Modern Day Mr Frog Essay

VThe agonizing experience of growing up is a process every human being goes through and eventually from it, learns universal life lessons that will last the rest of his or her life, and determine choices he or she makes forever. Life lessons acquired while growing up is a theme frequently used in works of fiction because the combined impact of background, a notable experience, and a person of influence can be different for any and every character, making the possibilities for powerful life lesson storytelling endless. In two short stories, “Thank You M’am” and “Charles”, two characters are given opportunity for growth as truthful, honorable people with two totally different circumstances in their life lesson stories. When trying to understand

“The Scarlet Ibis,” a short story by James Hurst, carries a deep symbolic meaning about a coming-of-age experience for a young boy who has a deformed brother. His brother’s name was William, but the narrator in the story, whose name we don’t know, nicknames him Doodle, because when he first started crawling, he crawled backwards like a doodle bug. Throughout the story they begin to bond and develop a special relationship; part of it is love, and the other part is pity for his brother who will never be like him. But most of all, we see a change in the main character. He begins to see things differently because of his brother, and gains a deeper understanding of the world through this coming-of-age experience.

Knute Rockne, a former football coach for the University of Notre Dame once said, “Win or lose, do it fairly.” However, in Mark Twain’s story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” the main character, otherwise known as Smiley, does not live by this saying. The story of Smiley and his “celebrated jumping frog” takes place in a gold-mining camp, which is located in Calaveras County, California, during the Gold Rush era. The dominant theme in “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” is that trying to deceive someone can result in unexpected consequences. Several literary devices, including characters, satire, and diction, are applied to the plot of the short story in order to emphasize the primary theme.

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The reader gets quite a tale in Gordon Korman’s classic tale Schooled. The protagonist, Capricorn “Cap” Andersen, is a boy raised up by his hippie grandmother, Rain, on a hippie community. His life is turned upside down when his grandmother falls out of a plum tree attempting to harvest plums. Now, having never heard of a pizza, watched a television show, or even handled money, Cap must face the “horrors” of the modern civilization. To make matters worse, Zach Powers, most popular boy on campus, spots Cap, and makes him 8th Grade president. To survive, he has to adjust to the outside world, and quick, before the Halloween dance, which has to be planned entirely by him.

Long ago in a far away place named Bush Village, there once was a courageous little boy named Elliot. Elliot was a trouble maker. His parents were the King of Wisdom and the Queen of Literature. He was an only child, and he hated this so much that every night after his mother would put him to bed, he would sneak out to play with others. Although before he left the castle, he would pray that he would get a brother one day to go on adventures with him and ride tricycles in the world and play with the frogs at the swamp like other children that had siblings. Eliot believed if he didn’t pray for a brother every night, he would get struck by lightning.

“To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future; the world is getting better”- Walt Disney. Families all around the world view Disney as a fun for all the family corporation. Disney’s aim is to provide viewer’s with unlimited and endless family-friendly entertainment. However, I believe that Disney is not innocent when it comes to exploiting the minds of young innocent children, with their subliminal messages, racism, drug abuse and sexism, which is psychologically damaging vulnerable minds.

"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Short Stories for Students, edited by Kathleen Wilson, vol. 1, Gale, 1997, pp. 16-31. Gale Virtual Reference Library, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&sw=w&u=lirn17237&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CCX2694800011&asid=dcbc02db884680a7a46df45d1120b89b. Accessed 17 Oct.

this little boy had just turned 6, and to was celebrating his birthday with his parents and friends, they lived in Florida and were big businessmen and woman, they were celebrating mike’s birthday in the harbor, where big ships come to deliver goods. Mike had always loved the ocean and the sea, though he also liked animals of all kinds. He personally picked this place for his party. How? Well, there were pictures of paces laid out on the floor and he was to pick which looked the best to him. Now, his parents really did not like mike and were planning to send him to an orphanage to be adopted by someone who actually wanted him. They were far too busy to give him the care he needed and mike was ruining their image because he was not a formal child, he loved to play in the mud and create things out of the trash.

In the story are two young boys, one is smarter, one is mentally handicapped and cannot understand or do anything for himself. You would think that the older boy, the one who is smarter and wiser would be the troublemaker, but in fact, it is the young boy.

Frog Went A-courtin' is the retelling of a 400 year-old Scottish folktale, meant to be sung and told to children. It outlines the engagement and subsequent events surrounding the marriage of a frog to a mouse.

Consequences from Craving The consequences of the desire to be accepted is a critical theme in “The Elephant Man” by Bernard Pomerance. The desire to be accepted leads to the loss of hope and the establishment of a negative environment. The need also provokes depression which negatively affects the host. Failing to satisfy this desire is the root cause of the multiple consequences.

The child has no idea how close she is to her death. She stands bright eyed, excited and splashing her hands in the water to attract the frog - what she thinks is a frog - looking at her from the water. It would be so easy. It always is with the small ones. Their innate curiosity, unquestioning faith in their own safety and the naive innocence of childhood is their downfall at that age.

Through this lesson the child grows from an ignorant, inexperienced boy to a more educated, mature young man. Although the child’s lesson was less than pleasant, it was a necessary evil to teach him how the world functions. His innocence, while incredibly hopeful and encouraging, began to put him in more danger than it was worth. The boys overwhelming sense of confidence and immortality was shown to be unhelpful when put into a real world situation and therefore his mindset needed to be altered before he could be considered a responsible and mature citizen. His eventual understanding that the world is incredibly unpredictable allows him to grow as a person and continue to learn more lessons that will better prepare him for what his future, and fate, may

The poem, like Seamus Heaney’s work, is very nature minded in terms of context. However, he describes the frogs in a very evil, sinister, and menacing way. It is about a child who collects frog spawn from the dam and collects it in jars. He is innocent and unaware of the evil that lurks in the frog spawn. We can see in the poem that the boy is young, when he remembers his teacher teaching him about the frogs, and his way of calling the frogs ‘Daddy frog’ and ‘Mammy Frog’.