The City And The Star Setting

He was creating the picture of us, the human race, destroying everything we know to be true and questioning our actions. He gives us a taste of a possible future, but leaving it up to the reader to decide on what the truth is versus the lies put into people’s heads. The narrators struggle with his delusions, this radiation induced fever, gives the reader the eyes to see through a negligible human that represents us. He asks the questions of our significance, our actions, our minuscule lives that many put a front over, just like the narrator does with his lies. His mortality is represented through his false memories, through the title, his singularity and his delusions in his own Immortality. In reality, he is just suffering like the rest of the world he looked down upon in his fever dreams, his is not immortal, not cosmic, but a simple human suffering from human

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle-ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area we call the 'Twilight Zone.' (Engel)

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

But it had remained an unfair universe in the end.”-Susan Catalano This quote relates to the

The quote “the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist” shows how the conch and Piggy, who were the most civilised have gone forever. By using the words “ceased to exist” it shows how civilisation and order has gone forever. The word “cease” means to come or bring to an end. By saying if something “ceases to exist” it means it will never come back. Also by saying it “exploded into a thousand white fragments” show the inability of repairing this event.

We had wanted monstrous versions of ourselves with enlarged heads on stalks like necks, merciless polished robots armed with death rays. We had wanted noble lords of the universe with kind, soft eyes, who would usher in a glorious new era. We had wanted terror and ecstasy-- anything but this yellow dust. Had it even been an invasion?” This scene describes in depth, what the people had really wanted.

As Clarice Lispector was writing what would become her last literary creation, The Hour of the Star, little did she know that while her body was plagued with the devastations of cancer, her mental struggle for peace and grace in death would inspire her most renowned novel. Perhaps it is because of those circumstances, she created a novel with intuitive reflections on both life and death, as seen through the life of the main character, Macabea. The story is narrated by Rodrigo S.M., and although Rodrigo attempts to maintain a neutral stance, he is often conflicted by his own perceptions and feelings. At the book’s commencement Rodrigo spends quite some time explaining that while the story is mainly about a woman,

The role of women in Modern Times and City Lights is compelling compared to the roles of men in the films. Chaplin uses women as a set piece to set up jokes for him and other male characters, and drops little sexist aspects into what is the larger body of the two films. Chaplin uses women to diversify the types of jokes he can use and the aspect of a woman character in the film can alter what he does, where he can go, and it modifies the tramps moods throughout the films

A Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens, takes place during the French Revolution. The book centers on the heroic attempts of Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay. Sydney Carton puts on the façade of being insolent and indifferent, but his true nature is expressed in the book when he puts others first, defends Charles, and dies for the ones he loves. Charles Darnay is a once wealthy aristocrat whose attempts at heroism include going back to France, his financial sacrifice, and the noble way in which he was willing to face his death.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” The sentence expressed the theme succinctly and concisely and he mentioned it repeatedly in the story as well. The story is open-ended which expanded the room of imagination of the story which could deepen the reader's’ comprehension of the theme and the world of the mythology where there are dark secrets growing in where human could never reach or even imagine due to “inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents”. The foreshadowing of the “Great Cthulhu” being real made the story seems more reasonable while being

“The novelty of these things, as well as some consequences which followed from them in contradiction to the physical notions … as if I had placed these things in the sky with my own hands in order to upset nature and overturn the sciences.”

Open City, although not the most-action filled novel, expresses globalization and its implications regarding transnational identity in a powerfully subtle way. The obvious aspect of the novel that expresses both globalization and transnationality is Julius’ background. His father is from Nigeria, his mother is half German and half American, he spent part of his childhood growing up in Nigeria where he attended a privileged, upper class school, and he moved to the United States where he went to medical school, living in the Upper West Side. His different backgrounds express the fact that he is transnational; however, to see how those elements translate into his identity, one must look into Julius’ observations, interactions, and thoughts. Julius is incredibly detached from people, and arguably, his emotions; the only person Julius is mildly

In this society year 2096, every one almost is living in the cities from where

According to Marshall Berman, Modernity is a term of art used in the Humanities and Social Sciences to designate both a historical period as well as the ensemble of a particular socio cultural norms attitudes and practices that arose in post medieval Europe and have developed since in various ways and at various times around the world. (Berman 2010, 15-36)

          The city I propose as a perfect city, would be as close to an ecocity as possible, although have some differences. For example, for electrical needs, I would suggest the city have a solar power plant, but on those desperate times, energy would be bought from other electrical plants from nearby towns or states.