The Neverending Story By Bastian

In Larry Lankton’s text, “Beyond the Boundaries” we gradually enter an unknown world that is frightening yet filled with immense beauty for miles. Due to the copper mining industry, a gradual increase of working class men and their families start to migrate to the unknown world with unsteady emotion, yet hope for a prosperous new life. In “Beyond the Boundaries”, Lankton takes us on a journey on how the “world below” transformed the upper peninsula into a functional and accepted new part of the world.

A famous short story, “The Quiet Man,” by Maurice Walsh, tells the tale of the protagonist, Shawn Kelvin, who must come to a resolution both internally and externally throughout the story. Shawn experiences a rollercoaster of up and downs during the story, around the 1950’s in Ireland. Shawn finds the women of his dreams and he marries her, but her brother, Big Liam O’Grady, is the man of the town. Traditionally, dowry is given from the bride’s family to the groom's family. Shawn has no respect from Big Liam O’Grady, or the town. Shawn wants to receive his respect from Big Liam O’Grady and love from Ellen. Shawn is willing to do anything for her, even it comes down to a fight. Shawn fights himself and others, internally and externally, to

The universe doesn’t owe you, me, or anyone a thing, except for death. Though as kids most of us were led to believe that with enough effort and hard work were going to become whatever we wanted to be, we were going to have whatever our little hearts desired, and we were going to do whatever we wanted to do. However, as we grew up we realized that this is not the case. There are millions of people who did not become professional athletes, models, or billionaires, people who never got to have the mansions, cars, and fame that they always longed for, people who never got to travel the world, cure cancer, or fly into space. These are all mostly childlike dreams, which were probably imposed unto us by either our parents or society. There’s nothing wrong with children having these sort of improbable dreams, however, there comes a time where we can no longer be children. In the story Tandolfo the Great, written by Richard Bausch, we are introduced to Rodney Wilbury aka Tandolfo the Great, who is a suitable example to demonstrate what life can be like for those who are unable to grow out of their childlike mind sets. In this analysis I will be inspecting how Tandolfo the Great’s childish mind set, from his strong sense of entitlement to his inability to let go of the past events, has almost destroyed his life and how it can destroy anyone else’s.

Ursula K. Le Guin is an award winning author who has made great contributions to the science fiction genera. Le Guin’s stories often evoke readers to view society through a different lens. In the short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Le Guin challenges societies conventions of imagination and believability within a narrative. I will argue, that the story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin, intertwines two contradictory story worlds in an attempt to critique the limitations we impose on our imagination due to the understanding that we have never experienced a society that does not poses evil. I intend to analyze the rules of the two following story worlds that Le Guin presents; the first story world where happiness is the only thing that the inhabitants experience and the second story world where happiness is experienced when evil presents itself in the society. The two story worlds come together to push the readers to accept a world that simply functions on its own without evil.

“There is a way to be good again”(Hosseini,2). This thought represents the underlying message of the novel The Kite Runner, as author Khaled Hosseini tells a heartbreaking tale of a lifetime spent in the search of redemption for a “past of unatoned sins” (Hosseini, 1). Very often people undergo numerous internal conflicts throughout their lives, and they find that some of their problems change who they are as a person. Most people will not have the courage or the motivation to deal with and fix their problems, however, Khaled Hosseini’s novel inspires people to face and deal with internal conflicts. In the book The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, the main character Amir constantly struggles with guilt about his childhood mistakes and he finds it very hard to deal with them. The ending of The Kite Runner appropriately concludes the story because it portrays a journey of redemption for a childhood betrayal and ends with a hopeful message of new beginnings and freedom from past sins.

The plan crashed The theme of Gary Paulsen’s hatchet is sometimes in life one might be able to survive in the wild. The pilot was suffers a massive heart attack and he dies . Brian mind screamed at the pilot and try’s to fly the plane .Then he turned back in the seat feeling the front and put his hands still on the wheel controlling it.

In We Learn Nothing by Tim Kreider “The Czar’s Daughter” and “Averted Vision,” both exchanges about only accepting certain details’ in a relationship and accepting what you want to see. I don’t agree with Tim Kreider seeing only part of what is going on is harmful for a relationship to grow any further than where it stand at that moment in time. Seeing the full reality of a situation help us living our lives, pushes us to reach our full potential in a relationship. When somebody only tells you parts of the details, what they are doing is hiding secrets behind their partner. Tim Kreider said “It turns out that when there is some conspicuous gap or contradiction at the center of someone’s existences, there is probably a very specific, obvious reason for it, and the reason you’re avoiding confronting it directly is that it’s something you don’t want to know” (Kreider, 2012, p.36). Ultimately, one needs to accept the situation to be with that person in a relationship or confront the situation with a chance of losing them. The quality of a relationship and where it goes is determined by our growing action to grow together closer to that individual. Having that support and strength to overcome any obstacle that life will throw at one is easier in an honest and respectable relationship.

