Fly Away Home Vs The First

Imagine the many dangers of being stranded on a desolate island. There is a chance of starvation, severe sunburn or sicknesses, and strange animals. The idea of being a danger to yourself does not usually cross a person's mind when thinking about this unimaginable situation. Being in such horrible conditions would make anyone start to go a little crazy, especially if they were young and immature. The little boys in Lord of The Flies show the true nature in humanity when times become desperate and cut throat. The main topic of this essay is to focus on similarities and differences of how two groups of boys, Piggy & Ralph and Jack & Roger, behave when they become stranded on an island and how they act to survive.

Lars Eighner’s book, “Travels with Lizbeth”, was published in 1993. It is a memoir of his experience being homeless. Eighner uses the appeal of ethos the most prominently in his book to prove he is credible, followed by an appeal to logos by applying logic and pathos using stories.

“Fly Away Peter is an exploration of Jim’s physical and spiritual journey from innocence to experience through his move from Australia to Europe when joining the war” (Nair 149). Malouf showcases his journey by exploring where Jim originated

Unfortunately, the loss of housing occurs frequently and takes a psychological toll on the people affected by depression. Desmond displays how Arleen is very troubled when she gets evicted, thrown into the cold, and stranded with nothing. It takes a toll mentally when she realizes she has no home to get away from the cold, but also the eviction will be on her record for the next move. When people get evicted there is so much going against them, that mentally they can’t keep up and become depressed. Desmond describes the depression of a Hispanic woman and her three children during an eviction. At first, she had “borne down on the emergency with focus and energy,” then she started wandering the halls “aimlessly, almost drunkenly, her face had that look, the movers and the deputies knew it well”(125). Desmond adds, “It was the look of someone realizing that her family would be homeless in a matter of hours”(125). With vivid imagery, Desmond truly shows the mindset of a woman who knows she lost everything. Eviction scars people and that it makes a lasting mark on how they mentally feel as if they are worthless.

The novel, “Lord of the flies” by William Golding is based on a group of boys ages 6 to 12 who survived a plane crash, has no adult supervision and has to take care of themselves. Two documentaries called “Boys Alone” and “Girls Alone” are both similar and different to the novel. The two documentaries are similar to the novel because of the children’s behaviour and characteristics. But they’re both different in how the children handled their situation.

'Fly Away Peter' is essentially a story about life. Through the life of Jim Saddler the reader becomes aware of the ideas posed by the author, David Malouf. Jim's life, if anything, is indeed a journey, unfolding through various broadening experiences that lead to Jim's eventual understanding of the world and his own self. However, to simply say that this understanding is enhanced solely by his contact with those around him is only true to a certain extent. Jim's journey of life exists on many levels, just one of which is the lessons he learns through his contact with others.

A little boy scavenges in a dumpster in an alley, desperate for food. Separated from his family, he is lost on the streets of Calcutta. After weeks of barely surviving on the treacherous streets, he is taken to an adoption agency and adopted by an Australian couple. Although it seems like fiction, it is fact. This remarkable story is Saroo Brierley’s, and his memoir A Long Way Home, tells this miraculous story of his childhood and how he came to find his birth family. Throughout the memoir, Brierley weaves a tale of his hardships and developing his identity. In his memoir A Long Way Home, Saroo Brierley uses the literary devices of pacing, imagery, and external conflict to illustrate how the hardships one must endure shape one’s identity,

This poem is relatable to Skrzynecki's “Migrant Hostel”, mainly due to the instability of shelter. The characters in both texts are unaware of their future, In Donald Bruce Dawe’s poem, both texts show the inconstancy and disorderly plan for the future show how unstable their life is.

Australian Poet Judith Wright exploits her concerns for the environment and human rights within society; these themes are present in ‘Metho Drinker’, ‘Remittance Man’ and ‘Sanctuary’. The idea of human nature is exposed through an archetype of addiction, where lack of empathy and compassion is expressed through the microcosm of society. ‘Metho Drinker’, being an existential work, depicts Wrights concerns of modern progress and exclusion. Wright exposes the entrapment of both figures with themes of conformity verses individualism, the inevitability of death and man’s relationship with nature. Poetic techniques such as omniscient narrative and third person are used to heighten tension between reality and us as the responder. As an audience ‘Remittance Man’ compels us to reflect upon the English class system of the 1900’s and the lack of human compassion towards migrants and lower classes. This contradicts ‘Sanctuary’, which foreshadows the eventual destruction of nature through the progression of society’s modern world. Personally I was impressed by Wright 's position as an advocate for those without a voice, be it individuals or those of the natural world.

Wallflowers by Donna Vorreyer is a poem that uses a compassionate diction to create a strong feeling about the way we use words, specifically to remind us not to forget those words that get lost in our dictionaries. She says of a rarely used word she “wooed it with her pen, let it know it was loved.” She personifies these rarely used words, words that may not be known like gegenshein and zoanthropy, by giving the words emotion, saying the words are “bitterly waiting” to be used. Vorreyer uses imagery to give a picture of the desperate state the words are in to be used by creating a scene of Ellis Island. She says the words are the immigrants and the writer is Ellis Island, or a gateway to a life that is better. In the words case, this is a

In the novel, The Lord of the Flies and The Twelfth Night, the similar theme of adapting to different cultures become evident. However, other conflicts and difficult do arise when adapting to a culture different from one’s previous customs. While being far away from their homes not able to return, the characters from both The Lord of the Flies and The Twelfth Night begin to develop a new way of living. Being trapped or lost from one’s home and having to adapt to new surroundings, enables conflicts to arise and the characters can discover their true selves.

Sometimes it seems as though our minds can be the worst prison of all. At least a jail can provide food, shelter, and a sense of safety. Whereas, our minds can create a cold endless void, an inability to tell what’s real and what isn’t, and an awful feeling of pain without being physically hurt. Thus, the idea behind a home establishes a safe haven and a place for our minds to rest. Take away a home and chaos is created in not just your body, but with in the thin boundaries of your soul. Therefore, life on a street can destroy the veil that a home creates in our minds, and it is then that we will feel depressed, paranoid, and confused. These emotions being shared with hundreds of thousands of Americans who living on the street has become almost

The peaceful country of Canada and its streets is currently filled with people prioritizing their survival. There are roughly two-hundred thousand homeless people in Canada. These individuals lost their homes due to bankruptcy, abuse, poverty, or issues with a support system and many of them consider survival as their number one priority on the streets. Each day these homeless people find ways to get food or shelter to spend the cold nights. In comparison, the lives of the homeless and the characters from the two novels are quite similar since the word “survival” is significant to them. Survival is shown to be a prevalent theme in both, The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood and Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler, through examples

Unlike the wandering narrator, the seafaring narrator focuses his descriptions of the community that is present in nature. The seafarer the utterly rejects the notion that a “sheltering family / could bring consolation for his desolate soul” (25-26). This “sheltering family” (25) that the seafaring narrator alludes to in this line is the exact form of close-knit family that the narrator in “The Wanderer” laments for desperately. While the seafaring narrator offers striking similar descriptions of the landscape being “bound by ice” (9), he does not focus on these descriptions to dwell on the loss of an earthly community. Instead, the narrator in “The Seafarer” finds the landscape that he inhabits wonderfully abundant with natural — even spiritual — elements that are commonly associated with an earthly community. In the barren landscape, the seafaring narrator discovers “the wild swan’s song / sometimes served for music” (19-20) and “the curlew’s cry for the laugher of men” (20-21). These vibrant and vivid descriptions of the natural world that the narrator discovers in the harsh,