John Green Labyrinth

In the first part of Chapter 8, Krakauer quotes Alaskans who had opinions about McCandless and his death.

A book is something that opens the door to our inner minds and shatters the boundary between our imagination and reality. The book that I read is called The Sea of Monsters has been a trail of adventures and laughs as the characters soar through obstacles and triumphs. Percy Jackson, might seem like an ordinary kid that goes to an ordinary school along with his ordinary classmates. But, Percy is a little special himself. His very father is the god of the sea. This book told a tale of Percy and his companions, rescuing their beloved camp, and also Grover, an old friend. What I love about the book is that each of the characters have different and fascinating personalities that made them unique to each other. For instance, Percy and Tyson with their good hearts; Polyphemus and Luke with their obsessions with revenge; and the monsters who tried to annihilate the Camp Half Blood.

The Odyssey, written by Homer, tells the story of the hero Odysseus as he tries to make his way home from the battle at Troy. His journey is filled with hardships and opportunities to grow and change as a man and become a better person. Percy Jackson and The Olympians: Sea of Monsters, written by Rick Riordan, is about two 12/13-year-old friends, Percy and Annabeth, who are children of Poseidon and Athena respectively. They go on a quest to rescue their friends and the camp they attend, where children of the gods are protected. Percy and Annabeth also go through hardships which help them to grow and develop characteristics that are valued in society. Both Homer and Riordan reveal the personality traits of their characters, and the

Shakespeare’s Othello has many different reoccurring themes, particularly love, death and infidelity. One of the most obvious themes that drive a lot of the play is jealousy, stemming from the mischievous ways of Iago. His actions create a chain reaction of speculation, lying and most of all jealousy. Iago who plays a manipulative and dishonest character seems to bring out the worst traits of many of the characters within the play especially Othello. These reoccurring issues of manipulation and hatred begin early on in the play. It has been discovered that Othello and Desdemona have married, for everyone around these two, including friends and family this is a problem. This is especially an issue for Iago and Roderigo. Each of them seem to have there own reasons why these two should not be together, one for love of Desdemona and the other for hatred of Othello. They set up to break the newly weds apart by setting the stage with an accusation that Desdemona has cheated on Othello with Cassio, Othello’s lieutenant. After these accusations are made the lives of all the characters seem to spiral out of control, the relationship that takes the biggest toll in the end seems to be Othello and Desdemona. It is clear to see that this “green-eyed monster” in Shakespeare’s words, has the power to control the psyche of the human, resulting in unthinkable acts from many of the characters involved.

Page 119: The quote which refers to Alaska’s mom’s death shows how young Alaska had been faced to this situation when she was eight years old. For all this time she has felt the guilt about it because she didn’t get the reflex of calling the emergency number 911 in order to save her mother. Moreover, this event in her life may have a link with her death since she dies on the night that her mother died which is a January 10th and on that night, Alaska was on her way to visit her mom’s grave. This shows that the guilt she felt may have had a consequence on an eventual suicide in order to join her mom on the other side.

Mary Wroth alludes to mythology in her sonnet “In This Strange Labyrinth” to describe a woman’s confused struggle with love. The speaker of the poem is a woman stuck in a labyrinth, alluding to the original myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. The suggestion that love is not perfect and in fact painful was a revolutionary thing for a woman to write about in the Renaissance. Wroth uses the poem’s title and its relation to the myth, symbolism and poem structure to communicate her message about the tortures of love.

Sally began the story. She told Paul about her first lover, how they had met at Montauk, and what happened to him. Then Annabeth took over, and told Paul about the Greek gods and goddesses, and that they followed Western Civilization and they were still very much alive. She also told him about demigods' ADHD and dyslexia, their battlefield reflexes and how they could all speak Ancient Greek fluently, including not all mortals being able to see anything because of the Mist. Finally, Percy took over, and told Paul about Camp Half-Blood, discovering who his father was, and all of his adventures and quests, up until this last summer, with the Labyrinth.

