Samael: A Short Story

Through a collection of 8 stories set in Canada and Bangladesh, Silmy Abdullah’s Home of the Floating Lily depicts the themes of navigating the dilemmas of kinship, migration, and identity through character perspective, contemporary setting, and incorporating cultural issues. In Abdullah’s short story, Familiar Journey, she uses these devices as well as character irony to depict the “here and now” while exploring the themes of identity. Through the character Annie, her perspectives, thoughts, and actions reinforce a sense of being in the present moment by portraying detailed descriptions of her navigation through the scene. Visualizing the busy train car Annie enters in the introduction paragraph, attention to realistic detailing of the scene

In 1969 there was a monster that terrorized the Environmental Center in Windom, MN. His name was the Samsquanch. The Samsquanch was 8 feet tall, he had long rotten fingernails, he was very muscular, and had a Gorilla like figure. The Samsquanch lived inside of any tree that was big enough for him to stand in it after he carved it out. He was hungry all the time and ate non stop and would kill for his next meal if he had the opportunity. People often venture into the Environmental Center at night and are never seen again. Many people believe that there is a monster lurking, waiting for his next meal.

The narrator of the story sees an advertisement put up by a teacher who was looking for a student interested in saving the world. This upset him because he spent years when he was younger looking for a teacher with the same interest. The narrator goes to the address on the advertisement even though he thought it was a hoax. He lands up in a large, almost empty office which eventually leads him to another room where he finds a gorilla sitting. He then hears a voice communicating with him in his head which he realizes is the gorilla talking to him telepathically. The gorilla, named Ishmael tells the narrator about his life. He was captured from the West African jungles and taken to the United States and kept in a zoo. He was then sold to a travelling circus during the Great Depression. He found out he was called Goliath and thought about his disappointing life in captivity.

The Monster is struggling to find his identity. He is trying to figure out if he is like Adam made upon this earth for a purpose or like Satan expelled from the “almighty kingdom”— in his case society. The Monster’s reading of

When Ishmael was thirteen a war broke out in his country. He demonstrated great courage, determination, and strength from the beginning of his treacherous journey until the end. One day Ishmael’s village, Mattru Jong, was raided by rebels and everyone had to leave. There was only one way to escape and everyone in town rushed there in a panic. The rebels didn't wanted everyone to abandon the village they "began shooting their guns at people instead of shooting into the sky” (Beah 24). They knew that they had to find a way to escape because it was especially risky boys their age. Aware of what could happen to them they were determined to escape. With great courage “they [We] dodged from bush to bush and made it to the other side...Immediately

At Scott High School, everybody knows everybody. We all know the different friend groups, who is cool and who is lame, everything you could possibly want to know. This all changed when suddenly, their was a new girl came. She came randomly and like most new kids in a small town, everybody wanted to know everything about her. She wasn't like the others, her personality was different, her looks and hobbies were different, even her friends and family were different. Little did we know she would fit into this little town just like the rest of us.

It seems that I am getting closer. I am truly curious as to what you are up to, young Fafnir." Still running around from landmark to landmark trying to locate his missing companion.

When you’re a child, you get to understand your culture. You live with it everyday, but when you grow up, things change in your life that might make you experience new things. That’s what happened to Sundara, when she found something else that was new and exciting for her .

In the novel Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, a gorilla that was captured in the jungles of Africa and held in captivity, is purchased at a carnival by Walter Sokolow, with whom he learns to communicate telepathically. Throughout the book, Ishmael teaches the narrator about two different groups of humans; the Takers, who believe that they are the ones intended to rule the world, and the Leavers, who are the ones that let nature govern their lives. Ishmael takes us on a journey to learn about our culture history, he goes all the way back to the story of Adam and Eve, which he claims, was a myth used by the Leavers culture to explain the expansion of the Takers culture.

