Going Solo By Roald Dahl Summary

Mdisho was the one who seemed more normal than the rest of them. Mdisho was bold and courageous. He had come from Mwanumwezi tribe, one of the best fighting tribes in East Africa. So, there was no surprise how excited he was when the war had finally broken out. When Roald and Mdisho were speaking of the war Mdisho said: "Oh bwana, I can hardly wait for that time to come!" Meaning he was excited for the war that was going to occur. Furthermore, the area around Roald and Mdisho's house was filled with German people because, the area used to be German east Africa before it became British. Knowing this, Mdisho went to a rich Germanic's house and killed him!

We lost the ability to be still, our capacity for idleness. They have lost the ability to be alone, their capacity for solitude. (The end of solitude, pg.4)

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha. The greatest adventure in life is discovering your inner self and finding the purpose of it, It is the roots of everything that we do and where we base our actions on. The book “The Uninvited” written by Tim Wynne- Jones, is a story set in the modern time in a remote and distant little town in Ontario, Canada. It is set in three different points of view of the characters Mimi Shapiro, Jackson Page, and Cramer Lee. Mimi Shapiro is a quirky and bold student from New York, she comes from a wealthy divorced family and is using this opportunity to escape from a weird relationship with her professor. When she arrives at the cottage where she accidentally discovers her half brother Jackson Page who is a musician and songwriter. They spend the summer together along with Iris Wu, Jackson’s girlfriend and discover awful secrets about the little town. Cramer Lee is an awkward boy who often breaks into Mimi and Jackson’s cottage and steals a few valuable items. Cramer also follows around and stalks Mimi every so often but he sincerely cares about Mimi and wants to love and cherish her. During Mimi’s visit, they become mature over the experiences and occurrence while looking for the answers along with Jackson and Cramer in “The Uninvited”. By using the examples of the setting of the story, the narrative point of view and the character development it contributes to the story’s development

At the beginning of the novel, Stephen Kumalo is very respectful and is a caring person that is always willing to help others. “Perhaps you might be hungry, small one” (35). Kumalo expresses his father-like figure to this young little girl because Stephen knows that the little girl has traveled a long way to deliver this letter.

In the memoir of Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Beah states that his life’s journey has been a huge obstacle, but has learned to overcome that struggle by venting while the two contradictory sides continue their battling. Beah accomplishes his goal of explaining to the reader his point of view through the use of rhetorical questions, scenic narration, and parallelism. Ishmael Beah’s apparent purpose is to share personal accounts of his life with his fellow country men, in a country where war affects people to a level beyond the imagination. He is able to apply his purpose using a grotesque and bitter tone. Beah approaches his audience of ordinary people in this manner in order to vent his feelings about war by

It explains what horrors he had to endure and how he as a child understood the war. Beah has seemingly lost his innocence, specifically when he became a soldier of the war and experienced the brutality of

Innocence is often a word used to describe children, they are pure because they have not yet become exposed to corruption. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah illustrates what happens when innocence has been seized from a young child. When rebels attack Beah’s village, he is forced on a life altering journey. Beah involuntarily transformed from an innocent adolescent into a rebel soldier. He needed a lot of guidance and correction to reconstruct his virtue. The conflict of the Civil War shaped Beah’s character.

Isolation is one of the most severe forms of punishment that anyone could be faced with. Cormac McCarthy shows the reaction isolation had on the characters in The Road. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, follows an unnamed father and son as they travel towards the coast in search of safety after the world has been destroyed by a catastrophe. As they travel the road, the father has to protect his son from the threat of strangers, starvation, exposure and harsh weather. In The Road, Cormac McCarthy shows how humans react to isolation by when the man leaves others to suffer, taking drastic measures and when the man kills other men.

