Much of Larry Murtry’s work is an ongoing examination of the current Texas, both urban and rural .Much of the remaining works, such Lonesome Dove, is an attempt to understand the frontier past. Lonesome Dove is an epic story about a journey of two former Texas rangers who decided to move their cattle from Texas to Montana. Along their way, they encounter many problems and the jou4rney ends with numerous injuries. Therefore this paper aims to examine the story in the novel from the beginning of the journey up to the end.…
Millard High School, like most high schools, has an extremely strong rivalry with its neighboring school, the Delta Rabbits. Maybe it is because of close proximity or maybe it is a fight for which team is the best in the county, but since the two schools started playing each other in 1926, tensions have always ran high in every aspect of competition. At any sporting event between the two schools, one can expect to see a gym, stadium, or field packed with the opposing colors of red vs blue. It is not just the players that make it such a strong competition. Fillmore is a town where you get those teachers who taught your mom, your dad, your grandpa, and all of your siblings. It is a generational fight for superiority that has been engrained in the kids. It is not uncommon to see grandparents, in yelling matches after games.…
The author of the book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart weaves several core American values such as self-determination, individualism, and social mobility into the personality of his main character Frankie Landau-Banks. An example of the self-determination Frankie possesses can be found on page 314, “She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.” This is a moment where Frankie realizes that she is the only one who can tell her what to do and she was done apologizing for being who she is. The nickname “Bunny Rabbit” had reduced her to a child that must be told what to do and where to go, but as she grows throughout the book she sheds the restrictive title to be taken more seriously by those who surround her, finally demanding the respect she deserves.…
Gracie Grime Written by Nick Ling Illustrated by Grace Fraraccio A very strange hobby had Gracie Grime while others collected stamps, She collected time.…
Eagle Two Eyes Sheltered himself the best he could for the night within a hilly out crop, covered with branches and a buffalo skin. He didn't attempt to make a fire, but this decision had more to do with shame than survival.…
When Rabbit Howls is the story of a woman named Truddi Chase who suffered unspeakable sexual, physical, and mental abuse throughout her whole childhood. The book is written in third person, even though it is in fact an autobiography. The book is written not from the point of view of one coherent person, but from the individual thoughts of “the troop”, which is the name of the collective group of personalities that the one woman shares. As explained in the preface by Chase’s psychotherapist, “The troop members ‘see’ and ‘hear’ each other and carry on with one another that are real to them” (xxii). Because of the things that Truddi went through, she developed Dissociative Personality Disorder, which was previously known as Multiple Personality…
The story starts off in 1966. Ji Li Jiang has the perfect life in a communist country, China. Then, the Cultural Revolution is launched……
The book, “Watership Down,” written by English Author Richard Adams, tells an unusual story about a group of talking rabbits in a warner. One of these strange talking rabbits has a vision of the warner be destroyed by something. He apparently has a rabbit brother and they both go talk to the chief rabbit about evacuating from the warner. Their efforts are shortened and fail as the chief is unwilling to listen. The two unusual talking rabbits decide to set out on their own with a small band of rabbits to search for a new home. They travel through dangerous territories until finding a new place to settle. Even though the story line is a little strange the book in all was meaningful and there are many lessons to be learned. The first lesson is to trust and believe in others. The second lesson is that anyone can be a leader. The third lesson is that there is good in all bad. Here let me explain some more.…
Lydia Martin is 13 years old when the writing first shows up. Slanted words with overlapping letters appear across the palm of her hand.…
William Gibson once said, “Time moves in one direction, memory in another”. This is especially true in the film, Still Alice, where the audience is shown the progression of early onset Alzheimer’s in Dr. Alice Howland, a linguistics professor at Columbia University, and mother of three. Throughout the film the audience sees the slow deterioration of Alice and it not only affects her mental state but also in her physical appearance as well.…
After reading Liza Featherstones Essay, “Manna from Hell” I felt a strong sense of wonder strike me. The article focuses on the charitable giving and political influence of the Walton family, the heirs of Wal-Mart Stores founder Sam Walton. She brings a sense of social obligation to the reader, in which Wal-Mart is not meeting, according to her. She tells the reader of the evils of Wal-Mart’s philanthropy, privatized education, and of the anti-governmental practices found through the dispersion of the Walton’s Money. However, she never explains social obligation and justifies her scrutiny of the giving practices of the Walton heirs.…
At some point or another, we all lose our innocence. In the story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, there is an excellent example of this. In the last line of this story, Alice walker states “and the summer was over.” This quote means that the little girl in the story has lost her innocence, or “the summer.”…
The poetry “Amazing Grace” by John Newton is one of the most famous poems ever written and composed. “Amazing Grace” has been particularly influential and has affected lives since it was written. The reasons why “Amazing Grace” is influential are for the same reasons why I found this poem very interesting and engaging. The literary elements that attributed to the poem’s quality and importance are its form, content, and tone. These elements are what make “Amazing Grace” such an important and significant piece of poetry in history.…
Going "down the rabbit hole" has become a common metaphor in popular culture, symbolizing everything from exploring a new world to taking drugs to delving into something unknown. Think “The Matrix”, for example, where "following the white rabbit" and later choosing the "red pill" starts Neo off on a journey of philosophical realization from which he cannot return. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the rabbit hole is the place where it all begins. It's Alice's unthinking decision to follow the White Rabbit that leads to all of her adventures. The pop culture version of this symbol perhaps doesn't take into account the "unthinking" nature of this choice quite enough. After all, Alice's decision is pretty foolhardy; if this weren't a magical fantasy land, she'd probably be killed by the fall, and she has no idea where she's going, what she's facing, or how to get home. You may also notice that going down the rabbit hole is a one-way trip – the…
In order to classify a story as a fairy tale, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the story must be a tale containing actual fairies, an imaginable artificial story, or an absolute dishonest story. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are not novels about fairies or are completely false stories, but they do contain imaginable artificial plots in which a young girl named Alice travels to different worlds in her dreams. Through the creative adventure of these dream stories, one could vaguely qualify them as a fairy tale. Tolkien's perspective opposes the label of fairy tales to Alice stories by which he states that dream stories may be a fantasy of the mind, but lose their realization when Alice wakes up back in the real…