The Sheltering Sky

Stars were shining brightly in the clear night sky and water bubbled invitingly in the outdoor hot tub. However, reaching it meant opening the door and leaping across decking with the temperature at -14C. The reading had been displayed on roadside lights during our two-hour drive from Iceland’s main airport at Keflavik to reach the four-star, luxury Hotel Ranga. Now, as any of my friends would readily testify, I am a hot-house girl so the nearest I got to bearing any flesh was taking off my gloves

events that are predetermined by the gods will still happen (Sophocles 16). Oedipus, like many others in the play, believes that he can change what the gods have set forth in his life before him, but the gods will strike that theory right out of the sky as he learns later that regardless of the steps he took to prevent his fate from being completed, he still ended with the same result. They made sure he knew that they were in complete and utter control of his life. The gods are acting liking tyrants

Final Copy Does anyone like being told what to do, where they need to be, or how they are to live their life? Of course not, no one likes to have his or her life micromanaged for them. In the world-renowned Ancient Greek tragedy, Oedipus the King, by the famous playwright Sophocles, that is exactly what the gods do by controlling all aspects of the Thebans’ lives. The gods in this Ancient Greek tragedy are tyrants in that they determine one’s fate with no terrestrial hope of changing it and command

the most beautiful of flowers. Small specks of blue contrast triangles of white, similar to clouds parting into a clear sky.

Eco-critics ask questions such as whether or not ‘Everything is connected to everything else’, in order to explore the realms of human thought. In relation to Wilfred Owen’s poems; Futility, Spring Offensive, and Exposure, this theory that all living things are interconnected is a multifaceted one. Nature is used heavily as a centralised motif in each of them, albeit in different ways, in order to represent a range of both internal and external battles Owen’s soldiers are forced to undergo during

Love is the strongest force on the planet. It can move mountains and bend rivers. Love is affection and passion. But love cannot consistently be there for a person. Love is not guaranteed. Love is not like a good pair of shoes waiting to be worn. Love is the only thing in the world that can save and ruin a person, just like how it wrecked Doodle’s brother. Doodle and his brother seemed inseparable. Doodle constantly had his brother’s back, but Doodle’s brother did not seem to have his. Brother took

keep her from crying. The baby cooed with delight. Everyone was standing around with tears in their eyes. A father holding the hand of his six-year-old spoke softly to him. The boy wept from fear. His father stroked the boy’s head and pointed to the skies. It was as though he was explaining something to him. The machine guns opened up. They and others fell backward into the dry riverbed. There was an elderly frail snow-white haired woman. Others helped her undress to the shouts of the insurgent’s to

The American actress Goldie Hawn once said that “the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth” (Safire 99). In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch, a lawyer, emphasizes teaching his children the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. To Kill a Mockingbird exposes the reader to several situations in Maycomb County, Alabama, in

In the life of a boy named Doodle, a remarkable tale by, James Hurst, “ The Scarlet Ibis”. This is a story I will never forget because of a young boy named William Armstrong, he was later nicknamed by his brother “Doodle”. William Armstrong was nicknamed this because his brother compared him to a doodle bug, which was because he always crawled backwards and could not change gears. Doodle’s story is inspiring because of all he has gone through. His heart was not stable and he was very weak at birth

last group faced the guns, a large man fell in on top of her shielding even more of her body from view. The insurgent’s sprinkled a white powder over the bodies before leaving. She lay still as the lifeless bodies of her mother and the man on top sheltering her, grew cold. Tank and Joker were helpless. It would be a feeling that would live with them as fear, the rest of their lives. To fire a shot would have meant certain death. Dying would