If you knew the entirety of all the things in the universe that could harm you would you still live every day like you do now? Would you still run to the beach to survive or keep flying high in the sky, being a master of the wind? Or would you climb to the top of a waterfall, your mind overcome by all your anguished thoughts and fears that you can no longer bare to live anymore? Throughout the selected poems Mark O’Connor expresses concepts of life and death with a subliminal idea that ‘ignorance is bliss’ but also challenging us on how we live. He does this by describing the journey of hatching turtles and the flying of terns and how they live their life without knowing all the dangers that could harm them. To paint such a picture he creates powerful imagery through his diverse choice of sounds, verbs and metaphors to express his ideas. …show more content…
He tells us bluntly in the beginning lines that “one in one hundred survive”. The turtles, however, are unaware of such a fact and proceed on with only their instinct to guide them. The turtles that do not survive due to the dangers of the world, lived their short and unexperienced life without fearing the unknown. This challenges us to stop and think about how we live our lives; if knowing what is out there, would we then not put one hundred percent into getting where we want to be? O’Connor redescribes such a complex idea of life and death through the observation and description of a simple and natural cycle of
The novel “The Back of the Turtle” by Thomas King is relevant to Canada in both present day and history. Through the setting, characters and theme the story is portrayed in a way that makes it sound like a calamitous prediction for the future of Canada’s treasured natural world. Riddled with corporate greed and environmental disaster, the story follows those involved and affected by the catastrophe that destroyed Samaritan Bay. His lifelike characters are tangled with labyrinthine emotions that add another layer of complexity to the story. In my opinion, the novel “The Back of the Turtle” by Thomas King is a great novel because of the depth of storytelling that the author can achieve, and deserves to be recognised as a “Great Canadian Novel”.
Death is inescapable. In the same way, life is inescapable. The Appalachian short story, “Jake Pond”, portrays this inevitable cycle through the depiction of a young boy enjoying nature. Lou Crabtree writes of the many inner workings of life through symbolism. While some would say this story is a literal telling of a boy and his surroundings, it does, in fact, include a plethora of metaphors to display the complexities of life through figurative language (Crabtree). In Lou Crabtree’s “Jake Pond” symbols such as the young boy, black snakes, pond, hollytree, and other natural entities portray themes of life and death, while detailing multiple aspects of change.
In “30 Little Turtles” Thomas L. Friedman explores the social cultural behavior of Indians in call centers and informs that outsourcing benefits geopolitics other than just economics. Friedman supports his stance by showcasing the improvements in livelihood of Indians to working at the call centers. Friedman describes the wellbeing of Indians in the particular workforce with words such as “self-confidence” and “Independence”. Friedman doesn’t favor Indian employment over American employment, but believes the outsourced jobs create prosperity and global security. However, Friedman’s stance is based heavily on personal experience and observations on certain
The story's i read were more about how the general Thomas Gage, on what he build to attack his enemys but by using a under water submarine for just one person.
Humans and animals have been fighting for thousands of years, but which one needs the most? Humans needs are more important than animal's needs because they already thrive on their own, they don't need as many things as we do, and humans are meant to survive. Humans are meant to survive, and therefore we have more needs. In “Turtle Watchers” by Linda Hogan it says “The hungry watchers standing at the edge of trees hoping for food when the darkness gathers.” That sentence says that lots of animals were waiting to eat the turtles.
“The World on the Turtle’s Back” is a story about how the earth was created by a woman. Later that woman gave birth to two twins. The right-handed twin was the honest one who always did everything he was supposed to do. The left-handed twin was the bad twin who always lied and was dishonest. The left-handed twin was the reason their mother died because he was born out of their mom’s armpit. In ‘Odin and Ymir’, Ymir was slain by the youngest son Odin. Odin was the most powerful of the gods. Ymir’s body after he was slain became the world. Ymir was the biggest and oldest of the frost giants and his size could not be matched.
