The End Of Times Analysis

Signs Preceding the End of the World is an insider’s look at the mind and journey of an illegal immigrant. A Mexican young woman crossing the border story is what challenges the ethics of readers. The main character in Signs Preceding the End of the World is Makina. “Makina is in charge of a small Mexican town’s telephone. A reliable, messenger, she knows how to keep a secret and when to keep her mouth shut. She is dangerous when threatened, quick to defend herself against lecherous fools, and unafraid of speaking truth to power” (Long). Makina is just like an ordinary person. She is no different from an average American. Makina has a job and harmless when not threatened. Americans act as if immigrants are so beneath them. Immigrants are hard workers, just like Americans. Immigrants want better lives for themselves and their families, just like Americans. Americans and immigrants are not the only ones who want these things. People all around the world want what is best for everyone they know. Most people will do whatever it takes to get to what they need; even if it is in life threatening conditions. Signs Preceding the End of the World challenges our ethics by placing the reader in the mind of an illegal immigrant, allowing the reader to know the true feelings and experience of the immigrant.

The novel Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera brings to light many issues faced by immigrant women. The novel follows the young Makina in her quest to find and bring home her brother from what she imagines to be a mystical far away land. While the novel focuses on the challenges of immigration, the underlying meaning is much more complex. In Yuri Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World, the common misconception that women cannot be the strong character in the novel is challenged. This is achieved by having the female protagonist, Makina, go on a quest to save her brother, be a vital individual in her community, and fight the misogynistic society she lives in.

Later on, one child’s disloyalty to his siblings becomes a huge problem. Aslan decides to risk his own life for the boy. All in all, good overthrows evil, and the children become kings and queens of Narnia in the end (Langford). Aslan proclaims: “Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen. Bear it well, Sons of Adam! Bear it well, Daughters of Eve!” (Lewis 182). The point for Lewis to write these books was as an effort to tell children the Christian stories. He makes examples in chronological order starting with the beginning of time, moves to the death and life of Christ, and finally the end of the world. For most people in this time, when they heard about God or Christianity, they did not want to listen. Instead of giving children ordinary Bible stories, he wrote adventures. He wanted them to learn and believe, as he did, that Christianity would always be there. He filled the books with fictional animals, and

In Yuri Herrera’s novel ‘’Signs Preceding the end of the world’’ present a girl, Makina, who go through a series of obstacles to find her brother and her own identity. In each chapter Makina went through these series of obstacle while exploring transformation in a journey across the border. As Makina go through these series of events, she encounters an abrupt event that wasn’t what she expected. Yuri Herrera does not just focus on the journey through the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the identity and change through people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there’s no going back. Makina’s story develops within a novel centered on an equally

with a recognizable England and Narnia but better, in The Last Battle. Aslan is God in Narnia, or

Do you believe in end-of-the-world prophecies? End-of-the-world prophecies are assumptions of when and how our world would end.

C.S. Lewis is one of the greatest authors in history. His books are still widely available and sold to many interested readers. In Lewis’ childhood, he experienced a tragedy that affected his belief in god; in his middle life, he mainly focused on college and his studies, but his father’s death played a role in Lewis later becoming a Christian. In Lewis’ later life, he married one of his own fans. Clive’s passion for writing began when he was a small child, and it continued to grow as he furthered his education to become a college professor at Oxford University. Lewis is still remembered today for his great works, such as The Screwtape Letters and The Chronicles of Narnia, which is a popular series among children.

C.S. Lewis wrote The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe because he wanted to write a children’s book “as a gift for his godchild” (Palmer). It began for him with a series of pictures that came into his mind. “Lewis stated, ‘Everything began with images; a faun carrying an umbrella, a queen on a sledge, a magnificent lion” (Kennedy). A fairy tale was forming in his mind and “‘At first there wasn't anything Christian about them; that element pushed itself in of its own accord’” (Kennedy), As the story progresses and Lewis’s characters and storyline begin to develop a seemingly clear relationship formed between The Bible and this novel. “Given Lewis’s strong Christian faith, that is not surprising. In fact, once the story was established, Lewis said he ‘...saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood’” (Kennedy.) Even though C.S. Lewis started off writing a children's novel, many people perceive it to be a novel written in parallel to the Bible. Lewis has used Biblical references and a classic storyline to prove that good will alway triumph over evil. Aslan is labeled as a divine figure in the novel; he is also known as the son of the Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea. Aslan’s death and resurrection is like that of Christ. The four children are all considered important to in the world of Narnia, but in the real world they are

Byron left the end of the universe with an ironic twist. The last two surviving members of the world were enemies, but in this time of desperation, they worked together to search for the “dying embers” of hope…light. Seeing past their differences, they worked together, to no avail, to ignite a flame of hope, but as the flame of light faded, so did their teamwork. In darkness “the world was void”-void of thought and the will to survive, left with sorrow and eternal darkness.

In the beginning, the world was all water. Above the water, there was a great ivory cloud, full of people and animals. The people used the animals as slaves and told them what to do. The animals would have to clean, cook and work for the humans. One day a Nene, named Faddei, refused to work for the humans. That day the humans battered Faddei for not working, later he snuck out and told all the animals to meet him under the willow tree. That night at the willow tree he and the other animals formed a coalition against the humans. The animals went on strike against the humans. Later, the humans declared war on the animals. The animals surrounded the humans and started to push them off the cloud one by one. As the humans fell the fish down below

In every story, there is always a beginning. The story of the ring began when “Bilbo was lost for a while in the black orc-mines deep under the mountains, and there, as he groped in vain in the dark, he put his hand on a ring, lying on the floor of a tunnel.” (Tolkien II) While Bilbo was trying to find the way out, he met Gollum, who was once a hobbit-kind of creature. “Gollum challenged Bilbo to riddle-game, saying that if he asked a riddle which Bilbo could not guess, then he would kill him and eat him; but if Bilbo defeated him, then he would do as Bilbo wished: he would lead him to a way out of the tunnels.” (Tolkien II) Later, Bilbo won the game and escaped from the tunnel by the help of the power of the ring. From there, the story of

This paper will focus on the theological nature of CS Lewis’ book based film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. This will include a number of noticeable parallelisms, allusions and symbolisms found in

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There is much speculation as to who the Antichrist. I know him to be an evil alliance, a deceiver, a murder, liar, a man, or sinister individual or any individual who denies the Person of Christ; and in denying the Son you deny the Father. Some are saying his appearance is still in the future. Others say he appeared long ago in the days of ancient Rome. The bible doesn’t give us any specifics as who and where the antichrist will come from. But does indicate that he is alive today and will play a vital role in the final events of Earth’s history.

Tolstaya and McCarthy take up a similar approach to the idea of historical time loop, revealed after the immediate fact of the apocalypse. The very genre of apocalyptic literature sets the standards to the narrative structure: an event occurs and it further leads to the end of the world as we know it, and the survivors exist in what is left from it. However, the post-apocalyptic world of the both texts have one large idea in common: the end of the world does not lead to the beginning of the mythical after-life as foretold by the religious texts – there is no Judgement Day, nor heaven or hell; on the contrary the time goes back to the almost-beginning of civilization, degrading to the Stone Age of human development with no morality or faith, no previous knowledge of the planet and no desire for any progress. Thus, the concept of time in The Slynx and The Road is viewed as circular, or, repeating itself after each time it ends.