The Road Through The Wall By Shirley Jackson

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.

Leaving the comforts of the first world, Jessica Alexander abandons her job, fiancé, family, and home to venture into the misleading volunteer work of Humanitarian aid. Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid by Jessica Alexander is a conglomeration of stories that are written from Jessica’s memory. “It is a true account based on [Jessica’s] best recollections of the events and [her] experiences.”.

In his essay “The Country Just over the Fence,” Paul Theroux describes his trip to Nogales, Mexico. He begins his essay by illustrating the physical appearance of the wall separating Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Mexico. He calls it “an unintentional masterpiece”. Theroux feels the wall is somewhat informal. He discovers that crossing the border into Mexico is not too difficult itself. He marvels over the appearance of the wall and also the underlying call to action it places on a person, “Do you go through, or stay home?” Theroux decided he needed to see for himself. After deciding to cross the border, he met many different people. They told him about the celebrations that used to be held between the two neighboring towns which are now divided by the wall. Theroux also met people who had attempted to cross the border illegally into America only to get sent back to Mexico. On his adventure, Theroux also learned about all the medical tourists who travel to the country for cheaper treatments, specifically dentistry. I am interested in discussing Theroux’s presentation of the his decision to cross the border, the people he met, and the medical tourism Nogales, Mexico draws in.

Most curriculums being taught to students withhold a mass amount of history. Some may do this because they feel some events do not have the same importance as other topics being taught. Such topics for example would be the rape and sexual exploitation of thousands of African American females during the time periods where racism and segregation was the norm. It is important for people to be educated about the horrific events that these women went through without justice. It is also essential because it shows the amazing activism Rosa Parks took part in. Most people are often just taught about Parks’ actions on the bus. At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire shows how Rosa Parks and many other dedicated their lives to receive equality not only for themselves, but for all African Americans in the south. Danielle L. McGuire’s work is an amazing way for people to not only learn more of Rosa Parks story, but to get a better understanding of what all African American woman had to deal with during this time period. The realism of sexual violence and its dominant impact on the African American women was one of the many events that helped ignite the Civil Rights Movement. McGuire wrote At the Dark End of the Street in order to resolve the negligence of this reality.

As the lady painted the wind swished. “The War of the Wall” is about not being rude to a person just because he or she is doing something that you honestly dislike. “The War of the Wall” by Toni Cade Bambara is a short story that shows not to judge a book by its cover through the boys first reaction to the painter.

She was born October twenty-sixth, 1911 in New Orleans, Louisiana. In her lifetime she had two husbands, Sigmund Galloway and Isaac Hockenhull. She “started singing when she was 4 years old in the Mount Moriah Baptist Church.”( Jackson was motivated by two of her favorite blues singers, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. She was also a huge supporter of the Civil Rights Movement who “sang at the March on Washington at the request of her friend Martin Luther King Jr.” The last place Jackson sang was in Munich, Germany and died of a heart attack on January 27th,

This is probably the most important passage of the novel. It summarizes what the novel is all about ,fore shadows the whole book, and gives a theme. The Joshua tree is beautiful because of its struggle. The quote {"You'd be destroying what makes it special,"she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty."} is a metaphor for the Walls family’s life and their outcome. They are not normal family, and their nomadic lifestyle is exciting as well as very difficult. Throughout the book, the Walls family has to overcome many challenges but as the reader gets closer and closer to the end of the novel the you can see how these hardships turn into success stories. For example, each one of the Walls children has their own hardships

Violence is defined as a behavior involving physical or mental force intending to hurt, damage, or kill someone. In the words of Zak Ibrahim, peace is defined as the proliferation or the increase in the existence of Justice. But where does love fit in to these conversations? Violence cannot necessarily transform into love, but the presence of it is surely important. Violence involving our most loved ones, helps us find love and compassion in the toughest of situations, and leads us toward paths of peace. In this essay, examples will be drawn from Zak Ibrahim 's keynote presentation, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Beautiful Boy; a film directed by Shawn Ku, and Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut.

