A Bug's Life

When considering the original story of the Cup of Trembling in Isaiah, the cup was meant for the righteous captives of Babylon when there was no hope left for them. The cup was made to redeem the righteous who still had faith in God. When comparing this to Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin, parallels can be made. By giving Sonny the Cup of Trembling the narrator finds redemption through Sonny and therefore, his community. When analyzing the narrator, readers notice that the narrator has a…

Though Chuck was stranded on the island alone, from a sociologist’s viewpoint, in the movie Castaway, he demonstrated many norms, values and culture. Culture are the beliefs and customs of a society or group. In this movie, culture was demonstrated when Chuck found Albert, a fellow passenger on the plane dead, Chuck still followed the culture that he was taught, as he conducted a funeral. Chuck buried Albert’s body and put a picture of his family that he found in Albert’s wallet to make sure…

practices as well as other practices was adopted in western occultism and spiritualism in the late 19th century. It is defined as the "other" of the "two worlds", the world where the witch walks through, being compared to outer space, inner space, life force and the un-manifest. In Indian cosmology Akasha is a term for "aether" meaning "upper sky" or "space" even "infinite space". To the Hinduism and Buddhism beliefs Akasha is the base of all things in the material world which we live. Without…

found I enjoyed this because it made the film more interesting by not having all the information given to the viewer right away. The more you watched the film, the more you could understand why Chris chose to go on his journey by seeing how his former life was.…

lot. After Mrs. Mallard learns about her husband’s death and while she is sitting in her room “she could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life” (1). The author wants to create in the minds of the audience the image of a new life as Mrs. Mallard is somehow dreaming about. Mrs.…

Secondly, all of Dickinson's work uses numerous poetic devices such as personification, metaphors, alteration, rhyme, and tone throughout the poem to create dramatize the meaning of death and create intense imagery. In the first poem, Emily Dickinson uses personification to shows how she and death travel together in the stanza two “We slowly drove‐He knew no haste”(Dickinson “ Because I could Not Stop For Death” 5). Death is being personified as a person who is driving to death. She said, “I…

In the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus, no one ever questions what role society played in the downfall of Meursault. He was always seen as the antagonist or villain but he had to have a certain philosophy to deem all traumatic events in his life acceptable. As a young child, he is told about an execution; his environment shapes him into the remorseless murderer. There are some people who do try to save him but he is already emotionally closed off. They see Meursault carries similar traits of…

character Frederic Henry and his lover, Catherine Barkley. Throughout the entire novel, Hemingway uses nature and weather in symbolic ways to gain the attention of readers. One of the greater symbols is the rain. Most people would agree that rain means life and that it does not have a negative symbolic use, but Hemingway uses rain as a symbol for death and despair. During the story, it would start to rain, foreshadowing a death of a character or multiple. Readers who observe this will become…

Throughout the novel Big Fish by Daniel Wallace Edward Bloom tells his son William Bloom stories and jokes that are in many ways better than reality. At first William strongly dislikes how his father overemphasizes his stories very much. William just wants the truth about his father as William never really got to know his father since he was always gone. As the novel progresses William starts to accept the stories more for what they are. By the end of the book, William has accepted Edward’s…

Cake, a movie released in 2005, was directed by Daniel Burnz and produced by Jennifer Aniston. A real life tragedy involving his own family which inspired the screenplay, written by Patrick Tobin (1). The film stars Jennifer Aniston, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington, Felicity Huffman, Adrian Barraza and Chris Messina. I chose the movie Cake as I sought to establish what Jennifer Aniston could achieve in a dramatic role, instead of her usual romantic comedy genre. As the movie’s producer she…