My Life as a Furry Red Monster by Kevin Clash

During Mr. Rosenberg’s leave we learned different dramatic elements such as script analysis, stasis and intrusion, dramatic conflict, etc. This helps us to understand the different elements so one day when we have to apply the elements we will already be mindful of them. Additionally, we also learned about the beginning of theater dating back to ancient Greece and their different ways of displaying theater.

“Kath and Mouse” is a short story written by Janet Mcnaughton. The theme of the story is about the protagonist called Helen changing her personality and changing other people’s veiw about her. The main protagonist of the story called Kevin who is the twin brother of the antagonist Kath always stop Kath bullying Helen. On the contrary, Kath is a foil character in the whole story. She provides contrast to Helen. She bullys and makes fun of Helen. She even called Helen a mouse. Kath asked Helen whether she plays an instrument and Helen answer with a quite voice”No instrument. I just sing” (McNaughton, 63). This sentence show that Helen is a quite girl and have not so much confidence about herself. Kath incited Helen “ Sing! No choir in this school. Guess

There are an infinite amount of unique responses to the question “What is the meaning of life?”. However, the majority of people will agree that the true meaning of life is to find happiness and what is really important to one’s self. In Jon Krakauer’s, Into The Wild, Chris McCandless conveys this idealism through his life’s journey as he bravely defies all limitations. Chris McCandless isolates himself from society in his Alaskan Odyssey as a way to defy accepted expectations and to begin discovering the meanings of life without any corrupted influences.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future (Krakauer, pp. 56-57).

Literature can be a powerful tool for social change. Red Rooms by Cherie Dimaline is about the weaving of indigenous stories through the common element that they were patrons of an urban hotel. The narrator, Naomi, works as a housekeeper at the hotel and imagines the past, present and future existence of the patrons by what they left behind. Dimaline shows how indigenous histories and knowledge operate, in that they are not linear, and they do not have a definite beginning or an end. The novel subtly shows the need for an Indigenous resurgence, but the book itself is an act of resurgence because it shows the importance of indigenous literature. This paper will argue that Red Rooms itself acts as an act of indigenous resurgence

In this essay I intend to explore the narrative conventions and values, which Oliver Smithfield presents in the short story Victim. The short story positions the reader to have negative and sympathetic opinion on the issues presented. Such as power, identity and bullying. For example Mickey the young boy is having issues facing his identity. It could be argued that finding your identity may have the individual stuck trying to fit in with upon two groups.

Justin Torres Novel We the Animals is a story about three brothers who lived a harassed childhood life. There parents are both young and have no permanent jobs to support their family. The narrator and his brothers are delinquents who are mostly outside, causing trouble, causing and getting involved in a lot of problems and barely attending school, which their parents allowed them to do. The narrator and his brothers were physically abused by their father, leading them to become more violent to one another and others, drinking alcohol and dropping out of school. Physical abuse is an abuse involving one person’s intention to cause feelings of pain, injury and other physical suffering and bodily harm to the victim. Children are more

On the night of April 19th, 1989 in New York City’s Central Park there were a number of assaults and attacks happening. Trisha went out for her routine jog through Central Park. She did not make it home and was found by a police officer in a wooded area beaten almost to death (Innocent Project, 2016). There were about 30 teenagers out that night causing chaos in Central Park. The police had picked up Raymond Santana and many others that night from the streets. Raymond Santana was one of the five young men who later would falsely confess to the assault and rape of Trisha Meilli (Innocence Project, 2016). According to the Innocence Project (2016), Santana also gave a videotaped confession along with four of the other suspects. The other young men were Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, and Korey Wise. All of these men, including Santana, were convicted of the attacks (Innocence Project, 2016). However, Santana was a juvenile at the time and was sentenced to five to ten years. Then, in 2002 Matias Reyes, confessed to the attack on the Central Park jogger and admitted that he was alone in the act. DNA from Reyes was cross matched with DNA from the rape kit and the hairs found on the victim (Innocence Project, 2016). The five young men’s convictions were then overturned. Santana spent five years in prison for a crime that he falsely confessed

