In The Road, the first 16 pages give the reader a good perspective of the novel. The reader learns that the world has undergone a dramatic change. The world seems post-apocalyptic, and there is nothing much that remains. Two characters are presented but are not described in any way; we only know that they are labeled as ‘the man’ and ‘the boy’ who are father and son. McCarthy does not give description to ‘the man’ or ‘the boy’, but there actions and dialogues give the reader some sort of understanding of the characters. McCarthy could be labeling the characters ‘the man ‘and ‘the boy’ to show the effects on mankind after this catastrophe. By labeling them ‘the man’ and ‘the boy’, it could be that McCarthy is trying to universalize his characters, showing how much of a change there has been in the novel after the tragedy which has transformed the earth.…
Set in the days of sails and ships, buried treasure and pirates, Treasure Island is an epic tale of a young boy by the name of Hawkins, and his search for the buried treasure of the notorious Captain Flint. Treasure Island is written by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 94), his other texts include The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Kidnapped. I choose to read and review this book because I was familiar with some of Stevenson's other work and I had also watched and enjoyed the children's version of Treasure Island. As a reader, I like reading books in which I have an idea of the plot, as it heightens my enjoyment of the reading experience.…
In the story the author uses many situations and circumstances to demonstrate loyalty. Loyalty is the state or quality of being loyal, faithfulness to commitments or obligations. Don Quixote is a man that believes in being loyal, and he expects the people that he encounters to be the same way.…
“When we were able to swim to shore I, as well as many others, didn’t quite grasp the severity of our situation,” says Ralph, one of the older boys that was first to be rescued, “Well how could we at such a young age. Even after several months of being on the island, many of the boys still didn’t grasp that it wasn’t just another adventure”.…
Simon is a secondary character. He does not influence the story directly by his decision but is importent for the cohesion.…
In the beginning, Phillip was very sad because, Timothy and Phillip were in a huge storm, a short time after Timothy wasn’t moving or talking, he had passed away. “Timothy was still behind me, but he felt cold and limp. He was sagging, his head down on my shoulder. “Timothy, wake up,” I said. He did not answer.”(Taylor, 108-110). The evidence supports the context because it shows how Timothy felt and how Phillip found out he had passed away. In the middle, he felt determined to get everything on the island cleaned up and in the correct spot. “I accomplished a lot in three days,...”,”Without Timothy;s eyes, I was finding that in my own world everything had to be very precise; an exact place for everything.”(Taylor, 116-117). Since Timothy passed away he had to clean up everything on his own so, he worked all day trying to clean up the island and putting everything in an exact place. At the end, Phillip has fully developed his independence, because Phillip was able to catch his own food, start a campfire, knowing if the smoke was black or white, and saving himself. “I touched one on the first sweep and drove the sharp stick into him, swimming quickly to the surface. Panting I shouted to Stew Cat, ‘Lobster tonight!’”, “I spit on the stick until I heard a sizzle. Then I knew there was enough fire or charring on it to light off the base of fried palm fronds beneath the signal fire.”, “At last I thought, perhaps they didn’t see the smoke. I knew it was going up into the sky, but was it white smoke that might be lost in the blue-white sky, or was it dark and oily smoke that would make a smudge against the blueness? There was no way to tell.”, “The sea grape! I snapped some off, feeling it between my fingers. Yes, there was oil in it. I got up and went over to the fire, tossing a piece in. In a moment, I heard…
Abortion is a topic that has been argued for years. Many people are for or against it. Many people do not know how they feel about it either. An abortion is when a women decides she does want to have a child anymore when already conceived. She will have a doctor at an abortion clinic help her rid of the fetus. There are many ways to do this, depending on the trimester of the baby. She will eventually go to the abortion clinic and have the procedure done to no longer have the baby in her but, it will no longer have a life.…
“The Open Boat” is a short story written by Steven Crane about four men stranded on a dinghy after their boat had sunk over night. The men were struggling to stay alive because it seemed as if they had no hope for survival. The four stranded shipmen were a correspondent, an oiler, a cook, and a captain. The theme of the story is that man has no control over his destinies and that nature controls everything. Naturalist themes prevail in Stephen Crane's “The Open Boat” as it demonstrates naturalist literature through the struggle that nature throws at the men. Naturalism arises throughout the men’s constant battle between their surrounding environment and keeping their hope for survival. The only way the men were able to survive was persistence, because the indifferent universe did not care what their results were.…
