The Samurai's Garden: Romantic Relationships

No individual had the same family background and early experiences in their lives. Each individual also had their own personalities. Chris McCandless was a young and successful college graduate with a job and had money. Oddly, he decided to disappear in response to his father’s misjudgment, giving away his money and overall, became homeless. McCandless could no longer

The Samurai’s Tale by Erik Christian Haugaard is about a boy named Taro, the protagonist in the story. The major characters in the story are Taro, Yoshitoki, Lord Takeda Katsuyori, Lord Akiyama Nobutomo, and Togan. The setting of the story is in Japan, in around the 16th century. In the beginning of the story he was presented as a gift by the great Lord Takeda Shingen to Lord Akiyama after his parents had been killed. By using his wits and suppressing his fierce pride, Taro slowly escalates the ranks of his lord’s household until he achieves his greatest goal—becoming a samurai like his father and Lord Akiyama, whom he has come to admire. The life of a samurai is not so easy, Taro finds himself sacrificing opportunities of love and friendship

A relationship? Something meaningful? Forever? HA! All ploys and devious schemes devised by horifically cruel creatures, in order to have their every wish granted for all of eternity. These terms were created to destroy our lives, they were created by the most evil and demented of all creatures, The Female. Ask any boyfriend, or should I say "slave", and they will tell you that the Female is a very mean creature that gets her every way without any questions. They turn us into their servants and force us into a permanent relationship, or a permanent "slavery", as I prefer to call it.

Like walking through a barren street in a crumbling ghost town, isolation can feel melancholy and hopeless. Yet, all it takes is an ordinary flower bud amidst the desolation to show life really can exist anywhere. This is similar to Stephen’s journey in The Samurai’s Garden. This novel is about an ailing Chinese boy named Stephen who goes to a Japanese village during a time of war between Japan and China to recover from his disease. By forming bonds with several locals and listening to their stories, he quickly matures into a young adult. Throughout the novel, Gail Tsukiyama shows how disease forces Stephen into isolation; however, Matsu’s garden and Sachi lead him out of solitude.

Characters overcome what life brings them and finding meaning in the things that they have in The Samurai's Garden by Tsukiyama. Stephan who experiences this watches as Matsu and Sachi work in their gardens. The gardens represent their gardener’s soul because they nurture and dictate everything that happens within the gardens walls.

Secrets fill the garden. In Gail Tsukiyama’s novel “The Samurai’s Garden”, she uses metaphors to show the audience the garden and its’ curator in a mysterious light. Tsukiyama’s character Stephen gazes upon Matsu’s garden with wonder and amazement. He compares it to another world, “The garden is a world filled with secrets… Matsu’s garden whispers at you, never shouts; it leads you down a path hoping for more, as if everything is seen, yet hidden” (Samurai 31). Tsukiyama creates another world within the fences of the garden. She integrates the secrets of its’ caretaker into the aura of the garden. The metaphor to another world impacts the reader by allowing the reader to see the mystery and beauty that shrouds it. The cloak of beauty shows

Gail Tsukiyama’s The Samurai’s Garden is set in 1930s Japan, the theme of war and peace is developed through Character interaction. Characters in the story have very different reactions to the same circumstances. Through the character of Stephen, one can conclude that outside forces do not control a person’s life because in life, people can take what has been given to them and do with it what they wish. In other words, life is what you make of it. Even though the war in China is very important to Stephen, he does not let it interfere with his descisions in Tarumi.

In the book “The Samurai’s Garden” by Gail Tsukiyama, a common occurrence that appears in the book is comparisons of a certain character to an Samurai. Since even the title refers to Samurai it leaves the reader wondering, “Who is the real Samurai?” The book gives a lot of evidence for people to think that different characters could be the Samurai. The characters that people mainly think are the “real” Samurai are the main three characters, Stephen, Matsu, and Sachi. All of them carry traits of a Samurai, but at the same time there’s plenty of things to disprove most of them as being the Samurai. In the book Sachi does overcome a tragedy in her life that a lot of people would struggle with but

Each character travels through life maintaining relationships which exist on a very shallow and superficial level. There are of course an exception here and there, but the majority of the relationships drastically lack substance.

We could see his effort in making his life better when he decided to leave the ‘drug life’ and tried to find a proper job. In fact, he got to show the skills that he never had a chance to which carpentering and be successful at it. However, life is all

It wasn’t the right thing to do because he wasn’t raised with that kind of love around him. I think he wanted to leave to the wild to get away from what he grew up with and learn how to deal with the things in life brings him or what he gets into. Some parts in the movie caused McCandless to rethink what he’s doing more like an instinct, like when he was going down the colorado river when he wasn’t suppose to, but he did anyway, then when he came in an encounter that had to make him think twice to get out of the situation. Throughout the movie Chris McCandless does similar things related to him thinking twice and make or a break a

There are several things that McCandless could have situated better, but Callarman is biased for calling McCandless stupid because he doesn’t understand him and his ideals. There were reasons for everything of what McCandless did. Chris McCandless wrote a letter to a friend explaining why his lifestyle made him content and telling his friend that they should do the same thing as he did. Isolating himself and living in a world without anyone, a place or a thing, is where he could find the truest form of happiness. Escaping into the wild is a way for McCandless to find himself.

Relationships are a result of what people put into it and what they take out. In The Odyssey by Homer, relationships show up as respectable, loyal, and moral. While other examples are corrupt, and immoral. Also relationships shows up in Beauty Sleep by Cameron Dokey. Some of the examples have great connections, and some other ones have no connection at all. The Last book I found some examples on relationships is Midnight Pearls by Debbie Viguie. The examples I found were romantic or just as a friend. The Odyssey, Beauty Sleep, and Midnight Pearls all have wonderful, and romantic relationships and other are horrible, not good relationships.

a completely changed man. and once Mccandless dies, ron takes his advice and lives off of the grid.

* He got back together with his highschool sweetheart and he tried to provide a better life for his children. He wanted to built his own business and to be his own boss. But uneducated wife bothered him to discipline his children. The emotion of his vision forced him to overcome these challanges and