Contemporary Authors Shakespeare 's ' Peace Like A River ' Essay

The great William Shakespeare lived during a time of many noted and influential people such as Pocahontas, King James I, and Sir Walter Raleigh. Even though Pocahontas was born during the later years of Shakespeare’s life, interesting correlations exist between the playwright and the Indian princess. King James I of England wrote about witches, which gave some background information for Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Macbeth. As the special guest of Queen Elizabeth I, it is likely that Sir Walter Raleigh watched some of Shakespeare’s plays presented at court. The daughter of a Native American chief, the King of England, and the famous explorer, all lived and gained notoriety during the lifetime of William Shakespeare.

There’s a lot of literary techniques used in “How to read literature like a professor”. One of the techniques is symbolism. In chapter 12 it talks about someone walking on a road and they encounter two roads that diverge into the woods. There’s a road that everyone uses and then there’s one that almost no one uses and he decides to take that road for some reason. “Two roads diverged into a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference”. To me this symbolizes freedom and decision making. Everyone has to make decisions in their lives ranging from what to eat during lunch to life changing decisions

Right off the bat, the novel starts out with a miracle. It is the miracle of Reuben, who was born with lung issues. When confronted with his not breathing son, Jeremiah commands Reuben, “Reuben Land, in the

Many Elizabethan bedsides were haunted from “the terrors of the night”. Back then their ghosts were nothing like the pasty blobs we call ghosts now. Theirs were quite gruesome. Ghostly visitations were claimed to have been very unpleasant. Not only this, but they claimed it cast them into a state of spiritual confusion.

In the beginning of the novel, Reuben Land tells us his birth story. He informs the reader about the problems he faces with his lungs.

6. “Is the Character ‘Flat’ or ‘Rounded’? A character is considered flat (or static) when he or she does not experience change of any kind, does not grow from beginning to end. Round characters are those who do experience some sort of growth.”

Jeremiah's intervention is observed when he insists, “breathe ….breathe! …. Reuben Land, in the name of the living God I am telling you to breathe” (Enger, p. 3). Jeremiah ordered his son to breathe, even though twelve minutes had passed since he was dead; however, when he orders Reuben to come back to life, he says that in the name of God he must resuscitate. Reuben was not destined to live, and because his father's choice went against what was supposed to happen, Reuben must live an asthmatic life that limits what he is able to do. Ultimately, Enger portrays how all decisions have consequences, and many times the results will not be the expected ones.

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Laertes and Hamlet both lose a father by unnatural and sudden death. The unnatural death of the father is brought on by someone close to the son. When Laertes discovers that his father is dead, he is outraged. When Hamlet learns from the ghost of his father’s murder, he weeps, and promises action, though he delivers none. Both Laertes and Hamlet grieve deeply for their fathers, but Laertes acts upon this grief while Hamlet carefully plots his revenge and waits for the perfect moment to avenge King Hamlet. Laertes’ unplanned action causes his death by his own sword, while Hamlet’s apparent inaction finally gets him the revenge that Laertes has attempted. Though Laertes’ grief at his father’s death causes his

Chapter two - His Separate Shadow: The chapter begins with the mention of miracles and gives a deeper explanation of the three miracles Jeremiah had preformed. Reuben says “At times it felt like [Davy] was Dad's brother instead of [his]” (11). Reuben has a dream including a dead horse and a river, foreshadowing is sensed or maybe a deeper meaning than the reader thinks.

In most literary classics, it is very common to observe a main character that changes when faced with adverse circumstances. The character undergoes a complete transformation because of an event that affects them. However important the actual transformation is, the journey leading up to the event itself reveals the true nature of the character. From this transformation, the audience is able to see his or her heroic disposition. Henry from The Red Badge of Courage, the Lieutenant from “An Episode of War”, Kentuck from “The Luck of Roaring Camp”, and Mother Shipton from “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” all experience this complete 180 degree metamorphosis.

For this paper, I decided to write about bronchiectasis. Bronchiectasis is a respiratory disease that takes on the appearance of cystic fibrosis. It is caused by the buildup of mucous causing the airways to stretch and widen and are irreversible. (American Lung Association, 2015) I chose to write about bronchiectasis because one of my dear friends has recently been diagnosed with this respiratory disease. Jasmine Coleman was born with a rare blood disorder and as a child she was always in and out of the hospital because she was more susceptible to infections, pneumonia was the main problem. Her condition was so severe that she wasn’t expected to have lived through high school, but she is still with us today. Over time her airways have built up with mucous and she began to cough up large amounts of blood. She had undergone various testing and treatments to try to figure out what was wrong. It was only recently when she was finally diagnosed with bronchiectasis. She has only 22 percent lung function and that is mainly in her left lung for her right lung is filled with blood. She is currently on six liters of oxygen when she is out and about and two liters for when she is resting. (Times Bulletin, 2015) She may be

In chapter 3 of Peace Like A River Ruben and Jeremiah came home from a church service to find out that their front door had been completely tarred with one gallon of Gambles Roofing Tar by Israel Finch, and Tommy Basca. When Ruben sees this he describes a sudden change in the air, and with his lungs. He characterized the air as becoming thicker,warmer, and being filled with invisible mites that colluded his lungs. He describes his lungs a sponge, and bellows that are used to rouse a fire.Jeremiah had to sit him down and put a hot towel over his face to loosen his lungs. When this particular conflict arose Ruben immediately went into shock and his asthma flared

William Shakespeare was born on (or around the time of) April 23, 1564 and he lived in Stratford Upon- Avon, England. His parents were John Shakespeare and Mary Shakespeare. He lived with 5 siblings, three brothers and two sisters. William was the oldest in his house, he would have been the third oldest if his first two sisters didn’t die as babies. His family would have had 9 people in the same house, but with both of the sister’s deaths he had 7 people within his house.

From his tragic story of Hamlet to the romantic comedy The Tempest, William Shakespeare has been capturing his audience since he started writing in the late 1500's. When Shakespeare first started writing in 1590, he began writing plays, both tragedies and comedies, then he wrote poetry called sonnets. It is said that he last thing he wrote was finished in 1613, because as people suggest, that was when he lost his sight. He died three years later in 1616. He is known around the globe for his writing style and unique plots. His plays are studied in high schools and colleges around the world. Shakespeare has made history with his literature. During the Renaissance, Shakespeare wrote in three different genres, comedy, tragedy, and poetry.

While I have gone to a few live events, the only theatrical one that I seem to remember was the one live event I paid the least attention to. In my junior year of high school, everyone in our year who was taking the Shakespearean English class took a field trip to the Tennessee Shakespeare Company that operated out of a building located about fifteen minutes from my school. The aim of the field trip was to learn more about Shakespeare from a perspective based more on producing and acting, rather than one based on purely the script. Naturally, as we were given the exceedingly rare opportunity to not attend more than half of our classes that day, we were incredibly hyped up… for everything that was not related to Shakespeare. Now, this does not mean that we all hated Shakespeare, because a few of us did enjoy a few of his works that we had read so far. However, when it comes to the choice between something remotely academic, and something not, the something not will win 9 out of 10 times, especially if you are dealing with around 70-80 sixteen and seventeen year old guys. It did not help that I had a supplementary football workout form 6:00 to 7:30 in the morning that day and wanted to do nothing but chill that day, rather than do something educational.