El-Ahrairah And The Burning Valley Chapter Summary

1.) The topic of globalization is a very broad one. Globalization itself can take on many forms as well as definitions. To begin, globalization has roots within civilization. From a historical perspective, globalization consisted of market-trading and expansion of different crafts and specialties. For example, someone who specialized in textiles and fabric of clothing would possibly trade with someone who cultivated agricultural goods. Through this process, development of a cultural aspect had grown. People were communicating more and exchanging goods or items from all over the world. This diminished the language barrier due to interface that was essential for trade. People were learning new languages and integrating themselves into

“The choir belongs to you, of course . . . They could be the army… or hunters” (19).

Throughout the 16th century, as there was a demographic collapse of the indigenous population, there was now a new demand for slave labor in Latin America. In Brazil, the Portuguese needed a large workforce to cultivate sugar plantations. As a result, numerous slaves from Africa were imported to work on large plantation fields. In various plantations, rural slaves experienced harsh working and living conditions. Few slaves had a high life expectancy. Robert Edgar Conrad in “Children of God’s Fire,” shares some primary sources that dealt with the types of environments and conditions many slaves faced and encountered in Brazil. The sources also gave insight into the regulations and economics/business of the slave trade. Conrad states that rural Brazil was “a hell for blacks” (Conrad 54). Many slaves dealt with extremely harsh conditions just to keep the European market in Latin American growing and profitable. This paper will analyze how rural slaves lived and worked on Brazilian sugar plantations.

This metaphorically suggests that the rabbits have already begun to construct their homes, and now nobody can stop them. Their forceful invasion into the native indigenous landscape is further emphasised by the dead lizard featured in the foreground, which has been brutally squashed with seemingly no remorse. Furthermore, the buildings in the background are entirely formed by jigsaw pieces. Thus Tan presents us with a visual allegory of the rabbit society as manipulative and un-relentless nature.

“Words of Fire,” by Anthony Collings, details the lives of different journalists in regards to free press and covering potentially dangerous stories. Anthony Collings is a former CNN reporter who shifted his focus from reporting to telling the story of journalists who have come under fire in a power struggle between government and free press. Collings puts free press into a spectrum, on one side there is the United States, where the press is largely free, and on the other side there are places like North Korea or China where press is largely restricted by the government. Collings does not focus on these extremes, but rather the places in the middle where there is an ongoing struggle between state power.

The RIng of Fire is located on the coast that surrounds the Pacific Ocean, there are 452 volcanoes and that’s 90% of all the volcanoes. Only 75% of the volcanoes are active to this day. In my paper I will mostly be talking about the location, creation, and the volcanoes in the RIng of Fire.

Life can be a beautiful thing, or in this case of the short story “A Wall of Fire Rising,” by Edwidge Danticat, life is an unpleasant thing. One of the main characters, Guy, is struggling to enjoy his life due to living as a low economy family in the post-colonial Haitian era. Such a life can cause one to become crazy when seeing an opportunity to escape, but continuously being unable to reach it. Being out of reach of his escape plan and left with no other option, Guy, places little value in life and continuously thinks about hope for a better life. His aggressive characteristic traits are not an expression of a strange personality, but rather a reaction to feeling broken.

The rabbits were hopeless in Bigwig’s eyes, for they didn’t have any steam to come out and rebel against the Efrafa officials. The rabbits that resided there were probably always expressionless and powerless because they lived in a very orderly warren. Most of them probably had lost all hope in trying to escape since they hadn’t had luck in the past and hadn’t been able to formulate a new plan.

In the Efrafa warren, Bigwig tricks General Woundwort by making a plan where Bigwig takes the rabbits who want to leave and runs away. Then a bird named Keehar scares away General Woundwort and his guards. In the story it states, “Out shot Rowsby Woof, bellowing like a bull, land tore around the house. The man followed him at a run, leaving the door wide. " 'Quick!' said El-ahrairah. 'Quicker than Wogdog from the Tartar's bow! Come on!' "El-ahrairah and Rabscuttle dashed into the garden and disappeared through the laurels. In the field beyond they paused for a moment.” This when Rowsboy opened the gate and El-ahrairah ran away. This is another example of how Hazel’s rabbits are influenced by El-ahrairah’s

After a couple of hours has past, Shen took Aixin back to the garden and as they near it, Aixin can hear soft rustling sounds coming from the inside the box and excitedly points to the box while he turns to Shen and whispers, “Look! I think there are bunnies inside.”

Ilan Stavans says that Juan Rulfo’s book, The Plain in Flames, is best represented by the phrase realismo crudo. Stavans defines this phrase as “a type of realism interested in the rawness of life”, meaning that he characterizes Rulfo’s writing as an unfiltered view into the lives of the average Mexican (Stavans, xi). By writing in this style, Rulfo is able to provide “an image—instead of just a description—of our landscape” as stated by Octavio Paz (xv). To create this image, Rulfo broke his story writing the process down into three separate steps. As paraphrased by Ilan Stavans, the first step “is to create a character”, the second step “is to place him in an environment where he might move around” and the third step “is to discover how the character expresses himself” (xiii). Rulfo was able to repeatedly crafted stories that were filled with high levels of realismo crudo by using that special three-step process. By creating his protagonist, crafting an environment for said protagonist, and allowing the character to express themselves within this environment, Rulfo crafted a three-tier image of post-revolutionary life in Mexico that has never been seen before.

One of the ELF members said that their fires were justified, because they would see their hard work to free the animals from the testing centers just to be filled back up the following day. It takes longer to

The stories that are in this chapter are interesting to say the least, they all had nice messages and did a nice job conveying them. The story with the best message though would have to be “Barn Burning”. Which is a story about a young boy whose father is someone who thinks he is always right and has a habit of burning barns. Throughout the story the boy, sarty, is conflicted about doing what he is told by his father or doing what is right. This is where the main theme of the story comes into play.

Avix stood up and sucked air in through her teeth. "Oh. So like... He was the hero and I fucked that up. Gotcha." she scratched the back of her head with an embarrassed chuckle. "We could always go back to help later." her ears flicked at the sound of a few distant voices chatting. The town was in full swing, people heading from one place to another. Most didn't seem to notice the two of them. "Lon Lon Ranch. Okay. I like horses. They're cool." she reached a hand to help Theo up if he hadn't already climbed to his feet. "Where uh... Where is th- Holy shit! Look at that!" she pointed to the large mountain that shadowed the town. "Volcanoes are neat!"

"Sheila relax," I coaxed "the storm is not going to be as bad as they say, it never is."