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In A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park tells a story about one out of a thousand Southern Sudan lost boys named, Salva. Salva is a boy who ran away during the Southern Sudanese War. Salva moves from country to country to get away from this war. During the war he loses touch of his family. Salva soon escapes the war, now he’s trying to find his way to safety. Salva was able to survive In A Long Walk to Water, by having bravery, courage, and showing grit.

In life it is important that you remember that you cannot give up on your goals. Accomplishing your goals can improve your personality and lead to a happy life. Goals are never easy to reach but by leaving them behind you are only letting yourself and others down. Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen, shows that it is important to have determination to achieve your goals.

In the first paragraph, the author writes “they have every right to be upset, livid, or even violence-contemplating”? I knew there was going to be some type of physical conflict as the core problem in the story. Although there was no physical conflict between the characters, it was easy to imagine how the accident could have turned with a physical conflict at its core just waiting to happen. The accident was the older man’s fault and who wouldn’t be upset if someone hits your car? ‘None of them is hurt, but the car is wrecked. “Just bought this today, ” the driver says. Just imagine the day you buy a car someone runs into the back of it and wrecks it. you can see how the older man would be intimidated by three younger teens. In the story the Man explains the feelings he has prior to meeting with the teenagers, he’s nervous but knows it was his fault and ultimately feels very sorry especially after finding out the car was brand new. The conflict that he thought would come about ironically didn’t. The teenagers were understanding, disappointed and upset but understanding that accidents happen. With the older man offering to cover the cost of all the damages they knew that the problem was solved. They were much more mature than he

with that "somebody" being the author (Foster 95). This reveals an important element of violence in literature, because it shows how violence, unlike other elements of a story, connects the internal events of the story to the story itself and ultimately the reader and author. When reading literature one of the goals is to understand the story beyond its literal meaning, and this

“In a few seconds, we had ceased to be men” (PG.36). Elie is a jewish boy from Transylvania and is taken to Auschwitz where he is separated from his mother and sister. His father and Elie are moved the the concentration camp called “Buna” and spend most of their time there. They then had to be evacuated to Gleiwitz, where they ran about 42 miles to get there. They spent about 3 days there and then they were transported to Buchenwald by train. There they are rescued by Americans and a resistance part that attacked the camp. Sadly Elie’s father dies in Buchenwald due to a sickness and being sent to the crematory. Dehumanization of the Jewish people in “Night” ,by Elie Wiesel, happened in a variety of ways and helped Hitler achieve his ideas about Jewish people.

The Second Sudanese Civil War was an intense battle between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan Liberation army. The extensive fight lasted 22 years, one of the longest civil wars in history. Many people in Sudan were affected during this hard time, including Nya and Salva. In the book A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, the theme is perseverance. Salva faces many bumps in the road becoming one of the “lost boys” of Sudan, but he works through all of his issues while trying to stay positive.

The Germans decided not just to kill all the Jews but dehumanizing them instead, what impact did this have on the inmates of the concentration camps? The humanity of people is fragile and can be stripped away leading to a demeaned human nature.

Elie Wiesel was a twelve year old boy who just wanted to learn about ‘The secrets of the Jewish Mysticism, but ended up getting a world of hurt instead in the upcoming years of his life.

The reader’s introduction to the main character is that of a violent act, where he defaces a car that is implied to have been stolen in front of a car park worker. There is no explanation for why he acted in such fashion, or why the attendant “ducked his head away” and ignored him when he first caught eyes with the narrator. The reader at this point can assume that the narrator has a history of violence in this society, but it is unclear why he has gone unpunished for such acts, and more so it is unclear what his motivation behind his

Lastly, the theme is shown when the bond between father and son is at its strongest. In Night by Elie Wiesel, when Elie and his father are fighting for their lives in the cold, Wiesel writes, “Don’t worry, son. Go to sleep. I’ll watch over you. You first, Father.

In Linda Sue Park’s book A Long Walk To Water, the main character learned that one with hope and persistence will go far in their life. The main character had hope and persistence on his journey when he lost loved ones during the war, went to the refugee camp, and to his “new” family in the United States of America. The main character showed that he had hope and persistence to keep him moving throughout this marjory journey. Slava faced many struggles in his journey, some were mentally hard to overcome them like losing loved ones. In the book A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park on page 65 “Marial and Uncle were no longer by his side…”

"They turn casually to look at you, distracted, and get a mild distracted surprise, you're gone. Their blank look tells you that the girl they were fucking is not there anymore. You seem to have disappeared.(pg.263)" In Minot's story Lust you are play by play given the sequential events of a fifteen year old girls sex life. As portrayed by her thoughts after sex in this passage the girl is overly casual about the act of sex and years ahead of her time in her awareness of her actions. Minot's unique way of revealing to the reader the wild excursions done by this young promiscuous adolescent proves that she devalues the sacred act of sex. Furthermore, the manner in which the author illustrates to the reader these acts symbolizes the

     Another example of violence transpiring for more than a sole purpose, is through the character of Jonathan Harker. Jonathan is struggling with an inner conflict, and one of the supernatural; man versus himself and man versus the supernatural. His inner conflict is due to the fact that in his mind, he is a prisoner in Castle Dracula, and there are no means of escape. Therefore, the struggle within himself is one of keeping his sanity and rational way of thinking, since he is such a rational, business-minded man. However, the most obvious conflict derives from the physical and mental struggle with Count Dracula. The novel sets a tone of good versus evil or the supernatural, which is directly related to the conflict. Accordingly, on June 29, the Count tells Jonathan that this is his last day when he stated, "To-morrow, my friend, we must part"(pg.51). After the Count led him to the door where the wolves were howling, he

Sexual objectification is the act of treating a person as an instrument of sexual pleasure. Miller elucidates this by using milieu of the time period. This sexual objectification of women is mainly used by Willy with his mistress and also with the philandering Happy when he talks about women. This ideology that women are only good for the pleasure of men something that has been prevalent for centuries, stemming from the stereotype that women are objects and/or possessions for a man to exploit. Willy shows no respect to either his wife or his mistress. On his way back to Brooklyn, Willy tells his mistress to “keep [her] pores open” (1.39). This degrading statement gives insight on how Willy views women. He does not view women as people who have identities of their own, but objects that he can use for his own pleasure. Not only does this statement give insight on Willy’s views on women, but also how the mistress views herself. Her response to this statement was “Oh, Willy (1.39)”, and starts to burst out laughing. This depicts how in this time men treated women with no respect, and there were no repercussions. Linda never stood up to Willy in Brooklyn, and neither did his mistress in New England. Willy’s insolence towards women definitely rubbed off onto Happy. Happy, a philanderer, had an “If I want it, then I will get it” attitude towards women. This attitude is demonstrated when he states that, “...I don’t want the girl, and still I take it and- I love it” (1.25). This statement is the epitome of sexual objectification towards women. Happy doesn’t view women as people, but instead just as things that he can “take”.

In John Patrick Shanley’s play, “Doubt: A Parable”, and Paula Vogel’s play, “How I Learned to Drive”, both have strong themes of sexuality in the forms of sexual predation and pedophilia. Although these two stories are considerably different, the message is the same. “Doubt” is a play that concerns a mystery over whether or not a boy (Donald) has been raped by a priest, and “How I learned to Drive” is a play about a woman (Li’l Bit) who reminisces about the sexual molestation and the emotional manipulation she had to endure at the hands of her uncle. Although these plays both have main theme of sexuality, they each have vastly different settings, desires, and outcomes. In this essay, I will compare and contrast the theme of sexuality in both of these plays.