In her essay, “Chasing Loons,” Jessica Walden informs us that she did her research on the loons in Oneida County, Wisconsin, in the town of Rhinelander. She states that in Oneida County, there are 1,129 lakes (par. 2). She indicates that she spent three months researching loons, which have five different varieties of. Ms. Walden also indicates that each lake or territory can support only one pair of loons (par. 4).…
“The Last Dragonslayer” by Jasper Fforde is a story for kids and adults who like fantasy and mystery. The main message in the text is be yourself. The story takes place in the Kingdom Of Snodd. Tiger asked Jennifer “What really happened to Mr. Zambini? so Jennifer told him the truth about Mr. Zambini saying that one day, Mr. Zambini had no choice but to perform shows for kids, because Kazam was running low on money.…
Stephen King is an author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. He is most well-known for his writing of horror stories and how scary and real they seem to be. One of Kings first novels known as Carrie was his first horror novel and was a huge success. In this essay assignment, the directions were to read Stephen King’s “My Creature from the Black Lagoon” and to define and focus in on nine points in which Stephen King talks about during his essay. Stephen Kings “My creature from the Black Lagoon” is based off a movie he saw when he was young called The Creature from the Black Lagoon.…
G. Edward Griffin’s novel, The Creature from Jekyll Island, proposes a conspiracy between the United States government and the central bank of the United States, The Federal Reserve (the Fed). This alleged conspiracy dates back to the establishment of the Fed with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The basis of Griffin’s conspiracy is that rather than acting as an emergency line of credit for American banks and a regulator of the money supply, the Fed is a scheme for private bankers to profit off of the National Debt. Prima facie, this conspiracy theory appears to bear some merit. With Griffin’s considered audience, the burden of proof for the establishment of a conspiracy is relatively low.…
Monsters are not merely fictional creatures that hide in closets, or under beds waiting to pounce on their unsuspecting victims. One could say that human beings have the capability to become monsters. After all, it is the average individual who creates a culture of fear by perpetuating stigmas like: hate and prejudice. It seems as if fear derives solely from the environment in which the monster dwells, which in essence is everyday life. However, people do not just transform into monsters for the fun of it; their transformation is intentional, and that intention is often suppressed by a hidden agenda to manipulate other individuals, or the culture itself.…
Stories, a form of communication found throughout time and in different cultures of human history, passed down from generations to generations, some telling tales of the past, some teaching important lessons, and some just for entertainment. Needless to say, stories are an important part of human existence. To begin, stories help readers see through the eyes of others and experience what it's like walking in their shoes. For example, when reading “The Indisputable Weight of the Ocean” by Darryl Berger, readers see through the eyes of Edmund, a boy who was brought up and home schooled by his mother, not interacting with other children growing up. In the story, Edmund, a young gentleman from a small seaside town must move to the big city.…
Literate Arts can be fine for explaining a variety of historical, crucial events. Richard E. Miller, author of The Dark Night of The Soul employs texts to display how the literate arts can be beneficial for emphasizing the importance of historical catastrophic events. Moreover, Miller employed a variety of “how,” and “why” questions and how to respond to them in his writing to the public to engage them in a conversation and question their views on the literate arts. Furthermore, Miller asks questions about historical events that have happened over time and probably impacted billions of civilians, which in my opinion is one thing the literate arts is excellent at describing.…
Some may consider Mary Shelley’s novel, “Frankenstein”, to be a horror, romance, or even science fiction. Although she has written other novels, “Frankenstein” is the most remembered (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Biography). This British science fiction novel has been adapted into several films and TV shows. The novel is told in the form of letters, but the perspectives are from Walton, Victor, and the Creature. The novel is about a skilled scientist, who in his search for greatness creates an abomination to nature and God.…
I believe in Peter Benchley’s “Beast” that the characters are too laid back. First, I believe this because the boat they are on doesn’t have auto pilot but they slept through the night with no one piloting the boat. As he states, “we go down below and lay through the night.” Which means they didn't really care about the boat and where it went. Second, is because he trust his wife enough to let her drive the boat even though she doesn't have that much experience and drives with her feet.…
Along with “Fences”, many other texts also show manipulation occurring from grudges, revenge and feuds. In the short story “The Interlopers” by Saki, two characters, Ulrich and Georg had bitterness over the judgement of a piece of forest land in the Carpathians and who it had belonged too. One evening, the two men had met in the forest in a treacherous storm and a huge tree had feel upon them and crushed them. While being stuck, they both debated on how both their men would find them first, save them and then kill the other. Georg then says to Ulrich, “”Are you sure that your men will find much to release?”…
In his personal essay, “Captivity”, Sherman Alexie develops an intriguing view on the complexities of the relationship between Native Americans and European Americans, criticizing Caucasians for hypocrisy and fight for power between the two. His many examples comparing the relations between Whites and Native Americans in his essay, while formidable to producing his argument, are helped significantly by a metaphor presented through the mentioning of Mary Rowlandson, a historical figure who was held captive by Native Americans. Alexie’s argument as to the counter productivity and fear produced as a result of race is brought to light partially through the historical reference to the character Mary Rowlandson, reversing roles where instead of the White person being captive, the Native American is. The introduction of Mary Rowlandson in the piece isn’t until the third section,…
In the novel both the Yew Tree and the Abyss Monster are symbols of reality. The Yew Tree helps Conor face his fears, while the Abyss Monster helps him realise his fears. The Yew tree tells stories to Conor to help him understand reality and it always insists on the truth from Conor. The stories that the Yew Tree help Conor face reality because it helps Conor come too grips with his problems and that it’s okay to speak the truth even if you don’t want to do so. The Monster says, “You will tell me the fourth and it will be the truth”…
In his writing, “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)”, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen argues that we no longer live in an age that uses Unified Theory, an age when we realized that history is composed of a multitude of fragments. In this writing, he has bound some fragments together to form a “monstrous body” and pushes his readers to reevaluate their cultural assumptions relating to those specific fragments. In his first thesis, “The Monster’s Body is a Cultural Body” Cohen explains that each monster has a certain culture and follows certain rules. The monsters are typically born within a certain cultural moment.…
In the short story “The Seventh Man” Haruki Murakami, uses a horrific typhoon to overcome a childhood tragedy about the seventh man and his friend K. Haruki Murakarni uses one man’s recurring fear of a childhood tragedy to shape and form his character through a terrifying wave that swallows his friend. The author uses imagery, foreboding, and symbolism in this story to construct a sense of fear and bring a wave to life. At the beginning of the story, the author uses imagery to give the surroundings of the main character on a dark, weary night and to set the scene for the story, “‘It was the biggest wave I had ever seen in my life,’ he said. ‘A strange wave. An absolute giant’”(Maurakami 7-8).…
Why do we as a people fear monsters and similar entities? Throughout history people have created stories centered around monsters who would terrorize communities. These stories would be used to rationalize findings they couldn’t understand. These monsters were used to rationalize dieses, deaths and many other occurrences. These monsters still persist in stories today because over time they would evolve past what they stood for and would become symbols of our primal fears.…