt” is showing how our future might end up as technology advances, and people themselves
is the understanding of this "rich" character. In this study I will try to analyze some of his traits (invisibility-lack of indentity , blindness) and his journey from idealism to a grim realism about the racism that confronts him in the story.
Mrs. Mallard’s repressed married life is a secret that she keeps to herself. She is not open and honest with her sister Josephine who has shown nothing but concern. This is clearly evident in the great care that her sister and husband’s friend Richard show to break the news of her husband’s tragic death as gently as they can. They think that she is so much in love with him that hearing the news of his death would aggravate her poor heart condition and lead to death. Little do they know that she did not love him dearly at all and in fact took the news in a very positive way, opening her arms to welcome a new life without her husband. This can be seen in the fact that when she storms into her room and her focus shifts drastically from that of her husband’s death to nature that is symbolic of new life and possibilities awaiting her. Her senses came to life; they come alive to the beauty in the nature. Her eyes could reach the vastness of the sky; she could smell the delicious breath of rain in the air; and ears became attentive to a song f...
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire, takes place in the Land of Oz. It actually takes place forty years before The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum, and it tells the story of how Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, became so wicked (Fiction Book Review). This book was written in 1995. Maguire wrote this book in the early 1900’s when he was living in London. At this time, the Gulf War was just starting. Maguire was intrigued by the headline in the British Newspaper, the Times of London, that said, “Sadaam Hussein: The New Hitler?” Months later, there was an incident where several young schoolboys kidnapped and killed a toddler. While the British press was paying attention to the crime,
Life is built differently every day according to the choices we make. Every decision we make will have a result, some results might be good, other results might be bad, and even a single choice can result in death as the maximum prize. The objective of this essay is to compare two characters from different stories that learned something through a specific event or experience. This essay will analyze the histories “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov and “The Interlopers” by Saki. These two stories will mostly be compared on the choices that the character made, how they were affected by it, and a conclusion based on their past events.
In the “yellow wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which was written 1892, is a feminist story that has many interesting themes. In this story, there is a sense of insanity as the story continues due to the continued exposure to the wallpaper. This story is protesting a method called the rest cure, which the author herself was subjected to, and can cause people to be driven insane, but also protest the treatment of woman in a time when they did not have any agency. This cure, which was almost always given to women, was not just for women who actually had an illness it was also given to women who were different. The women who did not abide by the social norms of the time.
“Seven Pounds” is a story about a man’s intense regret for what he felt he has done wrong and how, with seven acts of selflessness, he tries to redeem himself. It is a story of a broken man, who wants nothing more than to make things right before he gives the ultimate sacrifice; his life. This film combines phenomenal acting with a compelling storyline. It is a must see movie that will make the audience cry tears of sadness and tears of joy. “In seven days, God created the world, in seven seconds, I shattered mine”. With seven bodily donations, Tim Thomas tries to make up for the worst seven seconds of his life, in which he caused the death of seven
Parfit, author of Reasons and Persons, presents the concept of “Relation R,” or psychological continuity; this is key to understanding the change in personal identity of Gulliver, which occurs by degrees, and not in absolutes. Because of this, we cannot judge Gulliver based o...
Likewise, the first time we are introduced to the armor-clad Rohans, their theme is also absent.
The times were changing and the black man had started to change in his perception of the world around him. The abolishment of slavery was only a start on a path to equal rights. Black writers came fourth and presented arguments to their fellow men on the strength of the black man. Strength and Unity is a common theme between The White Witch, The Song of the Smoke and If We Must Die. The three poems were written by prominent black authors and the themes of strength and unity can be seen as arguments in three poems. Each poem addresses an audience of black men in order to convey it arguments for unity and strength.