How did this happen? How will this affect her in the future? These are questions being asked by readers in M.T. Anderson’s book Feed. The book is about a teenage boy, Titus, who lives in a society where a computer feed is implanted directly into people’s brains. His girlfriend, Violet, has a seizure which causes her to lose a year’s worth of memories. Later, when Titus visits her, something doesn’t seem right. She seems nervous about what the feed is doing to her mind. She also later tells him about how she wants to show she’s alive, or how she wants to live life to the fullest. It becomes clear that Violet has suspicions about the feed and perhaps, dislikes it.…
“Show me Yours” by Richard Van Camp narrates the promising and apparent upturned in life experienced by Richard, a middle-aged man who at the beginning has experienced a nadir in his life caused by addiction issues and harmful friendships. After a bad night, by mere randomness, he decides to glue a found baby picture of him to his grandparent saint’s necklace and wears it under his shirt. Abruptly, the baby picture necklace becomes a trend in his community and seems to encourage care and positivism around the participants of the furor. Richard, who starts experiencing acceptance and recognition around the locality also reunites with an old love, Shawna, with whom he spends the night and appears to bring more hope to Richard’s situation. At…
First, consider Flannery's theme "redemption through catastrophe" In just a few words, share your thoughts on why Joy-Hulga is or is not in need of redemption? Consider what was she like before her encounter with Manley Pointer? Has she changed?…
In the novel All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy illustrates the coming-of-age protagonist, John Grady Cole, who impulsively decides to travel to Mexico in search of an adventurous lifestyle. Although a teenager, John Grady Cole reveals rather matured behaviors towards his fellow companions, but he preserves the notion that he has control over everything. This very attitude backfires in severe consequences, in which John Grady Cole is essentially powerless. Subsequently, his ideals of cowboy life confronts the reality of adulthood because John Grady Cole loses his most prized attribute -- the child-like belief of…
Jennifer Cruisie’s book Bet Me is a heterosexual romance novel. The main character’s name is Minerva Dobbs, or Min for short. Min is a heavier set woman, who works as an Actuary, and wants nothing more than to be finished with the dating scene and move in with a cat. Min’s boyfriend, David, along with her mother is constantly advising her on how to lose weight. That was until David broke up with Min in a bar because she would not have sex with him. Min was relieved that her and David were no longer a couple, and realizes that she was never truly interested in him to begin with. Min’s mother constantly body shamed Min throughout her life, and as a result Min was very self-conscious about her body internally. As far as externally, Min pretended…
"I am ashamed at how much time, resources, money, food, stuff, and energy I have wasted over the years, like storing my personal trash and possessions, as if they were more important than God, my family, and the people around me." ~ Jon Barnes…
The play Raisin in the Sun is set in Chicago during the 1960s. This play focuses in on a lower-middle class family who has recently lost the man of the house. While the family overcomes how to spend the insurance money it becomes clear that the three main female characters have major differences due to the ways they were raised in their generations. The women often butt heads on different topics like what duties women have in the house and in society. Each generation changes slowly but eventually the differences in them are very clear because of the evolution of duties of women.…
“Where are you going, Where have you been” is a famous story that was written by Joyce Carol Oates. In this story, Connie is fifteen years old girl and the main character. She seems to have always lived in her sister’s shadow, June, who was apparently better all-around. Connie seems to be the more attractive of the two due to which she felt that her attractive personality would succumb to pleasure in the arms of a random boy. One day, she decided to stay home as opposed to going to a barbecue with her family. At that time, Arnold Friend, the antagonist in Oates’ story drives up to Connie’s house. Connie is a character that represents the nature of epiphany in literature. Through Connie, we learn how a character can have a highly significant impact on an important work of literature and the person reading the story. Connie’s naïve understanding of the world and her immaturity led to her downfall in “Where are you Going, Where Have You Been?”…
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun explores the universal ideas of family, dignity, and hope. Hansberry set her play in an old, once well-furnished and loved apartment in Southside Chicago after World War II. It is the story of an African American family’s struggle to prioritize futures and dreams and decide whose dream is most prevalent; once the family makes the choice to purchase a home with part of the money, they face an entirely new plight. One of the major themes of A Raisin in the Sun is the need to band together as a family and fight discrimination as a unified group, as opposed to a group that cannot stop fighting within itself.…
Characterization is refer to as the personality assigned to the individuals in the story. Tessie Hutchinson stands out because she arrives late to the lottery. Jackson set her apart from the other characters because the lottery is taken seriously, but Mrs. Hutchinson forgot what day it was as she was doing chores. At first, she was eager to join the lottery and even said “Get up there, Bill.” However she became desperate to get out of the situation when Bill draws the marked strip of paper and starts protesting, saying that it wasn’t fair. Jackson demonstrated how Mrs. Hutchinson was a hypocrite because the tradition never bothered her until she was chosen one.…
The novel Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard is excellent for analyzing moral lessons. It is about a kingdom that is divided by people with different blood. There are silver bloods, those with godlike powers, and there are reds, powerless normal civilians. When the main character, Mare Barrow, a red, is summoned to work in the royal palace by chance, she accidently discovers that she has powers. She can control lightening. The only confusion is that her blood is red not silver. To hide this abnormality from the people, King Tiberius, ruler of Norta, decides to keep secrets about Mare and her true past. He gives her a new name, a new back story, and a new life. However, in the end, it may have not been worth the struggle.…
The three characters that relate to me are the three characters I aspire to be.The three fictional characters that most represent my personality are Pig from Back at the Barnyard for his/her companionship, Rick from Rick and Morty for his/her way of questioning things, and Naruto for his/her determination.…
Violet has consistently struggled with the feed since she was little. On a daily basis, Violet disagrees and tests the feeds values. When Violet was little she grew up in a family that wasn't as fortunate as other families living in this society. Violet got the feed later than most kids because she couldn’t pay for it. Her dad raised her to value school and knowledge which set Violet apart from the others. Violet is a peculiar but refreshing character in this society, with this being said she has substantial reasons for why she rejects the feed. Not having the feed has made Violet different and has had an impact on her identity. This can be seen when she is talking and everybody sees the difference in her vocabulary and questions why this is.…
In the short story created originally by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the female narrator intentionally unnamed, the main character, is driven to an unstable neurologic state of mind. Ironically, the narrator’s husband John, a credible physician whose honest intentions are to rehabilitate the woman, finally provoking her to the edge of insanity. As the story plot continues the narrator’s nervousness intensifies so insidious.…
The use of computers to enhance and augment both mental and physical abilities and potential is no longer the exclusive realm of science fiction writers. It is becoming a reality. Brain Computer Interface technology will help re-defines the potential of the human race - and keeps re-defining it. Deep brain implants are already working in patients with Parkinson 's disease restoring to them a degree of freedom and motility, but not without its complications. Spinal implants used to treat pain have now been modified by a physician in North Carolina to bring sensitivity and sexual stimulation to those previously unable to have that as part of their life. There 's a patent and marketing plan already in place to reduce the cost and make it widely available.…