The Road Analysis

Country road has always been one of Australia leading premium stockists of apparel and home wares. Country Road began as a small manufacturer but expanded and diversified to become a leading wholesaler/retailer of apparel and home wares in the Australian market. The great success of this fueled the company into an expansionary strategy into the lucrative yet highly competitive US markets and also further along the way into the Asian markets. The strategy of international expansion into Asia had involved alternative strategies instead of the aggressive strategy into US. Such strategies included strategic partnerships and franchising agreements. Country Road was successful at first with its defined higher quality products and

In the short story, “Along the Frontage Road” by Michael Chabon, a father and son visit a pumpkin patch off a frontage road to escape from their home and problems. While at the pumpkin patch, the father reflects on how many situations in life are uncontrollable. The family had suffered the loss of their unborn daughter, and the father and son use their experience at the pumpkin patch to move on in life. Michael Chabon uses figurative language in the form of metaphors and similes, a depressing mood, flashbacks, and pumpkin symbolism in “Along the Frontage Road” to comment on hardships in life that people have no control over.

This story also paints the picture of a father who would not give up on regaining his time with his son. It shows the father desperately trying to rectify the mistrust issues he created because he stated to the boy when they were sitting in the diner after the highway patrol redirected them away from the snow-covered route home that she would never forgive him if he did not get the boy home for

The protagonist of Three Day Road comes in the form of Xavier Bird, a taciturn and humble young Cree man who finds himself tossed into the chaos of the Great War; a global phenomenon that turned men into monsters and the land into a place suitable for no man. Through his devotion to his spirituality, refusal to conform to wemistikoshiw ways, and steadfast sense of morality, Xavier manages to maintain his identity throughout the novel.

An illegal alien is a foreigner who enters the United States of America crossing the border by avoiding inspection. Luis Alberto Urrea, author of "The Devil's Highway," states, "The first white man known to die in the dessert heat here did it on January 18, 1541. As long as there have been people, there have been deaths in the western desert." pg.5 We might think we know everything, but we are not there yet. Just like we are not sure who was the first to die in that dessert, there are places in the world that we have not yet discovered. Places like jungles, rivers, forests, and maybe even other desert. Border patrols focus on putting an end on people crossing the border, their territory, but have they thought about what are their reasons.

Why do you think McCarthy has chosen not to give his characters names? How do the generic labels of “the man” and “the boy” affect the way you /readers relate to them?

Why do you think McCarthy has chosen not to give his characters names? How do the generic labels of “the man” and “the boy” affect the way you /readers relate to them?

The desert is a dry barren land, desolate, abandoned; in the distance, 2 palm trees stand tall like an oasis of shade from the intensely hot sun. The Devil’s Highway, a journey taken by Mexican migrants in May 2001 across the border into the United States. Twenty-six men taken through one of the most pernicious pathways in North America. Recorded by Luis Alberto Urrea, a Mexican-American journalist and novelist, who focused mainly on the individual stories of each man as he pointed out why they were there and why they were leaving. Urrea illustrated Mexico’s genesis form the Native Americans to the Spaniards and smugglers, each illustrating complex ethics to the Mexican Culture. Urrea also ventured into the story of Coyotes, La Migra, Pollos, and Polleros, formed a connection between each characters desperate attempt at a better life. It’s true that the thing that gives you life, the sun, is also what brings these men to certain death, and here the desert is seen best as

There are many different reasons why Ryan, Max, Jeremiah, and Aiden should go on this road trip.

Mrs. Jones kindness to Roger changes him by knowing he can trust people. Mrs. Jones showed kindness by taking him in to get cleaned up. On page 32-33 it quoted “you go to the sink and wash your face“. And she also feat him. She wanted Roger to trust her and he also wanted her to trust him. And another way she wanted to gain his trust is when she left her purse on the couch to see if he was going to take it. On page 32 she quoted “run that comb through your hair so you will look presentable”. That is another way she wanted to show kindness so he won’t look bad. And at the end Mrs. Jones gave Roger $10 to buy the blue suede shoes he wanted. I think he changed by gaining Mrs. Jones trust and gained respect for her. So now he probably won’t steal

At the beginning of “Thank you, Ma’am,” we see how just how compassionate Mrs. Jones really is. The moment she meets Roger, she tells the boy to wash his face. “Least I can do is wash your face. Are you hungry?” This might not seem like a very compassionate thing to do at first, however, she doesn’t even know the boy, yet she has enough compassion to make sure he is clean. Then, she takes the boy inside of her house! In addition, the boy, Roger asks, “You going to take me to jail?” But Mrs. Jones doesn’t. Maybe she sees that Roger is really a good boy inside, so she shows compassion to bring out his true kindness. This makes me think that he was probably trying to steal because he had to. And when Mrs. Jones asked him if he had anyone at home, he said, “No’m.” Mrs.

When Eric Maria Remarque released “All Quiet on the Western Front, he was shunned by Germany as being unpatriotic. This didn’t stop Remarque from releasing his second book “The Road Back” but it did lead to him fleeing Germany, his sister being beheaded and his books being burned by the Nazi’s. Why all this fuss over fiction, unless the Nazi’s did not want the German population to see the truth behind their Glorification of war. The same situation can be seen of the ex-soldier Siegfried Sassoon, who was placed in a military psychiatric hospital for his anti-war poetry.

The style that The Devil’s Highway is written mirrors the language of fictional adventure novels more than encyclopedias. Urrea creates a mythical fantasy setting, writing, “Dawn came gradually to the Sonoran Desert. With the light, the heat started to fill the land. The promise of fire awakened alien noises all around them (115).” His descriptions of the land are poetic and beautiful; even when describing the extreme heat he uses descriptive language, saying “The next few nights would stall at ninety-four or ninety-five, and the days would explode into triple digits (116).” The language in this book is so colorful that the places and people described seem The risk of writing a nonfiction story as if it is a fantasy creation is that readers

It is said that we need twelve hugs or more daily to be healthy. While it may not always be possible for us to give or receive that many of hugs person to person, it is entirely possible to send words that give a ‘fresh-hugged’ feeling. If you have ever had a bunch of angry or

The Great War brought on the end of romanticism and the dawn of modernism. We begin to see the shift between the two styles as the industrial age provides more technology, knowledge, and ways of communication. Due to the accessibility of ideas from across the globe, we started to become aware: aware of our surroundings, the conflicts, the wars, the death. And with this new knowledge, people gave up on these picture-perfect, romantic dreams and just settled for harsh reality. Artists also made fun of their situations through irony in their paintings, like in The Menin Road. So why is any of this important?