When a person does not get important information, they hope for any intimations, especially if they have to wait twenty years. In The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, Celia uses her magical powers in the guise of illusion, and Marco uses spells from books to try to win a long waited competition. Celia and Marco were both surprised that they had to compete in a circus, and what surprises them more is, they are opponents.…
The Erkling, a creature that is commonly found in the Black Forest in Germany, rated by the Ministry of Magic as a XXXX creature, can grow up to around three feet tall. They have a very pointed face, typically with a very long nose, used to shoot darts at the victims that it comes across, and a bunch of spines covering its arms, big yellow eyes, sharp teeth and skin in a brown and green shade. One can usually discover one of these grossly creatures by hearing the high-pitched cackling that it uses as its main weapons for snatching up children as they are too innocent to realize what the noise is and get too curious. An even more evil species, the Bavarian Erkling, will not take the child away before it attacks like the Germanic Erkling. Fortunately the older someone gets, the easier it becomes to ignore the…
1. Oliver Hazard Petty- United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812. HS: Petty’s win made him a hero among Americans and it also gave new life to the Americans in the war of 1812…
“Thanatopsis” is a romantic poem written by William Cullen Bryant. The poem gives a pantheistic and philosophical view of nature, God, and death. “Thanatopsis” was a revolutionary work for its time because it focuses of finding solace in death. Bryant’s writing challenged the normal concept of literature by building off of and borrowing old ideas. Before transcendentalist ideas became popular, writers’ work was centered on God and the physical world. Bryant and other transcendentalist writers challenged this ordinary way of thinking by questioning reality, finding comfort in nature, and concentrating on improving their inner beings. Bryant vividly describes the beauty and grace in nature with the use of personification. He wants the reader…
The “Sazón: The Flavors of Culinary Epistemology” by Meredith E. Abarca and “The joy of Jalapeño” share some similarities since both texts express how food is interconnected with the culture, and past of each individual. The author in “The joy of Jalapeño” emphasizes the importance/ addiction he has to jalapeños caused by cultural affiliation and heredity. The author confesses that the addition to jalapeños is such that he have eaten at exclusive restaurants and attended formal banquets with fresh jalapeños in his coat.…
1. In, “American History”, there is a boy Deli: An Ars Poetica’, by Judith Ortiz Cofer…
There has been a flood of folklore and popular myth on the subject of supernatural beings capable of sucking the life out of their victims. One can find a mention of these creatures throughout the centuries. From a Succubus in the Bible to the Vampires of today’s Twilight Sagas, the short story “Luella Miller” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman is no different. This story, unlike many other tails, did not just come out and say that the creature was present for sure; it more or less hinted to it possible existences. Also the hypnotic state that the victims were in brings the reader to believe that something unnatural is at hand. With a closer look through the eyes of our narrator, Lydia Anderson, we can clearly see that the cause and effect of helping the alleged Succubus is very harmful and could possiblly cause death. In the short “Luella Miller” the evidence of an active Succubus is supported throughout the writings; only by looking closer can we find the truth.…
The peculiar essence of the poem "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" written by Robert Browning lies in the impression of violent and disordered hatred. This feeling is revealed by the very structure of the work. The poem is framed by bestial growl at first word and closing line. The first onomatopeaic growl opens the soliloquist's confession of malice for Brother Lawrence: "Gr-r-r -- there go my heart's abhorrence!/ Water your damned flowerpots, do!" Another "Gr-r-r" marks the end of the work. Both instances reinforce certain bestiality in the speaker's nature directed by immense anger. The same effect is obtained by certain curse words: "God's blood, would not mine [hate] kill you!" (4). Precisely, the soliloquy is mainly a shape of rage brought on by this deeply rooted hatred.…
The message of the poem, “Sadie and Maud”, is that the success and happiness is not determined by a structured path, but the one we create. In the poem it says “Maud went to college/Sadie stayed home/Sadie scraped life/With a fine-tooth comb/She didn’t leave a tangle in” (Lines 1-4). This is saying that Maud went to college and Sadie did not go to college. It is also significant because it compares Sadie with a fine-tooth comb because fine-tooth combs take everything in and does not leave a tangles which is basically stating that she lived life to its full potential and took risks. In the fourth stanza it says. “When Sadie said her last so-long/Her girls struck out from home/Sadie has left as heritage”. Here the reader sees that Sadie has passed…
Arthur Koestler once said, “Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion” (Koestler). This quote represents The Benzini Brothers in full force. The hard truth is that the bright and unique shows many pay to see is nothing but a devious scandal, full of lies. The Benzini Brothers’ circus appears glamorous and exciting, even magical at times, but in reality the enchantment of the circus is all a fabrication for what the workers actually live through.…
At the time Mercutio makes his famous "Queen Mab" speech in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, he and Romeo, together with a group of their friends and kinsmen, are on the way to a party given by their family's arch-enemy, Lord Capulet. Their plan is to crash the party so that Romeo may have the opportunity to see his current love, Rosaline, whom they know has been invited to the Capulet's masque that evening.…
In the passage, we see the main two characters talking about their own experiences at the circus. They start to reminisce on what happened back then and because of this we see some foreshadowing. Their own experiences lead us to believe that they will allow their children to go due to the enjoyment it brought them. This happens by the two adults becoming closer again.…
O, who is't am I, and what of mine own brother? I told myself that mine heart was too hurt to love another person. Yet here he is. Cesario.…
Literary works have certain meanings displayed throughout their entirety. A single literary work however can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Petrarch whose poetry was about the idealistic approach to love, caused for several Renaissance writers to revisit them and translate them to represent different meanings. Basically, Sir Thomas Wyatt in his poem "The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbour" and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey in his poem "Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought," both explored the varying view of the original poem created by Petrarch. Their views on the aspect of love helped to be shaped by the Renaissance ideas, help to display the changing times as created by this period of rebirth and also help to reflect the views of each author on love.…
Write a close analysis of 40 lines of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy and discuss how far these lines reflect her view on love as presented in “The Worlds Wife”…