1995 novels

There is a disconnect between real life and what we see in the movies and television about Hawaii. Whether it’s the people, places or things that attracts us to its concept, many inevitably end up not satisfying their curiosity. Alison Luterman’s poem “On Not lying to Hawaii” uses various poetic devices and strategies to critique modern life that is focused on the ideal. There is a constant stream of examples that describe lives that seek fulfillment. The details found in the setting for the…

Charlie Gordon: Ignorance is Bliss Charlie Gordon is a 37-year-old man who has a mental disability. He was taught by Miss. Kinnian,who treats Charlie very well. He is motivated to succeed,and wants to be smart, but learning is extremely difficult for him. Miss. Kinnian had heard about a surgery that could possibly triple someone’s intelligence, so she recommended Charlie to be the subject of the operation/test. The operation was successful, but it didn’t impact Charlie the way he had been…

National Identity can be expressed in many ways such as a persons language, culture, religion, and traditions. In this course we have read many literature's where characters have expressed their national identity for example in the poem "I, too" by Langston Hughes and the story "How it Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Hurston. Both of these literature's have the similar settings and backgrounds. They both revolved around days before blacks were equal to whites. In the poem "I, too" Langston…

“The escape of the prisoner” not “The flight of the deserter” (Tolkien “OFS” 79). This is how J.R.R Tolkien describes escape as one of the four main functions of fairy stories. With this, Tolkien suggests that the reader should be using fairy stories to escape the situation that they are born into; however, he disproves of readers using fairy stories to escape their responsibilities (“OFS” 79-80). A sub-creation is a secondary world that the mind can enter. It is extremely difficult to achieve…

The event was when I came to USA. That I was the stranger in village. The village was that country view lane. Nobody know me for 5 months and keep away from me. After 5 months they still walked away from me. The people still ignore me and never talked to me. The black people insulted me when they know me. When people don’t know me they were nice to me. The people told me “you don’t belong here we going to kick you out”. When I came back home I was getting upset for 2 hours…

The Tradition of Pain The “The Lottery” (1948) by Shirley Jackson and “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1973) by Ursula Le Guin share a setting that is both similar and different from one another. In both stories, the writers use social constructs and deep ritualistic traditions to pave a setting for both stories. Though both traditions pertain to one individual, the basis of each tradition is different from the other through life and death. The first element of comparative analysis…

Of Mice and Men Obstacles Characters Face The characters in the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck face struggles such as loneliness and a desire for acceptance when trying to achieve their goals. This relates to the title because in the poem “To A Mouse” by Robert Burns it talks about how it is difficult to achieve goals because of other factors that create obstacles and interfere along the way. Having a desire for acceptance vastly impacts attempting to achieve a goal. Lennie, Crooks,…

Joni Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter who according to Rolling Stones is “ one of the greatest songwriters of all time”. In the book “The Unspeakable” author Meghan Daum discusses the Joni Mitchell problem which is fans or non-fans, liking or disliking Mitchell's art for the wrong reasons. We can also call the fans and non-fans consumers. Daum makes the claim that Mitchell’s art can be interpreted in one way. Daum says the consumers see Mitchell as a romantic but to Daum that doesn’t…

In the autobiography Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez, Rodriguez uses the term “private language” to depict the difference his heritage, culture, and spanish language, have with the American lifestyle, and english language. “Private language” to Rodriguez signifies the private spanish language his family and himself shared at home. Outside their home he considered it to be public, because everybody shared the same common language that is english. His family however stood out because of…

Entry 1: Passage: “While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning. Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame.” (pg. 2) Situation: Montag was watching the house and the books burn along with his fellow workers. Importance: As of now, Montag thinks that he is doing the right thing by burning the books. It shows that he is part of the overall majority that has been brainwashed into thinking that books are bad. Analysis:…