Quotes From 'The Shadow Of The Wind'

In The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, the authors William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer use allusions to make the story more interesting. For example, one allusion that they mention is, “My father talked about the early days of MBC and hearing Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers from America and the wonderful sounds of Robert Fumulani” (68). Dolly Parton is a singer-songwriter, actress, author, businesswoman and humanitarian. Dolly Parton is best known for her work in country music (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Parton). Kenny Rogers is an American singer who has won many awards and has a lot of fans all over the world (http://www.kennyrogers.com/#bio). William’s father is recalling his memories from when he was younger, and the famous musicians

In the play, Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, the character of Bertram Cates causes the most amount of conflict and impact on his society. He teaches about evolution, so he starts the heated argument on his punishment, and how he impacted the people with his actions

Inherit the Wind is about a 24-year-old teacher named Bertram T. Cates, who is arrested for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution to his junior high-class. Some high-profile Hillsboro town’s people press charges and have Cates arrested for teaching evolutionism in a stringent Christian town. A famous lawyer named Henry Drummond defends him; while a fundamentalist politician Matthew Harrison Brady prosecutes. The story takes place in Hillsboro, which is a small town in Tennessee. Cates is merely trying to teach to his class that there is more to life than just what the Bible teaches. He is not trying to be nonreligious; rather he is just teaching his class to think outside the box. The town’s people think that Cates is trying to push

Amir says this simply because he feels regret for what he has done in the earlier years of his life and although he has made a lot of mistakes he redeemed himself by saving Hassan’s son. Him doing this action of kindness proves that he would have done it over and over again for the responsibility of earning his own integrity back. Amir says this line because he feels strongly that for a person he had unconditional love and he is hoping that one day people will return the favor and help him later on. Amir is not like his dad he is not strong headed or over exaggerate like Baba he is kind and is making up for a lot of mistakes he has made in his life especially in the younger years with Hassan. Amir has made a lot of mistakes and with this quote

You’ll be mine and I’ll be yours. Everything will be perfect until one screws up, but what if no one screws up? Yes, if no one screws up you made it to the finish line of a “happily ever after”. Love is such a crazy thing, one day is alive and growing and the next is fading until it completely dies. Everyone will have their own view on love, but love is vague, for one knows about today but not about tomorrow. In her critique of love, “Against Love,” Laura Kipnis offers a judgmental version of what constitutes “real love”. She questions whether we truly desire love, or rather, are conditioned to. She asserts that social forms accustomed us to pursue a love life so that we are entertained and wanted. But everyone has a different opinion on the matter. In his short story, “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love,” Raymond Carver tells the story of four different individuals in which he explores the perceptions of love by referring to their beliefs and experiences. One of the four characters, Mel, seems to have an unclear perspective on love himself as he questions his love life and asserts that everyone is entitled to look for love when is missing. If Mel was to have a conversation with Kipnis they would agree and disagree on certain ideas, for they both are able to understand the complexity of the matter. Mel would agree with Kipnis that society forces one to feel like a failure when love dies and that people move on because society expects us to, as he questions his

With the rapid thoughts swirling in her head, the lady waiting for her telephone call constantly shifts her emotional mindset. “I wish he were dead. I wish he were dead, dead, dead. . .This is silly. It’s silly wishing people were dead just because they don’t call the very minute they said they would.” (3) This dramatic, yet natural, shift shows the essence of humanity inside of her. Emotions are snowflakes in a blizzard. There are so many, each so closely related to one another, that they become hard to distinguish. Vengeful moments, lonesome moments, treacherous moments- they all can be broken down to the simple emotions of pain, fear, sadness, and the constant struggle to keep it in balance with happiness. Going from an extreme of, “I wish he were dead,” to rationalizing oneself and saying “this is silly” shows how drastically fast the emotional process can change. As messy and incoherent as these feelings can be, love is the most intricate and tangled of all. The shifts that occur in love are so radical that they are often unnoticed by the person until they can step out of themselves and see it. As this conversation happened inside of her head, she did think of herself as crazy or unstable. Love was the glowing ember that illuminated the ashes of erratic behavior. Love is all emotions mixed together, which is why there is such a fine line between love and hate, and why the numerous sentiments one experiences throughout a day are in continuous

