Quotes From Nyarlathotep

In Bernard Malamud’s book, The Natural, Roy's character stays self-centered. His attitude takes over him which prevents him from expressing who he really is. As Roy ages 15 years physically throughout The Natural, but his mental and moral state remains unchanged because of his self-centeredness.

caracter Yanek is a young 10 year old boy. Yanek Gruener was a jew, and Hitler was telling Germans that jews were the reason about all the problems that were going on at that time. Yanek Gruener was having a happy life until the Natiz came and invaded Germany. Yanek and all the other jews were banned from school, stores, libraries, and more. Yanek had to stop going to school because he wasn't allowed.

In the fiction novel, “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles, there are plenty of characteristics exposed from the setting about the character Finny. How the setting of the novel helps reveal the character Finny is by the way he reacts towards his education, sports, and friends. He and a friend, Gene, go back fifth-teen years as if they were still at Devon High School, which is a boarding school for boys only.

“The media often focus on the trauma people suffer, forgetting to tell us about their ability to recover and the humanity that remains intact” (Ishmael Beah). The quote of Ishmael Beah was used to describe Mariatu Kamara’s autobiography called The Bite of the Mango. Kamara’s story shows people the horrible events she lived through and how perseverance and optimism is essential for survival. If it hadn’t been for Kamara’s unbreakable will, she would have died when the rebels first came to her village, captured her, and cut her hands off. Despite the loss of her hands, Mariatu Kamara inspired others with her strength to continue living through her childhood and later in life became an activist and humanitarian.

“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.” In the novel, “Indian Horse,” by Richard Wagamese, Saul initially loses his religion, innocence, identity and skill however, implicate an impact on him to become stronger. From the belittling beatings and tortures of the Residential School to the evolving racism coming from the white people against the Indians, Saul loses many things.

“He’d do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter” (265). In the book the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, the Panama Hotel is on the corner of Chinatown and Japantown. The hotel is located between the two cultures Henry is tied to, the Japanese and the Chinese. The story takes place in Henry’s past when he first meets Keiko and the present, after his wife, Ethel, has died. The hotel acts as the connection in between the two cultures and the two time periods, and symbolizes how Henry does too.

“Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire” (Wiesel 24)! Mrs. Schächter yelled to the other people on the train, warning them about what was going to happen. In the book Night Elie describes the life that he had during the Holocaust. This book is about how a twelve year old boy puts his old life behind and illustrates the many hardships that Hitler caused the Jewish people.

nothing. It’s no wonder Alexie does not waste much sympathy even on whites at all, he even

Even though Lord Capulet, from the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, is trying to do what he thinks is best for Juliet, Lord Capulet starts off as a loving and caring father but slowly graduates into an ignorant and insensitive father because when confronted by Paris, Lord Capulet tells him that Juliet is too young to marry and that in a few years, if she says yes, then it is possible. When Tybalt dies, Capulet moves up the wedding to the upcoming Thursday without Juliet's consent. Lord Capulet loves his daughter but does not know much about her true thoughts or feelings. Because of his ignorance towards her feelings, Juliet starts to resent her father and becomes a disobedient and dishonest daughter. Capulet

Throughout The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, I sympathized with Keiko and Henry the most. Although both are minority races, they are discriminated against differently. Keiko identifies as 'American', but that does not seem to matter as her family and the rest of the citizens of Japanese descent are whisked into armed, prison-like camps by U.S. officials. I can relate to her since I have been discriminated against because of my ethnicity. It seems easy for some to make stereotypes about other races, especially in a time where everyone is looking for somewhere to place the blame. For example, the discrimination is evident when Keiko and Henry try to buy a record- Keiko is not even acknowledged because she is Japanese.

Elie Wiesel was a twelve year old boy who just wanted to learn about ‘The secrets of the Jewish Mysticism, but ended up getting a world of hurt instead in the upcoming years of his life.

¨In the morning he would wake up groaning like the demon in a Kabuki drama; he would vomit and then start sipping again. He terrified us all, lurching around the tiny room, cursing in Japanese and swinging his bottles wildly,¨ (Houston 50-51). This is a quote from the book Farewell to Manzanar. In this point of the book Jeanne’s father was an alcoholic. He would drink himself to sleep every night and just wake up and do it again. As a child it is hard to go through this because you can never really understand why a father would do this. Especially when he has a loving family that is there for him during it all. It’s hard to comprehend why someone would put themselves through that physical state knowing that it was hurting the ones they love.

Those who have managed to live through the unimaginable and inexpressible event known as the Holocaust are very unfortunate. When asked, most Holocaust survivors will say they survived because of luck however that was not the case with Eliezer Wiesel. Ellie survival was based on his traits. He was a young Jewish boy, who was not well nourished he was delicate and weak, he was living in a small town on the border of Hungary.

Walking in someone’s skin can be a difficult task. This difficulty can be found in the vast size of a person’s mind, and the way they live their lives. Calpurnia’s skin can be difficult to walk in because she was a black woman in a time period where racism was at its peak, which meant that she must have had to live with segregation and prejudice for her lifetime.

“The drink had me snared. I spoke less and drank more, and I became the Indian again; drunken and drooling and reeling, a caricature everyone sought to avoid,”(Wagamese,181). This stomach-turning quote displays what several First Nations thought their identity to be. With this in mind, to begin, “Indian Horse,” by Richard Wagamese is a somber and intriguing novel, with many thought-provoking points within the book. To illustrate this, the book follows a First Nations boy through his youth to adulthood. It is filled with traumatic events, depressing stories and even a few joyful moments. In addition, the novel takes place from around 1960-1980 throughout Ontario. Furthermore, this essay will explore several events and factors which impacted, Saul, the main character's identity.