“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…
Throughout history every society has had their own heroes of myth and legend; from the Greek heroes of Hercules and Achilles, to the Medieval English heroes King Arthur and Lancelot, and the Early American heroes of Paul Bunyan and Daniel Boone, there have always been and there will always be heroes. Heroes are pillars of a societies values, what a society finds important is what will be found in the overall makeup of the heroes themselves. In today’s society, we have two heroes of comic book legend that stand above all others—Batman and Spider-Man.…
I, , read 471 pages of Graceling by Kristin Cashore. This book has a majority of conflicts that are solved throughout the novel, though the main conflicts occur in the very first chapter, when Katsa, the main character, rescues a Lienid grandfather who had been kidnapped and imprisoned in a dungeon cell. This books genre is fiction since this story occurs in a very different world from ours.…
The city of Chicago was one of the worst places to be at during the 1960’s. No one had good paying jobs. The town alone was run down on the Southside.…
“The characters of Revolutionary Characters” is a realistic portrayal of six most important members of the founding generation of the United States. They are: George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Aaron Burr, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine. The Founders, indeed, were a highly unique and exceptionally talented generation. The book takes as its accent not the story of the lives of individual founders but an analysis of their characters. Each life is considered as bonded, but the chain that connects the work together and gives it the advancing power of a revelation is the idea of character as a lived reality…
3 the death of socrates is similar to a Greek tragedy because in Greek tragedy, the…
In the novel “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak, the author writes about a young boy named Max who wreaks havoc while wearing a wolf costume. He is told to go to sleep by his mother, and he soon is transported into a jungle. He finds a boat and sails to a land inhabited by ferocious monsters called “Wild Things” where he is crowned king because he is the wildest one of all. He holds an event where his kingdom can go wild, and he soon decides to go home. Despite the Wild Thing’s dismay, he goes home and finds that his mom brought his supper and it was warm. A leader who disciplines…
Both Dade and Julian where fixated on proving themselves right and defending their beliefs about how the world is now and how things should be. When the time came and they had their opportunity to make a stand and prove their views they were faced with a different outcome than they thought they would have. Dade didn’t react to the woman stealing from the store they way he had thought he would. After Dade caught her he looked at her and was filled with remorse and a little compassion so much that he could not do as he had planned. He let her go and felt the need to fallowing her till she disappeared and in doing that it changing his view of the world and opened his eyes to a truth he had not seen. Julian having an opportunity to prove his point about the world changing and him wanting to see him Mother faced with it didn’t go as he thought. After the negro woman slapped his mothers pocketbook from her hand for offering the negro boy a penny didn’t give him the outcome he wanted. He had an opportunity to show his mother the similarities in her and the black woman and prove his point with a different reaction. He saw that his desire to prove a point was not worth the price he paid and made proving his point not as important as he had thought. Both Dade and Julian wanted success in their lives and their parents viewed them…
The final way that they compare was the way that they were punished. In the mythology book Loki was taken to a deep cavern and had venom poured over him and he was in agony, and intense pain, his wife helped him. In Anansi Boys Spider was taken to another world where the tiger tied him up and kept him there. Spider’s tongue got cut off which also was the cause for agony and pain. Fat Charlie saved him from the tiger.…
Spiderman uses the colors blue and red as his uniform. He uses a mask because he does not want to be identified. Spiderman wore these colors because the spider that bit him was red and blue. Spiderman is very handsome. He has pretty blue eyes and a strong face he was also light skinned with brown hair. Spiderman has some super powers. He had spider web come out his hand and he would hang on it. The web he would use would come out from his hand it was really powerful web it was strong and stretchable. He would use it as a rope to jump really high and from one place to another.…
Feeling sorry for someone, but not agreeing with them. As humans we have all felt this feeling at least once in our lifetime. In the book The Awakening, by “Kate Chopin” Kate Chopin sympathizes with the main character Edna but doesn’t pity her. I agree with Kate, because even though she’s married with Leonce a man that she doesn't love and has children with him, she is still free not attached to him at all. Another reason I agree with Kate is that she doesn’t pity Edna. She spends time and loves Robert rather than loving her own husband.…
Stories of heroes have been told, written, and passed down since the beginning of time; each unique but following a tight pattern. Joseph Campbell was the first to notice this and wrote a book called The Hero With A Thousand Faces. Campbell wrote about the similarities of every hero’s journey while breaking it down into three steps: Departure, Initiation, and Return. In his book, Campbell compares many old Greek myths and heroic tales from centuries ago, and although he focuses on ancient myths, modern hero stories follow Campbell’s stages just as closely. Ironman is a prime example of a modern story that follows Campbell’s pattern. Tony Stark (Ironman) is an eccentric billionaire who owns stark industries, the world’s leader in weapon making. He lives a bachelor lifestyle without any worries until he gets his call to adventure. The story of Ironman tells the tale of Tony Stark’s life changing adventure while closely following the stages written by Campbell which would label him a hero by Campbell’s standards.…
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…
When it comes to movies, I have numerous of movies that I love so it is very difficult for me to choose a favorite. I love watching movies and love to sit and talk about things that happened in movies with my loved ones. I decided to write a character evaluation on the invented character from the movie “Mrs. Doubtfire”. I will discuss the character Daniel Hillard that was played by Robin Williams. The Movie was based on things that occurred after a bitter divorce, actor (Daniel Hillard) disguises himself as a female housekeeper (Mrs. Doubtfire) in order to spend secret time with his children held in custody by his ex-wife (Miranda HIllard).…
What is a grotesque character? In literature, a character or location that is irregular, extravagant or fantastic in form. When used as a device, the purpose is often in the style of expressionism, making the grotesque a parody of human qualities or a distorted reflection of a familiar place. In many ways grotesque characters have some kind of problem in society, and example would be a veteran who lost a limb in war and trying to fit back into society, or anything that we see as not normal in our society. Characters in this particular subject can be deformed, obsessed, or in our terms just not normal or right. Another definition of a grotesque character is characterized by ludicrous or incongruous distortion, as of appearance or manner. Flannery O’ Connor, Angela Carter, and Carson McCullers all experienced uses with grotesque characters whose works can be seen with characters who are deformed, disfigured, or social outcasts.…