The Ocean At The End Of The Lane Analysis

Locate in the map where the Nike shoes were lost and in a part of the ocean they were found.

The 10-play cycle, Gem of the Ocean, written by Frederik August Kittel, better known as August Wilson, takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 1839 Wylie Avenue. The play is centered on a young man named Citizen Barlow. Before he traveled from the South to the North, Barlow once worked at the local mill and stole a can of nails. Another man was accused of stealing the missing material and was to be arrested but instead chose to end his own life; rather than be known as an “unjustly identified as a thief.” Citizen Barlow is a new fellow in town and learns of Aunt Esther’s talent of cleansing souls. The anxious Barlow sets out to find, the 287 year old, Aunt Esther for guidance because his past is haunting

The start of The Ocean at the End of the Lane began with an older man about the age of forty he returned home to his homeland in Sussex, England for a funeral. He then decided that he would revise the location of the house he once lived in. He then remembers that there was a young girl, about the same age as his sister, named Lettie Hempstock. He also remembers the fact that Lettie would always tell him about the pond behind the house being an ocean and not a pond. With Lettie on his mind and him being in town for the funeral he decided that he would go and visit where Lettie grew up. She was a young girl at the time so she lived with her mother and her grandmother. As this man approaches the house, Lettie is no longer there but a family

The novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman was an engrossing sci-fi novel. The story, largely told through flashbacks into the main characters past, were set when he was in his early childhood, specifically at age seven when he met a strange girl named Lettie Hempstock. His flashbacks are of when he met Lettie, their friendship and when everything went awry on their lane.

Which are ‘witches meeting at night in abandoned houses’and‘an ogre’ that will ‘eat him bit by bit’. These are derived from religious stories and his colourful imagination. Michele’s dreams are filled by monsters. “When I was small I always dreamed about monsters”. He tried to cover them by imagining he locked them into a golden bus to take them ‘all to the circuses’. He also imagines that then his stomach opens and they ‘all walked happily into it. He overcomes his fears of creatures “I found a place where I can lock those…creatures up and sleep serenely”. Michele says “Monsters don’t exist...its men you should be afraid of, not monsters...”. He even fears his very own father, having lost trust in him because his part in the kidnappers

Meanwhile, Seth disobeys the rules and goes off into the woods. On his adventure, he spots an old shack covered in ivy and vines. He notices an old women that is gnawing on a rope that she is tied to. She asks Seth if he would come inside and share a cup of tea with her. Seth asks if she is a witch, then she becomes very furious and puts a curse on him. He sprints of like a cheetah and runs away from the “witch”. The next morning, their grandpa asks them “What do you suppose makes people so eager to break rules?’’ He keeps his eye on Seth. Seth explains to his grandpa that he was just very curious and that he met a creepy old lady. His grandpa nods and changes the subject. They are given some milk (the magical one) by Lena she said that it would give them the power to see “what is really out there.” Seth shows Kendra a hidden pond with gazebos, a boardwalk, and a boathouse. Grandpa explains that his yard is not a place for endangered animals, but for mystical creatures such as fairies, trolls, and imps. This land is known as Fablehaven and it is owned by lots of people, passed down every few centuries. He also explains that the old woman in the forest was actually a real witch. Her name is Muriel Taggert and the knots were her punishment for trying to put a curse on Fablehaven. After meeting

“Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good” (Gailman, 5). The young boy in the story returns to his childhood home as an adult and recalls his memories. As he walks down his lane, the novels protagonist goes from a young man to himself as a young boy. The young boy shows how a child sees the world around them, while the parents show how adults see the world. The child’s creativity, imaginative, and innocent mind is let loose through the same situation as the adults from a different perspective. The memories from the neighbor’s farm begin to come back to him and when he sees the pond the smallest memories begin to return. He recalls that the pond used to be call the ocean by the young girl Lettie. The magic as he recalls began with his family car and continues to an unknown world in which he brings back an unknowing monster. The young boys spiritial enlightenment begins as the two children travel through this unknown world. The enlightenment continues as the different experiences occur throughout the time that the monster is present. This monster, Ursula, turns into his nanny quickly convinces his family of her well-being on the farm. Ursula begins to create problems for the young boy, by not allowing him to leave the farm,

The novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman was an engrossing sci-fi novel. The story, largely told through flashbacks into the protagonist’s past, set in his early childhood, at the age of seven years old when he met an eccentric girl named Lettie Hempstock. His flashbacks are of his and Lettie’s adventures and when everything went awry on their lane.

scared child at the start of the book. When Julia and her family are about to flea from

When the had gotten to the group the beast had struck again sending more of a fear throughout the group tearing them apart into two groups. But one child believe that there was no beast the child was

“When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, the, a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” (13.105). In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly and the film Edward Scissorhands directed by Tim Burton, the theme of alienation is explored because the creature and Edward are unable to evolve into ordinary members of society due to long periods of isolation and monstrous characteristics. Firstly, The isolation that both the creature and Edward experience from being alienated by their creators leaves them both oblivious when trying to abide by the rules of society.

“That’s why they were only taking a few things at a time; they weren 't really coming for ivory and paintings. They wanted me!” Even when she wasn’t in her room she was always afraid of something. “I always dreaded that my parents would divorce. It was my third biggest fear, right next to the fear that one of them would get abducted by heartmen on the road to Sugar Beach, or my first fear, that I would get sucked into the lagoon by neegee.” Out of all three fears only one seemed to happen. Her parents relationship finally came to an end after a lot of fighting, disagreement, and cheating. “Daddy, I hold your foot, don’t leave us. Daddy, please, I beg you” she cried that day. From then on, except the servants and cook, “it was only women at Sugar Beach.” Even after dealing with something so hard in her life that wasn’t even what affected her the most.

That violent, crazy act was the last act of childhood. For as I gazed at the immobile face with the sad, weary eyes, I gazed upon a kind of reality which is hidden to childhood, The witch was no longer a witch but only a broken old woman who had dared to create beauty in the midst of ugliness and sterility. She had been born in squalor and lived in it all her life.”

21st century Americans often forget that our first best roads were not roads at all, but rivers. One of the first national infrastructure projects was a national road that allowed horses and wagons to safely travel from Maryland to Ohio, mostly across Southern Pennsylvania. If a Cincinnati farmer wanted to send his goods to the east coast in the early 19th century, it was cheaper and faster to send it down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers around the coast of Florida and up the east coast rather than to send it overland from Ohio.

Early in their lives, two young sisters, Ruth and Lucille, experience loss and abandonment from the men in the family. Their grandfather had died in a train derailment into Lake Fingerbone before they were born, and their father leaves them while they are very young. Then their mother commits suicide, but not before dropping the girls off on their grandmother’s porch. Moreover, then, “she sailed in Bernice’s Ford from the top of a cliff named Whiskey Rock into the blackest depth of the lake (23), again into Lake Fingerbone. After only a few months their grandmother dies leaving the girls to the remainder of the family, a collection of eccentric females. The girls deal with all of this by relying on each other. Soon, their great Aunt’s,