Crows In Monkey Night

19-23 June - I will be TDY in El Paso TX: This could be a week that you can come to ARSOUTH and help us develop an NCO ADOS position write up for next FY and maybe the same week you can engage the ARNORTH SGM(SGM Clause) if the 377th TSC will support them in the near future.

Various novels can be classified as “coming-of-age” texts, this means that these are stories about a protagonist’s transition from childhood to adulthood or just growing up even as an adult. These novels show their growth and change in character over the length of the text. Novels such as The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston are all examples of coming-of-age novels. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God the story is focused on Janie Crawford and her growth over the course of the book.

Adeline Virginia Stephen was born on January 25, 1882 in Kensington, London, into a house full of 8 children.

This seemed as though it were a sign from God. So far, Leif Enger has used Birds in his story as representations of God’s presence. This part in the novel, however, is somewhat opposite. After the Lands had stopped by August and Birdie’s place, they stared to drive across the boarder into North Dakota. As they were driving on an open road with no other approaching cars, Swede noticed something black, flapping in the middle of the road up ahead. They later realize it is a dead crow. This however was not common what so ever to see a crow in North Dakota. They thought nothing of it and proceeded on their journey. As they kept driving, there was yet another crow found dead in the middle of the road. Jeremiah later goes on to say, “I was just thinking, all the years I spent in North Dakota, that’s the first crow I ever saw hit on the road.” (page 134) Enger purposefully made Jeremiah’s line prominent to tell the reader that this was very suspicious and out of the ordinary to see not one, but two dead crows on their way. God still seemed to appear at this moment but in a different perception. God seemed to be warning them that something bad was yet to come. Perhaps if the crows weren’t found dead, they could have meaning that the Land’s were headed in the right direction. Although because the crows were dead, the Land’s were followed with bad news the next day. This shows that God’s presence has been represented through birds. Although, when birds are interfered with people, such as possibly crows being hit by a vehicle, they lose the presence of God and bad news is yet to

One of the prevailing theories about why primates have such good color vision is that it allowed them to pick out fruits against the green backgrounds of forests and jungles (Osorio et al., 2004). New World monkey color vision is an evolutionary puzzle because the same evolutionary pressures for finding food should act similarly on both sexes.

Everyday birds fly in the sky. They leave the ground of reality and escape to the portal of the spirit world- the sky. Birds are prominent figures in Native American cultures. The significance and spirituality of birds in Native American culture is translated into Native American literature. In Monkey Beach, The Lesser Blessed, and Flight the main characters experience traumatizing events. As indigenous characters, the spirit world and spirituality are mechanisms that they use to cope with their trauma. Whether these characters have the birds’ spirituality thrusted upon them through birds or seek spirituality in the birds, the main characters of all three pieces of literature all share birds as devices of spirituality. In these books birds

Robinson uses nature and spirituality to connect the main protagonist, Lisa, to the old ways of the Haisla people. Throughout the first passage of Monkey Beach, Lisa describes many instances of animals and nature coming

It is inevitable for someone to go through life and not ever have to feel the unfortunate feeling of grief. Eden Robinson provides a heart wrenching novel that gives readers the feeling of hope and doubt all at once. When a tragedy strikes it is in those moments that people show their true character. Although, when some people experience tragic situations they are never able to recover. Monkey Beach tells a story of a teenage girl named Lisa, who just so happens to face death, discrimination, and the spiritual world all at once. For Lisa she discovers who she is, ironically through the losses of others. Even though Lisa has to face many struggles in the novel, not only does it bring her closer with her culture, it lets her connect with people who have been disconnected.

The fundamental characteristic of magical realism is its duality, which enables the reader to experience both the character’s past and the present. In the novel, Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson uses this literary device to address the the trauma and mistreatment of the Haisla community in Canada by unveiling the intimate memories of the protagonist, Lisamarie, and the resulting consequences of this oppression. Monkey Beach illustrates how abuse in the past leads to another form of self-medication in the future - a neverending, vicious cycle for the members of the Haisla community. Many characters in Monkey Beach are scarred from childhood sexual abuse and family neglect, and resort to drug and alcohol abuse as a coping mechanism. These

The "supernatural" elements of Monkey Beach, by Eden Robinson make up a large portion of the book's context and are the central focus of the novel. These supernatural elements force the audience to question whether Lisamarie suffers from mental health issues, or if her experiences with the supernatural are part of her Haisla culture. The supernatural elements Lisamarie encounters does not suggest that Lisamarie suffers from mental health issues. A Eurocentric reading of the text would state that Lisamarie is mentally unstable and that her visions are linked directly to her wellbeing. Lisamaries supernatural visions are discouraged through lack of understanding of the Haisla culture, the misunderstanding of Lisamaries "gift", and an untold

Probably the most notable use of birds occurs when after ten years, Sula returns to the Bottom accompanied by a “plague of robins”(89). The word plague indicates that the birds represent a wave of sickness that Sula brings alongside her. The citizens of the Bottom recognize the birds as a sign of evil, but choose to accept its wickedness rather than try to rid of the robins. “But they let it run it’s course, fulfill itself, and never invented ways to either alter it, to annihilate it or to prevent its happening again. So also were they with people” (90). Here, Morrison is comparing the townspeople’s feelings both towards the evilness of the robins and towards the evilness of Sula. They welcome Sula’s return to the Bottom the same way they they welcome the birds. Sula’s personal experiences with wickedness are also acknowledged through the robins as Sula

Coming of age is an influential part of many people’s lives. They begin to leave behind their innocent childhood views and develop a more realistic view on the world around them as they step forward into adulthood. (Need to add transition) Many authors have a coming of age theme in their books; specifically, Harper Lee portrays a coming of age theme in his book To Kill A Mockingbird. Through the journeys of their childhoods, Jem and Scout lose their innocence while experiencing their coming of age moment, making them realize how unfair Maycomb really is.

The faculty of consciousness and thought- that inner voice of reason constraining one from happiness, or perhaps protecting one from the inherent fear, death, and gloom embodying the earth. This is what gothic literature writers across the centuries have worked so hard to convey; human thought in it’s most primal form. It is the darkness present in people’s hearts and minds that claws at them, torments and traps them; it drains the soul from their body leaving nothing behind but a broken mind. In the 1700’s these topics frequently arose through a literature movement known as romanticism. Most gothic literature writers including Edgar Allen Poe and Horacio Quiroga would agree on the basis that darkness that ends people; it breaks them down, it physically and mentally destroys them. The aforementioned elements are portrayed through “The Black Cat,” “The Feather Pillow,” and “The Raven.”

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Medicine is the science of healing and its drugs, medications, and things that are used to cure