Jaden O’Dell
6th Hour, Andersen
Choices:
Thematic Essay about The Last Apprentice, Rise of the Huntress
Choices affect your life, but whether they affect you in a good or bad way is up you. Through out my book, The Last Apprentice: Rise of the Huntress (and the entire series, really), by Joseph Delaney, choices has been the one underlying theme. Tom, full name Thomas J. Ward, is the main character, and an apprentice Spook. Spooks fight the dark, which are things like witches, ghosts, ghasts, bogarts, trolls, and all other mythical baddies. The series is their adventures in a country called “The County” somewhere in Europe, near Ireland.
While it is complicated to see, and the books use metaphors about good and bad choices through words such
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He knew it was a bad choice, that always ends in trouble, but he chose to make that choice anyways, leading to the Fiend (AKA: Devil, Dark Made Flesh, Demon God, take your pick.) was able to find them because of Alice’s spell (The Fiend was looking for the because Tom sold his soul in order to save the Spook and Alice), showing that they should have never used magic, or make a bad choice that they knew was bad, in the first place. In the middle of the book, The Buggane, a type of demon that steals it’s victim's life force (their Animus) and then slowly drains their blood, has cornered Tom and Alice. Right as they are about to die, all their life about to be sucked from their very soul, Alice mutters a spell. They both pass out, but when they wake up the escape the Bugganes lair. When Tom asked her what happened, she said,
“I just used a spell called avaunt. It’s an old word for ‘be gone’. It saved us all it
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When Tom asks Alice what could be done, she replies,
“Tom, I don’t want anything to happen, so we got to deal with the Fiend, and without using the dark, it’ll just attract him towards us.”
Tom finally persuades Alice as things get colder and colder (a sign that denizens of the dark are encroaching) to cast a spell. She casts a simple one to hide their location, and things go wrong. The Fiends voice enters their heads saying “I found you... “ and then nothing more from the Fiend for the rest of the book, but Tom later finds out a Celtic Witch has located them as Tom captured and killed her twin sister. Now to very powerful beings are after them, and they have nothing they can do, showing once again, when you know a certain choice can be a wrong choice, never chose it. Through these instances we can see that when you make choices, they will affect your life. Like I said earlier though, it’s up to you whether its in a good or bad way. If you think about it, though, it’s through the bad decisions that you learn to make good ones. Wouldn’t it be so good to always stay on the safe side? Now why would you ever do that when being in danger can be so fun? Or am I wrong? Or am I
These acts can lead to consequences that you won't even know about until it happens. It may cause a lot of damage and harm to other people that might not even have meaning to you. One example, from the novel that helps explain the meaning of this quote was when Brent got drunk and killed Lea Zamora. He was so drunk that he did not even think of what might happen while going home. While he was drunk, he could not control his feelings and emotions, so he decided he wanted to end his life.
Jim was sleeping when they snuck out, so Tom played a trick by placing his hat on the branch above his head; when Jim woke up, he told everyone that a witch flew him all over town and then placed his hat up there.
As the author said, sometimes the fate can be changed by choice you make. It encourages the reader that it is always possible to change and fix destinies before it is too late. One important quote that the author wrote is, “This book is meant to show us how... our destinies can be determined by a single stumble down the wrong path , or a tentative step down the right one." (Moore xiv).
I found this contrast to be distracting from what author Wes Moore was trying to convey. It was harder for me to determine Moore’s motives, because I had thought that the use of fates in the title meant that there were predetermined destinies for the characters. Moreover, the theme Moore portrays is similar to my view of life. I always believed that poor choices lead to bad consequences. Author Wes Moore explains a helpful approach to those struggling to find an identity.
The way people decide and the actions they do determine how their life goes. The forces outside of our control do all the controlling in our destiny in my opinion. Anything at any given moment, anything could happen to you, whether it's good or bad. The point is that we don't know what's expected, so that means we have no control of what lies ahead of our lives. In ‘ A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines introduces a variety of characters with different ways of life.
