Roger Rosenblatt's The Man In The Water

In 1976, composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson collaborated to create the groundbreaking opera Einstein on the Beach, which may be the most significant product of either individual’s artistic output. Though rarely performed, Einstein on the Beach is considered one of the most influential and revolutionary contributions to the operatic genre. Deeply experimental, featuring minimal plot and nearly five hours of simplistic, repetitive music, Einstein on the Beach is now revered as a masterpiece.

African Americans have been discriminated and were not treated fairly from the beginning of the American colonies up to the 1960s. Their history included about 250 years of slavery followed by another 100 years of discrimination. However, many people state that throughout the 1800s, the whaling industry helped African Americans thrive as a race. In addition, they were treated as equals and could gain glory and wealth from it. In most cases, this is not true because negroes for three main reasons. Almost all African people did not receive high positions on their crew ships. Also, they experienced segregation on ships and were treated not equally. Finally, they were taken for their cheap and hard labor in a dangerous, unrewarding industry. Using internet sources and the novel, In The Heart of The Sea, by Nathaniel Philbrick, African Americans in the whaling industry had low status within crews and faced harsh working conditions as well as discrimination and racism.

The journey,not the arrival is what matters in human experience. It can be said that when one takes the first steps of a journey, that person will be forever changed as they will no longer be the way they were. As on travels, through physical or inner journeys the experiences one has, the decisions one makes and the affects of those decisions enables one to grow and develop in new and unexpected ways. These ideas are explored in Roberts frosts poem the “road not taken” and Peter Skrzynecki's poem “crossing the red sea” in both poems, journey is represented as both a physical and inner state of journeying that all people experience Journeys last forever. Decisions that lead to another can continue throughout one’s life. Proof of this is embedded in “way leads on to way”,a form of repetition shows the continuous nature of the process of journeying. “Ages and ages hence” also represents the similar idea, future tense is used show how the future is undeniably full of new and exciting journeys. Both quotes allow us to understand that the persona understands that journey is continuous/that a journey never ends. Frost shows us that there are a number of possibilities that can all be assessed once a decision is made.

In his speech called “This is Water”, David Wallace talks about liberal art education. He mentions that liberal art education gives one human value, instead of the materialistic one. It enriches the students’ knowledge not only with knowledge about their major but also teaches them how to think. Wallace told, that students have no idea what the day to day adult life is. People wake up, go to work, then come back home and do this routine automatically almost every day. In the speech, he warns against intelligence, as he thinks when one concentrates on intelligence, s/he feels stupid and on the verge of being found out. He describes the intellectual environment as a prison and the people in that environment have no idea that they are locked

Baca’s essay shows the reader how he grew as a person. Even though he had many obstacles his intention was to become a better person. The first steps he took towards growing as a person was by listening to someone read to him. Before long he was able to start reading books on his own. After succeeding in learning how to read, he accomplished his biggest goal yet, Baca was able to write. Thus, causing him to feel a sense of freedom and no longer anxious.

In This is Water by David Foster Wallace, he emphasizes the need for people to stay awake. While the term does not literally mean to dose off as life passes by, it does go along the lines of being able to be responsive to the discomforting, disheartening, or even the most joyous things in life. The act of staying awake has been so profound that popular literature mimics the struggle most have with “staying wake.” This type of writing can be categorized as creative nonfiction, and is the current predominant genre as a result. DFW states in This is Water, “ the mind being, an excellent servant but a terrible master” adds to the fact that our default setting has nothing to do with logical thinking but everything to do with impulse. This is seen

In “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World,” a remotely isolated village with a small population is suddenly turned upside down when the corpse of a giant stranger washes up on their small shore. This villager is clearly not from the same world the villagers live in, and as they wonder where he came from, they begin to create stories about his life and who he is. They give him a name, Esteban, and create a world of fiction through which they can glimpse what his life was like for him, regardless of the truth. As they prepare to give Esteban a proper funeral procedure according to their own cultural practices, they create stories about him and honor him, even though they have no idea who he really is. The lines between reality and illusion in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” are blurred in many ways, especially regarding the cultural conflict, concept of death, and ideological conflict of the villagers.

The “Stony Man” series is about a group of people who take part in clandestine operations. The series is action-adventure. The group of men first appeared in the “Executioner” series that Pendleton also writes. Their only commanding officer is the White House and takes on the jobs that the FBI, NSA or CIA can or will touch. It is so that the White House can say that they do not know about or did not sanction the actions that the team is doing. But at the same time, they can be kept up on all of the things that the group is doing on a given mission. The Stony Men were put together so that Mack Bolan 's skills and know-how could be put to good use fighting terrorism. Mack is someone who was able to take on the KGB all by himself.

