Analyzing Akira Kurosawa's 'The Blizzard'

David Ives’ “The Blizzard” does a good job of making people analyze their selves and their everyday life. His drama has the capabilities of making people ask many questions about themselves. Why do I follow a routine? Why do I settle for the same things over and over again? How do I break this cycle? What could I be doing differently with my life? It makes many people realize just how routine oriented they are. It also brings to light the fear and unwillingness to change that some people have.

In Jon Krakauer's novel Into the Wild, the main character, Chris McCandless, seeks nature so that he can find a sense of belonging and the true meaning of who he is. However, it is the essence of nature that eventually takes his life away from him. At the end of his life, he is discovers his purpose and need of other people. After Chris McCandless death in Alaska, Krakauer wrote Into the Wild to reflect on the journey that McCandless makes. Krakauer protrays McCandless as a young man who is reckless, selfish, and arrogant, but at the same time, intelligent, determined, independent, and charismatic. Along with the irony that occurs in nature, these characteristics are the several factors that contribute to McCandless death.

In life, one must overcome their fears in order to achieve or successfully attain a certain goal in their mind. The short story “Through the Tunnel”, by Doris Lessing tells us about how Jerry builds confidence and maturity throughout the story, by overcoming his fear of going through the dark and scary tunnel underneath the water. The author portrays the idea of overcoming one’s fear to achieve a goal through Jerry, who was once a childish and isolated character, had begun his risky adventure of going through the tunnel to prove his worth to a group of boys and along the way discovers what he truly wants. Over time he becomes more mature and in the end, gain self-acceptance.

The storms presences is essential, without it then none of the events would have taken place. Without the storm rolling on in, then the father and son would have not been stuck at Friedheimer’s store. Instead they would have been on there way home for dinner, rather than sitting on the porch waiting for the storm to pass. If there was no storm then Calixta would not have in countered an old friend, Alcee. Though they were both still friends, Alcee seemed to still be infatuated with Calixta even though they are both now married. For if there was no storm, then neither of them would have met and they would have never decided to betray their partners. This storm is what had made these events happen, without it then this story would

In chapter 7 of Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Chris rejects a plane ticket from his employer and partial friend, Wayne Westerberg. “McCandless wouldn’t even consider it.” (67) He said, “‘No, I want to hitch north. Flying would be cheating.

What is Naturalism? Naturalism is applying scientific principles of objectivity to study humans. In Kate Chopin narrative “The Storm” nature was taking over the story. The Storm is a story that was centered on the nature and how does it force Alcee and Calixta to do things that they did not want to do. In this essay, I will analyse or show how does naturalism was introduce in the story.

They are an active community of which all engage in the same ritual. Although the ritual is unethical, it is safe to say that all types of people in this town work together, creating a similar culture amongst everyone. Also, this particular town creates a cultural body, as referred to as Scholes, based on their households. A family in this village consisted of a mother, father, and a couple of children. The mother was the caregiver, cooker and cleaner, the father was the workingman, and the children went to school and came home. The boys would help their fathers with house work involving tools and the girls would learn from their mothers the ways of caregiving and so on.

Occasionally in a person's life, he or she wonders about a certain purpose in life. In extreme cases, when a person attempts to find one's self, he or she may find his or herself in a dangerous or even deadly position. In Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, Chris McCandless goes out into the wilderness of Alaska to find himself, but he never returns. Jon Krakauer organizes his novel in a circular way, which ties the story together well, and he uses long, periodic sentences to detail and emphasize his points about life and death situations in order to create an aspect of imagery and description throughout the novel.

The story Through the Tunnel is about a young boy named Jerry and his mother going on vacation to a beach resort that they have previously visited. The villa they are staying at consist of two beaches. The safe, crowded beach is where Jerry’s mother goes and the wild Rocky Bay is where Jerry ends up spending most of his time. While Jerry swims in the water at the wild bay, he sees a group of boys diving into the water. Jerry knew right when he saw them, he wanted to be just like them. In his eyes, “They were big boys—men to Jerry” (Lessing 148). To show that he was brave, he found the courage to dive off the

But he could have ran away, and avoided the awful things he has to endure. But due to his poor choices, no more than letting them take him away could be expected. He wakes up in a basement, tied up like a wild animal. But shows exemplary mettle and comes out alive, and wanting to

“Storm Country” by Paul Crenshaw is about his own childhood growing up in Arkansas which is in the heart of tornado alley (Crenshaw, 2004, pg. 203). He explains his encounters with tornadoes and the memories that this remarkable but destructive storm left. Paul Crenshaw explained his story about a tornado in a descriptive way which gave life and meaning with every sentence. After I was done reading I started to think about my own experiences with storm watching during the day and even at night. I agreed with every point he made about the mesmerizing moment of when a storm hits by relating it with my own points about storms.

Krakauer writes Chris McCandless’s story out of order to reveal his understanding of Chris and his story, and to shape how the reader views him. Before the book, Into The Wild, was written, Krakauer had written an article on the death of Chris, so the telling of the story, where the ending was already well known, would not hold the interest of many people. Therefore, the first time that Chris is introduced, he is right about to enter into the Alaskan woods for his big adventure, “Gallien thought the hitchhiker’s scheme was foolhardy and tried repeatedly to dissuade him…“But he wouldn't give an inch. He had an answer for everything I threw at him.””(Page 7-8, paragraph 7) There is not much that can be told about Chris from this first meeting

Feminist American author, Kate Chopin, is known for her stories with strong and daring female lead stories. Her common themes display women, femininity, marriage, liberation, oppression, and perseverance. The Louisiana based novelist famous works started the feminist movement. Chopin’s stories The Story of an Hour and The Storm have many similarities and differences as do the majority of her work. The main characters, Calixta and Mrs. Mallard, both portray an odd attitude towards marriage.

Every story that begins must eventually come to an end, and that is true for both literary and commercial fiction. In literature, there are three types of endings an author can provide within their writings: a happy end with the protagonist’s conflict resolved, an indeterminate end where the resolution is inconclusive or undefined, or an unhappy end where the conflict is not resolved at all. These three types of endings can be found in both types of fictions, with literary fiction characteristically possessing unhappy endings, and commercial fictions ending more on a happier note. In Tobias Wolff’s story of “Hunters in the Snow”, the author clearly depicts an unhappy end resulted through his characters, conflict, and overall story

After further and cumulative study of the story, one may come to the conclusion that the man in the story has totally influenced reality both in his refusal to allow perceptions persuade him from his mission as he set out to it and also in his utter confidence in his own perceptions of his unique and higher judgment maintaining an overly optimistic outset in regards to his own abilities. One particularly dire incident began, “The man was shocked. It was as though he had just heard his own sentence of death” (London 130). One can see by the word “shocked” that he clearly assumed nothing would go wrong, until it actually is done already.