Honorable Martyrs: A Short Story

characters which make up a large group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, supposedly to see the Church of the Martyr Thomas Becket. The Host of the pilgrimage gives all the pilgrims a challenge over the course of the pilgrimage, tell two tales each way to and from Canterbury, and those with the best stories will be brought dinner at the expense of all the others. It is evident as the stories begin to flow forward and the characters are being described, that they all aren’t truly there to be blessed

In high school I read a short story called The Bet by Anton Chekhov. The story was about a young lawyer who made a bet with a banker that imprisonment for fifteen years was better than the death penalty. Like Socrates in Plato’s Crito the lawyer was trying to challenge society’s beliefs. While in confinement the lawyer read many books, whose subjects ranged from languages to philosophy. After fifteen years of solitary confinement the lawyer rejects his prize money and defaults on the bet, hours before

casualty. Throughout the poem, readers learn in detail how each and every character is meaningful, as well as each character has an entire life that was abruptly changed by the Trojan war. Likewise, the importance and moral of the story sways into a different light as the stories carry out and when readers become immersed into the war and its hardships, especially Hektor’s. Some factors that led for the poems to end the way it did, is due to the fact Achilleus and Hektor greatly relate and contrast each

The Coen Hasenkamp Award for Literature celebrates works of poetry and short stories that provide the reader with a deeper perception of life and humanity. Authors of works selected for awards must demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the literary tools available within their selected genre. The 2016 finalists for The Coen Hasenkamp Award for Literature are: Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, and Greasy Lake

hidden elements that the reader must analyzie closely is the parallel between Santiago and Jesus Christ. In the novel, The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway creates connections between Santiago and Jesus Christ that adds religious coloration to the story. Santiago can be compared to a Christ figure on the basis of his relationships

suicide of his son. However, despite this pitiable fate for the character, his actions and behavior earlier in the play leave the final scene evoking more satisfaction than pity at his torment. The way the martyr Antigone went against the King and the city of Thebes was not entirely honorable or without ulterior motives of fulfilling pious concerns but it is difficult to lose sight of the fact

hidden elements that the reader must analyzie closely is the parallel between Santiago and Jesus Christ. In the novel, The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway creates connections between Santiago and Jesus Christ that adds religious coloration to the story. Santiago can be compared to a Christ figure on the basis of his relationships

Major Characters Ponyboy Curtis - The novel's fourteen-year-old narrator and protagonist, and the youngest of the greasers. Ponyboy's literary interests and academic accomplishments set him apart from the rest of his gang. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers Darry and Sodapop. Darry repeatedly accuses Ponyboy of lacking common sense, but Ponyboy is a reliable and observant narrator. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy struggles with class division, violence

Yet, others would say that God can work through medicine, and that medical treatment is his way of healing their illness. This makes an incredibly difficult decision for the church when a person becomes terminally ill. Some feel that it is more honorable and pleasant to not continue treating patients with incurable diseases, even if it can prolong life. Some feel that it is a better way to die, not having to be connected to multiple machines, kept in undesirable hospital rooms, in sometimes excruciating

1) The season that is described in the opening passage of The Canterbury Tales is spring. According to the narrator, when the season comes the people long to go on pilgrammages. 2) English people want to go down to Canterbury to seek the holy martyr, St. Thomas a Becket. 3) The narrator claims he meets some twenty nine pilgrims. 4) The Knight has fought in Alexandria, Prussia, Lithuania, Granada, North Africa, and Anatolia. 5) If the Knight beats his opponents in the tournament