In the short story “The Swimmer” John Cheever characterizes Neddy in a selfish and content manner to illustrate his detachment from society. The swim that Neddy starts in the beginning of the play seems fun and innocent in nature. He enjoys stopping at all of his friends and families house drinking every time after he finishes swimming the pool. The drinking depicts his easy lifestyle, lack of care for the world, and his detachment from society. The repetition of drinking eventually is what brings him to his “cold” and “bewildered” reality because he has suppressed everyone around him by only wanting to swim. At the end of the story he is left with no friends to talk with or family to care for him because he has been self-centered. He also is unaware of what has transpired while he was swimming. This displays his mindsets lack of care for others he just wants to drink and have a good time. However as he progresses he goes further into his loop of the pools, and he desires to swim in more and more. This loop symbolizes his life, and how he is not progressing or doing anything important with it. He wants to just go around in circles hiding from reality. The irony is he is left poor and all of his friends leave him. His entire image of life, and how he wanted to live was based on himself and money. After the money disappeared so did his companions because he was living a life that did not value relationship or care.

In Latin America, authors developed a literary genre called Magical Realism that juxtaposes the magical with the mundane. In the story “The handsomest Drowned Man in the World” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez a dead man washes ashore on the beach of a small village changing the lives of everyone in town. Although this small village live boring lives, mythification and hyperbole are used to show how Esteban gave these villagers hope.

Mahatma Gandhi once said “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” “The Handsomest Drowned Man in The World” is a short story written by Gabriel García Márquez established in a small fishing village. The story begins when a few children see a “dark and slinky” bulge in the sea. When the bulge washes up on the beach they notice it is a drowned man, covered in seaweed, fish remains, jellyfish tentacles. The children then played with the corpse all afternoon until the villagers notice them and they tell the rest of the villagers. The men of the village carry the body to the nearest house, they mention that he is a very heavy man. They describe that the man is taller than other men and that he barely fits in the house. Later on, the

This tale is about external and internal conflicts; there are many internal and external conflicts in the novella. One of the main conflicts is that Santiago couldn’t catch the marlin. This is resolved by Santiago eventually catching the fish three days after he returned back to sea after he had an eighty four day unsuccessful streak; this solution is believable because he was determined to catch the fish which he did. A secondary conflict in this novella was that Santiago began to talk to himself because Manolin is no longer with him, also because he is isolated and unable to catch any fish for a long period of time. This conflict is resolved when he said ten Our Fathers and Ten Hail Marys which then made him feel better and helped motivate himself to catch the marlin. The reader can anticipate that many literary terms will relate to these conflicts.

Ernest Hemingway, an Intense Macho Bullfighting Woodsman of an author, If you met him in person you would not beleive him when he told you he 's an author. However Ernest Hemingway is a very accomplished author, well known as the Chronicler of the lost generation, and for his Pulitzer Prize winning Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway also was known for his collection of short stories, like In Another Country and The Snows of Kilimanjaro, as with many of his stories these two are set in 2 places he has been Milan in Italy and in Africa were he went Big game hunting. The main idea of most of Hemingways stories is generally set around his Hemingway Code and An Acceptance of death.

Ernest Hemingway was a renaissance man whose accomplishments include a Bronze Star for his bravery during World War II in 1947, the Pulitzer prize for Fiction in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and finally the Nobel Prize in literature for "his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in ‘The Old Man and the Sea’, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style”. Hemingway’s legacy as one of the key figure of “The Lost Generation” of great artists was solidified by his famous works such as A Farewell to Arms, and The Nick Adam’s Stories, however, the inspiration for these titles came from Hemingway’s personal experiences in war, love, and life. Having experienced World War I and II firsthand Hemingway had both strong political views and harrowing details of war that he needed to convey to his audience. Through his new form of prose that used succinct declarative sentences combined with compelling stories Hemingway’s writing served as an inflection point for future literature.

Ernest Hemingway was a man among men. He painted his life through written words. In his life Hemingway experienced events that would change him and shape the man that he was. Hemingway wrote about his time he spent in World War I in his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, and in his last novel, The Old Man and the Sea, he writes about his fishing exploits, both of which Hemingway experienced himself. By comparing these two works that he has written, a reader can perceive his linguistic style and the reflection on himself through the protagonists in the stories.