An Unseen Enemy

presented to be inside of Smaug’s tunnel, seeking revenge due to the number of deaths the dragon has caused. As he walked in, a metaphor is placed, to show how Bilbo thought Smaug was asleep because there was “scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam” coming from Smaug. As Smaug and Bilbo are first known to be around each other, the author makes it obvious that they aren’t able to physically see one another. Tolkien includes a metaphor in line 7 as Smaug says “I smell you and I feel…

“In war films of the buddy type the deadliness of war is not glossed over. But it is portrayed not in the death of the enemy who are often faceless or even unseen, but in the death of the comrades and buddies” (Tribunella). Mark Simpson says that often times in war films, seeing one’s comrade in the state of death is hard for a person live through, and therefore loses his boyish innocence. In the same way Gene is overcome by sadness when he gazes upon the dead body that once housed the life of…

Alexander let his accomplishments go to his head and none could fill the shoes he left. Whereas Julius made sure someone could replace him and helped his people no matter what he lost. Even if he was brutal to his enemies he did it to establish a lasting glory to those he cared for. Alexander may have conquered much, but he could not hold it due to his ego. Julius also was willing to do whatever it took to secure his power and stepped on more than a few toes in the…

back to human nature. Through the behaviour of the schoolboys, Golding reveals that due to fear, power, and loss of identity, society is destined to fail. Fear causes rash behaviour in humans. The main source of fear on the island is the Beast, an unseen and incredibly feared creature. The only one on the island not afraid of the Beast is Piggy, who represents intellect, reasoning and logic. This shows that fear is irrational and unaffected by the sense of the brain. Once “people started…

trying to get you to become an atheist. Thoughts whisper into you ears, telling you that the unseen is a sham, fraud, and hoax. That is the vivid, red world I envision after I read the fictional novel titled The Screwtape Letter, written by C.S. Lewis. The letters are in the perspective of Screwtape, a senior demon, who is giving advice to his nephew, Wormwood about coaxing a man to stop believing in “the enemy” (God) and fill his life with fear and self-hate. Screwtape works for Satan in hell…

recognizing strategic opportunities, and teaches not to create opportunities for the enemy. Line 4.1 Sun Tzu said: The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. This means to get victory in the battle, we need to be patient and wait for the best opportunity. If we are in the situation of being unprepared, we may face the attack of enemy and defeated by them. So, the defence comes first. In business, it…

The Amazonians should have control over the whole Amazon Rainforest because the Native’s were there before everyone else and they do more help than harm. The Amazonians should be able to control the land because people in the Amazon that aren’t Amazonian clear the land and making highways. The Amazonians should be able to control the land because the more trees being cut down the Native Amazonians are losing their land and the trees. The Amazonians should be able to control the land because The…

could happen is charging up further onto the beach. Emerging from the rocks and running closer to the enemy bunkers where zipping noises of guns continued on. Slowly and slowly after trading gun fire the all of us were beginning to reach their bunkers. I took cover for a moment to catch my breath and popped out again to receive bullet that ripped through my skin and straight through my calf from an unseen location. Someone quickly grabbed me when I hit went crippling to the ground. Never have I…

Robin Coste Lewis’ poem “From: To:” is English sonnet with 14 lines divided into quatrains and ending with two couplets. Lewis eschews the conventional rhyme scheme of the English sonnet and instead favors the use of enjambments to add nuance to the poem. The speaker of the poem is a narrator because they describe a marginalized group of people who are given temporary permission to have a voice. This is done through the use of poetic devices, imagery, and allusions to past outrages in order to…

the heroic story. Beowulf has a long journey, accomplishing many things including battle. Beowulf shows the audience how to win over the human population by entering in battle with our worst horrors. Beowulf is represented as three types of evil enemies during the story. The three types of evil that are shown in the story are abstract, moral, and most of the time physical evil. Grendel shows the scary image of the physical type of evil. Living "in a hell not hell but earth," he is never…