Inside The Mithweald Forest: A Short Story

Before reading the third chapter of “The Forest and the Trees”, I remember learning in the second chapter about symbolism, ideology and the construction of life in different cultures and societies around the world. For example, something interesting I remember learning was how every social system has a culture, consisting primarily of symbols (including words), ideas and practices. I believe this also connects and refers to how we tend to build our own sense of reality through the words and ideas that we use to mean something and people may use to name interpret what they experience and how cultures consist of symbols of ideas or words being portrayed. Based on what I read in the second chapter and the title of the third chapter, “The Structures

I will never be the same as I was before it happened. The moment I went into THE FOREST. The things that I saw will always haunt me till I die, even now when I’m safe and sound I still see them, the memories of me in THE FOREST it all haunts me. This entire thing started way back when I was still a father.

In Allen Johnson’s “The Forest, The Trees, and The One Thing”, he expresses that in order to understand sociology we need to be able to understand the relationship between biography and history. To explain this, Johnson uses five rules to sociology called the sociological imagination. These rules explain how an individual relates to social systems.

Catastrophic events such as war tear down nations, cities and families in an unimaginable fashion while also causing sorrow, suffering and misery throughout its course. In A.S. Byatt's short story, The Thing in the Forest, we can get a feeling of the crisis people were going through in England during World War 2.

"Do you wish to help him, my dear sister Artemis?" Athena asked with a slight smirk, as she knew her sister well, and knew the suspense was killing her as well.

Throgutout the book, the main character was going through mistrust moments which made me very curious what those calls and sound that she couldn't identify. In the beginning it was very interesting because it made me very thoughtful and having that curiosity of knowing what made the man character to be adventegous and expressng her confidence throughout the pages. If I was in this type of setting I personally wouldn't have the courage to go out in the wild to see what those particular calls and sounds were. I’m a very self-conscious person so I give a lot of credit for the 15 year old girl that stood up for herself in a way.

Women in the Odyssey are seen as untrustworthy and dangerous. While Agamemnon was away Clytemnestra obtained a lover and when Agamemnon returned, Clytemnestra’s lover killed him with her help. Helen betrayed her husband and ran off with Paris to Troy. While she Greeks were infiltrating Troy with the wooden horse, she called out to the soldiers within the horse to persuade them to call out to her and give themselves away. Circe, a goddess of the Greeks, drugs men and turns them into swine.

    Long ago, there was a maiden born with unknown power. The elders spoke of the good that the child would bring, but along with it, despair.  The village casted her out away from the people, unwilling to deal with the wrath that could fall upon them. The elders would not accept this however, so they appointed an elder to teach her to control her power. The child was sent to Makoto to live and train.

“I’m going to fight her.” Epsilon said. “You can back me up if you want.”

Far along down the creek there was me and my two friends. Their names are Gage and Tyler. We were just a couple of sophomores wandering around aimlessly on the very familiar, local road that was by the name of Bundschu until we came across some woods that we were always so curious about. Well, that is when we decided to enter into the woods and walk down the muddy and rocky creek in seeking for a great adventure. I was much more eager than my two buddies to get to the end of the creek which is why I was running while they stayed behind carefully and walked. We soon arrived to the end of the creek and came upon a tree bridge, a graffiti infested tunnel, a big hill and the actually Bundschu road itself.

She’s been known by many names throughout the history of your world, and angel, and a demon. The spirit in her has seen this evil that wants to consume the world of light.

It is even Deborah herself who gives the call to charge against Sisera’s army, while Barak and his soldiers comply. In Judges 5, commonly referred to as the “Song of Deborah”, praises are sung in honor of this female military leader, who acts as a “mother in Israel.” Some scholars have even noted parallels drawn between Deborah and the Canaanite war goddess, Anat (Ackerman 177).

Amelia rolls her eyes, and agrees to go. She will just make up her plan the next day.

The 2 sources provide valuable insights highlighting different changes to the life of the English population post Norman conquest. The first, Source 8, is an extract from the Domesday book, which had the soul purpose of providing William with the information on the wealth of his subjects and country. It compares the taxation the people of Herefordshire owed King Edward to the taxation the people owed King William. Source 12 was written by the monks of Peterborough forming part of the Kings obituary and is unusually forthright in the unfavourable views the monks had for their recently deceased king.

“Have you heard of the Goddess Edana?” Sven asked over the fire. The stars were already out, the night sky a blanket for the Kingdom of Felhine. And beneath the stars, sitting in the midst of a forest was a man and woman around a fire. The man a strong and proud warrior of the north, broad shoulders accompanied by defined and battle tested muscle. He looked very much the part of a barbarian, and the way he fought only confirmed that. But who Sven really was was a mercenary, and adventurer, a sell sword. Traveling the kingdom to experience life at it 's fullest. And the woman across from him? Her name was Charlotte, a daughter of a nobleman who up until a few hours ago was in the oh so