There are many versions of the Kushtaka or Otterman stories. In some, they are kind and helpful while in others they are menacing tricksters that try to lure sailors to their deaths, people near the shore into the water, and small children into their clutches to steal their souls by turning them into Kushtakas. Part of the legend says Kushtakas make a high pitched whistle – low, high, then low again. It’s also said they can be driven away with copper, urine, and sometimes fire. Overall the Otterman’s goal seems to be to turn humans into more Kushtakas/ Ottermen. That’s where the terror comes into the story because according to Tlingit tradition, in order to be reincarnated and eventually reach everlasting life in the hereafter, one must be
They are known as the “Sierra Sounds.” (http://ronmorehead.com/). The sounds were transcribed years later by a former Navy Linguist, Scott Nelson. Scott ran across these recordings while helping his son with a school project. Scott realized, as he listened to the recordings, that he was hearing a structured language. These were not nonsensical noises. (http://ronmorehead.com/r-scott-nelson/). Scott also determined that the creatures were speaking extremely fast. They would speak both on the inhale and exhale of a breath. Humans only speak during the exhale. Source: (http://www.nabigfootsearch.com/Bigfootlanguage.html).
Medieval Europe shared many different things with medieval Japan and they also shared many differences. Both of them have different types of worriers. They both fought for their country. In medieval Europe they had knights. In medieval Japan they had samurai. Both of them fought in different ways and we're good at diffrent things.
Have you ever felt like nobody understand you and judge you because of how you look or where you from? That is what Jin and The Monkey King experience in American Born Chinese. This is a graphic novel by Gene Luen Yong about stereotypes, discrimination and trying to fit in. The Monkey King, a monkey came from a rock, and Jin, an Asian grew up in America, are the main characters in this novel. They both have experienced the unfair because of who they are. In American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yong, the development of the Monkey King and Jin is similar throughout the novel.
His unveiling of these questions leaves him feeling even more alone and lost, so he says, “ I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge. Oh, that I had forever remained in my native wood, nor known nor felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst and heat!” His search for knowledge lets him realize his hopeless and miserable situation in the society and then desire to seek revenge from his creator and all human beings. It is reasonable to consider that if the monster did not learn knowledge from the cottagers, he may not have the emotion of grief and resentment. As he becomes emotional and educated, he gradually finds that no matter how good the virtue he has, people will not accept him and love him because of his scary appearance, which makes him feel despairing and unhappy to his current life. The creature is longing for love and respect as a good man, while the knowledge of self-awareness influences him to be evil. Thus, he decided to consider all the people as his enemies, especially his creator Victor. It is a well-established fact that his increased knowledge allows him to make elaborate plan to seek revenge, which brings misery to many people around him. Therefore, the creature’s dangerous quest for knowledge not only be mentally harmful to himself, it also hurts others and the outside world due to his devastating damage to their
Initially, the creature symbolizes the boys’ fear. In an excerpt from Man of a Smaller Growth, it states, “They externalize these fears into the figure of a “Beast,” (Document A). Additionally, “He was dreaming…. He must of had a nightmare,” (Document B). These two pieces of evidence tie together in the fact that fear is a universal feeling. The boys are turning their fear into this so-called monster. Nightmares tie in with this idea by showing the this “Beast” is something that is terrorizing the children inside and outside of their dreams. Nightmares themselves are a figment of fear, for often, they display a person's deepest and darkest fears. In the beginning of the novel, this monster is symbolizing fear.
The Monster is struggling to find his identity. He is trying to figure out if he is like Adam made upon this earth for a purpose or like Satan expelled from the “almighty kingdom”— in his case society. The Monster’s reading of
Professor Challenger from the book The Lost World, and Doc Savage from The Land of Terror are both adventurous intellectuals, and both are interested in science. However, this is as far as the likeness goes. The two characters are very different in the way they approach the world, and in the way they are perceived by others around them as well as by the reader. Taking appearances into account first, Professor Challenger has a “face and beard… [like] an Assyrian Bull” with a broad dense body, “a chest like a barrel… and a bellowing, roaring, rumbling voice” (Doyle, 23, 24). Even in appearance, Professor Challenger comes across as someone you don’t want to mess with.
Stephen Kutcher and Carsten Peter are both men that are willing to risk their lives for things they love. Stephen Kutcher loves spiders and works with them even though there is a risk of being bitten. He does what he is passionate about and understands there is a risk. This kind of bravery is also shown in Carsten Peter. He has a passion for volcanoes and going deep into them to take breath-taking photos. Even though there is a huge risk of him falling, such as the rope which holds him from falling to his death burning and sending him flying into the volcano, he won't let that stop him from doing what he is passionate about.
Soon after “for the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled [his] bosom, and [he] did not strive to control them; but allowing [him]self to be borne away from the stream, [he] bent his mind towards injury and death” (99). The creature declares “eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind” (101). These bad behaviors were learned from the treatment he received. The consequences he went through for performing acts of kindness shaped him into the monster he becomes. Good behaviors are paired with pain and they are then forgotten.
But the only time the creature really showed he wanted something was when the creature spotted a woman and her kids. The one thing that the creature desires the most was a companion next to him since he can spend his time with a person not himself. The goal for a human to find a companionship is easy, but for the creature it was difficult. Plus he is his first of his kind, so it's not likely for a human to accept him. People rejected him made him evil made him aloof.
With these events occurring in the creature's life made him start to get revenge. After the whole scene that happened with the creature and the cottagers, he stated that he was “like a wild beast
Ever wonder who would emerge victorious between a knight and samurai? As a matter of fact, knights are brave and devoted soldiers who rode on horseback to protect their lords and any damsel in distress. Meanwhile, samurai are Japanese veteran whom offer their services in return for land. Obviously, the knight is liable to overpower a samurai in any combat by possessing better armors, weapons, skills, and an excellent code of honor that enable them to over-dominate a samurai.
Therefore, although the nature of the creature urges him to reach out to other humans and be kind to them, the experiences of meeting other makes him the monster that everyone thinks he is. Everyone's treatment and mentality of the creature as a monster became his
The humans have told stories of the Finfolk since the beginning of time. They were a race of dark and gloomy sorcerers, feared and mistrusted by mortals. But as time passed, the humans believed the stories to be only ancient folk tales.
What did the beast represent at the beginning of the story, what was the monster supposed to be at first before it was heavily involved in the story? Before it was heavily involved, they were eager to go on a rampage in the middle of the whole story, they were beginning to become uncivil, they themselves were slowly turning into a beast “found themselves eager to take place in his demented but partly secure society. They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable” pg.152 They were slowly unwinding, they were turning into beast themselves at this point, they have given up on trying to cope with their situation, so instead of being scared of a beast, they themselves became that very same