Milca C. Altamirano ENG 101 Jon LaGuardia 7 September 2016 Textual Analysis You awake with a breeze twirling with the fragments of hair left on your scalp; a dance known only to friends of the oncoming light. You open your eyes only to see the endless ocean in the sky. You do not see your family, nor your friends. You demand your legs and arms to function, they do not. You beg them to work the one time you need them to, and in defiance to the groan of your bones, you stand. You begin to wonder if this is a dream, a nightmare. It’s not real. I will see them when I wake up. They are fine. It’s not real. The earth rises and in its presence is the rubble of your home, your brother’s home, and your neighbor’s home, scattered and utterly destroyed. With a horrible realization, you start screaming for the arms of your children and wife to wrap around you once again. You can’t hear yourself scream. You can’t hear anything except the deafening silence. You drop to our knees while your eyes are drowned in a river of sorrow. Then, you feel the small hands of your children grasp yours with surprising fierceness. Though your wife is nowhere to be seen in the mist of dust, you have never been so relieved to bask in the mist of ruins and death. This is a devastating reality many are facing in the Middle East every day, some more grim than others. It is through a writer’s words, written or oral, or a photographer’s lens where we see our news, our history being captured. In this
Marianka Dodd Professor Warren Textual Analysis 30 March 2015 Friends, Makes Life Better Before the 1994 television season started, networks were declaring that the upcoming fall season was going to be the “Year of the Family”. Many creative powers were aiming to capitalize on the familiar formula of relative-based series with shows like: Family Matters, All-American Girl, Me and The Boys, Full House and Party of Five. On September 22, 1994 David Crane and Marta Kuffman created a new sitcom by the name of Friends and it featured an unconventional family of friends. The characters, Chandler Bing, Joey Tribbiani, Monica Geller, Ross Geller, Phoebe Buffay, and Rachel Green lived off and with one another in Manhattan, New York.
In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of English boys in their adolescence are stranded on an island. They crash-land while being evacuated because of an atomic war, so the boys must learn to cooperate with each other in order to survive. The boys are civil at first, but the bonds of civilization unfold as the rapacity for power and immediate desires become more important than civility and rescue. The conflict between Ralph, the protagonist, and Jack, the antagonist, represents the conflict between the impulse to civilization and the impulse to savagery, respectively. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses Ralph and Jack’s struggle for power to show that greed and lust for power can corrupt the best
Richard Van Camp's, The Lesser Blessed, contains elements that classify the novel with both Indigenous and Modern genres. Featuring both genres in a text can lead to contradicting themes that form a binary. This binary has the potential to limit the extent readers can connect to the story, suggesting the presence of a barrier. Barriers hinder the readers' lack of understanding or relatability to either Indigenous or Modern works of literature. This paper will serve to analyze how Richard Van Camp deconstructs the binary by having the sides work together rather than against one another. Furthermore, this paper will discuss how by breaking down the binary, Richard Van Camp is allowing his novel to be accessible to all readers.
Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, and The Simpsons “Das Bus” episode, the parody of the novel, both showcase the fierce battle between nature and the children. The reader discloses who leads and who breaks through the harsh environment alive. These stories can compare in numerous ways, but also differ in many ways so that The Simpsons fans find it comical. Lord of the Flies has a much more serious tone, while The Simpsons episode tries to add a bit of a twist that makes it’s humorful to its audience. Many of the characters in The Simpsons resemble the ones in Lord of the Flies, which makes the two “Lord of the Flies”, very easy to compare and contrast. Lord of the Flies and The Simpsons both compare and contrast Bart and Ralph, how they keep everyone in control, and also how they become savages.
