Crow Lake By Mary Lawson

Unlike animals, humans are able to observe past the mere monochromatic vision of survival. We have an impeccable ability to desire more than just living to breed, and breeding only to someday perish. Thus, we gradually brush this canvas with the colours of ethics, control, and knowledge. Whether the colours fade or become prominent through time, this canvas becomes our perception of normality and we allow it to justify our actions; favorable or harmful. We, as well as the narrator in the short story The Hunt by Josephine Donovan represent this. However, because of the narrator’s difference in perception, self-indulgence, and greed for power, the story introduces a feeling of infuriation to the reader.

The poem I chose to do a close reading essay on was, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” by Mary Elizabeth Frye. “Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905-2004) is an American poet who remains known today for a single poem-a sonnet of just twelve lines-but it may be the most popular poem in the English language. “Do not stand at my grave and weep” is a consoling Holocaust poem and elegy with an interesting genesis, since it was written by a Baltimore housewife who lacked a formal education and had quite never written poetry before, and certainly none of note” (The HyperTexts). The tone of this poem is comforting and helps people find comfort with the view of death. This poem uses a lot of imagery, metaphors, and symbolism. Frye’s, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep,” is enlightening people how to handle a death of a loved one while using important parts of the theme such as tone, vocabulary, and overall meaning.

Comparably, Ooka Shohei also utilizes theatrical effects in his story as a tool to convey unconventional themes such as cannibalism that happened among Japanese troops oversea. Ooka is a survivor-author with personal experience of war’s dehumanizing nature when he was drafted abroad to the Philippines during the Pacific War. Thus, his work, “Fire on the Plain,” which serves the therapeutic purpose as Ooka recovered from wartime trauma, is somewhat based on his direct experiences. However, the book reads more like a fictional account of the war by focusing on the psychological turmoil. When working on provoking readers’ sympathy with the agony suffered by Japanese soldiers stranded in an unfamiliar land, Ooka has to overcome the problem of possibly

Jasper Jones composed by Craig Silvey is a first person narrative that incorporates the conventions of the bildungsroman theme through the use of many language features. In my own composition, I have made use of an extended metaphor that compares a confetti popper to the feelings of an adolescent named Charlie during his coming of age experience. I developed this extended metaphor as it’s reoccurring appearance emphasises the moral development within Charlie and also represents the explosion of feelings that growing up can stimulate.

This is My Lemonade, is an adoption story about Robert Mulkey. Ernest and Alice was a married couple with one child, Cheryl, but they wanted another baby and could not conceive one after having three miscarriages. Ernest had a sister, Lavelle, who was a columnist in British Columbia. While there Lavelle was approached by Gwen, a pregnant 30-year-old, and her sister Maria, that needed help in locating adoptive parents for Gwen’s child. It was the 1950s in British Columbia and Gwen was a single pregnant woman and that was seen as socially unacceptable. Gwen thought about her possibilities and came down to two, to get an abortion or to give the baby up for adoption. So Lavelle contacted her brother Ernest and his wife Alice and asked them if they would be willing to take in Gwen and house her, paying for all her expenses until her baby was born, and then Alice and Ernest would then legally adopt Gwen’s baby. So that is just what happened. Gwen was flown down to Oregon, where Alice and Ernest lived, and stayed with them. Gwen bonded extremely well with Alice, sharing with her all about her life and even about the father of her baby, Guilio. Gwen told Alice about Guilio and how he knew she was pregnant but didn’t agree with Gwen on giving their son up; so going to Oregon alone and living with the family until the baby was born and then sign the parental rights over was the best decision. After the baby, Robert, was born, Gwen had three months to decide if giving up the baby was

Kira may be killed if she does not return all of the conflict between her and the villagers to the Council of Guardians. This would affect her friends, family and evidently her future. Kira is a strong witted young girl, and does not always know what to do when she is left

In the book the location starts and ends at the pond to show the circle of their life and how they end up always coming back to the same place after everything. The pond represents closure and a safe place away from society to them. It’s ironic that Lennie meets his death at the pond because it’s a place they would go, talk about their dreams and a place to be safe. The book shows the pond is a safe place with the way they describe the place and the adjectives they use. In the beginning of the book it says, “The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.” That quote from the book shows how calming and safe the pond feels to them. While when Lennie meets his death at

Whether in the past or present, this is a country driven by two things: entertainment and capital. Women seem to be most attracted to the entertainment aspect, as demonstrated in Sandra Cisneros’s short story “Woman Hollering Creek” through the telenovelas. Men on the other hand are attracted to the business world and the capital that comes from pure competition and winning, the more the better. This is on display in David Mamet’s play Glengarry Glen Ross. Every vice has a consequence however, as Cisneros and Mamet both prove, when people are motivated in the wrong way, they are doomed to fail. In Cisneros’s story, Cleofilas is drawn to telenovelas which provide images of how life should be. She sees what she believes to be successful women, but the more she tries to emulate them the worse her life seems to be. Likewise, in Mamet’s play, the salesmen are all driven to win at any cost. This leads to betrayal, rifts in relationships, and total failure in the end because the high level capitalist nature has become unattainable for most of the men.

