Analysis Of The Book ' The On Mortal Kombat ' By Kevin Wilson

In the story, “The Fighter” by Walter Dean Myers, the main conflict of the story is that Billy, the main character, needs to earn more money for him and his family in order for them to live a nice life. Billy is running low on money, so he needs to do boxing which is the only way he earns money, but his wife does not agree with him because she doesn’t want him to get hurt. Therefore, he is torn between either upsetting his wife to earn money or living in poverty until he could get the right education to get a good job. In the beginning of the story it says Billy is going out, though it doesn’t say where, it is to somewhere his wife does not want him to go. I know this because on page 27 it states,“Billy Giles told his wife that he was just

An example of how fear has the ability to prevent people from following their dreams by forcing them to constantly think about what can go wrong in the time to come can be found in Paulo Coelhos “The Alchemist.” In the fable, Santiago, a Spanish shepherd boy, tells the alchemist that his heart doesn’t want him to continue

One of the many themes developed in the novel, A Separate Peace, is fear. Going to war, not excelling in studies, and jumping from a tree are three events that show how fear is portrayed throughout the story. Fear is an important theme in this story because almost every character ends up being consumed by fear. The entire story revolves around fear and without it, the story wouldn’t be the same.

In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, it carries a very common theme; fear is destructive and can provoke the most daunting actions. Okonkwo and his village went through a bunch of disasters and events because they feared a lot of stuff. Okonkwo was driven to madness by fear and most of his actions were driven by fear.

One of the things we fear the most is the loss of or lack of control. Even if we really don’t have control, we like to think we do, and when we lose that sense of control, fear rushes in. For example, an alcoholic will say " I can quit any time; I’m in control." The fear comes when he realizes for the first time that he is an alcoholic and that he is not in control. We all fear uncertainty and the unknown. We arm ourselves against it with candles in the dark, or faith against the uncertainty of death. Then, when we think we’ve conquered our fear, it comes invading our minds again, let in by a smell or a taste, a sound or a thought Fear is always there, just waiting right under the surface, to awaken those memories which frighten us the most.

As humans, we are prone to evaluating everything, from the way our hair looks to the food that we eat. Evaluation also implies when reading literature books, novels and in this case short stories. According to the Dictionary of Literary Terms, a short story is, “A relatively short narrative (under 1,000 words) which is designed to produce a single dominant effect and which contains the elements of drama” (Shaw 343). When reading I tend to let my imagination take over and place me in the book with the characters. That is why I chose “Mortal Kombat” and “Grand Stand-In” by Kevin Wilson’s Tunneling to the center to the Earth to evaluate. With these two stories I will use the exposition, conflict, and resolution to help critique which one was more worth reading.

overcome their fears. Through the actions and decisions of the characters the themes of fear and

One way authors plant fear in your brain is by transforming something we already know and love into something frightening. One example of this is in the short story “Windigo” by Louise Erdrich. Over the course of the story, the windigo takes an innocent little kid and turns them into a monster. The author introduces an inculpable child, even calling them “little one”. She then takes the kid and transforms them into a monster, a windigo. Following that, she even goes so far as to bring the child home. Home. As a monster. To haunt her own village. It says, “...I carried you home,” and that is when the fear she planted at the beginning really starts to take root. This transformation is a great illustration of an author transforming something you know and love, in

Wells iconic novel, The Time Machine, fear is one of the most relatable, and -not oddly enough- most commonly used theme in even modern literature, today. Wells uses the “Unknown” to support the theme of fear in a variety of ways: from the Time Traveller’s fear of the future and its inhabitants, to the fearful cycle of wants and needs from Morlock to Eloi. Each scenario Wells introduces over the length of the novel shows a different way to look at fear, and the best example of this is the Time Traveller’s apparent fear of being trapped in this unfamiliar and ultimately unknown world during the year of 802,701, A.D. As the Time Traveller finally realises what has become of the world and himself, he is enveloped in fear, and he quotes, “At once, like a lash across the face, came the possibility of losing my own age, of being left helpless in this strange new world. The bare thought of it was an actual physical sensation. I could feel it grip me at the throat and stop my breathing” (“The Time

Fear, the feeling of dread, apprehension or impending danger, it is a powerful emotion that most, if not all, feel. As a child fear may be of the dark, or as an elder it may be of death and the unknown after. A fear of something can come at any moment in time. It is easy to become afraid, but the hard part is learning to overcome it. As the main characters of the summer reading novels are put into fearful situations, they must learn to cope with it in order to help them survive their hardships.

