The increasing amount of dysfunctional families in today’s generation is affecting the intimacy between a parent and his or her child. Being dysfunctional, meaning they are not working normally or properly, these families have different attributes about them that contrast to normal, unimpaired families. Kevin Wilson, the author of the Alex Award-winning collection of short stories Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, displays these certain attributes about a dysfunctional family in a marvelous fashion, but in the strangest yet most remarkable ways. Wilson in his short story, “Go, Fight, Win” incorporates the lifelong bond parents and their children maintain, although he perverts this relationship through the use of a shy, awkward teenager…
On October 28, 2017, I attended Desert Hot Springs High School’s theatrical performance, Love Sick, a play produced by John Cariani. Mr. Landmann is the head director of the theater department at DHSHS and was able to execute a great show with the help of his students: Matilde Alejandro, Megan Johnson, Bethany Navarro, Luis Salazar, Nathaniel Esparza, Natalia Martinez, Angel Limas, Esmeralda Hernandez, Esmeralda Salazar, Nicholas Jacob Gamboa, Baylee Bryant, Jonathan Calderon, Erika Aleman, Jesus Hernandez, Austin Aguirre, Edna Escobedo, Anjali Singh, Angel Ramirez, Elijah Cross, Michelle Lopez, Alondra Campos, Sadie Cunningham, Joseph Arisco, Maya Souza, Efrain Flores, Kimberly Solano, and Zauriah Cotton. Love/Sick is a play that contains lovers and dreamers that look into the agony and the happiness that comes with being in love and in relationships. To begin with, the plot of the play was very straightforward and unmissable. It outlined all the effects, good and bad, that comes with being in a relationship as well as depicting all the dilemmas.…
Reality…; unreality… : two concepts explored by Michael Gow in the play “Away”. Significant to the play and audience alike, as the concept of true reality is a perception within the individual. Act Two Scene Three and Act Five Scene One, are both significant scene’s as the relationship between the characters, Coral and Roy, is developed. Gow effectively makes use of stylistic and language techniques such as stage direction, music, allegory, metaphor, symbolism to bring the characters and story alive for the audience. Act Two Scene Three holds great significance in building the tension between Coral and Roy, it explores Reality verses Unreality as a driving force for tension.…
It’s truly up to interpretation on what the beast is to the reader. It could’ve been intended as fear, war, maybe even human nature's savagery but whatever it actually represent it’s always there. Weather it be formed of a person's fears of actions there’s always a beast. Golding wrote to show what the beast can be, and over the course of the novel it changes to show just what the beast can turn…
Go Dogs Go, not only is memorized into my brain, but is sitting on my bookshelf with tape holding the cover on, and the color of the illustrations fading every day, no longer the color they were. On page 5, I can still notice the cheesy, Cheetos fingerprint, even though my mother always told me to wash my hands after I finished eating, and before reading. Not only did I have memories with your book, I had journeys. Every time I listened to the book or as I mumbled, and stuttered, trying each word until I was old enough to fluently read this child’s book. Journeys flooding into my imagination as each word was spoken, or as each dog crossed the page.…
Both of my parents were born in Nigeria and both of them identify with the culture extremely well. From language to history, food, music, and customs, the African culture is so rich. Although I would consider myself a Nigerian before an American, I still have plenty to learn about my Nigerian culture. Moreover, because I was not born there and have American tongue it is a bit difficult to learn and speak the language. Also, because I’ve only visited twice for a few short weeks, I am ignorant of Nigerian history.…
The tale follows the main character and hero, Beauty, who is ‘lost to The Beast at cards’ (Carter 853) by her father. It follows her journey to The Beast’s palace, where she discovers his intention for her to undress for him. Offended, she stubbornly refuses him, and is given a clockwork maid that is identical to her. Beauty is also gifted two teardrop earrings, but they are given at different times. Eventually, she agrees to undress for The Beast and ends up turning into a beast like him.…
Released on July 1, 1991, the single Mind Playing Tricks On Me by the Geto Boys delved into the mental stress of gangsta and drug addict lifestyles, and addressed how one reaffirmed their existence. During this period, the group consisted of Willie D, Scarface, and Bushwick Bill. They acknowledged their issues, such as coping, vulnerability, and reasons for living. Through this song, one is able to deduce that the lyrics and beat complement one another, and the first few verses set the tone of the entire track. Although there was a tendency for intoxication and profanity during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Geto Boys hit Mind Playing Tricks On Me is a classic hip hop song that inspired generations of rappers in suit, is not one solely about drugs, and vocally illustrated hardships that were not commonly spoken of during that time.…
AWAY TEXT RESPONSE ‘While we unburdened crawl towards death’ says tom in the final page of Michael Gow’s play Away. This reference from Shakespeare’s King Lear is one of the many techniques that Gow uses to express the theme of reconciliation, the quotation from King Lear shows that Tom has reconciled with his fate and learns to continue through his life ‘unburdened’ towards his inevitable fate. Like Tom, the rest of the characters must deal with the same theme of reconciliation throughout the play, although not to the same extent of accepting their death. So in this essay the theme of reconciliation within Away will be explored in terms of how Gow uses techniques such as Characterisation, symbolism and production elements to express the theme of reconciliation within the play.…
Therefore the beast represents the evil that ultimately leads to the degradation of innocence of the English…
During a great feast on the island a small boy named Simon was brutally murdered. As Simon was walking back to the feast fear took over the other boys. They thought Simon to be the beast and they attacked. “At once the crowd surged after it...leapt on the beast, screamed, screamed, bit tore”(Golding 153). All of the boys attacked Simon because they believed him to be the beast.…
In the beginning of the chapter, the Beast is what the smaller boys see at night in their dreams. Even though the Beast is nothing more than an appearance of imagery, it has the power to create fear in their minds. It takes on a shape as “the snake-thing... ” (Golding ..) that personifies itself as “things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches…”(Golding..). The Beast has not yet had a physical appearance, but yet fear has given the little boys on the island the power to label the Beast as in the “beastie”.…
Said to be one of Disney’s best films, Beauty and the Beast is based on a French fairy tale about a beautiful woman who falls in love with a beast. This film sends the message that “it’s what is inside that really matters”. Jeanne Marie- Leprince de Beaumont wrote the timeless tale of “The Beauty and the beast” which has been embraced by the hearts of many for decades.…
The Beast Everyone is fearful of something although in the book "The Lord of the Flies," the most feared thing happens to be a beast. This is like how little kids are fearful of a monster under their bed. In this story the boys happen to be stranded because of a failure to evacuate them away from world war 2. The boys get stranded on an island and try to have structure but civilization is quickly lost especially because of a beast that is supposedly on the island. In the book the beast adapts throughout the story as more events happen to the boys on the island.…
Beauty, in “The Tiger 's Bride”, is another heroine who escapes being victimised by forming a sexual contract with the Beast: the “lamb” (the girl) accepts to be sexually initiated by the “tiger” (the experienced man). By doing so, she accepts her own animal instincts, eventually turning into a beast, which symbolises her sexual maturation. Indeed, wild animals represent human libido and sexual…