How will you change this poor evil labyrinth and make it able? Clearly there’s a lot to be changed. The three things I’d do are abolish cancer, this illness is just a way for innocent people and families to get hurt. Next get rid of social contracts, social rankings are just another way for people to make others feel worthless. Then make nations whole again, our countries are more worried about what benefit’s them instead of what benefits everyone.

"Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.” The one thing we learned about Alaska was that she was very troubled and depressed girl like most of the teenagers these days but she was also very unpredictable and spontaneous rightly so because she witnessed her mother's death and feeling the guilt of not saving her, ruined her own life. Her answer to the question "How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?" was "straight and fast". She died because of carelessness and immaturity of driving when she was drunk. She left her friends with the guilt of not saving her and not understanding what was going on her mind all the time when in my opinion she herself did not know what was going on her own mind and how to escape from her inner demons and that was the main reason of her sudden

In Guillermo del Toro’s Pans Labyrinth, Ofelia must deal with her new step-father and ailing mother, while exploring a magical world. Ofelia explores her new home in Falangist-held Spain with her stepfather, an evil Capitan, and her pregnant mother. In an overgrown labyrinth, she encounters a magical faun who believes she is a lost princess and aids her in a journey to prove herself. The trials Ofelia faces are comparable to the trials Odysseus faces before he can return to Ithaca. Even though Pans Labyrinth is not a traditional Greek or Roman myth, the main character, Ofelia, must pass through many heroic trials before she reaches the end, similar to Odysseus in The Odyssey.

Patrick Ness 's A Monster Calls and Jim Henson 's Labyrinth follows a protagonist and his/her struggle with a monster. In A Monster Calls Connor, the protagonist of the book, finds his monster to take the shape of cancer in his dying mother. In Labyrinth Sarah, the protagonist of the movie, has her monster take the shape of a goblin king. During the protagonists ' journey they learn to accept a truth about life. In A Monster Calls and Labyrinth, Ness and Henson use their protagonist to illustrate how denial, isolation, and family dysfunction affect relationships and maturity.

A monster is defined as an extraordinary or unnatural, imaginary animal, but not all monsters are animals nor are they all imaginary. Some monsters are human, and very real. Facing a human monster can prove to be even more difficult than just an imaginary animal. In the stories, The Most Dangerous Game, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Sniper, the main characters are each faced with their own human monster. Although, not all of the main characters are able to overcome their human monster.

In the poem “The Colonel” by Carolyn Forche, the narrator is acting as a witness in a case where the colonel is a victim. The narrator gives us a description of how things were during the visit at colonel’s house. Everything was well when they were having the dinner. Colonel and the narrator had something to talk about how it has become so hard to govern. After the wife of the Colonel takes away everything after the dinner was complete. Colonel has a secret that he has to reveal to the narrator. A surprise hits the narrator after the colonel brought a sack and dumped several human ears on the table. Colonel talks arrogantly regarding the people who were likely to be the victims where he tells the narrator that “they go and fuck themselves,” (Forche,1289)

In American society, we believe that monsters are typically perceived as scary, with big teeth and claws, and gross looking. Sometimes they are hairy and smelly. In popular stories, we think of them as the villain ninety five percent of the time, but they can also be supporting roles to the main villain who doesn’t look as monstrous or doesn’t have monstrous actions. Despite some belief, they can end up changing their state of mind and switch to the good side, but that is rare. They are usually nonhuman, like vampires, werewolves, or even aliens. Monsters are insane and crazy. Their acts are murderous and often manipulative to get what they want in the end. They also want to take over the world and rule over mankind. Although that’s their

As the men sets a goal to reach the camp on Henderson at a certain timing,who would have knew that nature would be cause of his death.The weather is seventy-five below zero in Alaska.In the first stage of grief denial and isolation is being described as “a temporary response that carries us through the first wave of pain”(“Psych Central”).The man seems to not care much about his husky dog and tends to push him away because he is seen as a distraction.This point the man has no clue he is going to die instead he is focused in reaching