Have you ever thought about the deeper meaning of a story? Have you ever looked beyond the horizon right in front of you? If not, the short stories “Contents of a Dead Man’s” Pockets by Jack Finney, “The Leap” by Louise Erdrich, and “The Trip” by Laila Lalami, all have their additions that contribute to the deeper level intended. This can be created through the topics of setting, conflict, characters, and theme. These topics help make up the plot of each story as well as the conflict and resolution. No story is the same, but they can have similar messages meant for the reader. Some can argue that these three short stories are completely meaningless, but evidence proves otherwise. To begin with, setting contributes to the idea of both similarities…
William Wordsworth, an idealistic poet, grew up as an orphan with his four siblings. He went on a walking tour in Europe before his last semester in college, which influenced both his love for poetry and his political views. Wadsworth found himself in Europe during the French Revolution and that is when he began his “interest and sympathy for the life, troubles, and speech of the common man” (poets.org). Losing two of his children definitely impacted William to become the poet that we know of…
The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were revolutions in China that contradicted each other. They were two major events and program that China set in motion during the 1950s and 1960s to help China become the world’s super power country. They were programs set in motion by Mao Zedong after 1949. In the movie, “To Live,” you can see that there were many hidden messages that imply the hard times during the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. Fugui’s two children were killed…
Do you believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose again on the third day after his death according to the scriptures? This mystery that occured in the early first century A.D. is the kindle of a flame that is Christianity today. Christianity, by atheists, is seen as a religion that is false and one where the followers are mindlessly following a God that isn't real. Some have even gone far enough attempt to find all the evidence in the world to disprove the resurrection and ultimately…
Bulletproof - La Roux Although Bulletproof is about going through a breakup, it could be interpreted to be about the ups and downs of Mao’s career. Essentially, the artist talks about her past mistakes and how she now has to be “bulletproof.” La Roux past mistakes could be interpreted to be Chairman Mao’s. Specifically, the Great Leap Forward. Mao had great hopes for the Great Leap. However, the Great Leap Forward utterly failed to due commune farming. Additionally, 30 million Chinese died as a…
basketball. Or some people think that when they do vertical jumps they do the greatest they can and that's it. The truth is that with exercise you can make your jumps even higher than what they happen to be. With a little time and effort you ought to have the ability to jump four to five inches above what you have been jumping. Should you cannot leap 50 inches in the air, you ought to have much more exercise. This will assist to improve your skills and assist you to to become able to shoot and…
Being a peasant in China before the Cultural Revolution was rough. During the Cultural Revolution we see huge changes in the peasant lifestyles. The vast population of China was farmers that had either little land to work on or land that was rented out by landlords. The novel Frog by Mo Yan is an excellent novel in, which Mo describes the lives of peasant people, one child policy, family planning, and the role of women in china during the cultural revolution. In this essay I will be arguing the…
Parris was not comfortable in his own skin, he did not have the confidence to acknowledge his mistakes. “Parris: I pray you, leap not to witchcraft. I know that you, you least of all, Thomas, would ever wish so disastrous a charge laid upon me. We cannot leap to witchcraft. They will howl me out of Salem for such a corruption in my house.”(Act 1) Parris refused to accept witchcraft as a possibility for what it would do to him. He refused even though accepting the possibility could save his…
different approach on grief. Amy tells her husband, “I saw you from that very window there,/ Making the gravel leap and leap in air,/ Leap up, like that, like that, and land so lightly” (78-80). Here, Amy gives the readers a clear image of the scene she witnessed outside their window. This kind of imagery is important because it is Frost’s way of illustrating when exactly the wife reached her breaking point. Amy is filled with shock and disbelief upon watching her husband dig his own child’s…
Two-Player Game I ready myself for the wave I know is coming. We have failed this level countless times. In all fairness, Arachne’s Revenge is a hard game, but I never could have prepared myself for this. Do you know the myth of Arachne? Arachne was a beautiful young lady that challenged the goddess Athena to a weaving competition. She claimed that her work was far superior to anything the gods could do. Athena won the contest and transformed Arachne into a spider, free to weave away at her web…