Themes In Scott Westerfeld's Uglies And The Third And Final Continent

One in twenty people do not worry about growing old. It is time to let go and remember, that this is the only life I get to live. Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Art of Resilience, and The Third and Final Continent all render minutiae on the three declarations that will be specified. Firstly, characterization, helps to develop the plot of each story and contribute to the moral. Secondly, facts and detailed information contributes by bringing content to the passages. Lastly, in all three literary devices, there is a similar reoccurring motif. The main moral portrayed in the three pieces of literature is that the ability to grow gives a person the aptitude to change; but if they withhold from change, there could be unwanted consequences.

Life gets difficult for all people so always pick your head up and keep ongoing. Jesús Colón signifies that people has internal emotions that could possibly lead to depression from others or what you did. The poem, “If” signifies how to keep believing in yourself even through hard times and getting through them. The plot of the memoir is a man who needs this motivation and uses a poem to help gain his self-confidence. The values set forth in the poem “If-” Jesus Colon responds to, the themes of the poem and the memoir are alike, and the poem “If-” sustains Colon through his difficult times.

Everyone dreams of living a happy and fulfilling life. Sometimes, we need a fresh start. In “Mammita’s Garden Cove,” Max daydreamed about a life where he could start over in Canada. He thought hard about his life in this new place. However, the situation didn’t unfold like he wanted. Cyril Dabydeen uses literary techniques such as diction, imagery, and irony to express Max’s intricate attitude towards his new home in Canada, and his old home on the island.

Everyone has a desire, something that they want to achieve or obtain for them. Whether it is ethical or immoral, having desires is almost inevitable. Sometimes these desires make people go through tough times. Tragic occurrences such as death and broken relationships shape the lives of people positively or negatively. In the following essay, “Many Rivers to Cross” and the short stories, “Two Kinds” and “Everyday Use”, the protagonists of these texts struggle to achieve their desire, but because of those struggles the main characters do eventually come to a revelation.

The short story ‘Big world’ by Winton emphasizes the intention that there are moments, people, times and places that can change how individuals view the world around them and how the perceive themselves. Much like the protagonist’s experience in the film ‘Life of Pi’, so does Winton’s protagonists in the short story display final epiphany come as a outcome of his loneliness. He is isolated because of the plot twist made by Meg, who in the story builds a connection with his best friend, Biggie while they are on a road trip. It is through his segregation and observing them that he then realises and notices a ominous truth about himself and the relationship he has with Biggie: ‘… he’s enjoying being brighter than her…it’s me all over. It’s how I am with him and its not pretty.’ Through this, the protagonist suffers, realising the detrimental and unproductive environment of his relationship. This epiphany leads him to become even more secluded and alert that he must move on if he is to find and discover joy and progress. The story also reconnoitres the idea of change of self and attitudes towards others, where moments can express a person’s perspective towards others around them and life. This statement is accurate as the narrator comes to terms with his attachment with Biggie, ‘that’s how it started. A single decisive

A little boy scavenges in a dumpster in an alley, desperate for food. Separated from his family, he is lost on the streets of Calcutta. After weeks of barely surviving on the treacherous streets, he is taken to an adoption agency and adopted by an Australian couple. Although it seems like fiction, it is fact. This remarkable story is Saroo Brierley’s, and his memoir A Long Way Home, tells this miraculous story of his childhood and how he came to find his birth family. Throughout the memoir, Brierley weaves a tale of his hardships and developing his identity. In his memoir A Long Way Home, Saroo Brierley uses the literary devices of pacing, imagery, and external conflict to illustrate how the hardships one must endure shape one’s identity,

Wherein this is the extent of the metaphor, where in this poem it is a changeable anomaly subject to the readers interpretation of taking the road less travelled and whether it be a positive (sigh of satisfaction) or negative (sigh of regret). This is all one can hope when using a metaphor relating to the readers life, that they substitute their own feelings and create their own meaning, their own attitude towards to such decisions and subsequently, such journeys.

Damon Knight’s “The Country of the Kind” follows a narrator who the audience at first knows little about, who lives in a society that is different from the norm, but is also initially left ambiguous. This sense of the unknown exists up until the narrator stumbles upon a pamphlet which opens up new viewpoints to the reader. The pamphlet serves to create three new perspectives in particular, all of which significantly shift the reader’s understanding of the story. First, it gives the reader a chance to understand the narrator and sympathize with him. Second, it offers a new perspective on society and their overall conception of what defines a utopia. The third and final perspective is that of the people who live within this society, and their interactions with the main characters. These three new perspectives prove to be formative in understanding the main character, his interactions with other characters in the story, and the role of society.

