The Sauron of Santo Domingo

When most people think of J.R.R. Tolkien, they often think of his great imagination and his world of great dragons, warriors, orcs, hobbits, wizards, dwarves and elves. But most people forget about the deeper meaning behind his stories and his controversy towards society. Tolkien was a British, fantasy, writer during the mid-1900s. Through his love of languages, religion, and country, J.R.R Tolkien’s works of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are controversial but masterpieces because Tolkien represents “good” as a fuller, more imaginative reality than evil.

Vargas Llosa uses violent language and profanities to express Trujillo’s aggressive behaviour and cruel, bitter attitude towards those around him. He refers to others in racist terms, which reveals from as very early stage his xenophobic mindset and absolute superiority; this is clearly true due to his intolerance for other races and nationalities. His character also uses an abundance of homophobic slurs and seems very concerned by only associating with 'manly ' men. Nearly every woman Trujillo comes across is considered as a sexual object for him to own, in a way that is almost primal. Most females he comes across in the novel are referred to as 'bitch ', showing clear disregard for the opposite sex and even deep rooted anger towards them; we later learn that this is due to his sexual difficulty with Urania which turns into frustration. However, faced with this clear sign of his ageing and decline, Trujillo is unable to confront his own reality, and turns viciously against the closest thing he can blame other than himself: women.

The Lord of the Rings by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a book widely known for its rich language, detailed imagery, and profound story that expands over three volumes and six books. The book is scattered with deep characters ranging in back stories and eventual character development. Motifs, key parts throughout the story, include lightness and darkness, eyes, jewelry, and sword. JRR Tolkien even creates his own language for the solemn race of elves in the lengthy three volume novel. A part of this length may be attributed to the unusual placement of many full-form songs and poems within the book, as a break between the usual story. These poems and songs have ranges of playfulness and thoughtfulness. With uses of made up Hobbit words and beautiful

Beli was kidnapped by the secret police; while she was gone La Inca turned to God and started to pray. Belicia was beaten to near death and even during the point of time, she still believed that the Gangster would save her.

La Loca’s existence is crucial for two major reasons. First, her resurrection in the first chapter declares the nature of the story and hints of its magical narrative. Castillo wastes no time to inform her readers that So Far From God is a work of magical realism. Second, La Loca exists to encourage Sofi to rebel against the religious institution and the political establishment. As the narrator reports, “Loca had never left home and her mother was the sole person whom she ever let get near her” (221). This is a hint that La Loca’s relationship with Sofi goes beyond a mother-daughter relationship. It is a cause-and-effect relationship, since Sofi’s rebellion is staged on three different phases—each phase begins with La Loca (the cause) and ends with Sofi (the effect).

In the 1932: Scars of Memory and Rosario Castellanos’ City of Kings, with its excerpt, Arthur Smith Finds Salvation, demonstrated the ambiguous characteristics of the distinctive culture of indigenous people of modern Latin America. It was the specific and violent continuity of ancient traditions that potentially influenced the constant uprisings as well as dictatorships, as the Mayan and Aztec civilizations were known for their aggressive rituals and behavioral patterns (Castellanos, 137). All the while, the same continuity of traditions supported the descendants of ancient civilizations in their struggles to preserve their ethnic and cultural entity as well as human dignity.

Junot Diaz’s novel truly does tell the brief story of the wondrous life of Oscar de Léon, our Dominican-American protagonist, better known as Oscar Wao. Weighing in at 245 pounds, our hopeless romantic loves comic books, writes science-fiction in all of his spare time, and, as described by our homodiegetic narrator Yunior, is a “loser with a capital L” (Diaz 17). While the title might allude that this is a story solely about Oscar, Diaz also delves deep into the lives of those closest to him. This narrative tells the epic journey of Oscar, as well as his family members, and how their experiences in the United States and Dominican Republic come together full-circle at the end of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, with the help of some postmodern techniques. As an immigrant himself, Diaz is able to use his journey to bring attention to the cultural stereotypes of his characters, but unlike many bildungsroman writings, our character’s coming of age story does not provide him with enough spiritual learnings to give him the quintessential happy ending. The overall growth of Oscar only reveals the flaws in his culture, a fatal flaw in his case. Because Oscar does not comply with the Dominican standards, he faces heavy repercussions in his life.

