The Metamorphosis Essay

In Pastoralla, George Saunders talks about a story that takes place in a theme park or a museum were an unnamed man and his coworker Janet work and live in a cave-like place where they both play their roles as a caveman and a cavewoman. The two actors have to live at their work place and work full-time job following strict rules to live like cave people. While the caveman lived and followed every rule to keep his job, Janet was unable to play her part on a continuous, consistent basis.…

Merda 1 Amygdalia Merda Professor Dimitriadis Lit5-127 23 May 2017 The theme of alienation in Anton Chekhov’s “Heartache”. Anton Chekhov’s “Heartache” is about Iona Potapov, a sledge-driver or a cabby as he is referred in the text, who is losing himself into his sadness because of his son’s recent death. Iona wants nothing more than to share his pain with someone who will just listen to him, but he is rebuffed by each customer he encounters. In this case, he is left alone and alienated as…

Lastly, an important (but often unmentioned theme) in original fairy tales is the absenteeism of a father-figure. Although “Little Snow White” does mention Snow White’s father in the beginning of the story, this mention is used more to introduce the stepmother than the father. Many critics could argue the fact that the father’s absence from this fairy tale proves that he is a man that does nothing to help his very own daughter (thus making him a bad person). However, in this story, the king’s…

Toy Story is a movie about the secret lives that our toys live while we are not busy playing with them. The child that owns the toys in the movie is Andy, and Andy loves all his toys very much, but his favorite toy is a cowboy named Woody. Woody is the authoritative figure in the secret toy society and all the other toys look for advice and guidance from Woody. Andy is moving to a new house so the toys are all worried about accidentally being left behind. Because Andy is moving, his mom…

Goodbye to Forty Eight Street The purpose of writing this essay is to show how everyone moves eventually, but always leaves a part of them at their old home. In this passage White is packing his possessions away into boxes getting ready to move. He knows he is not capable of bringing all his possessions with him so he has to decide what to get rid of. It is hard for him to decide what to get rid of because he has grown a connection to them. When moving away he misses his home and possessions…

Sergei’s Three Wishes Sergei’s three wishes reveal a way in which his character was consistent. Firstly, Sergei liked to help people just not random people. From the passage page seven, “That first wish, Sergei used up when they discovered a cancer in his sister. A lung cancer, the kind you don’t get better from. The fish undid it in an instant.” In this quote, Sergei explains how his sister has severe lung cancer, and how she might die. He uses his first wish to save his sister from cancer.…

The Christmas Gift Mousy the Mouse was simply not the most usual. He was always forgetting something that was important two seconds after he thought of it. Now his friend Torty the Tortoise, was always trying his hardest to keep Mousy going. Christmas was always the worst time of year for that. Mousy always got so caught up in the Christmas cheer that he always forgot everything. Torty wanted to make sure that Mousy got everybody a gift, that he…

What would it be like if an average office worker turned into a rat or a louse at night and returned back to his average job during the day? These events, along with challenges the characters face, take place in Yuri Herrera’s dystopian short story, “The Objects.” In “The Objects,” the author uses many different hardships and aspects of the story that the main characters face to symbolize real world struggles, such as immigration and social hierarchy. Firstly, a major theme of the story is…

The “Veldt” by Ray Bradbury tells the story of a family which has been blinded by technology told via a Third Person Limited Omniscient point of view. As a result of the integration of excessive amounts of technology, their traditional family bonds have deteriorated. They have allowed technology to take over and replace each other, resulting in the constant chipping away at their familial bonds. It shows us the extent to which their bonds have deteriorated and how towards the end, they attempt…

In Gary Soto’s biographical narrative he entertains his audience by telling them a story of his past and how it had shaped him as a person. To elaborate, in the narrative Soto steals an apple pie from the German Market and even though he didn’t feel guilty at the beginning it slowly consumed him and lead to him feeling guilty for the sin he had just committed.To help him Soto used the figurative language of imagery and, the sound device, onomatopoeia, in order to help the readers paint a clear…