Looking into the distance, an athlete runner can see the finishing line. However what stands before them are many hurdles one will have to jump over to reach the end. Comparing this analogy to an individual’s life, these hurdles are like the various challenges that one will have to overcome to cross their finishing line, and in order to come first, one will have to run. Melina Marchetta has written a novel, Looking for Alibrandi (LFA), which portrays the events that can waver a character from their finishing goal, their goal to achieve true freedom. It is situations such

As renown American football coach, Vince Lombardi once said, “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” This quote depicts that if one does not have the drive within them to succeed they simply won’t. However, an individual who is determined can succeed with any complex task they are presented with. Therefore, the theme determination is a character trait that helps people to survive and succeed through life obstacles is developed into Nya’s and Salva’s sections in A Long Walk to Water and John and Martha's sections in Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Southern Sudan. In both novels, Nya, Salva, John, and Martha undergo various obstacles in which

Both William Landay and Jhumpa Lahiri use conflicts in their stories to demonstrate the theme of resilience and perseverance. William Landay uses the conflict of Andy’s belief in his son and Lahiri uses the narrator’s will to be successful as those characters’ motivation to continue working for what they believe in. Andy and Laurie’s visit to Dr. Vogel shows the beginning of a conflict in Defending Jacob. “‘So?’ ‘So what does shoplifting have to do with murder? What’s the difference if he took a candy bar or something from CVS? What on Earth does that have to do with Ben Rifkin being brutally stabbed to death?’” (Landay 146). Andy Barber never once stops believing that his son is innocent, even after this leads to fights with Laurie and could potentially lead to divorce. However he fights for Jacob and he knows they will get through the trial. While Andy Barber’s conflict and perseverance is more mental, the narrator of “The Third and Final Continent” has a more physical conflict he must overcome. The theme of resilience is also developed in this text when the narrator is telling his son about his life at the end of the story. “Whenever he is discouraged, I tell him that if I can survive on three continents, then there is no obstacle he cannot conquer” (Lahiri). These words of wisdom demonstrate resilience because the

Donald Justice’s poem, “Here in Katmandu” depicts the idea that achieving something extraordinary can leave us feeling discontented. The speaker states, “We have climbed the mountain, there’s nothing more to do”(1/2). The first few lines of the first stanza illustrates that the poet is unsatisfied for conquering his challenge, which was to climb Mount Everest. He is unhappy for completing the challenge because he thinks,“It is terrible to come down, to the valley”(3/4). The poet observes, “Clear days, from the valley, one looks up at the mountain”(15/16).

In the face of death, it is human nature which brings people to realize the truth about themselves. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” the audience can see the effects that death brings upon one of the characters, Harry. Harry and Helen are the two main characters within the story, adventuring on a safari trip that Harry wanted to take. Disaster strikes the couple as their truck’s oil bearing burns out and leaves them stranded while, simultaneously, gangrene develops in Harry’s leg due to neglect of a wound from a bush thorn earlier in their trip. It is in Harry and Helen’s isolation and his near death that Harry comes to realize that by using Helen for her wealth, he has only weakened himself as a person and lives alone in a life full of lies. Through the character development of Harry, the use of omniscient narrator, flashbacks, moral dilemma, Hemingway conveys the theme that death will shine a light onto our true selves and missed opportunities.

There is perhaps no greater an example of exemplary Modernist writing than that of Ernest Hemingway. The Modernist movement defined itself with its opposition towards traditional American values. With a tendency to suggest rather than state, show rather than tell, and focus on questions rather than answers, the Modernist movement changed the course of American Literature, and one of the most influential members of that movement was Hemingway. Amongst a sea of notable works, Hemingway's “Snows of Kilimanjaro” serve as a testament to the subtle craft of the Modernist style of writing. The symbolism and dialogue within the “Snows of Kilimanjaro” is superb and helps reinforce the Modernist themes of Hemingway's writing. Hemingway frames Harry's wife in a way that negatively equates her with American wealth. Hemingway then suggests that such wealth ruins the natural gifts of a writer, symbolized through Harry's gangrene. This is further expanded upon with Harry's salvation in realizing that his writing is what was truly important, a salvation symbolized within the snow leopard and the mountains of Kilimanjaro themselves. Hemingway's symbolism is well constructed, and helps to illustrate the theme of the dangers of corrosion under wealth, while expressing salvation in purpose.

Through the use of her characters’ hero’s journey, Ursula Le Guin illustrates her quest to become an author and the obstacles she faces from publishers’ rejections to creating her own path for her books’ genre. In her novels, Le Guin not only depicts her life, but the life each person has; the life of struggles and hardships. However, she also gives hope, that amidst those trials, one can learn and grow. While the actions of a person are dependent on the duty they perceive for themselves, Le Guin implores us to consider the responsibility we have for our community, our nation, and ourselves. Everyone has their own hero's journey of leaving the world they know behind and facing obstacles. The hope is that they will overcome, recover, and be forever changed for the better, improving their community along the