Antagonist

The Narrative Impacts the Reader How the story is presented and what the reader understands by it is more important than what is actually said. The story “Who Do You Think You Are” by Alice Munro is a story of a girl named Alice who trying to find out who she really is. By observing the story and looking at how it was written, we can see how the narrative affects the reader. Looking at Munro’s use of the unexpected, details, and point of view, one can see how the narrative affects the reader’s…

Terrible tragedies impact virtuous people every day, seemingly without justification. Although these horrific occurrences have no apparent cause—these people may not have committed a wrongdoing or any otherwise immoral act to deserve such a punishment—they occur anyway, subjecting the unfortunate victims to unfair tragedy. The inability of humanity to find reason behind these unjust events relates to the philosophical school of absurdism, and in particular, the amorality of the universe, a key…

Love in the Time of Global Warming is a modern rendition of The Odyssey filled with good-natured characters, an intriguing plot line brimming with foreshadowing details, and innumerable references to the classic Greek myth of Odysseus. This novel was written by Francesca Lia Block. It is set in a post-apocalyptic version of California and Nevada, caused by the Earth-Shaker, which is what the characters of the story refer to as the earthquake that killed off many of their families and friends.…

What Is in a Name? Does your name reflect what you do in your life? If you were a character in C.S. Lewis’s book, Perelandra, your name would describe you, and reveal your personality. C.S. Lewis used the names of his characters to portray their significance, and their place in the plot of the story. His characters’ names have been thought-out, making each name coordinate with the overall story, and coordinating with the stories hidden beneath the main plot. Each name is intentional, and has a…

Rejects, outcasts, immigrants, outsiders, others. An other is described as someone who is disturbingly or threateningly different. People forget about them, ignore them and walk all over them. As stated in the Bible, “And he will be a wild man. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren” (Genesis 16:12). The Bible describes an other as someone who lives in the presence of people but he is against them and they are…

Since 1990 the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has been almost cut in half, if we keep these improvement we could maybe end poverty for good in the near future. Did you feel that? That was the feeling of hope. When you read that maybe one day our world could expel poverty, you got the sense of hope for a better future. While reading The Road you will get these feeling very often. The Road is a startling and emotional book of a man and his kid in an apocalyptic world. The world has…

In the play Antigone, the women are portrayed as weak, they have little to no power, and whilst the beginning of the play suggests that it is only women who are inferior, the sexism starts to change into all people below the royals. Although it is true that women throughout all hierarchy, age and connections, are treated as unequal, the play seems to detour focus off of the inferiority of the women, and focuses it more on the inferiority on anyone below King Creon and his family. The moral of…

Macbeth is a character who made a decision which changed his life for the worse, but did this decision turn him into a villain? Macbeth murdered the king in order to try and gain the throne. He had been under the king for many years, but was told a prophecy that he would be king. The prophecy made him anxious for the crown so he took it by force and took the King’s life. Afterwards he feels guilty for what he has done but still continues the plot in order to rule the kingdom. Villain…

The film Shoot the Piano Player (1960), starts with scene of a moving piano that develops a happy mood for the film. The piano plays a significant part for the film, since it’s the first thing that viewers are going to remember about the film. Then there is a shift in sound from the music to the sound of a person running that creates a dramatic effect, because the scene is completely dark with only the headlights from the car to guide the viewers through the setting of the scene. In the opening…

This summer,for the first time in the years, I went back home. I got to see my family and some of my dearest friends. Most people asked how I was doing and how school was going so far. In one instant, however the conversation led to the question “ Do you regret your choice?”. I admit I was caught off guard. I have never thought about how different my life would have turned out had I not moved thousands of miles away from home at the mere age of 15. I imagined the life i would have experienced…