Each short chapter story written by Junot Diaz presents different key ideas and themes that can easily be identified when reading and analyzing important details contained in his short personal fiction. To begin with, language is one of the important key themes that Junot Diaz focuses on his story. Throughout the chapters, one is able to see a combination of words that contain a mixture of slang in both English and Spanish. Likewise, in his short stories, Diaz includes a variety of Spanish words that are used in his home country as well as other Latin American countries.

Pedro Cabral landed on a muslum port during his journey. He made a trading post their sense lots of ships were in and out every day. He tried to make peace with the people their so he could have his business and they can still have there's. He was hoping they would act like nothing changed and he wasn’t there at all. At first they were okay with him being there but they got upset with him because he started to gain more popularity and customers. The muslims were losing their popularity and customers since he came with new goods and different ones that would be hard for them to get.

The beautiful place of Santo Domingo was established on the south coast in 1496 by the explorer Christopher Columbus. It became the main base for Spanish activities until Mexico was found. In 1664 the French beat the Spanish in gaining the west side, Haiti, which was ruled by Toussaint L'Ouverture in the 1790s. It was then part of a unified Hispaniola with Haiti from 1821 until 1844. In 1844, Dominican independence was claimed and the republic, which was often known as Santo Domingo, maintained its independence except for a short Spanish rule from 1861 to 1865 and then ruled by the United States from 1916 to 1924. The Dominican Republic’s National Anthem is called ‘Himno National’. Its music was composed by José Rufino Reyes Siancas (1835–1905),

You never actually see Sauron be evil. Gandalf, an enemy of Sauron, only tells Frodo this to destroy him. He talks about him in detail. If this was a 90’s movie, Sauron would be the coach who brings these mistreated misfits together to beat the upper class snobs. But in this movie they are portrayed as terrible beings. Maybe the only reason they’re fighting is to rebel against the higher class and Sauron is their leader.

Similarly, Lewis’ colleague at Oxford, J.R.R. Tolkien also defended Fantasy, or as he called it, “fairy-stories.” Tolkien was known for his fantastic works that included The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and an assortment of companion books to the series. He was also well known for his criticism of Beowulf, “The Monsters and the Critics.” His Fantasy series have had broad implications on the fantasy genre as a whole since publication, influencing the current generation of writers with the firm grasp of history

Both of the evil characters, Sauron being the one in "The Lord of the Rings", are hungry for power. They both need to gain back what they lost in order to restore the power they crave. There is a kind of mystery kept around the main antagonists in both "Harry Potter" and "The Lord of the Rings". We can see that the main similarities in the two novels lie within the main characters.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings saga and Peter Jackson’s movie renditions have been accused of including many complicated or otherwise controversial social and cultural themes such as orientalism, racism, sexism and homosexuality. Many scholars over the decades have debated whether or not if it was Tolkien that harbored these feelings, or if it was just his characters. More recently many people have brought up that Jackson blatantly ignored significant aspects of the original story.

Tolkien’s mythical people (elves), dwarves, hobbits and other mythic identities turn genuine as we distinguish their failures and disappointments, distresses and achievement. Their story is our story: a convincing illustration of the epic dramatization playing out on the canvas of time and eternity. Such a variety of perspective of Tolkien’s world reflects the fabric of our own. Case in point, the characters perceive that they are a piece of a story being told. “What a story have we been in, Mr. Frodo, haven’t we?”Reflects Sam when he experienced a dangerous escape. All through third enterprise Frodo and Sam conspicuously examine the way they are in a story, perceiving that the scenes of life are not irregular or purposeless, but rather crucial