The Sapphires Essay

Hero’s Journey Narrative He handed me a blue necklace before he perished into the burning fires of the precious mansion he held so dear to him. He just laid there, watching his valuables burn to ashes and follow the path of the outside wind. His last words were, “Look in the cupboard, everything is there for you.” He said it with such seriousness, he was accepting his death and that is what pained me the most. I quickly ran after him, but he pushed me away. I watched him burn within the horrible…

What does each of the three authors suggest is the appeal of “getting famous”? Atwood suggests the appeal of fame is in receiving attention and love from the audience. In Text 1, the character uses her admired voice to be “courted” by spectators. In response, she has “bouquets… thrown to it”, “money… bestowed on it”, “men [falling] on their knees before it”, and “applause [flying] around it”. Thus, Atwood’s protagonist wants fame to be celebrated. In Text 2, Smalley suggests fame is not only for…

clearer and more distinct image in the reader’s mind and it also makes the readers feel like they are in the same location as Dorothea Mackellar, helping them relate to the poem more. “The stark white ring-barked forests, All tragic to the moon, The sapphire-misted mountains, The hot gold hush of noon, Green tangle of the…

WHAT BROKE MY HEART WAS NOT THE DAY THAT I LEFT HOME AT TWELVE YEARS OLD, which to me now is nothing but a distant memory. The public would say that a dog that was dead was a dead dog, and that was my name, my reputation, for the fact that I was gone for a day or two and never returned. But, people in other places, would say that it was merely survival. Even though, living was like falling on bricks over and over. What broke my heart was not the time when the boy in Caïman Lane, not too far from…

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I was anxious. It was the last day of my Junior year and my class had to take the Great Gatsby final in Mrs. Wright’s English class. The final was very crucial part of my grade because I had a borderline grade that I could not drop. Our substitute, Mr. Martin, had prepared us for a solid three weeks, so I was confident that I could pass the test with flying colors. I heard the lunch bell ring and I knew what was to come. My friend David and I casually strolled to our English class where Mr.…

Season 3, episode 14 of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, entitled “Rules of Engagement,” has led me to a new understanding about the choice to have Amy and Ricky break up in the series finale episode. The word engagement comes up in the relationships between Amy and Ricky, Ben and Adrian, and Anne and George, Amy’s parents. The latter of the three couples, however, ends their engagement to be remarried, while the two former have just begun a courtship that leads them to become engaged.…

Adele and Edna: Two Forms of Divinities In literature, authors occasionally resort to reader's faith in supernatural knowledge to convey controversial themes that cannot be explicitly expressed in storylines. Women independence and gender consciousness, for instance, were such notions that the patriarchal society disapproved in the late nineteenth-century. In order to reveal the restrictive nature behind ostensibly perfect social order, Kate Chopin constructs two forms of divinities in The…

man with the white, deathlike face. “You must rest, first,” said the young girl. The man 's eyes looked up at her in astonishment. Her clear face, with its low, unintelligent brow and its beautiful, foolish mouth stood out, as if under a dome of sapphire, against the sky, which curved above her. “Aren 't you afraid of me?” asked the man. “No,” said the young girl. The head of the man fell into her lap. She bent forward and covered up the shivering body with the billowing, silver silk. “Rest,”…

good-bye? It felt as an unsent letter, never having the chance to be turned into its destination. She had a pedestal in her room, a small crystal one attached to the alabaster wall. It holded at the end of the rectangle a picture of her parents in a sapphire frame, next was an onyx small doll, a lapis diary, two of her many guardian angels, and at the very end a representation of her beloved great grandmother. Days before her constant cry, she placed a beautiful single red rose in front of…