A Bug's Life

In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” written by James Hurst, the story demonstrates the motif of the bird’s death, the short story communicates the Narrator as regret by showing the death of innocence, for example, in the beginning of the story, the narrator states “if an oriole sings in the elm, it’s songs seem to die in the leaves, a silvery dust”. The brother feels responsible for what happened to Doodle, which he should. The brother expected too much from Doodle, the family had to be…

The Journey in Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water was very challenging to everyone who traveled. Though the main character, Salva, went through many challeges in the journey, he survived the journey with determination, and the knowledge to survive. Salva did many things in his long journey, and he definetly worked very hard, for his survival. On page 43 the text states, “‘Salva staggered forward with yet another enormous load of reed in his arms. Everyone was busy’ (43).” This means that…

Have you ever had to move from your home to somewhere you know nobody and nothing about it? In the Novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the Fisher family had to do exactly that. As Paul Fisher struggles with changing schools and moving states, he feels like no one will like him, but soon he learns that change is a good thing and he begins to make new friends and gain self confidence. “I had to agree” Pg. 30. Paul didn’t have the confidence to say what he thought to his own mom. If Paul had the…

did let some of them die, so you can see that Odysseus is a hero but sometimes he holds himself back from being a hero and does things that a hero wouldn’t do. Odysseus is also known to always to finish the job even it meant danger ahead and life threatening times. If Odysseus wasn’t a hero, he would have gave up and would not have tried to get home and wouldn’t even care about his family. It just may be that he may not be a hero because he has no compassion. He would let his men die and…

Background Lizzie Andrew Borden was born July 19, 1860, in Fall River, Massachusetts, to Sarah (who died soon after) and Andrew Borden, a manufacturer and salesman of furniture and caskets. Three years later, Andrew Borden married Abby Durfee Gray. Lizzie and her elder sister Emma Lenora Borden lived with Andrew and his new wife into adulthood. The girls’ relationship with their stepmother was cold, it seems; Lizzie Borden stated in a police interview that she and her sister addressed their…

mentally damaging. “Death” instead means the act of being dead. If we believe that death involves no pleasure or pain and that the only thing in life that is bad is pain, then we can reason that death is not bad, since it doesn’t involve pain. Also, the disregard of death doesn’t imply an indifference to life. If finding pleasure is the purpose to one’s life, and one must be alive to experience pleasure,…

The archetypal theme of selling your soul to the devil has been in practice for centuries back. The willingness for someone to sell their soul in exchange for something they desire or what they most want in life and not always do they have another choice and that’s when they decide to not work for what they want and go the easy way to having fame, power, revenge and beauty. Both Tom Walker from “The Devil and Tom Walker” and Queen Ravenna from “Snow White and the Huntsmen” thought they had no…

“The Farmer among the Tombs” by Wendell Berry presents a surface level call to action in utilizing the space taken up by graveyards, affecting the audience in a powerful way; however, when read closely this poem shows its other side, a side contained in Berry’s nuanced hints that draw the reader to a deeper conclusion. It is obviously that this poem contains a specific structure: two sections (or sentences) that convey contradictory tones separated by a line of two short imperative commands.…

reality to settle in your soul. You’re lucky. Bethany and I had no one to comfort us.” “It’s apparent you’ve been a good person during your life. You didn’t descend directly to hell. You are with us waiting for your turn to be with those in heaven. Let go of all your hatred against those who harmed you on the island. With the explosion of the island, all life ended judgment…

I comply with Jobs on his three points as each point will ensure that you live a contented, successful life, at the end of the day that is everyone's main goal. Some people who don’t concur with everything that Jobs might believe that it’s not very logical to do what he did. For instance, not everyone can just decide to drop out of college after their parents…