However, the staggering sagacity and the manifestation of Ma’at in such an overwhelming way in the life of a peasant seems to inaccurately represent the plight of a Middle Kingdom peasant. Additionally, just as is true in “The Story of Sinuhe,” “The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant” greatly slants the moral righteousness of the king for purpose of glorification, a typical Egyptian motif. “The Story of Sinuhe,” however, offers many more reliable representations of principles of social life in the Middle Kingdom. Through the documentation of Sinuhe’s life and travels throughout the lands surrounding Egypt two fundamental ideas of Egyptian life come to light, the concept that the king represents all importance in Egypt and the notion that being Egyptian is truly the pinnacle of existence. This tale also personifies the trait of a hatred of foreigners in Sinuhe as he constantly claims to have “killed the people in it by my strong arm, my bow, my maneuvers, and my advice” (59). While both of these stories offer information at face value about Middle Kingdom social life, an analysis of the rhetorical slants, inaccuracies, and propaganda used by these Egyptian authors provides valuable enlightenment as well.

To gaze into the light of who she was sent all the shadows chasing away. Tacts couldn’t hear the words that was coming from her lips. Yet it was no matter because this was the union he was hoping for. Her lips moved in time to their dancing and still the comprehension of her words slipped past his mind. What was she saying? Drum? Thrum? He leaned closer while struggling to stay in motion, in time, or was it in control.

Sitting in history class Suddenly without warning Sam Temples teacher disappears. Everyone is in disbelief but soon becomes frightened when they realize everyone over the age of 15 in perdido beach disappears instantaneously. Parents, Siblings , siblings, authority the computers are not working network is down and cell phones are no longer in service. It is soon clear to see that there is an impermeable dome closing perdido beach from the rest of the world. These teen will have to learn to survive without the guidance of parents. Since Sam has has the experience of being a hero everyone automatically believes he should be the one to take responsibility and leadership. Sam rebels against the idea of him being the leader for reasons he does not

One Summer a popular dude who everybody knew was throwing a big party. Everybody wanted to go because everything he had was lit and was something you wouldn't want to miss out on. So it was this boy named Anthony and this girl named Aaliyah they had been dating for a year and a half and had a strong relationship. Anthony was a well known guy because he was one of the best football players and had been playing for a while. He was tall, dark skin, he could dress, and most of all what everybody liked about him he had curly hair. So as i mentioned it was a big party coming up Anthony was attending with his girlfriend but they got bad news she couldn't go because she was going out of town. Anthony told Aaliyah i'm still going to the party but i promise i won't do nothing there that i wouldn't do in front of you. Of course Aaliyah was discourage everybody is attracted to her boyfriend then he's going to a party without her being there but she put her feelings aside and said

Picture a baby screaming at the top of her lungs every time she gets her hair washed, with a sound as though someone is murdering her. Now imagine a child, giving her mother headaches, as she makes one of her mother’s biggest wishes come true. My mother used to always listen to a famous singer named Aaliyah, sadly the singer passed away at a young age, and she cried for weeks. Mom prayed that one day, if she had a girl, that she would have a voice like Aaliyah’s. Her prayers came true: I continue to sing in cars when she leaves to enter stores; singing in the basement, acappella and even in the shower. One thing that she didn’t expect is for me to be humbled, which makes it a curse to want to perform. I wanted to break-free from that shell

In reading once again the story of the Canaanite woman – I read deeper and I came to this conclusion. At first sight Jesus seems to behaving in a way that is not at all characteristic of him. Unless we had this story in the Gospels we would surely not imagine Jesus ever behaving as he does in this story. When the woman asks for his help Jesus doesn 't even answer her. He ignores her completely. He is, we might say, willfully deaf to her heartfelt cry for help, even when she persists with it, refusing to take his silence for an answer. When Jesus does speak it is apparently to exclude any possibility that he would heal her daughter. Only when she cleverly answers back does he give in. This must be the only occasion in the Gospels when Jesus does not respond to a request for healing or exorcism. It isn 't the only occasion when the disciples try to protect him from being pestered by people, but it is the only occasion when Jesus seems himself to want precisely that. Is this really the same Jesus we know from the rest of the Gospels as the one who welcomed all-comers, who went out of his way to reach the outcasts of society, the marginalized, the sinners? The only way to answer that is to do what we always have to do when someone we know behaves in an uncharacteristic way. We have to find some way of understanding how they can do that, how it is consistent with what we otherwise know of that person, how our mental portrait of that person may have to be revised to