has become endless and entwined in everyday activities because we now have the ability to quickly respond to an email regarding work and then quickly return to spending time with one’s family. This can be freeing because it allows people to work from anywhere and access infinite information, but is also controlling because our activities never go unmonitored. Technology is greatly responsible for our generations increased sense of connectedness and loss of individuality. Now, instead of blindly being influenced by a stranger, I can search up a random person via the internet and change my entire life just by having virtually met this person. the internet has therefore created a never ending tool to connectedness. In the writing, A Thousand Plateaus Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Deluze, now joined by Guattari proposes the concept of the rhizome. Although the rhizome is a scientific term, it is defined in this reading as a network that has no center. It is a structure that has no leader in which all of the parts work together. Rhizomes are made up of assemblages, which are networks of dissimilar elements with no center or governing part. If a part of the assemblage were to be taken away, the rhizome would continue to function, it would just function differently. In a rhizomatic world, everything is connected. In contrast to the rhizomatic structure, tree-like or Arborescent models are structured hierarchically having one or multiple leaders and is linear. In relation to the…
bowling. A physical relationship is not just one date after another, and is bound to have fights. People are not able to delete words once they leave their mouths. There is not an editing option in real life; however, fights also make it easier to keep tension down. When people say what they think, problems are able to be addressed quickly. It also becomes much easier to pick up on when someone else is upset. One man may avoid eye contact, while his spouse refuses to engage in conversation.…
King Lear and A Thousand Acres: A Comparison William Shakespeare 's tragedy King Lear, originally performed in 1606, chronicles the downfall of a king. Three hundred-eighty-five years later, Jane Smiley published the novel A Thousand Acres which parallels King Lear,with a few exceptions. Both tragedies present the tale of a father who divides what he owns amongst two of his daughters while rejecting the third, who later comes to the father’s aid. In one story the father is a king and in the…
Nature is the foundation of everything that is on our earth and beyond the limits of our universe. Without nature, we would not be able to exist in the first place, and it is through nature that we can continue to live. In “King Lear” by William Shakespeare and “A Thousand Acres” by Jane Smiley, the authors both illustrate just how important nature, in the form of a mother, really is through actions of Goneril and Ginny. Even though “A Thousand Acres” is a modern retelling of the famous “King…
When a character is placed into a time of racism and hate he or she might become sullen and numb to feelings. For Amir in the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, this was exactly what happened. Amir is in Afghanistan, with his father, in the beginning of the novel. They then move to America later on, and during the ending of the book Amir spends most of his time back in Afghanistan. When surrounded by many geographical and cultural factors, Amir learns that running away from your…
When passion conflicts with personal morals, there is always a victim. When faced with a critical situation, most people tend to run the other way. In The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, Amir makes a moral mistake that turns his life upside down. Battling himself to project the right choice, Amir runs the other way knowing that Hassan has always been there for him. In The Kite Runner, Amir experiences conflict with himself due to the series of decisions he makes throughout his life. Khaled…
A hero who faces a call to action; a king calls for the hero who can protect Herot from Grendel. A hero who is tested to prove himself; this hero proves himself worthy by fighting Grendel and his mother, fighting in wars, acquiring the throne, and the embark of defeating the dragon. A hero who is guided and in the presence of his companions; Hrothgar, Wiglaf, and his men by his side. A hero who faces low points; by not using his sword, but only using his hands and brains. A hero who follows the…
Sometimes, a kite is much more than a simple toy. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, a young boy discovers that a kite can mean many things as your perspective changes. As time goes on and people change, a kite acts as a blank canvas, for which one can project their views and sentiments. Even at a young age, Amir, The Kite Runner’s protagonist, knows that kite is not just kite. To Amir, kites represent many different things as he is in different stages of his life. The story speaks to…
Regret is a basic part of everyone 's life; being too scared to take action or worrying too much about what others would think cause a lot of conflict and pain in people 's lives. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, is no exception to this. Amir is a young boy living in the struggles of Afghanistan trying to find his way through life; with a dead mother and a distant father, he relies heavily on his friendship with his servant Hassan. But that friendship collapses when Amir is too cowardly to…
The young American girl who we are later introduced to as Daisy Miller and we see that she doesn 't act as a normal girl of her time period. She yearns for acceptance into society on her own terms, something which is alien to the world of women. Daisy is described in her initial meeting with Winterbourne as a flirt which is a sign of an emerging animus. The animus represents movement and without an active animus a hero cannot move. Daisy 's call to adventure came when her father sent her, her…