Personal Narrative Essay On The 'Let's Road'

In the book Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, Susanna Kaysen was only 18 years old when she agreed to enter a medium security psychiatric facility in Boston, McLean hospital in April 1967, after a failed suicide attempt. She insisted that her over dose on aspirin was not a suicide attempt, but after a 20 minute interview the doctor decided she needed to be admitted to a hospital. During her prolonged two-year stay at the hospital Kaysen describes the issues that most of the patients in her ward have to deal with and how they all differently deal with the amount of time they must stay in the hospital for. While in the hospital Kaysen experienced a case of depersonalization where she tried to pull the skin of her hands to see if there were bones underneath, after a failed escape attempt. Soon, after going to therapy and analysis she was labeled as having recovered from borderline personality disorder. After her release she realizes that McLean Hospital provided patients with more freedom than the outside world, by being free responsibility of parental pressure, free from school and job responsibilities, and being free from the “social norms” that society comes up with. Ultimately, being in captivity gave the patients more freedom then in society and created a safe environment in which patients wanted to stay in.

In Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road “the man” and “the boy” refer to themselves as “the good guys” compared to “the bad guys”. While reading this book I was lead to believe that “the boy” is truly the only “good guy” left, because “the man” and every other character that I encountered in this book share some of the same qualities as “the bad guys”.

(E) The motif of the entire novel revolves around fire. Fire is used as a literal object as well as a

Many times the protagonists become the victims of the story and are eventually defeated. This is the case in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road. The protagonist, Xavier Bird, is the victim and is eventually defeated by the powers and doings of the people that he encounters during the war, and also by the uncontrollable forces that act upon him during the course of the war. Ultimately, these two factors overpower him and lead to his emotional defeat.

In Langston Hughes, "On the Road" the Sargeant is a homeless Black man that is desperate for food and shelter. In his desperation, Sargeant goes to the church to refuge, but there is no one at the Church to help him get refuge. Although Sargent is living in a time where the depression is in existence amongst all people, Black and White, he finds no one to help him. Sargent goes to the Church because the Church helps people. However, because Sargeant is Black and the Church is populated by a White congregation, he is rejected. In the story " One the Road", one of the people: A big black unemployed Negro holding onto our church... "The idea"! This represents that Sargent wants the benefits of the white

Three Day Road is a book written by Joseph Boyden, Toronto, Penguin Canada 2005, 384 pages. Joseph’s maternal grandfather and his uncle both served in the First World War. The book is written about history of natives telling us about the hardships of the Frist World War. Joseph’s intent was to honor the Native soldiers who fought in the First World War because many of them did not even get noticed for their great bravery and skill. The War had its way on everyone changing people in the book Three Day Road you can see it between the friendship of Elijah and Xavier and how they both change throughout the story.

Why do you think McCarthy has chosen not to give his characters names? How do the generic labels of “the man” and “the boy” affect the way you /readers relate to them?

The Effect of Rituals on Identity Rituals, in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road, can bring back one’s former identity after a traumatic event due to the spiritual connection it creates with one’s sense of self and the role rituals have in actualizing strong beliefs. In the second paragraph of the passage, Niska lays out food on three separate rocks without a thought to what she is doing. Niska’s faith in her culture allows her to prepare the food by placing salted fish on one rock, “on another some moosemeat and on a third, blueberries picked fresh from the bush” (Boyden 9). The way Niska prepares the food highlights the number three as a symbol, which is used to represent the relationship between life and death. In Cree culture, the number three signifies the three day journey a soul

It is remarkable how differentiated works of literature can be so similar and yet so different, just by the way the authors choose to use select certain literary devices. Two different novels, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, and The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, display these characteristics because of the ways the authors institute such mechanisms. Brave New World describes a futuristic era where humans are genetically manufactured for a certain job predestined to them before they are artificially created, and where common human emotions, desires, wants, and needs have all been modified to support a deemed utopian society where everyone lives and works together in harmony. The Road describes a post-apocalyptic

As Andrew Braaksma works at a factory in his article, “Some Lessons from the Assembly Line,” he learns how to work hard and make the most of what he has as a college student through recognizing the difference between himself and both his peers at school and coworkers at the factory. This journey he makes, working at the factory every summer, is represented by the book he has-Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” which details the trip made by one writer across the country as he discovers himself. Similar to this book, Braaksma seems to be discovering himself as well and learning important lessons about the world, such as, “how lucky I am to get an education, how to work hard, how easy it is to lose that work once you have it” (Braaksma). These ideas, such as working hard, craft Braaksma’s ideology as he recognizes the necessity of college

Upon finishing Three Day Road I find myself in an almost state of shock from the concluding events of the story. This is due to the fact that I would not have guessed that Xavier would be the cause of Elijah’s death, especially under the circumstances in which Elijah was in turn attempting to kill Xavier. Moreover, this caused some disbelief on my end as the pair appeared to be the perfect friends from what we learnt starting from their relationship when they were kids. One can see this through how the two worked together and taught the other the information they were lacking. For instance, Elijah taught english and Xavier taught hunting. In addition to this, I personally feel that Three Day Road adequately represented the discrimination and

The Famished Road fits the description above. Some of the characters (Azaro and his father) feel that the world is very corrupt. The only way to climb up the social ladder is to join the detested Party of the Rich. They cannot have any real impact on the world because they are living in horrible poverty and belong to the Party of the Poor. To compensate for their poverty, they spend most of their time dreaming. Azaro’s father plans to build houses for the poor, tar all the roads, clear away all the rubbish in the streets, open massive stores to sell food cheaply to the poor, become a musician, bring free education to the poor, become head of state, or an invisible ruler of a very educated nation (408-409).

Jack Kerouac is considered a legend in history as one of America's best and foremost Beat Generation authors. The term "Beat" or "Beatnic" refers to the spontaneous and wandering way of life for some people during the period of postwar America, that seemed to be induced by jazz and drug-induced visions. "On the Road" was one such experience of Beatnic lifestyle through the eyes and heart of Jack Kerouac. It was a time when America was rebuilding after WW I. Describing the complexity and prosperity of the postwar society was not Karouac's original intent. However, this book described it a way everyone could visualize. It contained examples and experiences of common people looking for new and exciting

     Jack Kerouac is the first to explore the world of the wandering hoboes in his novel, On the Road. He created a world that shows the lives and motivations of this culture he himself named the 'Beats.' Kerouac saw the beats as people who rebel against everything accepted to gain freedom and expression. Although he has been highly criticized for his lack of writing skills, he made a novel that is both realistic and enjoyable to read. He has a complete disregard for developed of plot or characters, yet his descriptions are incredible. Kerouac?s novel On the Road defined the post World War II generation known as the 'beats.'

Jack Kerouac was born in Massachusetts, in 1922. Kerouac quit school and joined the Merchant Marine, starting the travels which would become ‘On the Road’ his most acclaimed novel. It is said to be an account of Kerouac's ("Sal Paradise’s") travels with Neal Cassady ("Dean Moriarty"). According to Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac typed the first draft of On the Road on a fifty-foot long roll of paper.