In The Book of Stories Beginnings by Kristin Kladstrup, Lucy Martin found her great-uncle's The Book of Stories Beginning and began writing her own story beginnings in the enchanted journal. She wrote about her father being a great magician. Everything written in the journal came to life. Lucy's father turned himself into a raven using his magic potion and flew across the ocean to a mythical land called Cat'n'berd Island. Lucy Martin and her great-uncle, Oscar Martin, went on a search to find Lucy's lost father and save him from King Bertram. Kristina Kladstrup was born Sioux City, Iowa. When she was a child, she loved reading and writing and she decided that becoming a writer would be her vocation. The house that her mother lived in when she was a child inspired the setting of Kladstrup’s novel. Kladstrup had also written two other children books which are Garden Princess and Le Livre Des Débuts D'histoires. She had co-written two children's books. One is A Night In Santa's Great Big Bag with Tim Jessell and the other is The Gingerbread Pirates with Matt Tavares. I chose The Book of Story Beginnings because a friend recommended it to me. She said it was set in an island far away from Iowa. I enjoy reading about adventures to distant magical lands, so I agreed to read this book. Upon finishing to book, the ending of the book was different from what I had predicted. I thought that after Oscar helped Lucy find her father, Oscar

​In the novel, “The Kite Runner”, written by Khaled Hosseini, was taken place in Afghanistan during the 1970’s to the year of 2002. Many historical events happened during this time period and Hosseini portrayed it into his novel. Kabul, the capitol of Afghanistan, was a free, living area for many Afghanistan families to enjoy the life they were given. Until one day, Afghanistan was then taken over and attacked. In the novel, Amir, the protagonist, must redeem himself and the history behind his actions because of his past decisions and make himself good again for the Afghanistan people.

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan is about three heroes trying to free an imprisoned goddess before their enemy kills her. Jason Grace wakes up on a school bus without his memory. As soon as he arrives at the Grand Canyon, three wind spirits attack him and his friends.

I ask you for a man’s head… and I do so with a heart at ease… Never as strongly as today have I felt this painful duty made easier, lighter, clearer by the certain knowledge of a sacred imperative and by the horror I feel when I look into a man’s face and all I see is a monster (Camus, 1988). “The stranger” by Albert Camus a creative and deep novel about a human being named Meursault who is a man that makes no normal assumptions about life. This novel deals with the issue of nonexistent belongingness in Algerian society. He is a man without social ambition, no beliefs in religion or meaning of life, and whose only desire is to live a simple life free of any meaning (Gnanasekaran, 2014). He is a man who is living on the earth with no purpose and is indifferent to everything that happens around him.

Today children and even adults depend on technology to make use of time. Even kids are so engaged to all these technology such as smartphones and tablets, they don’t know what they are missing in the real world. Technology today has its many pros and cons, but the overuse in technology among humans is what troubles us. In the essay “Last Child of the woods” By Richard Louv he writes an argument between man vs nature to defend his position that technology is interfering with nature. He uses a wide variety of Rhetorical devices to organize his essay such as hyperboles, anecdotes, metaphors, diction and even a little sarcasm to prove his arguments.

“There is a way to be good again” (Hosseini K. 2003) a line delivered by Rahim Khan Amir’s father Baba’s closest friend, to Amir in order to encourage him to help Hassan’s son escape Afghanistan and finally free him from the guilt of his past. The quote also embodies the struggle and salvation the novel The Kite Runner attempts to bring its readers. The book taps raw human emotions about life situations that challenges a person and brings out the best and worst in him, but the book also shows the value of personal redemption.

Plot summary: Amir flashbacks to when he was twelve years old in Afghanistan. He lives with his father, Baba, and has two servants, Ali and Hassan, who are also a father and son duo. The latter two are Hazaras, Afghan’s minority, and as such, are subjected to racial slurs and cruelty. Amir and Hassan are playing when Assef, Kamal, and

Vanity is a feeling; according to Merriam-Webster, it’s that feeling of being proud. Yet, vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. Vanity relates more to what we would have others think of ourselves, where pride relates to how we feel about ourselves. It’s possible for a person to feel pride without being in vain, and only then will they have truly gained full control over their identity. In the Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini tells the story of a young Afghan boy, Amir, whose childhood interactions with his father and Pashtun culture shapes his moral compass. Vanity especially influences his desires to achieve through the fulfillment of his father 's expectations as well as Pashtunwali, the set of