The scientific name for the green turtle is Chelonia Mydas and they are a reptile that can grow up to anywhere from 3ft to 5ft. The green turtles typically weigh anywhere from 150 lbs. to 400 lbs. and have an average life span about 75 to 80 years. The green turtles evolved on land and descended to the sea to live about 150 million years ago, which makes them one of the species that have witnessed the dinosaur’s extinction.
I have read several of your books and plan to read more. Based off those books, you have become one of my favorite authors. I love the writing style you have. All your books are full of deep questions and thoughts that really make you think. I believe this partially contributes to how full of emotion your books are. I especially love your newest book, Turtles All the Way Down. At some points, it can make you feel anxious just reading Aza being anxious, but I love how well you displayed the feelings of someone with anxiety. I really liked the analogy of Aza's thoughts being a spiral that keeps going and going, getting tighter and tighter and the revelation that you can go backward up the spiral and it will get less coiled which helped Aza deal
The poems ‘The Beginning’ and ‘Turtles Hatching’ written by Mark O’ Connor effectively “uses poetic techniques which create distinctive images” through this “O’ Connor draws us into experiences of life and death in our world.” These poems reveal the complexity of nature and the necessity of predation within creation to maintain and limit the balance of life .O’ Connor explores and effectively draws out experiences of life and death by portraying death as a natural occurrence in life and………….. through these themes and poetic techniques O’ Connor is able to relate to audiences again drawing us into experiences of life and death in our world.
Kemp's Ridley sea turtles are fascinating. Not many animals lay 200-300 eggs a year and are still considered endangered. Even though Kemp's Ridley sea turtles lay many eggs their population is small, how can this be?
American literature has evolved greatly from the Native Americans to 1870’s. American literature has changed, it teaches us how we have become more independent ourselves. The World on a Turtle’s Back, a myth, The Scarlet Letter, a book in a puritan setting, and A Rose for Emily is a southern gothic story. American literature would not be the same today without these forms of writing. The teachings from these are passed down generation to generation.
Death of naturalist This poem is a fertile mixture of imagery, sounds and an impression created by nature on people’s mind. Heaney sensualises an outstanding fear of the physical wonders of the world. He vividly describes his childhood experience that precipitates his change as a boy from the receptive and protected innocence of childhood to the fear and uncertainty of adolescence. As he wonders along the pathways of salient discovery, Heaney’s imagination bursts into life.
The myth I wrote relates to a traditional aboriginal myth because, it has various components such as spiritually beings of animals, and the creator of water, also messages sent through animals. Animals are shown to be sacred, and have souls and spirits, also all living things live in close connection and move in cycle. Lastly the shaman, who utilizes spiritual powers of the world.
In “The World on The Turtle's Back,” by the Iroquois, it takes on the task of explaining how the Earth came to be. There are four functions to a myth which are a Metaphysical, to instill awe, sociological, to support customs, pedagogical, to guide people, and Cosmological, to explain the world. I will discus the cosmological aspects of this story. In this myth the Iroquois explain why the sun moves the way it does, how animals came to be, why there is a balance in nature, and lastly what created the moon and why it stays out during the night.
Mary Oliver’s poem, “Sleeping in the Forest,” presents a peaceful and vivid representation of death and its relationship with nature. As the poem begins, the reader is introduced to the earth welcoming the speaker back into the realm of nature. Man was created from the dust of the earth and when we die, our bodies return to the dust. However, this poem presents a more beautiful image of what death is composed of. Death is often portrayed as being frightening and disturbing. When individuals are presented with the thought of death, they often push this thought away out of fear and ignorance. Everyone will die someday whether we ignore the thought of death or not. However, Oliver creates a relaxing and welcoming image for the reader on what death (ideally) is. Obviously, since Oliver is still alive, she doesn’t know what death feels like. However, the way she describes death, I hope that it feels like sleeping in a forest; full of stars and enchantment.