“With great power comes great responsibility.” A famous quote, with an anonymous author. Although, I believe that the quote should say, “With great power comes great temptation to succumb to corruption and evil.” Anyone who has ever been in a position of authority has had the thought of abusing that power, and falling to evil and corruption. That is not to say that there are not those who use their power for good, because there are good people. One of the most fundamental struggles in the history of mankind is the timeless battle between good and evil. Not just in war and outward conflict, but internally; the struggle to do the right thing, which often leaves an individual with less reward, over doing the wrong thing, which often results in more reward and personal gain. The theme, “Good vs. Evil” ties in

“The point, of course is that they all, we all live in a too limited world, a world in which not all our dreams come true, a world in which we--all of us some of the time are doomed to disappointment”

Loyalty and devotion make up the base of a healthy loving relationship. Love can be a beautiful thing and in media today, we see it all around: music, books, movies, TV shows; anything at all can be traced back to the central idea of love. It’s all about happy endings, and we eat it up. Just as love is beautiful, it can be dangerous, even deadly. “Romeo and Juliet”, “Pyramus and Thisbe”, “Duty”, all of these love stories have but one thing in common: death. Love is blinding, and it often misleads people to make rash decisions that may end up being their last.

Inherit the Wind Legal Analysis Brief – Aakriti Gera Inherit the wind is a 1960 movies directed by Stanley Kramer. The movie follows the story about of two lawyers who argue the case for and against, respectively, about a case where a science teacher is accused of crime of teaching evolution. The “Monkey Trial” which takes places in 1925 has placed a high school teacher on trial for violation of a state law. The law states that teaching any scientific material; in this case, the Darwin’s theory of evolution was prohibited.

Humans possess the desire to be perfect, which simply does not exist on earth and can only be achieved in dreams or in death and is explained in “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Despite wanting to be perfect, humans also desire the need to love and to be loved in return, which often leads to unhappy, bad, forceful relationships as expressed in “Living In Sin” by Adrienne Rich. Within our human lives we often desire to be labeled by who and what we are so we can know our place in this world; which is pointless because in the end death does not care who you were and “Color—Caste—Denomination—“ by Emily Dickinson is an example of this. However, Super Sad True Love Story portrays humans who possess multiple harmful, pointless desires. Whether it is to live forever and look younger, to love someone because it is better than being alone, or ranking to know their purpose in the world, Super Sad True Love Story shows how these things end in a result not perfectly lovable at all.

People have been yielding their basic moral and social rights to a higher power and the concept of a divine being for centuries. In 360 B.C.E., Plato’s Symposium discussed higher power in human culture and, in 1762 Jean-Jacques Rousseau discussed the same concept from a different perspective in The Social Contract. It is significant because, despite the long passage of time between these texts and today, people still yield to a higher power in modern society.

Fairytales are always black and white. The knight in shining armour is always clear to spot, and the villain is portrayed in ways that invariably point to evil, however; this is not always the case in real life. Sometimes, in spite of their flaws, and lack of genuine care, the villain may appear to be the knight in shining armour, and you fall for them. Although love is always seen in a positive light, it is not always gentle and kind and can cause more pain than it does happiness. Loved ones can cause torment and misery, yet, as dark and twisted as it is, letting go is not an option because sometimes, pain manifests itself as butterflies in the stomach, and is thus ignored or perhaps even embraced. In Jenna Blum’s Those Who Save Us, Anna Schlemmer is in a state of hopelessness and need, when Horst, a Nazi officer, comes into her life. Despite his violent and bestial nature, he comes to save her in her time of desperation, and her hate toward him develops into love, which prevents her from letting him go - even though it may be mentally destroying her. Similarly, In Scott F. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan is married to the abusive and unfaithful Tom Buchanan, yet, even with her knowledge of his affairs and discriminative essence, she cannot give him up, which not only ruins her chances with Gatsby who truly loves her, but consequently demolishes her too. Both novels display that in spite of the common misconception that love is always ideal and beneficial to

“EVERY ONE DREAMS BUT ONE WHO TRANSLATES DREAMS INTO REALITY LEAVES AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION ON THE SANDS OF TIME”

Percy Bysshe Shelley was the definition of a Romantic poet. His philosophical beliefs emphasize the significance of aestheticism and his verse unmistakably depicted the magnificence and grandness of the natural world. In the same way as other of his Romantic associates, Shelley 's own particular life was short, disastrous, and brimming with hardships. Suffocated in a sailing mischance before the age of thirty, his one yearning that his words would affect and move did not turn into a reality until long after his flight. In his lyric, "Tribute toward the West Wind," Shelley utilizes imagery, analogy, meter, symbolism, and numerous different gadgets to display the force of nature and the speaker 's promise for this energy to end up some portion of him in his main goal to achieve motivation and change for innovative procedures.