Urban Legend Of Keanu Summary

We all deal with alienation, both internal and external, throughout our lives: it is an unavoidable condition that universally afflicts all humans. However, oftentimes we can alienate ourselves from other people more than is necessary, putting a divide between us and the rest of humanity by no fault but our own. Both John and Amir in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner face great internal struggles with alienation throughout their whole lives, many times making things worse for themselves than is needed, and forging their characters by fire; yet the natures of their hardships are inherently different, leading the protagonists down two disparate paths: one to personal triumph and the other to tragedy.

The struggle to battle with the persistent grief of self-blame and lack of identity is a constant reminder to the barriers in relationships. Leroy grieves

In the book Seedfolks, a character named Kim travels to vacant lot in her town, Cleveland Ohio, to plant Lima Beans to honor her father, who passed away before Kim was even born. While Kim is in the process of planting her beans and watering them daily, people around the vacant lot being to notice her actions . Many people follow what Kim is doing and make there own little garden, which causes the community of Cleveland to be together and to communicate to one another. Throughout the book many character come and go to the garden, and each character shares something in common with someone else apart of this Community Garden. The novel Seedfolks shows that the garden has change everyone’s perspectives on things, and made them feel apart of something they might have never been apart of before. Some people that are involved are KIm, Ana, Sae Young, Maricela, and Curtis.

Objects in the garden that reflect the reality of the lot and not the fantasy of the garden are not transformed into bigger than life images, but silent, unseeing objects. Abandoned cars, weeds, and rotting wood close their eyes and sleep. Sleeping, these objects are hidden, unable to see themselves or others in the garden. “ worms blind and afraid of the light” and “ spiders” hide under the surface of the garden, unable to see the reality of the lot (paragraph 4).

Ruthener Davis and Kenneth Davis were two waves. They constantly crashed against each other in an endless cycle of slamming doors and raised voices. Perhaps it was because they married young; Ruthener was only fifteen. Neither one of them were rich. They lived together in Newark, NJ in a rundown house with six kids. Anyone with those types of pressures might've came to hating their once significant other. Kenneth would hit his wife, and she would slash their tires. They'd scream and curse at each other in front of their children, until finally, Kenneth had had enough. Ruthener begged him to stay, but he'd have none of it. Kenneth left his wife, but not his children, whose social events he still attended, whose house he still paid for, and whose

The characters’ only desires revolved around acceptance, but they could never achieve it. The constant cycle of rejection drew the characters into madness, and finally, resulted in violence. Rejection continues as a matter not easy to cope with, an obstacle similar to a vast sea of confusion and emotion, which ultimately caused these characters to transform in an immense

Friends are a blessing, especially when friends are found within the madness of war. In the novel, the narrator and author, Tim O’Brien, discusses fictionalized war stories from his experiences in Vietnam. All of the stories are very different. Some deal with death, some deal with love, and some don’t actually deal with the war at all, but they are all connected. They all exemplify, in one way or another, a “true” war story. In one of O’Brien’s stories, he discusses the bond between two men on their journey from enemies, to friends, to loss. The story is appropriately titled, “Friends”. The truth that O’Brien discusses in “Friends” deals with the randomness and chaos of war. War is unexpected, yet the unexpectation of war can lead to serenity

Love alone can be the heaviest of emotions to tackle when you aren’t ready. But a love that is unrequited proves to carry an even greater weight. Like that of the “PRC-25 radio, a killer, 26 pounds” (566) which hangs on the shoulders of Mitchell Sanders with several wires, cords and battery a labor to transport. Like when Kiowa misunderstood Lt. Cross’s capacity for grief. An unrequited love is one that is misunderstood.

“We rode in and out of cold showers, passing one deserted farm after another...Now and then we’d meet a solitary man or woman trudging grimly through the mud, head down, bundled in blankets like us, tired and hungry like us. Other times it might be a family pulling a cart loaded with furniture, sometimes with the help of a gaunt horse or an ox, but usually just themselves. Small children with pale, hungry faces walked along beside the carts. Worn down mothers carried babies in their arms. Haggard fathers gave orders.”

What if I told you, everything you do this very moment is driven by your unconscious desires, and you had no idea about it? It hides deep in the abyss of your mind, influencing your actions and thoughts. When a situation pops up, people deal with them according to their comfortability, but they usually fall under a category ‘defense mechanisms’. This can be seen very clearly in Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’, as the conflicted characters are seen to have problems of their own, one of them being loneliness. After much reading, it is observed that the characters have used defense mechanisms of their own to react to loneliness. The characters of ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’ deal with loneliness by accepting, distracting

Using expressive metaphors, Kesha transmits how pain and harmful people test your character and as a result prepare you for a phenomenal future. Suffering and strife can give people the feeling of wanting to give up when being alive hurts too much to bear, but if you push through and survive, you can become unstoppable. When life forces times of struggle upon her, Kesha says, “Well, you almost had me fooled. Told me that I was nothing without you and after everything you’ve done I can thank you for how strong I have become,” (Kesha). Humans can have a heart of evil containing no mercy. We are mortal and can cause others to suffer, making them feel worthless. However, those “worthless” people have been given the opportunity to become stronger. When there are monsters in your life, you can be told that they are the ones who made you. You are alone without them. But eventually, if you give up, you never have the chance to escape and see how the pain and the lies you learned from they turned into power and experience. When you are able to use your new skills and become the opposite of those cold-hearted people, you will take away a brighter future despite the pain. After being broken, you are put together again and molded to handle anything. By looking agony in the face, you will learn how to fight instead of running and hiding. Kesha uses metaphor to express applying newfound tenacity to find positivity out of an atrocious situation to see the light in the darkness.

Second, Cliff decides to make many little films, but at the end of the day they come to nothing. And third, he has aspirations to change his lifestyle, but they don’t pay off. Shockingly, Halley, a TV producer and Cliff’s beloved, shits on him. This metaphor suggests that this is what we do to one another; in any relationship, we shit on each other. This idea denies Levy’s suggestion that love can provide meaning and value to an indifferent universe.

The use of character, style, and point of view that Atwood uses to write this story gives you a real feeling of pity for these characters, only having horrible lows or average highs in their relationships. It appears that there is no great place to be in her story. Reading this story for the first time, the reader could assume Atwood has an obsession with bad relationships, boring average marriages, and death. The key to understanding what the author is trying to convey is realizing how the stories all link together and how they all lack the essence of excitement and desire. The author brings the idea that without focusing on the “how and why” of life and only focusing on the “what, what, what” will leave you with an average

Flood control in the regions surrounding the Yellow River requires thousands of diligent workers. Emphasis on the word ‘diligent’. These commoners will veer from their assigned task and will be rebellious if their leaders are not morally straight. That, once again, starts at the root – the Ruler of All Under Heaven.

*“the scorching taking place rather rapidly, the withering more slowly” (Bosch, pg#). When discussing how seeds grown in the thorns “chocked,” Mark is discussing how people often attempt to adhere to God’s will, yet they become overwhelmed with the tribulations and desires of everyday life, that their faith is simply suffocated. This again emphasizes the importance of this message, explaining how people must form a strong foundation with God to prosper. Mark’s final description of the seeds planted in firm roots as yielding the best crop. In other words, those who establish a firm foundation of faith and willing receive and apply the teachings of Jesus will lead the most favorable lives in the eyes of God.