Summary Of ' The ' Of Sleeping '

The idea of heroism is a common motif in Noir literature; one that dominates the characterization of the traditional hard-boiled detective. This remains constant in Raymond Chandler’s novel, The Big Sleep, in which Philip Marlowe is hired to investigate the blackmail of a rich man with two troublesome, fun-loving daughters. As Marlowe gains more information throughout the course of his investigation, he becomes closer with the daughters, Vivian and Carmen Sternwood, and learns many dirty secrets about the family and people close to them. This becomes as much of an exploration of the exploitation of General Sternwood, as much as it is an exploration of Marlowe himself and his role in life. Throughout the course of the novel, Marlowe’s attempts

In the books The Big Sleep and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, both authors, Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) and Simon Armitage (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), create the protagonist of each story into archetypal knights. The protagonist of The Big Sleep is named Phillip Marlowe and in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the protagonist is named Sir Gawain. The 3 knightly qualities that we will be focusing on in this essay are self-sacrifice, loyalty and courage. These qualities are displayed throughout each story in different and similar ways throughout each book.

“Why do we sleep?” is a very popular questions that many humans ask today. Sleep is very sufficient to the human body. If it was not important, then God would not have designed for a third of our life to be occupied by sleep. During this time period, many people are interested to know what is a good amount of sleep and what are the harmful effects to not getting enough sleep.

“The bad sleep well.” This quote is actually the name of a 1960’s Japanese film directed by the world renowned director Akira Kurosawa. There isn’t much to say about the movie, but it has a key role in the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama play Doubt: A Parable. Out of all of the places that the author John Patrick Shanley puts this quote is right at the first page before chapter one and after the preface with two other quotes. The location of the quote and what the quotes say give the reader questions and what happened and maybe foreshadowing what will come in the book.

Darkness surrounds the evening sky. The stars were peeking out from their dark home. It looked as if God took a straight pin, poked a sheet of paper with tiny holes. Crickets softly played their symphony as the world slept. James laid in his bunk, staring off into the darkness. He wondered what the day had in store for him. The night watchman quietly walked his route, like a thief in the night.

There are a few factors that are essential for life such as breathing or eating, but one of the most essential factor is sleep. Even though the amount of sleep people need differs from one individual to another, the fact is that eventually everyone needs to sleep. People know the importance of sleep, but due to the increased workload and the pressure of society people are getting less sleep. As a result, there has been an increase interest on the effects lack of sleep has on the mind especially the memory of a person. Many questions arose about the relationship between sleep and memory due to the fact most high school and college students have become sleep deprived. For example, does more sleep mean higher grades?

The Big Sleep is a detective novel set in 1930’s Los Angeles written by Raymond Chandler. Phillip Marlowe is a private detective hired to take care of a blackmailing scheme. General Sternwood is a wealthy old man with two troublesome socialite daughters. The General wants Marlowe to handle a man named Arthur Gwynn Geiger who has some type of dirt on the youngest daughter, Carmen. Upon meeting Marlowe, General Sternwood drops hints that he has an ulterior motive for Marlowe to find his missing son-in-law Rusty Regan, a former bootlegger married to Vivian Sternwood. Marlowe’s investigation quickly meanders when Geiger ends up dead. The story sends Marlowe to porn shops and casinos, the underbelly of Los Angeles. He is constantly fighting off

the big sleep book tells us about crime investigation, this book is very amazing and interesting in the plot of story, full of great section, also love and sex. classic theme and bring us in their age and time. conflict are making the reader will get fantasy and imagination of real situation and condition. the climax of book also make us in very high pressure drama. we will feel different way in this book. will be great film if any producer and director interest to realize this book to movie. we will feel regret if miss any pages of this book. amazing story till the end of the book. full of character and scenes. don't miss it. find and get this book at bookstore and plaza. will not dissappoint us. the writer is very smart. and influenced by

“Why do we sleep?” The video i chose to watch was ,“Why do we sleep?” by Russell Foster. Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist, who is someone that studies the sleep cycles of the brain. In the video, he talks about three popular theories about why we sleep, myths about how much sleep we need, and new uses of sleep as a predictor of mental health.

The article “On Insomnia” written by Elizabeth Gumport first appeared online at in which we’re up all night on December 2,2010 and is about sleepless people are a different breed. Insomnia is more than just being unable to fall asleep. For an insomniac, there is no such thing as a good night.

Noir genre is the style of film or fiction that is mysterious and gloomy, and the themes usually are crime and emphasize cynical attitudes. This genre came from and deeply influenced by the German Expressionism. The golden Era of film noir is between 1946 and 1951, which is also the time between and after the World War II in America. The stories of the noir genre are always take place in a city like Los Angeles because of The Golden West in the middle of 19 century. Raymond Chandler is a prominent practitioner of noir genre, and his novel The Big Sleep is widely considered to be one of the most significant novels of noir genre, which narrates a case that the main character Phillip Marlowe is investigating on.

In the “Variation on the Word Sleep” poem, the first stanza displays as a calm and soothing tone with the phases, like “smooth dark waves” and “sleep with you”. In the poem, the idea of sleep, which is the key part of this poem, correlates directly with the image of the smooth dark wave that slides over the speaker’s head: this shows the calm nature of the subject soothes the speaker. The speaker wanted to feel the same connection as the subject, which in, in the results in the repetitive use of the phrase “I would like,” in the first stanza. It highlights the sense of the speaker’s need to please both she/he and the subject. The next stanza seems to dwell on the feeling as the tone begin to switch to be more hopeful and wishful.

Kenneth Slessor is the poet that composed Sleep. Slessor is an Australian poet and journalist that was from a German-Jewish origin. Slessor's poems falls into three consecutive periods and Sleep falls in to the third period. Sleep uses Slessor's his themes and techniques to create contemporary and vivid images with change, the passing of time and impermanence referred through out it. Sleep was written at a time when Kenneth Slessor had turned his vision from the bush to the city for inspiration.

 The goal is to avoid, "clocks on collision," and to allow internal clocks to match external clocks, this is why night shifts are often on weekly rotation.

Faith. Listed as a strong belief in God. A majority of believers in religions start with a strong faith in God when their lives are normal and nothing bad is going on. Most people start with hope and innocence that they are optimistic about the religion in which the believer has just joined. Before reading Sharma’s short story, “Surrounded by Sleep”, coming from a practicing religious family I have learned that people expect things from God just because here that God brings on good things to other people that they should receive good things too, they monger for good things to happen to them. People expect that God will give them a good life if they practice their faith well enough. After reading the short story it was easy to see that the same thing happened to the characters.