Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

It seems that throughout the novel there is an extended metaphor of Snowman as various figures from the Christian bible. The first figure that Snowman can be said to represent is that of Adam, the first man, though the similarities between the two characters do not follow the same chronology. Just as Adam is given the animals as companions to look over, similarly Crake has ensured that the Crakers and Jimmy are both left

In chapter 1 it introduces the reader to Penrod and Sam's life. They are 2 boys who get into trouble and cause problems without knowing it. Penrod and Sam hate school and try to cause trouble in school. They once locked a boy in a closet for a very long time. By the end of the book the reader knows that sometimes Penrod dosent always cause all the problems.

In Alice Sebold’s novel, The Lovely Bones, the Salmon family learns that their fourteen year old daughter, Susie Salmon, has been raped and murdered. Because of this her father, Jack, sister, Lindsey, and mother, Abigail, all go through their own respective journeys in order to accept this ordeal. During this time of grievance for Susie’s family, her father, Jack, believes that the person responsible for the murder of his daughter is his neighbour, a man named George Harvey, and reports this to detective Len Fenerman. However, Len Fenerman becomes too preoccupied with his affair with Abigail to aid Jack with his suspicions. Meanwhile, Susie’s younger siblings Lindsey and Buckley, try to learn how to cope with the loss of one of their very own, without their parent’s attention to aid them. In The Lovely Bones, Susie’s father, mother, and sister, all explore the theme of grief by going on their own pathways through the five stages of grief; denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, in order to come to terms with the brutal murder of their beloved Susie.

To start off, on page 92 the author writes “The snow fell thickly. We were forbidden to sit down or even to move. The snow began to form a thick layer over our blankets.” Eliezer was on the train and so were the rest of the prisoners. This illustrated the snow building up on them. From the way that the author described the snow, it kind of gives you an image of a lot of snow on top of the prisoners. Next, on page 94 the author writes “ ‘Throw out all the dead! All corpses!’” The living rejoiced. There would be more room. Volunteers set to work. They felt those who were still crouching. “‘Here’s one! Take him!’” They undressed him, the survivors avidly sharing out his clothes, then two “grave diggers” took him, one by the head and one by the feet, and threw him out of the wagon like a sack of flour.” This showed the readers using description, how the prisoners who had died were being tossed out of the wagon like if nothing had happened. In the end of the story the author tried to describe things as clear as he could to help the reader picture the setting and characters in the

Early in the book, Atwood writes, “For present purposes he’s shortened his name. He’s only Snowman, He’s kept the abominable to himself, his own secret hair shirt” (20). In other words, I believe Atwood is describing how Jimmy transitioned into a type of monster, or in this case, an abominable snowman. This is exhibited by the retelling of Jimmy’s childhood, where Jimmy underwent harsh treatment from his father when his father replied “most likely,” when Snowman asked, “If I cough, will I be burned up?” (Atwood

The boy took comfort in believing that if the snowman were rescued by bringing the snowman in the house, the snowman would be saved. The snowman believed that by staying outside, no harm would come to him and he was not alone or afraid of the incoming weather, because he had nothing to fear of living outside alone and in the dark. The boy and the snowman lived two diverse lives, one that could never be meshed together because of the scientific fact that one character lived a cold life and the other character lived a life in which there was warmth.

The fourth chapter is a collective perspective from both children during the fall season. The forth chapter is after the war when they return home to Berkeley. They are wiser as they observe how the years has changed the environment they once called home. They take in their condition of having no financial stability and the hardship of working to survive. They have all changed in some way but they were utterly shocked as to how much their father changed in their years apart.

The Parable of the Sower, written by Octavia Butler, is considered a science fiction novel, classified as dystopian. This novel depicts a post-apocalyptic world where the United States has fallen into tremendous poverty. Crime, such as murder, rape, and theft, run rampant to the point where no one is considered safe. The society in this novel is completely destroyed. The foundation has crumbled socially, politically, and economically. The citizens are left to fend for themselves in, what is now, a ruthless nation with just a hint of civilized communities. Our sensible and above all, brave protagonist, Lauren Olamina, is the heart of the story. She is one of the few characters who can be identified through several viewpoints. Lauren’s persona, beliefs, as well as her actions allow her to be classified through four different lenses such as classism, deism, fundamentalism, and, more accurately, humanism.

At the end they pass around the gifts. This is a great book because it is fun and entertaining for kids. The book is also very colorful even though it is about a snow family who are white. I love also how the book is more like a poem.

At the beginning of the chapter, the book loses an unfortunate character; Mrs. Radley dies. As a payment of respect, Atticus visits the Radley house. When he arrives back home, he gets interrogated by Scout and Jem about the whereabouts of Boo Radley and whether Atticus was able to see him. He told them that he hadn't and they called it a night. The next morning, Scout wakes up to unknown source falling from the sky; snow. School is canceled and they spend the day trying to make a snowman. Although it seemed like a perfect day, that same night a unthinkable change of events occurred. Miss Maudie's house, next door to the Finches',

The short story called “Lusus Naturae” or better known in its translated title as is known as Freak of Nature is a work of fiction with the main character is commonly referred to or treated like a monster. The main character that Margaret Atwood creates tries to be an obedient and virtuous daughter even though she has become deformed and sick with hallucinations. The monster tries to do everything she can do to help her family even faking her own death to benefit her sister. The protagonist shows us how women were treated if you were not normal or if you had a disease but I feel like this story relates to how society treats women who are what to be independent.

Chapter one starts off with Buck, a happy dog with a picturesque life. But of course, things go quite wrong... A man named Manuel, who works on his owner's ranch, steals Buck and sells him off into the dog market for the Klondike Gold rush. In the long run, he ends up with a man, of which he takes an awful beating from. Then, Buck ends up on a boat and is bought two French Canadian guys, Perrault and François. A day or so later, his first snow arrives. He appears to be quite freaked out due to the fact that he has lived a sheltered life in California.

The different types of irony the author uses shows the reader the point of view of each character. We would never expect an inanimate object to have feeling and emotion. Using dramatic irony the author shows us how the snowman has feelings for the boy that the boy is unaware of. In line 13 the snowman is shedding a tear for the boy as it says, “He melts enough to drop from one soft eye a trickle of the purest rain, a tear.” The snowman is also unaware of why the boy won’t come out, as we know he will become

At that moment Kass ran as fast as she could in the opposite direction. The longer Kass ran, the closer Krampus got. In the distance Kass saw a tall white creature, it was then that she knew it was Master Dan the Snowman. Kass ran faster knowing that safety was not far. Dan the Snowman was ready for war, ready to win for the villagers at Legends. Kass ran behind Master Dan the Snowman as Dan was getting ready to put an end to Krampus. Dan the Snowman stood in front of Kass and Krampus knew it was the end of the road for him. Dan used his superpowers to pick up branches from the forest ground and launched them to Krampus at the same time. Then Dan used his ‘Freeze’ superpower to immobilize Krampus, but Dan froze the six sticks inside Krampus. Dan froze Krampus a little too much and he got small, really small. That was the creation of snowflakes, so every Christmas to celebrate the win against Krampus, it snows

“Now then, let us begin. When we are at the end of the story, we shall know more than we know now: but to begin” (Andersen) This is the way the story of “The Snow Queen” begins, by the author Hans Christian Andersen. As this story unfolds the reader see’s many avenues that this multi-faceted story shows, based on imagination and reality. It is easy to get lost and discouraged throughout the short story, but in the end, all is found and made known like looking at one’s self in a mirror, one sees all the imaginary and reality, if only they look hard enough.