What caught Boston’s attention was the long jagged scar that cut across the man’s left cheek, he had seen someone with that exact car at some point in his past. As the man looked at Boston a slow smile crept on his face, he looked as if he was genuinely thrilled to see Boston standing before him. Boston abruptly turned and…
Discussion Reply to Our Scars Written by Rianna Crocker Most of my scars have been obtained through playing childhood games, sports, or unexpected awful encounters with vicious animals. How awful it must have been to have a scar on your face, a place that is inescapable from daily view, that reminds you of the death of your beloved friend and the grieving process that resulted in that scar. I too know what it is to lose such a precious friend at such a young age and the pain that grew inside. I must have been the tender age of four when the family cocker spaniel had a litter of puppies; two to be exact.…
It was nearing the end of the 5th grade and I started to realize that I wouldn't be going to the same middle school as all of my friends. The administrators came to our school to tell us about middle school and not one of my friends or people I knew said that they would get to Shadow Ridge. They all said that they would go to Rocky Top. I had one person say that they were going to Shadow Ridge. They were one of my best friends.…
“The Most Dangerous Game” narrative centers around about 3 things: hunting, Rainsford, and his attempt to stay alive. There are two people, Rainsford and Whitney, that are on a yacht and they are hunters. They pass an island and Whitney tells Rainsford that it is a dangerous place. Whitney leaves Rainsford to get ready for bed. While Rainsford is alone, he hears 3 gunshots, which makes confusion and interest blossom in his mind.…
Though few immediately truly told their story, the most simplistic one reached toward me begging for my attention: “Scars”. Personally, I am very familiar with the once painful white lines, as three of them mark my face. Once I turned to the waiting chapter, I believed my personal experience enabled me to read as a knowledgable individual regarding the topic. Wrong. Greeted by the devastating…
was injured in November 2007 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. I was commanding the vanguard of a combat team leaving a patrol base to conduct a night operation in the Zharay district. Shortly after our departure and ‘shake-out’ into formation, my command vehicle was hit by a Command-Wired IED that defeated the armour and safety systems aboard our Light Armoured Vehicles. The initial blast and subsequent fire that spread to the ammunition and explosives we were carrying generated three Killed-in-Action (KIA) and three Wounded- in-Action (WIA) personnel. All the leadership component within our vehicle was either injured or dead, and the vehicle driver was the only individual able to move us to cover by dragging us behind a concrete block.…
I follow a therapist into a room, I stand primed ready for what is next on the agenda. I look up seeing a man with a massive scar on his arm. It traces over his shoulder and down his back to his shoulder blade. I look at him, he seem dazed, while the therapist calls his name getting increasingly louder. The man responds after a few seconds of silence, he opens his eyes a bit saying “I’m here, I’m here”.…
Growing up I was always afraid of saying the wrong thing, this often times would lead me to instead not say anything. I always thought this was better than saying the wrong thing, up until I was 16 years old and found out the opposite to be true. As a 16 year old girl as you could imagine I wasn’t the happiest person in the world, there were a lot of days when depression clouded my thoughts and that ended up being the only thing that would even be a thought in my head. This would be one of those days, I had just gotten close to my new best friend, Megan.…
Jennings’s reflection and the history of the scars he observes starts when he says that scars tell stories. Occasions from Jennings’s childhood prompted him to go into detail, and as he does just that, he starts to realize just how scars can remind us that they shouldn’t be something to be ashamed of. As he goes on, we learn that Jennings’s find his own abdominal scars to reflective. Those scars remind him of how his life was so bravely saved by surgeons who cut him up and sewed him back up.…
I… I… just can’t do it. *pant* *pant*. All I can hear is the raging pulse of my blood and Sergeant screaming at me to get up, yet I cannot see a thing because I’m even too prostrated to open my eyelids. I am beat, and I can’t take it any more. I have been training for 4 hours straight, 4 hours!…
My scar story “Your setbacks are the platforms for your comeback” everyone at some moment in their life has a setback, but it’s the way we go about this setback that defines you as a person. This quote demonstrates the difficulties I had to face and overcome last year in having to sit on the sidelines watching my team and how I used this injury as motivation and a learning experience to help me return to the game of basketball stronger and better than ever, this is my scar story. My story began last year in march it was the very first game of basketball for the season and for me it was just another ordinary routine game of basketball, I taped my ankles like normal, warmed up like normal and played like normal little did I know that this ordinary game or basketball would change my outlook and values in life so dramatically. It was the fourth quarter of the game and my team were down by at least ten points, in desperate need of points I attacked the basket even with multiple defenders in front of me in hope that one of the defenders would foul me.…
Everyone wants relationship goals of Romeo and Juliet or Edward and Bella. I want relationship how I want to picture of it. Myself and someone who will love me who I am. I always loved the dark side, the mysterious that never shows. I'm different to average people.…
With even a passing reading of his poetry, it is quite evident that Michael Ondaatje has a strong fascination with markings and the meanings they entail. From poem to poem, the marks range in how they are presented: sometimes they are sensory and other times they are emotional. In The Time Around Scars, the markings are discussed as if they were physical wounds. Meanwhile, the markings of The Cinnamon Peeler come in the form of scents.…
Hi, I am Lydia and I am here to tell you a story about the most terrifying days of my life. So here goes nothing, I decided to take a trip to Egypt and there was a legend a tale that there were 4 gods there at one time and they were called the 4 sparrows. Amnu was the chief a sun god then you have Anushbi the protector of the dead, Nehkbart she is the vulture goddess and Geb the God of the Earth. They were very powerful giants with magical powers.…
Scarring is used as a symbol of the intangible and psychologically poignant experiences that characters have in The English Patient, as well as throughout Ondaatje's canon. A symbol is a literary device that is used to represent an abstract idea in a concrete form. This symbolism is evident throughout Ondaatje's body of work, where scars manifest loss in The English Patient, the impact of a strong connection in “The Cinnamon Peeler”, and finally memories hurt and pain in “The Time Around Scars”. The ubiquity of scarring vindicates it as a device that Ondaatje purposely uses, rather than a mere coincidence. The events that cause the physical scars to the literary characters give an impression that will remain for the rest of their lives, similar…