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom started with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ten Boom Watch shop in Haarlem, Holland. Highly respected for their deep religious faith, the ten Boom family gave help to anyone who might need it. The celebration took place in 1937, under the shadow of World War II as well as the rise of Nazism. The Dutch people, believing that their neutrality would be honored as it had in World War 1, could not have imagined the horrors that would soon befall them.

No one realize that if the king crabs come up to the surface, it can change one thing but in a very big way. There is no proof that the king crabs will move to the surface and change the ecosystem. Because there is no proof, researchers had to test this hypothesis. James McClintock who is an author to the study, he explains how they can know if the king crabs will travel to the surface or not. The researchers would have to track the crabs’ movements by following them with a camera. As the ocean warms up in the Antarctic, the crabs will become powerful predators as they travel from their deep sea homes up to the surface. When the ocean is very cold, the crabs cannot survive the cold so they stay deep in the ocean to survive. The king crabs can

Introduction In the novel Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid concentrates on the protagonist and how her two identities play a part in this novel. Lucy analysis herself as an immigrant from the Caribbean within the United States. Not only do immigrants have to face a physical displacement, but also have to change their identity to integrate into broader society. The changing environment causes many conflicts between one identity to another.

A friend of Charles and Nell Vyse, the artist William Stott 14 had lately leased one of the Cheyne Row studios, and not long after settling in he proposed that he should paint a conversation piece, depicting both the Vyses at work in their studio. Titled The Revivalists by Stott, the painting completed by 1921, and exhibited by him at the Royal Academy (RA 17) in the same year. It was an opportune advertising coup for the Vyses, as Vyse was showing two figurative works in the same exhibition. The following year when The Illustrated London News reproduced Stott’s painting, The Revivalists (Fig. 42), the Vyses found that they had gained a kind of fame. After some ninety years, the painting is an instructive piece of evidence documenting

I chose the movie Arrival because I was interested in the movie itself, and also I wanted to dig deeper into its own connection with philosophy. Arrival is about a linguistics professor, Louise Banks, who helps find the reason why 12 spaceships have landed in different locations around the world. It is her task to learn their language, help them learn our language, and determine their purpose. But, she isn’t working alone, she has the help from Ian Donnelly, a theoretical physicist, and from the 12 other countries in which the spaceships have landed. She and her team, had the chance to enter the ship and have first hand communication with the aliens. It was difficult at first since these aliens not only did not speak English, they wrote in a completely different language. They come a place where time does not appear to exist, so therefore they can write a sentence simultaneously. Banks, in order to figure out the alien’s purpose here, was obligated to open her mind to their way of life. Hence, she commenced to view the earth without time. Banks was able to not

H2O, is made up of two simple atoms, hydrogen and two oxygen, both make up an essential element for survival to all spans of life on Earth. Water, is used to help make bonds in the human body, cushions and nourishes the brain, it also helps maintain the correct body temperature, just to name a few critical importance of safe drinking water. Drinking Water Safely, written by Jill Adams, on July 15, 2016, is a current article on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan and the concerns of safe drinking water in the United States. Having water flow up to our homes at the second we need it, is a luxury, however having safe water is a necessity.

“Night mother” was Marsha Norman’s fifth play written in 1981. The work received generally favorable reviews when it was first produced in 1983. This play was intended to be written about suicide but rather focuses on the relationship between the mother and daughter. The drama play “Night mother” involves a woman who decides to commit suicide in the midst of her depression, loneliness and helpless world. The dialogue between the mother and daughter shows how strained their relationship is and what has happened through their lives. This play also shows how mother becomes aware of the reality for the first time for the individuality of her daughter. The two most focused and active characters are Jessie as daughter and mother as Thelma. In the play, we learned that Jessie is a woman whose husband has left her due to her addiction of smoking and her failure to raise a son properly who turned out to be a thief and drug addict. Jessie’s mother, Thelma tolerates the company of her daughter to prevent being lonely. Jessie does not have any hope for a bright future and no longer has the will to live. She is also a patient of the epileptic seizures.