When looking at the many pieces of artwork that were in the Georgia Museum of Art, Playground by Paul Cadmus was the only one that was able to fully grasp my attention and make me want to come back to view it. The piece had many characters performing different actions and poses, each individual with their own characteristics. The first thing that I noticed in the piece is a young, white male with bleach-washed hair in the foreground. The pants that he is wearing are unbuttoned and slightly below his waist. The boy’s arms are positioned behind him bending back with his hands underneath his undergarments. He stares back at the viewer with a blank look on his face. Scattered on the ground, trash and crumpled pieces of newspaper can be found on the ground. Behind the young man, there is another man with black hair and a ripped shirt, his chest exposed and his back against a metal fence. He holds a cigarette in his left hand and has his right hand in his pocket

Some believe that birds help express spiritual freedom and psychological liberation with the different colors of birds that are associated with various meanings; specifically the yellow bird means you should keep your guard up. In the novel, The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers, John Bartle becomes guarded and isolated because of his internal battles created by his experiences from war. Bartle struggles with the lack of control he has over the events that happen to him in during his time in the military. He fights with his helplessness when he tries to transition to his lifestyle at home. He also cannot control how he changes as a person. When we think of war we think of the physical damage we see on the exterior but what we cannot see is the psychological damage in the interior of a person.

You can be born free, you can die free, you can be free your entire life, and you still may never feel that you are as unbridled as you should be. In our lives, we each face our own confinements. Whether they be a job we hate, someone we cannot untangle ourselves from, or a family that, in meaning to hold us close, holds us down. In the novel We The Animals by Justin Torres the reader faces the freedom, desperation, and internment of Ma. Ma is the matriarch of the household. She raises three young boys whilst also raising herself. At many points in the book, she attempts to set herself free, but ultimately always finds her way back into the prison she calls home. She and the infamous character Daisy Buchanan- of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald- seek their own, personal sense of freedom through their protective nature over their respective children, the way they ignore the problems they face, and the way they both seem to try and reach outside of the cages they inhabit.

The novel Never Let Me Go, written by Kazuo Ishiguro, is set in a capitalistic, dystopian society in which scientific advancements have greatly relieved society of their medical concerns, all the while, severely damaged their integrity. The exploitation of human clones for the sole purpose of implementing a sufficient number of organs for society has resulted in a change in their ethics, as well as their ego. In Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro uses characters to illuminate corruption in society, illustrating that greed in the pursuit of progress can negatively alter the mindset of society. By living in a capitalistic environment, one will develop a fatalist mentality in an attempt to come to terms with society and their

One of the opening quotes from Brian Dunning's film, Here Be Dragons says, “...It gave some comfort to at least be able to label the unknown”. I think about this a lot when it comes to death. I was raised in a heavily religious Catholic family, but as years went by, I questioned whether all of these religions were just one giant hope mechanism. They give hope and satisfaction to people and comforted them with the idea of death. There were a couple of the World’s modern day dragons that Dunning talked about that I questioned and would like to look into to see if they should actually be considered dragons. I think the ones that I questioned and that shocked me the most includes: fish oil and vitamin supplements. As far as I have been taught,

Hearing about this project, STEAMSHUFFLE, one and only one song popped up in my mind. Thanks to my parents who are huge Bruce Springsteen fans, and basically making me listen to every song by the Boss, I chosed Part Man, Part Monkey as my song to match up with the reading, Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall. With Springsteen growing up in a religious household, Catholicism, Springsteen has been a follower in faith but with some rejections, which is shown in his music. Mostly in all of Bruce’s songs, sexuality/ Sexual Selection plays key parts for his fame and is obviously one of the rejections he has toward Roman Catholics. In the Boss’s songs he uses theories that Gotschall has stated in The StoryTelling Animal. In this Text, there

The Clean Queen is a redbot that was made to clean in a household. Ever since the Stone Age, humankind never really liked chores that included cleaning. “I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it,” is a quote by Shirley Conran. Shirley Conran is a woman who is a British novelist and journalist. Like other citizens, Shirley doesn’t have the time to clean. Now, citizens have a solution to cleaning and it is the Clean Queen.