“Finally, we were approaching the village where seeing our families was actually a possibility” (p.91). Banana and coffee trees replaced the forest and that path appeared. On the side of the banana’s farm they saw a man, but couldn’t see his face. Kanei try to talk to him, and when the men got closer to them Beah realize he knows his face. Although the men was a lot skinnier now and had more wrinkles on his face, he knew him from his home town. The man recognized Beah as well, and asked them to help him carry bananas back to the village. While helping him, he told Beah that his whole family was waiting for him in the village.That Junior had gone looking for him but came back few days ago and now they were just waiting to hear something from him. Beah got impatient and just wanted to get to the village, he walked in front of everyone and got mad when they stopped for breaks. As they were going down hill they started to heat gunshots, dogs barking and people screaming. They dropped the bananas and run so they will not be at the open hill side. When they saw the heavy smoke coming up from the houses they understand, the rebels had arrived. Beah run to the village finding nothing but fire and bullet shells covering the ground. He became so angry, missing his family by seconds, seconds when he helped Gasemu taking to bananas, seconds that they took those breaks. Again, somehow, Beah manage to stay alive, those seconds that he missed his family were those seconds that saved him. Letting him live longer, and managing to get to a safe village. The one that soon will recruit him to be a boy soldier and change his life

Just as many stories, both action and adventure, or comedy and crime, Beah’s narrative is created through his personal journey. In his journey he encounters many events and people. Out of those events are the negative and the positive ones. Thus, his journey revolves around the abstract idea of war and how neither him or his fellow villagers would come to a general understanding of what the refugees migrating to their village had perceived because it was too terrific and unpredictable. The three major events that took place in the main character’s life was changing from innocent young boy, to savage solider and again to a normal adult.

To begin, Can you image having to lose your family, friends and cousins and all your left with in this world is yourself and you no longer belief in God because of all the terrifying things that you seen and had to experiences and because you were taught that god is everywhere and God is good also his very forgiving but it all turns around when Elie’s and his family also their Jew’s get taken to concentration camp where dreams don’t exist only blood, flames, painful and most important were who survival only matters and trying to stay in the some spend of marching as the others pensioner so you won’t get shot. The only way a person survived is looking after themselves first and staying strong. Elie’s a 15 years old boy always has been a very

Violence is defined as a behavior involving physical or mental force intending to hurt, damage, or kill someone. In the words of Zak Ibrahim, peace is defined as the proliferation or the increase in the existence of Justice. But where does love fit in to these conversations? Violence cannot necessarily transform into love, but the presence of it is surely important. Violence involving our most loved ones, helps us find love and compassion in the toughest of situations, and leads us toward paths of peace. In this essay, examples will be drawn from Zak Ibrahim 's keynote presentation, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Beautiful Boy; a film directed by Shawn Ku, and Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut.

The Kite Runner is a powerful book contrasting selfishness and selflessness. The book follows the life of Amir, a character who experiences guilt and tragedy throughout his life. While growing up in Kabul, Amir witnesses the imperfect and prejudice society in his country. Within an imperfect society, there are many who are self-invested, and among those, there are those who are selfless. Characters Amir and Hassan possess selfish and selfless traits. The traits that these characters possess are influenced by fear, victimization, and loyalty, ultimately leading them to inaction and action.

“The Road” depicts a solemn and deteriorating environment that can no longer provide the fundamentals to a society due to the nuclear disaster. The sudden depletion of the resources within their environment made it difficult for the father and the son to find sustenance. They were constantly traveling towards the South looking for safe places to situate themselves because the father knew that they would not be able to survive the nuclear winter. The genre of the novel is post-apocalyptic science fiction because it revolves around a dismantling society. Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” depicts how environmental destruction finally gave sense for people to value the world and what it had to offer.

In the novel, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Meursault the protagonist, becomes drawn into a “senseless” murder that has to face the absurdity of life and because of his actions, Meursault is presented as a danger due to his lack of “morality” to society. Meursault who is not able to take control of his life but respond to what life offers him believes in the simplicity of life. He tries to understand the living through logic and objectivity, which ultimately turns futile, as he himself cannot maintain proper control over his thoughts and emotions. From the interactions between Marie, to the murder of the Arab, and the meeting with the Chaplain, Meursault overcomes his indifferent views to form an opinion about what life really means. The central theme presented by Camus is how the threat of mortality becomes a catalyst for understanding the significance of life.