In the classic novel Treasure Island, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, the plot revolves around a staged mutiny on a pirate voyage while on a search for buried treasure. This tale of adventure and duplicity has captured the interest and imagination of readers, young and old, for generations. One of the elements that makes this timeless novel intriguing is Stevenson’s variety of memorable characters. Readers may wonder which of these characters they most resemble. Because of his character and mine, I feel that I am most like Doctor Livesey.…
Cervantes novel “Don Quixote” was written back in 1500’s. The main character Don Quixote is from the region La Mancha located in central Spain. While he was a man of a sound, mind, and reason. His reading of many books about chivalry had a very strong effect on his mentality. Don Quixote reveals himself thru a mental process in which the real world has been distorted in his perception of impractical mental behavior.…
<br>Relatively early on in the novel Ralph comes to terms with his situation. He realizes that much of one's life is spent just keeping out of danger and staying alive. After understanding the complex, yet realistic, view of life he remembers his first impression of the island and how he thought they would have fun on the island, like living in one of his books. Now he realized what life on the island would really be like.…
In the poem ‘The Wood – Pile’ Robert Frost uses a very tight structure, it is a sum of one stanza which he has used in other poems such as “Out Out -”. This poem is first person narration, which is another thing that a lot of Frost poems share in common, the setting of the poem is introduced in the first line of the poem ‘the frozen swap’ this releases visual imagery straight away. The last two words of the first line of the poem ‘gray day’ Frost uses internal rhyme the theme of the poem is nature it is set outside and it also it involves tree’s and birds Frost tells the story using this as the stake and the prop is natural resources and the wood-pile is society and because we are using nature up, it is soon going to collapse.…
Among the most realistic of Verne's "imaginary voyages", this novel describes how Phileas Fogg, a reclusive, eccentric, British bachelor, wagers some members of his club that he can travel completely around the globe in just eighty days, based on rail and steamer schedules available to this very punctual man. So off he goes, on what should have been a fun-filled, adventure-packed journey. Unfortunately, this precursor to the science fiction novel has not held up well over the years, and it's really a testimony to the ever-changing world that we live in that this was ever considered an adventure novel. Too often the action takes place "out of scene" and is only described after the fact, losing the story's intensity and immediacy. The characters are quite one-dimensional; Passepartout, the faithful French manservant, provides only the barest minimum of comic relief, and Aouda, the love interest, isn't much more successful. The real stars should have been the different cultures and modes of transport experienced by the travelers, but even these are often treated in a cursory fashion. Instead, the focus is on timetables and detours and the hapless Detective Fix, who believes that Fogg is wanted for robbery.…
When one reads the nonfiction work of Robert Louis Stevenson along with the novels and short stories, a more complete portrait emerges of the author than that of the romantic vagabond one usually associates with his best-known fiction. The Stevenson of the nonfiction prose is a writer involved in the issues of his craft, his milieu, and his soul. Moreover, one can see the record of his maturation in critical essays, political tracts, biographies, and letters to family and friends. What Stevenson lacks, especially for the tastes of this age, is specificity and expertise: he has not the depth of such writers as John Ruskin, Walter Pater, or William Morris. But he was a shrewd observer of humankind, and his essays reveal his lively and perspicacious mind. Though he lacked originality, he created a rapport with the reader, who senses his enthusiastic embrace of life and art. If Stevenson at first wrote like one who only skimmed the surface of experience, by the end of his life he was passionately committed to his adopted land of Samoa, to his own history, and to the creation of his fiction.…
Edgar Allan Poe has an acute and distinctive ability to capture the darkest and most heinous fascination of his readers, even years following his mysterious death. “He is the most often read of all of his contemporaries, but this is no accident, for this neurotic and unhappy artist is strangely modern, oddly keeping in with our own neurotic and unhappy age” (Van Stern xvi). What Poe introduced to America was the depth of darkest places of the human psyche, which was a relatively new domain. He fostered his success upon doing what few American writers had even attempted to accomplish; he liberated the subconscious mind and its terrible and strange images and debuted them onto published pages (xxxviii). The father of American Gothic Poetry and the detective novel, Edgar Allan Poe earned a place in history by challenging, even mocking the styles of his earlier contemporaries.…