The Metamorphosis Essay

You’re running late and don’t have time for breakfast so you grab an apple as you sprint out the door. Do you think about where that apple was grown, or how many miles it had to travel before getting into your hands? No, you eat the apple and get on with your day. In the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; Barbara Kingsolver explains in depth the effects of eating locally and shares her family's experience of their year-long commitment to living off the land while eating locally. In the first…

The story of “Hands” by Sherwood Anderson is about an old man named Wing Biddlebaum who used to be a school teacher. However, due to one of the boys claiming to be touched by him inappropriately, he was run out of the town. Therefore, this makes him feel like he must force himself into a self-imposed isolation. The story is centralized around Wing Biddlebaums hands and the mystery they hold. There are hints of touching and hands scattered throughout the story. As stated above, the overall…

In the novel, Steinbeck presents strengths and weaknesses in many different ways, from how Crooks and Curley's wife deal with daily injustice because they are easy targets, to George who looks after Lennie every day but then loses out on other aspects of his life because of it. Then there's Lennie who's learning difficulties cause him to be yet another easy target of society, and lastly Slim is seen as the prince of the ranch, but there is a possibility that he is keeping his problems to himself…

In Krakauer’s widely known novel, Into The Wild, Krakauer explains a story about how a man named Chris went to Alaska and died of starvation. Chris was born into a rich family and graduated from a prodigious university. However, he was not complacent with his life and wanted to avoid family trauma. He then ran away from his problems and decided to leave for Alaska. Since he was an ascetic and fervently believed that he belonged in the wild, he immediately left his home and abandoned his…

To achieve the American dream, one may have to overcome hardships as Chris Gardner did when he had little financial gain to help him, dealt with homelessness, and raised a son. As Gardner attempts to find happiness and prosperity, he lacks a sufficiently paying job “selling medical supplies” (). Although he attempts to find work, he has no education beyond high school, but one day an internship opportunity to become a stockbroker arose. Despite the fact that he would receive no wages during that…

Additionally, theme is portrayed once again when scrooge is unexpectedly take to his past errors in life. With the help of The Spirit of Christmas Past, Ebenezer is taken to relive some of his worst times and hardest mistakes. To start that perturbing adventure, Scrooge is first brought back to his childhood. The Spirit of Christmas of Past lets the experience of Scrooge as a lonely boy unfold. Child Scrooge was heartbroken. Watching the friends that he did have, if any, be taken back to their…

Milo is a very bored child, who receives an unusual package. He takes a trip through the mysterious make believe tollbooth that appears in his bedroom one day. He is unexpectedly transported to the Lands Beyond while he drives through it in his electric toy car. He meets Tock, the watchdog who joins him on the mysterious when his on the way to Dictionopolis. In Dictioonopolis, Milo meets King Azaz who crowns over the world of words and letters. During that time, King Azaz gives Milo a…

One must eat bitter in order to taste sweet; this saying comes from the Chinese, and it has so much more meaning than simply eating. This saying can be interpreted several different ways, but what it means actually symbolizes the hard times endured in which this case is the ‘eating bitter’ part while as the tasting sweet represents the times in our life that are pure ecstasy. In Yua Hua’s novel To Live, the protagonist, Fugui, has encountered a numerous amount of hardships and through it all…

Discovery can be initiated through a re-examination of the world which can lead to greater understandings of others and improved moral judgement. Oscar Wilde depicts this through the Prince statue’s and the swallow’s conversion from self-indulgence to altruism upon confronting the town’s poverty. Due to circumstances unique to different social classes, individuals may become oblivious to the suffering of others, and therefore have a limited understanding of the world. This is symbolised through…

Sometimes it’s the little things that get to you. There are random acts of kindness and hatred everyday, and some of them just seem wrong and stick with us longer than they should. Terrible grammar on facebook and dumb status updates lower our standards on social media, and current wars and riots lower our faith in human kindness. In fact, these ideas are decaying our society, causing a lost faith in humanity. At least, this is what Leo Tolstoy thought This russian writer grew up in a…