In the Lay of the Were-Wolf, there was man who was known as … and also a baron. After sometime being with his married wife, they loved each other, and cared so much to the extent that they cannot stop thinking about each other. For the husband to leave the house without the wife knowing his where about was not easy for the woman to cope with it. One day, the husband left the house for days and when he came back, the wife asked where he went. Then the husband revealed his long hidden secret to the woman he loved and trusted for he was assured no one was going to know about this.…
Country of the Bad Wolfes, a novel by James Carlos Blake, makes the important point that in order to build a dynasty you must be willing to take risks and partner with other people, otherwise you won't succeed. Blake's writing style is very engaging and because I've only come to the United States 4 years ago there are many new things I've discovered, and continue to discover, about this nation and its history. I didn't know that as a result of the Mexican American war that the United States took over 1/2 of Mexico's territory, but what was even more amazing was how uncivilized it all seemed even in the late 1800's. Reading this novel piqued my interest in the subject of mid 19th to early 20th century history in the United States and I'd highly recommend this book for those who are looking for a fun way to learn about history.…
I would describe the character of John J. Dunbar as an extraordinarily committed man. John Dunbar was committed to staying at Fort Sedgwick although all of the other soldiers had abandoned the Fort in hopes of finding a better life. I would also consider John Dunbar a very committed man because when he invests himself into a relationship, he carries out all that he can to make that relationship flourish. He showed that commitment through his numerous relationships with Stands with a Fist, Cisco, Two Socks, and Kicking Bird. John J. Dunbar can also be described as a receptive individual because of the way he communicated with the Sioux Indians. When he first met the Sioux Indians he was very persistent on initiating their communication.…
The movie I choose was Dances with Wolves. This movie was about Lieutenant John J. Dunbar and his experience in befriending the Indians. The movie starts off with Lieutenant Dunbar learning he needs to get his leg amputated. However, he refuses to get it amputated and attempts suicide by riding his horse through a line of fire during war. Lieutenant Dunbar survives and is treated by a general. The commanding officer gives Lieutenant Dunbar the horse he rode on in the line of fire and offers Dunbar his choice of posting. He is later given a partner named Timmons to accompany him at his post.…
planted a tree a long time ago” (Warren). Mr. Buffet emphasizes the importance of investing in…
The Little Foxes is set in the deep south, in the spring of 1900. This setting is historically at the cusp of what is referred to as the Gilded Age. The “Gilded Age” is considered to be the decades between 1870 and 1900 and is a term coined by Mark Twain. It was used to describe a period with many social problems that were masked by the rise of new money. Greed, scandal, and corrupt policies ran rampant during this time; however, as we look back, this was also a point in history where we grew economically and began to rise industrially.…
In order to maintain an aura of mystique, a monster usually would not expose its entire physical body in the beginning of a sci-fi creature movie; however, the director Bong Joon-ho subverts the genre convention and “reworks genre convention using them as a framework for exploring and critiquing South Korean social and political issues” (Klein). The story of the film The Host mainly depicts how members of a dysfunctional family use their own ways to rescue the missing daughter, who has been captured by a creature emerging from the Han River in Seoul. The background setting is just like the convention of Hollywood movies. But ironically, all of extrinsic factors involving government and normal citizens…
Not many novels are comparable to Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear it Away. Perhaps this is due in part to her skillful composition, but O’Connor’s blunt addressal of the natural struggle between faith and reason is strikingly convicting. Raised in the south in a predominantly Catholic family, O’Connor herself was no stranger to the concepts, using her experiences to create a composition that is deeply personal. O’Connor uses the themes of faith and reason as means of bearing her true beliefs to the reader, drawing them in further to the mesmerizing work that is The Violent Bear it Away.…
Horror stories are created in such a way to create fear, fascination, and excitement amongst the readers. They frequently comprise of different elements, a supernatural force or creature, for example monsters and zombies, or a psychotic figure being the more commonly used ones. Psychosis is a disorder in which a person has difficulty distinguishing between reality and perception, due to their impaired thoughts and emotions. Madness is relatively similar, in which the behavior of that person is usually not under control, therefore, seeming like a threat to personal safety or safety of others. The short story “Prey” which appears in Richard Matheson’s collection…
The pigs force the hens to lay more eggs and the cows to produce more milk to sell, all whilst claiming the farm is running better than it had before the revolution. The story ends with the pigs refuting the rules that were the tenets of the rebellion. “The creatures looked from pig to man, and from man to pig; but already it was impossible to say which was which”. This shows that the farm is no longer democratic, and the pigs are now just like men, the former dictators.…
Brazilian Novelist, Paulo Coelho once famously said in his book The Alchemist “If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”. In both Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight and Jack London’s The Sea Wolf the concept of intimidation appears prominent throughout the story lines. Wolf Larsen and The Joker use intimidation to test a human's instinct to protect themselves at all costs to their advantages. Wolf Larsen is more of the ubermensch because he demands power and creates his own values upon his ship, The Ghost while the Joker terrorizes the city of Gotham, challenging the values of the power structure of society .…
In the tale the pig’s convince the others animals to act and think a certain way as a result of the propaganda that occurs through the entirety of the tale. Old Major brings together the animals and protests the human leadership the animals are under. The pigs take advantage of Old Major’s death and use his speech as the first building block in their series of propaganda. The Pigs then use the song “Beasts of England” their rally cry and later destroy this ritual because it is no longer necessary. Squealer successfully uses his body language to put on a performance that convinces the animals to act in favor of the pigs. The first major piece of propaganda to be implemented is the commandments written by the pigs, which are eventually all broken. The ideas of Old Major are simplified once again with a motto the pigs create which moves the animals away from the desired results of the revolution. Napoleon then drives Snowball off of the farm and turns him into a scapegoat. After this event takes place Napoleon is able to establish himself as a heroic leader. The motto the sheep’s chant is used to drown out any chance of protest. The donkey Benjamin notices afterwards one of the commandments on the wall has been changed. Life on the farm continues in the same terrible way with no sign of hope for the animals. The strong presence of deliberate tactics to assist a leader…
In the short story the last dog by Katherine Patterson the main character brock who was born and lived in a futuristic dome where the superiors had made the image to the residents that outside of the dome is a destroyed barren and dead waste land and that everything is poisoned including the air and nothing is able to live. My opinion is that I found the story interesting but lacking in certain parts that made it sound stupid and very awkward in certain parts of the story.…
In Uzodinma Iweala’s novel Beasts of No Nation, Agu’s diction instantly sticks out. Although it is foreign at first, Agu’s narration soon becomes quite easy to interpret. The voice and language usage Iweala has written for Agu, is somewhat unrealistically advanced for such a young boy. While Iweala has done an excellent job of showing readers the emotions child soldier Agu would feel, he has forced Agu to think and make revelations that feel false. Iweala therefore included the diction as a necessary method to make Agu’s character seem more realistic because without it, the book would become too unbelievable for…
Imagine yourself in a place where you had a special thing you wanted to tell everyone about but you couldn’t because nobody would listen to you. In the story “There’s a Werewolf in Town”, written by Lewis Garner this message is portrayed. The story is really well-written in my opinion. The story is about a boy named Tommy who turns into a werewolf every time there is a full moon, he runs away from home because he feels rejected by the people in his community because they will not listen to his problem. He feels depressed and doesn’t know what to do, but he later finds a perfect soulmate for him who has the same problem as him. Gardner uses the literary tools or elements of plot, theme, and point of view to show the difficult time Tommy…