Short Story Zebra

Change is unavoidable. It occurs in everyone’s life, no matter their circumstances. These changes can vary from being minor to being very significant. Although these changes can affect an individual in its aftermath, there is a lot of fear and anxiety that many people have prior to the change occurring. For example, a young child may worry about starting school due to the new environment and people. This essay will highlight the major changes in the story, “The Giraffe”, and changes in my life that shaped my thinking today. Furthermore, I will explore the similarities and differences between the events that occur in the story and in real life. This essay will highlight that you should embrace change, accept new experiences and face reality

“A huge rushing shadow appeared in his line of vision and crashed into him and plunged him into...darkness…”(p. 8). This was how Zebra never ran again, or so it seemed. He blamed himself for getting hit by a car because he was disobedient to his mother. Since then, he had been gloomy, negative, and not himself with no friendship bonds to revolve around. He has not played with his friends since the accident happened and had made a bad reputation for himself. This is why Andrea, one of Zebra’s classmates, talks about him when their friendship started to fall apart. It looked like all would lost for Zebra and would never recover like his injured body parts. Because of his problem being to himself and not opening up to others.

     Populations of the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas), were first found in the Laurentian Great Lakes in 1988 (Hebert et al., 1989). This species is native to the Caspian, Aral, and Black Seas and the rivers that drain into them but has spread throughout Europe, principally during the 18th century. Since it is restricted to estuarine and freshwater habitats, it is presumed that it was introduced into North America by ballast waters of transoceanic vessels. Based on the substantial amount of genetic variation found in these initial populations, as estimated from electrophoretic variation of allozymes, the colonization of the Great Lakes was by a large number of immigrants and not just a few founders

Failure is an important lesson in life needed in order to learn and improve. Consequently, letting the failure terminate foregoing dreams is what separates the doers and the achievers from the yes-sirs and the followers. The catalyst of all great things from winning a race, to solving the world’s problems, stem from the root of failure. In The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, failure and its lessons are experienced in the first person view of Enzo the dog. Enzo and his owner, Denny, go through several first-hand experiences that allow them to develop into the souls before them in which they manifest.

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A lesson I took from the story about achieving success is that no matter what obstacle you encounter, you need to keep pushing forward to your end goal and beyond. Certain situations can cause us to pause or if they’re severe to completely give up on our goals.

In this book, Pony’s grades were so bad he thought he should just drop out, he didn’t think they would ever go back up. In Zebra the boy kept hope and was able to run again, “One or two additional operations were still necessary. But

In the story “The Scarlet Ibis” James Hurst tells a story of how a young boy, Doodle, was mentally challenged and was expected to die. The story is narrated by Doodle’s older brother who tells the reader what he did with Doodle everyday. The story begins when Doodle was a baby and wasn’t expected to live but he did. From there the narrator starts teaching him how to do normal things like walking, running, and swimming to protect his pride from the fact that his brother wasn’t normal, however, Doodle was every fragile and when he was pushed too hard to do something he ended dying. In the middle of the story a bird called the Scarlet Ibis comes into their yard and dies from exhaustion much like the way Doodle did. The theme of the story is don’t push delicate things too hard. Within the story there are several literary devices Hurst used to focus on the theme throughout the story like symbolism, foreshadowing, and flashbacks.

The theme of “survival” could be related to any book. In the book, Now Is the Time for Running by Michael Williams, Deo Nyandoro ran away from his country, Zimbabwe with his brother, Innocent in order to escape the war and to find their dad. They had to become homeless and they had to find everything they need to survive. The theme of “survival” relates to Now Is the Time for Running because Deo and Innocent had to run away and work in order to survive in an unfair and challenging world for them. Furthermore, the theme of “survival” relates to the book Now Is the Time for Running.

I am writing about zebras did you know that there are 3 types of zebras [1] the plains zebra,[2] the grevy's zebra,[3] and the mountain zebra. The mountain zebra live in the mountain they migration every year. The grevy's zebra migration every year too I think all zebra migration every year. The plains zebra are the same they just do not have the same name. So now you know that there are 3 types of zebras

In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi readers get to experience a journey that Pi must survive through to live. After the ship that Pi was on sunk, Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with an orangutan, a zebra, a hyena, and a 450 pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. In the book Life of Pi, one theme that exists throughout the text is the will to survive. Both Pi and Animals among the lifeboat show this theme in the book. One Example when the theme the will to survive is shown is when a very modest and peaceful orangutan named Orange Juice, fights ferociously to survive.

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He had a face, but it was a clean, blank slate. An empty canvas upon which his experiences, sights, and thoughts splattered upon it in certain manners and colors of paint. A scolding from his mother would paint a bold, intense slash of rage, guilt and lots and lots of tears. Somehow these feelings of inadequacy and hopelessness and anger dominated themselves over the more faint, soft watercolor clouds of his train of thought, unadulterated by any anger inducing occurrences. The empty areas of the canvas, meanwhile, were overshadowed, and sometimes Clyde felt restricted. It was almost as if he was gasping for breath, and couldn't breathe. The air was simply too dense for breathing.

The stories of Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell and Am I Blue by Alice Walker, present to readers on how each story can compare the significance of human interaction with animals. Short stories have their ways into composing many complex storylines and implicating different meanings into them. This gives readers the idea that short stories are just not what they read, but is much more complicated than that. In Shooting an Elephant and Am I Blue present different techniques on how readers can analyze and further understand each story. The reader's first look at the conflicts of the stories, as the conflicts show on what the characters have to go through before reaching their goal. Each of the stories show they are only told from one person's point of view, based on their experiences on observing the world around them and the people or things they meet. Also the plot or the events that happen throughout both stories are very similar to each other. The stories of Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell and Am I Blue by Alice Walker can be compared with one another in many ways, such as the conflicts, the point of view and the plot.

The theme is that no matter how much life challenges you if you believe things can get better they will. An example from the story is when the man is down because the hard drive sputtered and told him that it was full. The deleting game began, then the phrasing game, the condensing game. He is down and depressed because he can not put any new information into the computers. He goes home and his wife asks him what’s wrong and he says nothing, and continues with his own thing. The man was down because he couldn't put anymore info into the computer. The man started to realize that the not all the work was as important as the well-being of his wife. He had noticed that she was down because she knew that something was wrong with him. He then started to realize the only important thing is that his wife knows that he still loves her and won’t leave her. After assuring her that he’s not leaving her, he becomes less down, and came to terms with society.