“The Visitor” by Asako Serizawa tells the story of the horrific actions of World War II and the aftermath that left millions of people wondering where their loved ones were and if they did indeed survive the war. Serizawa described these horrific events through the use of symbols to make the reader think about the bigger meaning behind the text. Symbolism is an important part of any story because it gives the reader more to think about than just the words on the page, and allows for deeper thinking. The short story is about a woman whose son, Yasushi, who is deployed as a Japanese soldier during World War II in Japan, and does not return home at the end of the war. When a Japanese soldier, Murayama, visits the woman 's house he brings with him a piece of paper, a photo album, and the truth, which is exactly what the woman sought for. Serizawa demonstrates the quest for the truth about what happened to Yasushi through her use of three major symbols: The vase, the piece of paper, and the photograph.

The author starts off the story and the passage off with a periodic sentence it gives the reader an immediate image in their head of the setting but it isn't understable until the last half of the sentence.The reader is held in suspense until the last word.”I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster.” This sentence engages the reader right from the beginning making you wonder why the mother is rooting through the garbage while her daughter is worried about overdressing. This sentence can also be used as examples of contrast and engaging opening sentence.The author contrasts her clean cut lifestyle with that of the mothers who is shown rooting through

“The Road” depicts a solemn and deteriorating environment that can no longer provide the fundamentals to a society due to the nuclear disaster. The sudden depletion of the resources within their environment made it difficult for the father and the son to find sustenance. They were constantly traveling towards the South looking for safe places to situate themselves because the father knew that they would not be able to survive the nuclear winter. The genre of the novel is post-apocalyptic science fiction because it revolves around a dismantling society. Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” depicts how environmental destruction finally gave sense for people to value the world and what it had to offer.

The novel, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy follows the journey of a father and son through an almost entirely desolated and post-apocalyptic United States. After an unexplained, catastrophic event takes place, the world is left in ruins. Very few people are still surviving; however, the ways in which these people attempt to survive are very different. The Road highlights the varying extremes that people will go to in order to keep their lives. Also, The Road portrays the main characters’ varying motivations to survive and hints at which character is more disposed to surviving in this cruel, new world.

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman focuses on the oppression of women in the 19th century. The story introduces us into the awareness of a woman who is slowly going insane over the course of the summer. She recently just gave birth to a baby and is most likely suffering from some type of depression. Analyzing this story, we see the frustrations of women during The Victorian era. Women were manipulated into certain stereotypes as a wife and mother. Gilman’s "The Yellow Wallpaper” analyses the question is “Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s real life experiences are reflected in her short story”? “The Yellow Wallpaper” examines the theme of

Shirley Jackson was born in 1916 in San Francisco, California. She spent most of her childhood in California and as a teenager she started writing. In 1937, she entered college at Syracuse University. The year 1937 also marked the year when she published her first story: “Janice.”

The perception of the Other in literature can take on several forms and on one line of thought it is considered to be “an individual who is perceived by the group as not belonging; as being different in some fundamental way” (The City University of New York). The group sees itself as the standard and judges those who do not meet that standard. The Other is almost always seen as a lesser or inferior being and is treated accordingly. They are perceived as lacking essential characteristics possessed by the group. For an example, Charlotte Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” portrays a woman narrator as being the Other. The gender division, an important component of the late nineteenth-century society, is exemplified in “The Yellow Wall-Paper” much more significantly than in the typical “American” literary work. It attempts to shed light on the fierce alter egos and divided selves of the dominant tradition. However, the narrator seems to contradict the traditional feminine roles and becomes hysterical as her way of revolting. Gilman effectively uses the narrator’s intuition, obedience, and secret rebellion to challenge the authority John embodies as a husband and physician. This also engages the basic issue of late nineteenth-century assumptions about men and women. In this aspect, this essay aims to explore in detail the gender otherness present within the story and how this contrasts the central idea of what it is to essentially be “American”.