Introduction: Two years ago‚ on my thirty-eighth birthday‚ I had a spiritual direction session with Fr. X. Fr. X‚ at the time of this meeting‚ had been my spiritual director for the past year and a half. Each seminarian meets with their spiritual director either once or twice a month in a private meeting room. Each room has three chairs and a coffee table in the center. These rooms are dimly lit with lamps‚ and there are usually several religious pictures on the walls. My director‚ who is in his
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In order to find one’s Personal Legend one must follow the omens and the Language of the World. To learn this language you must listen to everything around you‚ including nature. One’s Personal Legend is know at a young age but then forgotten as time goes on. If one truly wants to find one’s Personal Legend then the universe will help you along your path‚ leaving
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into wind. Like Santiago‚ a reader can grow to feel more knowledgeable from the words of Coelho because his advice can be accepted and appreciated by all people. The Alchemist expresses beliefs that easily relate to people around the world since at one point or another we all suffer from confusion about our hearts. Coelho beautifully constructed a novel that contains
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is basically about a guy who is standing outside making donations. Some people pass by and ignore him‚ and others stop and make a donation. The theme is about doing something you are passionate about and helping others. For example on page 11 ‚ “How one chooses to answer that call depend on their personal experiences‚ their availability‚ their financial stability or even their passion for a cause.”The guy making donations is cheerful and happy because he has a passion for it. He’d frown at people passing
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Reluctant Fundamentalist‚ Mohsin Hamid uses a variety of literary devices to create the tone of confusion and agitation. By doing so‚ Mohsin Hamid also develops a theme of change. All these literary features combine to make an enthralling page-turner. One literary device used by the author to create restlessness in the reader is diction. The author intentionally uses words to create discomfort in the reader. “The twin towers of New York’s World Trade center collapsed. And then I smiled. Yes‚ despicable
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displays how identity is affected by faith through Shrahrzad‚ Gamasa al-Bulti‚ and the Genies‚ by showing how each character lives and how their fate is affected by having faith‚ or having no faith. Shahrzad’s character is elaborated on more in One Thousand and One Nights than in Arabian Nights and Days through her stories. Shahrzad’s stories often display a relationship between identity and faith. She shows how in many of her character’s situations‚ if they had no faith or wit they would not have escaped
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to his palace in the middle of the night. Shahzaman finds his Queen in bed with the cook‚ and becomes so enraged that he kills them both with his sword. He says nothing of this to anyone‚ and leaves with the Visier to visit his brother‚ Shahrayar. One day‚ while Shahrayar is out hunting‚ Shahzaman stays in the palace feeling very depressed about his dead wife. He looks out at the garden and sees his brother’s wife enter the garden with twenty slave girls‚ ten white and ten black. They undress and
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at her and she won’t be happy with her image. And consequently‚ no matter how much the boy exercises and molds his body to look stronger‚ the mirror will still frown at him and he won’t be content with his outside self. * Literary Techniques: One literary technique often used in this poem is imagery‚ mainly because the author is constantly describing the new image for both the girl and boy (the makeup used by the girl and the description of her face; also the workout for the boy and the description
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and support a central theme. In order to succeed in this task‚ you must narrow down a theme statement. Theme Statements vs. Concepts Death is a concept‚ NOT a theme statement. Belief is a concept‚ not a theme statement. Be careful you don’t use a one or two word concept as a theme. “People will go to incredibly lengths to try to defeat death‚” is a specific theme statement. It talks about a tendency that humans have‚ and incorporates the idea of the American Dream. “Belief in God can help humans
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buy new bunk beds‚ pay the rent‚ the piano bill‚ and fund a trip to the country to visit their grandfather. This shows how much that the children and their families just don’t have. Also the children see a “handcrafted sailboat of fiberglass at one thousand one hundred ninety five dollars.” Sylvia says‚ “That much money could last forever.” Which is true for them. To these children the cost of the toy is a life’s worth of work. Secondly‚ point of view is used in “The Lesson” to reveal the theme of
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