A Farewell to Arms

With the recent election, were you unable to relate to either of the presidential candidates? Most American citizens wished that there was another candidate, capable of winning, running because both candidates were so extreme. This dilemma occurred because of the two-party system, which runs the United States. If the United States was run by a multi-party system or a system by which no parties were present then there would be a very low chance that Donald Trump would be president due to how…

Ignoring the Grim Reality The modernist time period was a break from tradition where authors expressed the feeling of rejection toward optimism. Writing focused on the human mind and allowed the reader room for interpretation using their own emotions. Three of the great authors who wrote in the modernist time period are Ernest Hemmingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein. Their work portrays true modernist ideals and they use numerous different literary devices to express the theme. A…

For most people their favorite memories revolve around family and friends. My favorite memory involved a runaway horse. I will always remember my gallop in the Arizona desert fondly as one of the most exciting days of my life. It was mid spring when a band of nine riders slowly plodded along the Arizona Mexican border. The dusty prairie stretched as far as the eye could see, flat and endless. Brush, burnt from the sun’s blistering heat, filled the landscape with hazy color. Cacti were…

assured him of my capability, Ralph still urged me to proceed with caution as we dismounted off the lift. While it was true I hadn't skied since my senior year of high school, Skywalker was a intermediate slope I was quite familiar with. I bid my farewell to Ralph, and he started getting ready to make his way down a slope next to a large black sign that read "Turbo". I felt my heart…

clarity, he decides that he cannot be an accessory to the monsters vile existence and actions, and destroys his second creation. Prior to the monster departing, the monster declares that he will return on Victor's wedding night. In preparation, Victor arms himself with a pistol in the hopes of injuring or killing the creature as his act of revenge: “A grin was on the face of the monster; he seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife. I rushed towards the…

Fire is arguably the greatest knowledge that mankind ever received, and with time, sparked all further technical developments, allowing for man to transcend mere animals. The story of Prometheus, tells of how the titan Prometheus gifts fire to man, and all of the beneficial consequences that subsequently arose from this knowledge. Frankenstein draws from Prometheus to develop the topic of god-like knowledge, and even originally titling itself as The Modern Prometheus. On the other hand, Milton…

becomes very irritable and violent, pushing his mother to the ground and screaming so loud that his neighbors call the police. In the film we also see the symptoms of pressured speech. For example in the scene where he reads Ernest Hemingway 's A Farewell to Arms, Pat is so disturbed with the ending of the novel that he throws the book out of the window smashing it to pieces. Afterwards he wakes up his parents at 4am and rants about how the book was so disturbing. Another important symptom of…

Have you ever been alone and you wished for a friend to provide comfort and keep you going? Yann Martel, in his novel The Life of Pi, tells the story of a character who needed exactly that, given his circumstances. In his story, Martel expresses and promotes this idea through a long boat journey and some some incredible animals. Using these circumstances, Martel teaches the reader that in the face of danger, people find comfort in even the most unlikely friendships. In the beginning of the…

uncomfortable or odd. For example” When Mr.Hooper came, the first thing that their eyes rested on was the same horrible black veil…”, meaning that people see tiny queer things in quick of an eyes and to judge in a quick of an eye. Another example is “ Then, Farewell!”,said Elizabeth is wife seeing him in public, and as the story end we realized that Elizabeth is with him in secret as the story say “ Tremble also at each other”, this quote reveals that even through the darkest time such as the…

Right then, Gwen rounded the corner, and Arthur hopped up. It was all he could do to remain calm and not race forward and gather her into his arms. She moved with a relaxed gait and didn’t appear overly medicated, which Arthur had been worried about. However, she was thinner than he’d ever seen. She’d dropped a good fifteen pounds she couldn’t afford to lose. Gwen wore an oversized white T-shirt that exposed one shoulder, black yoga pants, and her favorite red canvas sneakers, minus shoelaces.…