Humans develop in societies with rules, order and government, but humans are not perfect, they have many deficiencies so do the societies they live in. When a group of schoolboys land on a tropical island, Ralph takes on the role of leader by bringing all of the boys together and organizing them. He first explains “There aren’t any grownups. We shall have to look after ourselves.”(p.33), this brings up the question if the boys will have prosperity or will they succumb to the evil on the island. At first the young boys start being successful and civilized, but chaos soon overruns them and evil starts to lurk over the island.The fictional story of the group of British schoolboys stranded on an island and the decisions they make, relates back
Intended for the enjoyment of the present-day youth generation, the 2007 comedy film Knocked Up deals with more than just comedic issues. Technically introduced as a romantic comedy, this film serves more to its comedic orientation. With awkward romance and stoner mannerisms, the laughs are plentiful for the intentional audience of Knocked Up. However, as the audience is served its fill of laughter, issues are presented that rarely grace the silver screen. The director of this film, Judd Apatow, utilizes his dominion and influence over the audience to introduce the dominant ideology of Knocked Up. As seen in his previous film, The 40 Year Old Virgin, it is evident that the
When I first signed up for University 101 back over the summer I thought that this class was a waste of time, and was just an easy credit. But I was wrong. University 101 ended up being my most demanding class and I was upset because I felt like none of the journals, activities, and discussions were useful or even worth my time. But I was wrong again. My UNV 101 class was different from the rest, it was different because I was a part of Opportunity Network. Opportunity Network has three instructors and I was very grateful to have Ms. Ebony to be my UNV 101 professor. Ms. Ebony and I became extremely close during this semester. Ms. Ebony encourage me to do nursing again ,even when I wanted to give up and start all over because I wasn’t doing
Lord of the Flies Analytical Essay The Holocaust, the Vietnam War, the Salem Witch Trials, Milgram's Experiment, Lord of the Flies written by William Golding and the Stanford Prison Experiment are all fictional and historical events that show the evil and cruelness deeply rooted within all of us. They all at one point showed that the corruption of power, chaos, and the absence of civilization, causes good people to go against their human nature and do cruel things. In the book Lord of the Flies, William Golding creates a fictional island in which a group of boys that survive a plane crash try to create their own running and functioning civilization. As time passes and tension rises a rumor starts to spread among the “settlers” that a supposed beast is roaming the island. As the beast becomes more and more
Symbolism is a very important factor in many books. The use of symbolism in William Golding’s novel The Lord of the Flies is the most essential aspect to the function of the story. At first glance you may not think the symbols are very important, but with some in-depth thought you can see how it is necessary to explain the microcosm of an island.
Lord of the Flies Summer Essay William Golding's most prominent theme in Lord of the Flies, all humans are natural savages, presents itself through the representation of adolescence as a time of terror and tribulation using contrasting goals, deranged bloodshed, and the annihilation of the symbol of structure and order, the conch shell. Part of the group begins to lose sight of the original goal, escaping, and accept they cannot get off the island. Jack's separation from the community displays this," He laid the conch with great care in the grass at his feet. The humiliating tears were running from the corners of each eye", (Golding 127).
From the beginning to the end of the music video “Hmm for the Weekend” by Coldplay featuring Beyoncé (2015), the audience is shown a multiple array of colours and authentic sounds, from traditional bells, to Chris Martin’s angelic voice. However, the video also portrays prolific visuals of the Indian culture. On one hand, viewers suggest it over-generalizes the representation of an Indian culture as it screens the false realties of race and ethics. On the other hand, there are those who suggest it shows the appreciation of the culture. Through Jason Rodriquez’s article “Color-Blind Ideology & Culture Appropriation of Hip-Hop” (2006), this paper will explain how the music video “Hmm for the Weekend” by Coldplay featuring Beyoncé uses culture
In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the boys are stranded on an island have an interaction with many symbols that symbolize themes that change in the story. Through the use of symbols such as the signal fire, the conch, and Ralph’s hair, Golding proves that people allow their capability for evil to control their life when they are freed from civilization.
While reading Lord of the Flies the authors style began to peak through at the very beginning of the novel. The author uses mood and diction to create an image of freedom within the boys and also death is portrayed throughout the novel. “His head opened and stuff came out and turned red. Piggy's arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pigs after it has been killed.” This quote is an example of death that is portrayed in the novel. The author includes this in the book to show that the freedom within the community, that the boys have created is now becoming irrational and uncontrollable. Golding’s style of writing is also shown by how he displays the characters by being obedient and pretty accepting of others in the beginning on the novel. “'We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.’” Golding shows in the beginning that even though the boys have more freedom than normal they are attempting to create a functioning and behaved society while they are waiting for the arrival of help. The author’s style choice to write the novel in third person is used to create a distant outlook on all of the main characters in the novel. Golding does this for the audience to see each of the characters feelings about different situations and towards the other characters in the novel. “'Maybe there is a beast....maybe it's only us.'” When reading this quote it made a great impact upon me. It showed me that the boys were
The book itself is a great reminder of the harsh events these region has suffered and it is a helpful tool for those interested in learning about the war in the Middle East. As an immigrant, I can personally connect to this book because I understand the potential of culture alienation and displacement portrayed in the book’s premise. This is a common characteristic when living in a country with different values and rules. At the same time, I easily connected to its narrative because it is based on people’s personal experiences in a country torn by its population’s
Proposes that perhaps the beast is only the boys themselves. Although the other boys laugh off Simon’s suggestion, Simon’s words are central to Golding’s point that innate human evil exists. Simon is the first character in the novel to see the beast not as an external force but as a component of human nature.