Why Do Dragons Exist

“The dragon is by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest her devour you. We go to the father of souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” (St. Cyril of Jerusalem) This quote was made famous by Flannery O’Connor’s writings. The quote is there to remind the readers that we will inevitably come across a “dragon” at some point throughout our lives. The dragon we see may take on many forms but all ending in some sort of suffering, pain, or bad decision. All the possibilities of the dragon depend upon the person facing it. O’Connor used this idea in the short stories, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” “A Late Encounter with the Enemy”, and “The Displaced Person.” These stories in particular illustrate the same type of dragon, the dragon of temptation. In Flannery O’Connor’s short stories the symbolism of the dragon is used to carry a theme of temptation throughout the plot.

fighting fire and heat and that with the especially serpent shaped dragon, he is in fact fighting an

Defeating Dragons and Minutes That Matter have many similarity and differences! Defeating Dragons is about a group of teens who help the local people of Aniak, Alaska they work 24 hours 7 days a week.Minutes That Matter is about a group of teens who send phones to soldiers who were overseas so they could talk to there family.These two groups both help people,whether it's helping them communicate with their family or helping them if they're hurt.They also are different in some ways Defeating Dragons help if there's an emergency, and Minutes That Matter help the soldiers keep in touch with their friends and family.

Hook: Cruelty is often used a defining factor, it can turn someone into either a hero or a villain

We have found a dragon that any man has ever seen is just lying outside our village. If we do not destroy it, the creature will come and wreak havoc on our land once it discovers its treasure stolen.

The dragon has little similarities with the Basilisks other than they are both reptilian creatures and that both have poisonous defenses. The Basilisk has a poisonous breath while the dragon has a venomous bite. “Then the wound dealt by the ground-burner earlier began to scald and swell; Beowulf discovered deadly poison suppurating inside him,” (Beowulf, 2712-2715). The difference between them is that the dragon is much wiser and personifies greed which the Basilisk does not.

Ray Bradbury is the author of this story. He has written various novels, short-stories, screenplays/teleplays and plays. His craft in this specific story is comparing almost everything to make it easier for the reader to understand and to give them a better picture. This engages the reader because it can make them feel more like they’re more of a part of this story, being able to get a specific picture or emotion to know what’s going on. There’s many instances when he does this, whether it be him trying to describe an object or someone's attitude. “The tyrant lizard raised itself. It’s armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins. The coins, crusted with slime, steamed. In the slime, tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to truth and undulate, even while the monster itself did not move, It exhaled. The stink of raw flesh blew down the wilderness” (41). This paragraph paints a picture in your head of what the dinosaur looks like, it doesn’t leave you wondering what it looked like by just saying, the dinosaur raised itself, terrifying. Instead, it goes into detail, as to give the reader a better experience in the story overall and so they're not left questioning what it looks

With the rumours of dinosaur-like creatures stalking the dark corners of Africa, Ley believed that it was possible the Babylonians had not only heard of such a creature, but have seen one -- or even had one living in captivity within their city walls, behind the Ishtar Gate.

“Do you want me to shut up or tell you?” He teased, then waved it away and said, “Nothing much, so far. I’ve seen a couple books on overall dragons, but as far as I can tell they don’t cover habitat.”

-There was originally an oracle of Gaia’s who resided at this site. The killing of the dragon is significant because it is symbolic of the Hellenes conquering and their god

The dragon is first mentioned in the story when the Misfit is talking to the grandmother about his life as a child when he starts describing his father to her. He says “Daddy was a card himself . . . You couldn’t put anything on him. He never got in trouble with the Authorities though. Just had the knack of handling them” (O’Connor 122). This is the first introduction of the dragon. Learning this information is very important because this is when the Misfit first started experiencing violence in his life. Obviously the Misfit was brought up into a world of crime, violence, and avoidance of the police. The Misfit continues to experience violence in his life after his childhood, when he joined the army and marine services. What he experienced

“A dragon is an enormous, fierce, bloodthirsty creature that appears in fairy tales and legends, primarily as a foil to enhance the hero’s valor. Many consider this to be the definition of this obscure and mysterious creature, but a dragon is also something else…

Komodo Dragons are an amazing species of lizard, capable of taking down a water buffalo and yet these deadly beasts were not discovered until around one-hundred years ago!

In the book, the author tries to define the dragon and states that it was seen to look like a giant snake. He also explains how people saw dragons as sacred whereby it was seen as some type of guardian to the people and provided them with protection and natural needs like rain. The book also tells of people, who had negative beliefs against the dragons; these were mostly Christians who to some extent even fought with the dragons. The belief that dragons were strong and mighty was seen as true since people who defeated dragons, mostly armies, were remembered as very great men. The popular belief that dragons guard great treasures in their caves is seen in this novel whereby the author states that people in those days tried to enter dragon caves which were guarded by these dragons.

Chinese mythology has several distinctive qualities, one of the most individual is the fact that Chinese myths are very concise: a single myth might only be one page long, but tells a story that could take up two or more pages. For example, the sentence, “The Wise Old Man at the River Bend stopped the foolish old man ” shows an entire short scene. Japanese myths, on the other hand, are more story-like in their structure, and they are told simply. In fact, the Japanese myths are told so simply and this author believes that they can be understood by children. Also Japanese myths have more of a definite beginning, middle, and end.