What’s interesting about “safety” is that everything connects to it, but nothing does directly. When we did our first unit, Survival, we read “The Most Dangerous Game” and “To Build a Fire” and kids took notes and it all was pretty clear. Our “high flyers” were able to make connections beyond physical survival–how elements of survival apply to emotional experiences, too. But safety is not so
Huck Finn is a young boy and the main character Tom sawyer is the best friend of huck and the leader of the boys gang. Widow Douglas and Miss Watson take care of Huck Finn Jim is Miss watson's slave.
Ann Putnam is one of the first villagers to use witchcraft as an explanation for the unknown, “I have laid seven babies unbaptized in the earth… each would wither in my arms the very night of their birth” (Miller 15). Ann Putnam takes advantage of the rumors of witchcraft within the village, to explain the uncontrollable fate of her children. Her boasting around the village that witches are responsible for her children’s death only escalates the problem, and thus begins the cycle of villagers using witchcraft to explain their own, or other's actions. Reverend Hale also uses witchcraft to explain peculiar behavior, “The Devil is out and preying on children like a beast upon the flesh of a pure lamb” (Miller 47).
How do your choices affect your everyday life? Every choice has a consequence. A consequence doesn’t always have to be bad, it could be good. If you do something good why would you get punished? Or vice versa. Choices, everything you do is your choice. Left or right? Up or down? It’s all up to you. You choose your path, choose wisely though. Choices are like the domino effect.in life there are 2 paths, a good path and a bad path. We all try to go down the good path but that isn’t always the case.
To begin with, if you had stood against the evils than there might have been a difference. Stated in the passage Terrible Things,” If we creatures had stuck together, it could have been different.” This proves that if the creatures had stood up for themselves then what had happened would have been different. Also proven by this is that some people wanted to stand up against the evils in their life, but peer pressure prevented them from doing so. As stated in First They Came,” Then they came for me and there was no one to speak out for me.” This shows that if he had stood up against the evils when they came for other people than it would have different because others would have stood out for him. Something that is also shown by this is that the people were all scared of what the consequences that would come from standing up for themselves.Therefore, if only people would have stood out against the evils in their life then there would have been a different outcome.
The series incorporates horror and thriller in the different narratives with horror taking the lead in one novel and thriller in another. Wilson writes of mysterious and menacing creatures and of heroes who live for justice and fairness in their society. The crux of the novels is more like that of Travis McGee adventure that combines contemporary and urban fantasy with horror to make for dark characters. The antagonists have dark intentions yet have very well developed supernatural powers that will leave the reader in a quandary as to who to root for. The narratives feature the supposedly good guys in the mold of the SS and German soldiers of The Keep or the likes of Jack of The Tomb who confront ancient forces of evil that intend to destroy them.
The unsolved murder of her younger brother left Amara desperately seeking justice. Eventually, she realized that the killer would never be found, so she set out to eliminate all crime in her kingdom. She discovered a witch in the kingdom, and put her and her brother to death, as practicing magic was illegal. Shortly before her death, the witch cursed Amara, to suffer the pain of everyone she had ever harmed. Amara becomes increasingly paranoid, and is sent to the dungeon after attacking one of her servants.
When the Spook leaves one day, Alice takes advantage of this promise and makes Tom do something he wasn't supposed to do, per the Spook telling him not to do so. On the property of the Spook’s house were a few graves with live witches,
The theme that the author develops through these two excerpts is that fortune can bring both good and bad luck to you no matter how great the circumstance that you are currenting in now. Lucifer was an angel living in heaven, but sadly “he fell though sin Down into hell”. Adam was blessed to be the first human “had power at need Over all Paradise” and was sent to hell for disobeying God orders “till his deed Drove him to labour, Hell and misery.” The Monk's tale displays a series of tragedies, in order to recommend that people should not feel comfortable with prosperity but be aware that fortune is always there to bring bad news.
Fate works in mysterious ways, everyone makes choices out of their own free will which affects their