An epic as enduring as time, the fateful tale of frontiersman Hugh Glass who was forced to travel 200 miles, much of which he crawled, through the wilderness after being left for dead. As part of the Ashley Hundred, a group of trappers and explorers who were tasked with traveling up the Missouri on a “Fur Trading Venture”. Eventually Glass joined a party of 13 men that were headed for Fort Henry and while scouting ahead for game Glass unintentionally stumbled upon a mother grizzly bear and her cubs. Glass was struck down before he could even fire his rifle. He was taken to the ground where he finally killed the bear with the help of his traveling companions. It wasn't without cost though, as Glass was mutilated and left unconscious with
The legend is split up into a series of small stanzas that describe the actual life conditions. Following the two-sentence prelude to the myth, the storyteller introduces
The Holocaust could be best described as the widespread genocide of over eleven million Jews and other undesirables throughout Europe from 1933 to 1945. It all began when Adolf Hitler, Germany's newest leader, enforced the Nuremburg Race Laws. These laws discriminated against Jews and other undesirables and segregated them from the rest of the population. As things grew worse, Jews were forced to wear the Star of David on their clothing. The laws even stripped them of their citizenship.
this horrible journey and fourthousand people had died in this wretched year. The trail of
General Ulysses S. Grant's brilliant siege of Vicksburg had a significant impact on the surrender of the Confederacy. This Vicksburg campaign was significant due to the fact that it basically gave the Union total control of the Mississippi River. This meant the isolation of the West and basically a clear waterway for supplies to reach the Deep South. Once this waterway was open arms, food, and soldiers could be provided for the Union soldiers in the South and open a devastating wound in the heart of the Confederacy. Once Vicksburg had been taken the West would basically be isolated and under the Unions control; in addition Grant could focus on the heart of the South. Once Vicksburg was captured, and Grant advanced
Epic heroes go on a journey to gain knowledge and wisdom from the gods. The hero enters the traditional journey with a strong sense of direction, has a noble goal, and is willing to overcome and persevere. However, in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” the protagonist journeys for muddled, ambiguous reasons. Hawthorne’s protagonist in the short story “Young Goodman Brown” enters into an allegorical journey. Throughout Brown’s journey Hawthorne uses imagery and symbolism to show the fall of Young Goodman Brown.
Exploration has always been a central theme in the development of the United States. The Louisiana Purchase, in 1803, made the government more eager to expand west. The newly acquired lands were in need of exploration. A team needed to be established to survey and document the new territory. The Lewis and Clark expedition would answer the unknown questions of the west. The expedition would not have been successful without the leadership, determination, discipline of the Corps of Discovery, and the cooperation of the Native Americans. President Jefferson wanted the leader to have the same passion and intensity toward the discovery of the west as he possessed. Jefferson hand-
Throne of Glass is an invigorating fictional book that embodies the Hero’s Journey through a fictional adventure including mystical beasts, princes, and magic. Since ancient Greece, adventures have been formatted by a Hero’s Journey. The Odyssey is an Epic written by Homer in the 8th Century and told the story of a man’s adventure to win a beautiful wife. Together, these lively adventures incorporate portions of the Hero’s Journey including crossing the threshold, the ordeal, and tests, allies, and enemies.
Henry Louis Wallace was from my hometown of Barnwell, South Carolina. He worked as a DJ at the local radio station there. Everyone who knew him thought he was a good person. I don’t think anyone knew he would turn out to be a serial killer. He was known for his good spirit in high school, kindness for things he did around town for others back in the quite little town of Barnwell. Hennery Louis Wallace was liked by all those who knew him. But one day, that soon changed.
Ulysses S. Grant lived an interesting life. He gave so much to this country. His life was
Through letters between Walton, a man who aspires to explore the sea, and his sister, a story is told within a larger story.
Finally the men have had enough and try to escape anyway. The bolts on the dinghy loosen and they are tossed into the storm. The men escape safely somehow, and are currently waiting to be taken home to France. The men went on a 10 month journey that covered 20,000 leagues. None of them of are sure what happened to the
The first instance in which we begin to see Glass’ irrational attempts of revenge is in the very
Written in 1944, Tennessee Williams wrote a play during World War II when people were barely making ends meet. Centering on the Wingfield family, the story consisted of five characters: Amanda Wingfield (the mother), Laura Wingfield (the daughter), Tom Wingfield (son, narrator, Laura’s older brother), Jim Connor (Tom and Laura’s old acquaintance from high school) and Mr. Wingfield (father to Tom and Laura, and Amanda’s husband)- who abandoned the family long before the start of the play. The title, “The Glass Menagerie”, represented a collection of glass animals on display in the Wingfields’ home. At one point or another, these animals then represented each character when they couldn’t accept reality. The theme of this play were about the
Both the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘1001 Nights’ feature male protagonists who traverse the seas, and the concepts and themes of men seafaring is common throughout most canonical texts. For example, the allusion of Odysseus’ difficult journey is made when a minor male character in Apuleius’ ‘The Golden Ass’ describes his seafaring adventures as being ‘positively Ulyssian’ (‘Ulyssian’ thus being a reference the Roman naming of Odysseus) (pg 29). Furthermore, both texts share themes, such as: seafaring, the supernatural, trials and tribulations, tradition, belief systems, and the geographical setting and pride in the protagonist’s home city play a key role to the overarching plots of the texts in the sense of the protagonist’s endurance and motivation to both leave and return home. Likewise, the supernatural is used to further the plot of both texts.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, written by Annie Dillard, is a novel based on the writers