A few months after writing his song “Cinderella”, Steven Curtis Chapman’s youngest daughter was tragically hit by her brother’s SUV when she ran out to meet him upon his arrival home. This devastating event gave a whole new meaning to “Cinderella”, and Chapman poured more emotion into his performance of the song than ever before, using the song as a way to cope with his grief. In David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole, the Corbett family suffers from a similar experience when Becca and Howie’s four-year-old son, Danny, runs out in front of a car and is killed. All of the characters deal with the grief of losing someone so young, and all of them grieve in their own, unique ways. Lindsay-Abaire displays the theme that, while grief is a universal…
King Arthur and Spiderman are two fictitious characters that are both similar, and dissimilar to each other. In an excerpt from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, he writes about monomyth, which is a twelve step process that is divided into four sections. This represents a continuous cycle that the character in the story must go through in order to complete their journey. King Arthur and Spiderman follow the cycle of the Heroes Journey by events in their lives made parallel to the cycle of the Heroes Journey. King Arthur and Spiderman, although from two different ends of the spectrum, are actually alike, both coming from epic tales of struggles and triumph.…
Concepts from Social Psychology in Rabbit-Proof Fence Summary Rabbit-Proof Fence is the true story of three young aboriginal girls who were forcibly taken away from their families in Jigalong to attend a White school designed to enculturate them into becoming good house servants and laborers to White families. Molly, age fourteen, is the leader of the trio, including 8-year-old Daisy, and their 10-year-old cousin Gracie. The relocation and education of “half-caste” children was part of the Australian Government’s decision that the “half-caste race” was a danger to society and must be bred out of existence. The movie follows the three girls as they escape the re-education camp and begin to make their way back home, following Australia’s unique solution to the overpopulation of rabbits and destruction of vital farm land and crops, the rabbit-proof fence.…
He is failing to see reality in one way or another . In the story he is invited to repeat his valedictory speech in which he said that " humility was the secret , indeed , the very essence of progress" (449) before the white leaders of the town. These men, however, humiliate the protagonist and some other black youths by forcing them to engage in a "battle royal," a blindfolded fist fight in which the last standing participant is victorious and tempting them to fight for counterfeit coins tossed on an electrified rug. Even after being degraded, beaten up, used, and treated like an animal the narrator still wants to impress his abusers and he delivers his oration. During the speech the men ridicule him and only make it more painful to go through with it in the already disturbing circumstances.…
The Rabbits Written by John Marsden and illustrated by Shaun Tan, 'The Rabbits' is an allegorical tale of colonisation. First published in 2000 by Lothian Books, the book parallels the real life happenings of the British invasion and colonisation of Australia and the effects on the Indigenous Australians. Tan's illustrations open his audience's eyes with his peculiar, bold, semi-abstract style that conveys the anxiety and bewilderment of the possums as they bear witness to the mass destruction that follows along with the rabbits. Already in the beginning, the text from Opening One "The rabbits came many grandparents ago.…
I Corinthians 9:24 states, “Do you not know that those who run a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you obtain it”. This Bible verse has had significant meaning to me particularly while running track in high school. Track is a sport that requires hard work, determination, speed, focus, and self-discipline.…
The movie “A Knight’s Tale” is a great film directed by the famous director Brian Helgoland. The film is successful and have two different genres. On one hand, the film is a hero’s journey. On the other hand, the film is also an entertaining sports film. So here is the evaluation of the movie, “A Knight’s Tale”.…
Going Deeper through the Myths of the Ancient World. Mariana Peña 7a “The Hero's Journey” This is a way of narrating and analyzing how a hero(e) took his role in a story or myth. Myths explain stories were the character face magnificent phenomenons.…
A myth is a story that holds some kind of significance in a culture, a story that addresses fundamental and difficult questions that we as human beings ask: who or what am I, where did I come from, why am I here, how should I live, what is the right thing to do, what is the universe, how did it all begin? Myths are stories that are told about great men and great women; about the forces of good and evil; about large and small animals; about natural thing as well creatures like giants, gods and other supernatural beings. The complete study of all these stories theire respective elements is called mythology. Now when people hear the term mythology they automatically think of the Greek version, more specifically their gods such as Zeus the top-god,…
I once thought I couldn’t believe in myself! I felt as if I were nothing but a sheet of glass that was completely useless. When there were gloomy days, I felt like broken glass that was scattered all over the ground and I wouldn’t be fixable. So I thought if I joined a sport, I would then, have no choice but to believe that I can do more and accomplish more, and be better than whom I was! When I was little I loved to run…
Destroyed Dreams Dreams, although often cut off are necessary to keep the hopes of people alive to fight against the hardships of the social perils of life. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a powerful depiction of life during the Great Depression in rural America. Life during 1930’s America was tough, and hope was the only escape from hard reality. To most people, Lennie and George’s futures seem grim, but we discover how resilient they are and that they refuse to give up.…
Chapter 1 every Trip is a Quest (Except When It 's not) Summary: Foster discusses the idea that though many details are different, every quest has the similar archetype or makeup. There is always a protagonist on a quest, a place they must go, a stated reason to go to their location, and challenges and trials they encounter on their way. Also, Foster states the reason any quest truly occurs is self-knowledge.…
As a primary source, slave narratives have become an invaluable in the way they portray the plight of fugitive slaves and the phenomenon of running away. Like many who recorded their own slave narratives, the author of Running a Thousand Miles For Freedom, William Craft, intended to accurately portray his own fugitive slaves experience in a way that emphasized the atrocities of slavery in an attempt to convince the public to abolish slavery. The slave narrative was published by William Tweedie in London during the year 1860. London was a common place for African Americans to go to be published because of the less racist climate which made publishers more accepting of African American literature. The significance of Running a Thousand Miles…
Throughout the short story by Chinua Achebe “Dead Man’s Path” there are forms of irony, symbolism, and views which set the tone and background for the story. In the opening, we see a young man by the name of Michael Obi who has just received a job as the headmaster of an “unprogressive” school in what appears to be Africa in 1949. This town has religious ties as well as strong family roots. This society is not very welcoming of new and progressive ideas which makes this story unfold into a great cataclysmic display of irony. The central theme is that we should all be more tolerant of our neighbors no matter their beliefs or intellects.…
I waited at the starting line for my split in the relay race. I felt sweat drip down my temples from the blazing sun. There were two laps for each of the four people in my relay, I was the final runner. My heart was beating out of my chest from the pressure of the crowd. I extended my arm backward, ready to receive the baton.…