The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

Harry and Sally start talking like old times. Sally is still visibly disgusted by Harry and wants

“If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.” (Richard M. Nixon). In his investigative biography, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, expresses that even though young people can be ignorant and take treacherous risks, these can be used as knowledge enhancers and can be life changers.

For example, in Janie’s first marriage, she is hardly treated as a wife. After a brief phase of “foot-kissing”, or, being lenient and doing Janie’s chores for her, her husband, Logan Killicks, eventually begins to “treat her as just another person who works on his farm” (Cardona). When Logan tells Janie he plans to run two plows and is going to buy a mule that a woman can handle, she intentionally ignores his hint of putting her to work.

The fact that she makes him wear new clothes that are tight and she wont let him smoke and he had to pray before he ate his food.

Hermione and Harry help each other with their strengths and abilities. Upon arriving at Hogwarts, Hermione always wanted to do everything by the rules. Sometime during the year, she realized that friendship can be more important. Hermione explains, “ ‘Please, Professor McGonagall –they were looking for me. I went looking for the troll because I –I thought I could deal with it on my own…’ ” (120). For the first time ever, Hermione has lied to a teacher. This begins the turning point where Hermione, Harry,

employee and perceives her as beneath him. He doesn 't think too highly of her as a female. Laureate Education (2014)

It is a common experience: a woman dates a man who is rude to everyone except for her. He makes her feel special, but a few months later, he becomes an abusive, controlling boyfriend. Walter Younger from the play “A Raisin In The Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, while not an abusive person is a milder example of this phenomenon. He is the father in a large African American family, and lives with his mother, sister, wife, and young son. His father has recently died, and his mother, Lena, receives an enormous check from their life insurance. They need this money, as they live in a small house and need to move to a larger one, but Walter wants to invest the money into opening a liquor store instead. Although the play seems to revolve around him, Walter

Throughout the non-fictional novel Into the Wild, the author Jon Krakauer catches the reader’s interest early on in the book. Krakauer takes us on a journey, telling the story of young Chris McCandless’ adventures after abandoning everything he owned. Krakauer fully emerged himself into the study of McCandless’ life’s adventures and soon developed a deep understanding of who he was and how he impacted to world. Krakauer connected with McCandless in an unexplainable way. Because of Krakauer’s past endeavors, he was able to capture the mentality of McCandless’ choices and write about them in a speaker and subject dynamic. As the novel progresses, the reader gets the sense of a unique brotherhood between the two, although they had never actually encountered one another. As Krakauer and McCandless’ “friendship” progresses, the reader will gain affection towards McCandless.

He mentioned that, “You never know for sure how girl’s minds work. (do you really think it’s a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glass jar.) (359)” He is basically saying that because he isn’t able to understand how girl’s think then they must not have a brain. This comment would be offensive to the women who are reading this story. Adding to that comment he thought it was hilarious saying that “The girls were walking against the usual traffic (not that they have one way signs or anything.) (360)” It seems like he is feeling as though the girls aren’t smart enough to

Within Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain, religion is an ever present component to the novel. This is prevalent within Inman, Ada and Monroe, Swimmer, and the mountain town itself. At times, characters will present aspects of religion that do not coincide with the common Christian beliefs within Cold Mountain, such as Monroe’s teachings or Swimmer’s own religion as opposed to Christianity. Each religious person or reference within the story creates a sense of differentiating views as well as an introduction to multiple perspectives of religion, self, and action.

While the narrator’s tone is not necessarily sarcastic, she does write various short comments in her journal that highlight marital and societal issues. The narrator speaks in this tone from the very beginning of the story, highlighting her continuous suspicion regarding her treatment. On the first page of her journal, the author writes, “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage” (Gillman 647). Gillman adds small details like this throughout the story in order to reflect the character’s demeanor while also reflecting the inner workings of her mind to the reader. The reader, an oppressed housewife who is rarely taken seriously, would be very unlikely to blatantly comment on or complain about John’s course of treatment. However, these short bursts of irony allow the reader to understand the narrator’s psyche on a deeper level. When the narrator makes these comments she takes a stand against the disrespect she experiences without explicitly stating her

Tobias Wolff is a writer known for his memoirs and realistic short stories. “Hunters in the Snow” is a story about three friends, Tub, Frank, and Kenny, who go hunting in the snow. Wolff writes about humanity through the friendship of the three friends and the events they go through.

“Good evening, Bellatrix,” said Dumbledore with a grim grin on his face, “I believe introduction is in order.”

She describes it as this, “Harry lay flat on his back, breathing hard as though he had been running. He had awoken from a vivid dream with his hands pressed over his face. The old scar on his forehead..., was burning beneath his fingers as though someone had just pressed a white-hot wire to his skin.” This is related to the theme of perseverance, because over time, even though the pain has reached a whole new level with Voldemort on the rise back up to power, Harry has learned to control and persevere through the pain, and was able to remember the dream that he had, involving Voldemort's latest doing’s and plans. He had also used perseverance to overcome small challenges at home, and deal with his horrible Aunt, Uncle and cousin, as explained here, “I will not be spoken to like that!

The great debate of whether the world will end in a fiery ball of destruction or a frozen wasteland has baffled the minds of many people. A man named Robert Frost has written a poem called "Fire and Ice" that describes his thoughts on how he would prefer to leave this world. Upon reading this poem, the reader can derive two distinct meanings of fire and ice; one being of actual fire and ice destroying the world, and the other having symbols for the fire and ice, such as fire being desire or passion and ice being hatred and deceit. Although this poem is one of his shortest poems with only nine lines, it is also one of the most famous works that he has ever created.