Starfall Themes

Another example of theme is in the end of the book. This is when Micheal came back to save all of his friends. ‘ “Hatch is about to hurt our friends, and I need to stop him” ’

“The Tired old carriage, pulled by two tired old horses, rumbled onto the wharf its creaky wheels bumpety-bumping on uneven planks, waking Peter from his restless slumber.” This is the first sentence of the book, Peter and the Starcatcher by Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, and the illustrator Greg Call. Published in 2004 a nonfiction story filled of adventure and magic. This story has 452 pages in the hardcover edition. That is what made the story but the story makes the imagination run wild and an adventure worth wild.

We all dream of an ulterior world, a world in which we picture a perfect life with no struggles, problems, or pandemics. Both Interstellar, by Christopher Nolan, and Station Eleven by Emily Mandel, depict their characters as struggling not only with survival, but their sense of their own identity and security. Within Station Eleven, the saying, “survival is insufficient” is a recurring theme of Interstellar as well. While there are some differences in the characters and themes within Interstellar and Station Eleven, the similarities are the connections to their identity in which they adapt to the force of change within their world. As the characters struggle with adapting, they cling to certain things that allow them to remain sane. As a result, the characters feel like they have a purpose again due to their struggle for survival.

A theme is a unifying or dominant idea in a literary work. Steinbeck described the competition of good versus evil as the story of mankind itself. He believes that every generation to come since Adam and Eve will now be immersed with the struggle of good and evil due to Eve’s curiosity that led to sin, eventually banning both her and Adam from the Garden of Eden. In East of Eden, Steinbeck makes the contest of good versus evil apparent through his contrasting description of the setting, the characters’ opposing personalities, and society’s changing morals.

In the book Ashfall, the author Mike Mullin, presents many themes through the trials that, Alex, the main character and supporting characters go through. When the Yellowstone super volcano erupts and takes Alex through a trial to get to his parents. He finds a girl named Darla and together they learn about how love, family, and survival push them through things they never thought they could get to through on their own.

The portrayal of historical sites and landmarks in pop culture are normally skewed and distorted so that they appear more “fun” and relatable. In The Emperors New Groove, the producers seemingly ignored the fact that they were creating a movie based off of the Inca Empire. Creative liberties aside, the movie barely remains truthful to its historical basis. Differing in themes such as culture, settings, technology and customs, The Emperor’s New Groove ignores historical accuracy and creates an entertaining animation to capture its inability to historically portray the Inca Empire. The obvious elements that portray ignorance of the significant advancements of the Incan cities and communities, give its audience a false sense of reality and history.

The Cold War was a period from 1947 to 1991 that adhered erratic tension and constant threat of nuclear conflict between the two remaining superpowers that emerged from WWII, the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, directed by Stanley Kubrick, depicts the overlying themes of the Cold War in a comedic fashion. This film’s full embodiment of the Cold War is seen through its representation of the time period, and the sheer competitiveness between the United States and Russia. Additionally, due to many of Kubrick’s movie decisions, the film has helped society

October sky assignment A lil’ bit about the film: October sky is a movie based around a young man called Homer Hickam and his love for rocketry during the space race between the USSR and the USA that lasted from 1955 to 1975. Homer Hickam lives in a small town named Coalwood in West Virginia when the Soviet Union launches the first satellite (Sputnik 1) into space in 1957. This fascinates Homer and he falls in love with the idea of building rockets. As he investigates rockets more, a few things happen: He blows up his mum's fence with one of his first prototypes, forms the amateur rocket agency “Big Creek missile agency, has a fight with his dad and wins the science fair.

3. Choose one or two themes from the following list and show how Spiegelman conveyed this in Maus: Loneliness; Discrimination; Abuse of Power; Loss of Innocence, Guilt, Survival.

War of the Worlds is a novel written by Herbert George (H.G.) Wells in the year 1898. It is a story of and alien invasion that takes place in London, England and how humanity as a whole come together in the toughest possible situation, against the odds, and in the face of adversity, and still come out victorious despite the countless numbers of dead. Destroyed buildings and landmarks. And at times loss of hope. In this report, I will be discussing three of the most important terms of the book: conflict, setting, and motif. The conflict, setting, and motif of War of the Worlds is: Man vs. Martian, early 20th century London, and Death (as the motif).

There are themes in every piece of fictional literature ever written. A theme is the central idea of a story that is fictional. A theme can be everything from good verse evil to as simple as light and darkness. In any story there may be more than one theme in it. Some stories have numerous central ideas that can be seen in the one. Most people only focus on one while there may be five that are important to understand to understand the story. The Tell-Tale Heart like some has numerous themes that are all important to understanding the story.

“It's hard to think when someone's trying to kill you. We human beings aren't wired to be rational and creative when we know our lives are in danger of a swift and violent end. The body has definite ideas of which survival strategies it prefers to embrace, and those are generally limited to "rip threat to pieces" or "run like hell." No thinking need be involved, as far as our instincts are concerned.

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami tells a story about a junior high school kids who are forced to fight each other until death in a program run by the Japanese Government known as Republic of Greater East Asia. Throughout the book we see many themes that take place in the story. We see children fighting for their lives, survival, violence and just plain control. One of the themes that stood out was the use of fear in this story to control the physical, emotional and mental state of each of these children who were made to kill to survive. Fear takes an important part in this story because without fear, there would be no control over the citizens in Japan.

The theme of the novel, Everything, everything, is that you must take risks in order to be satisfied with your life.

Fictional characters often show similar themes as well as morals, just as this connection can be made through the real world. Naomi from "Going to where I'm coming from" by Naomi Shihab Nye and Maria from "The Sound of Music" by Robert Wise both express many similarities as well as differences. Naomi is a teenage girl that is originally from Missouri and has recently just moved to Jerusalem. There she faces the hardships of prejudice and segregation as well as boy problems. Maria on the other hand is a grown woman as well as a nun in training. Her story takes place in Austria as she faces the tough discipline of the commander as well as the Nazi's that are out to get her and her family. Although Maria and Naomi may be different ages, live on different continents, and speak different languages; they went through similar experiences. Both Maria and Naomi left the place they realized where they truly belonged.