Back To The Future Analysis

Various children grow up admiring and desiring to be comparable to their mother or father. In the poem, “Future Connected By,” Edward J. Whitelock contrasts the son’s desire to follow in his father’s footsteps of becoming a welder with the father’s desire for his son to be more successful than he was. In the poem the son says, ““I’m going to be a welder, just like my dad”” (Whitelock 141). Some people would agree that the son is right to think highly of his father and want to be in the same profession as him. To a certain extent they are right but most parents’ want to see their children go further in life than they did. Whitelock clearly demonstrates that the father knows his sons true potential when he tells his son “ “No yer not. Yer too

In the book, A Long Way Gone, there is an array of different tones. The author uses them to shine light on the central theme and main idea of the story. The tone is important because it emphasizes the emotion of the text and the story being told. The author, Ishmael Beah, who is also the main character in the book has had a rough life. He grew up in the city of Mattru Jong, which is in the country of Sierra Leone. War had swept over the land changing everything and everyone. Beah was forced into being a child soldier at the age of twelve. By looking at the book, A Long Way Gone, one can see that Beah was put through things that no person should go through and it has shaped his entire world, with death, loss, and pain.

In Ishmael Beah’s memoir, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Beah encourages the opinion that everyone is responsible for his/her own actions in all cases. Beah proves this opinion to be true through death, thievery, and violence.

In 1982, Scott directed what is considered the most accurate mirror of our current society with his movie Blade Runner, influenced by Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The screenplay covers many common philosophical dilemmas; including but not limited to genetic engineering and divine purpose. The setting is a futuristic city with closely resembles the twenty-first century. Further, the editing illuminates the dismal ambiance that corruption can trap people in.

Many people in the past and today believe the future will hold advancements in how humans live and what they use. The most common advancement is technology. Technology is the future, from the simplicity of turning on a light, to an advance development of a robot. The future is commonly told through sci-fi movies and through non fictional books such as the stories “The Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury or “The Nethergrave” by Glaria Skurzynski. The story Nethergrave is better than The Sound of Thunder because it’s more entertaining, shows better imagery, and it’s ultimately easier to understand.

What did A Long Way Gone teach you from a historical perspective? What did Ishmael’s personal history communicate to you about the recent history of his homeland?

A Little boy forced into a man's shoe Ishmael Beah the boy who survived a war.Ishmael Beah wrote the memoir A Long Way Gone about himself surviving as a boy soldier for the RUF (Revolutionary United Front).Ishmael Beah writes in first person view so the experience is more involving to the reader.Ishmael Beah lived in Sierra leone a small country in Africa he was a little kid with his friends making a rap group on their way to a talent show until they heard screaming and people running.Ishmael Beah develops the themes of sanctity of life,loss of one's innocence,and survival under unique conditions in his memoir A Long Way Gone as an example of describing the importance of the memoir topic.

Imagine you hear gunshots echoing through the woods. You begin to see soldiers running towards you with overwhelming aggression. You begin to run as fast as you can and flee from the terrifying men. A Long Way Gone , written by Ishmael Beah is a story that was written of the author's experiences in the Sierra Leone civil war. Ishmael was constantly faced with dangers and the terrors that came from this civil war. Ishmael begins happy with his family but by the end he has lost his family and has the traumatic experience of being a child soldier. In A Long Way Gone the consequences of war shown include, a change in native culture, loss of family, and death and injury to innocent people. These consequences were shown throughout the story and the civil war.

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. -Plato” Music is as a light of hope for Ishmael Beah, when he is placed in these life or death situations. Music plays a big role in most of everyone’s lives. Music can cheer you up, it can get you excited, it can calm you down, and in Beah’s eyes it can save your life. I use music in my everyday life to to cope with my stress, and play music that corresponds with my mood. In some parts of our world, music is their culture. As Santana’s song says, let the music set you free. In the book A Long Way Gone, Beah’s music plays a big role in his survival and displays his innocence when he was still a kid.

A Long Way Gone. Ishmael Beah. New York. Sarah Crichton Books, February 13, 2007. 229 pages.

In A Long Way Gone, the author applies the device of polysyndeton to list out the movies that the boys watched in order to fuel their rage and violence. It’s obvious that the films influence the boys due to the fact that the soldiers are willing to do anything to watch them. The polysyndeton is shown in the novel when Ishmael lists out the films he and the other soldiers watch: “War movies, Rambo: First Blood, Rambo II, Commando, and so on, with the aid of the generator or sometimes a car battery.” (Beah, pg 121.) The excerpt from the novel indicates that the soldiers want to watch these films using any means possible. The films create a heavy influence on them through the violence shown. Since the films create such an influence, this causes

11) Q: Is it surprising that Beah spends a relatively small portion of the book describing his time as a soldier in the war? Why might he have decided to devote much more time to his life before and after his time in the army?

What struck me so much about The Future is Now is the very premise of the essay. She starts with a description of how she was told to protect herself from a nuclear bomb, and the instructions she was given that were evidently ineffective. She contrasts what she is told with her own logic; a table won’t protect you from the bomb, it will only protect you if someone may be throwing bricks at your window.

Throughout this semester our literary material dealt with themes of technology, modernization, the imponderable bloom, human nature, and truth to name a few of the most overarching. Each text has woven an impression of the possible near future for humanity if the patterns we are creating continue at an exponential rate. Patterns such as consumerism, neglecting unpleasurable emotions, using drugs, and controlling the environment for our short term benefits will write an unsavory and inevitable future. Science Fiction often reflects on society by exaggerating their negative characteristics and advancements to seem far-out, but often it is ironic how close many aspects of the fiction are a direct reflection of the present condition. Even now, the possibilities of utopias and dystopias forming are not so out of reach. The ability of our culture to control an entire population with a self-satisfied culture of vices outfitted with technology is less and less science fiction as the years pass.

H.G. Wells's Presentation of Future in The Time Machine When Wells was writing "The Time Machine" in 1895 England was a country where society consisted of several classes. These were mainly the middle classes, these were the people who ran factories and had a lot of wealth. The other class was working class, the people who worked in factories and mines. Also there were a huge number of factories and mines.