One specific story told in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, describes fear in a different aspect. The story describes a certain environment, specifically the mountainous jungle, causing fear amongst a team of soldiers. It tells of six men who are signed to listen for anything suspicious but they end up hearing chamber music and eventually they panic and request air strikes (68-72). Instead of fearing death or enemies, they fear the Vietnam land but they also fear quietness and the unknown. The idea of being able to hear something but not knowing or seeing what it is allows the audience to understand that being a soldier in the Vietnam War meant not knowing exactly what is happening but still taking action. One other instance that included fear was when Curt Lemon feared getting his teeth cleaned by the dentist and even got a tooth pulled out for no real reason (83-84). Lemon’s fear of embarrassment was far bigger than the fear he had of the dentist. Lemon cannot fear a simple dentist checkup because he is a Vietnam soldier who should fear far worse things than a dentist. This story shows the audience how war shapes Lemon’s fear by allowing us to question what exactly these soldiers fear. We may wonder if Lemon’s simple fear of the dentist is because he doesn’t fear harsher things such as death because he may be accustom to the war

Fear can cause our thinking processes to be distorted and irrational. It may create negative anticipation of things to come. It could cause excessive worrying of what others think or a fear of God’s wrath (Nichols, 2010). Fear sometimes makes the emotions of the individual get out of control with anger, anxiety, depression, and worrying (Nichols, 2010). In the book, all of these emotions are addressed and insight is given to help overcome them. It is important to do the necessary hard work to untie these knots in order to bring a person back to a healthy emotional state of mind. If the fear is not dealt with properly, it can also lead to negative physiological changes to the body as the immune system is weakened

Horror movies. The type of genre that gives a thrill of adrenaline, yet also gives nightmares late at night. Everyone has watched a horror movie at least once in their lives. And during the movie there is also a time in which the viewer just wants to punch the TV screen and call it quits. Whether it is because their favorite character just did something dumb, or because the ending was horrible, there is always a moment in which one thinks: I would have chosen a better option. I could have survived. In literature, it is often the same thing. Believe it or not, fear is a huge contributor to how the story goes; how it ends, and who dies. Fear either motivates the character to take action or, defeats them. But fear doesn’t act alone. Fear influences people, but what influences the fear? The answer is quite simple, no matter how shocking it can be. Just as love brings happiness, it also brings forth the poison of fear. Whether it is the fear of losing the person they love, or fear that they are no longer loved, both of them are huge contributors on how a character’s actions or decisions are influenced.

The author, Sean Gregory, in “The Perilous Fight,” talks about the political issue that has been going on for the past year, the issue started when a professional football player from the San Francisco 49ers team, also known as  Colin Kaepernick, kneeled down when the National anthem for the United States of America was played at the beginning of a game. Kaepernick’s justification for this, was that this was his way of protesting unfair treatment of individuals because of racial characteristics. Since racism, discrimination, and gender inequalities have been going on for centuries, I agree on the matter of sports players being able to  kneel down when the anthem, “Star spangled Banner,” is being played because these people are trying to stand up for what they believe is right, and they should be allowed to protest because it is serving as a peaceful way to protest for people who are being unjustly treated. Racism and discrimination often leads to these individuals who are suffering to be judged, killed, and many other harsh things that should not be taking place in the “land of the free.” We as Americans are given so many great things, and people think about the United States they usually think of  freedom, pursuit of happiness, and the rights of being a U.S. citizen, but how can we exercise those given rights properly, when t the government does not let us by putting limitations and restrictions on how we use our rights?  When it's

Fear, it can be seen by many as an excuse to not succeed in life and has the ability to corrupt if it is not overcome. Within the novel “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer the protagonist, lives in fear after the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers. His fears stop him from completing his goals to find a lock to the key that he believes his father has left behind for him. In order to find the lock, Oskar must conquer his fears. After a tragic event, one must conquer fear and reach the desired goal.