Aura

The Cherokee speak the story of a young man: One day, while out hunting in the forest, the man came across a bear. He fired off arrow after arrow at the beast, but could not bring it down. Eventually the bear stopped running, and stood up, pulling the arrows out of his body and holding them towards the man. The hunter realized he had stumbled across a medicine bear, “protected by magic”. The bear, after promising he would do the man no harmed, led him back to his home. It was a cold winter,…

Centered on a character named Quoyle; someone who has never succeeded at anything, and who’s unadorned and simpleton life is upturned by the terrible death of his cheating wife. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, follows Quoyle’s life-journey of him searching and attempting for a new beginning in Newfoundland. The novel is a New York Time bestseller, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award. Although, in my opinion the plot of the story could be considered simple and…

The internet has become a cult that worships eccentricity. Take, for example, the killing of Harambe, a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo. After a three-year-old boy got inside the gorilla’s enclosure, zoo officials decided to kill Harambe, fearing for the boy’s life. The controversial decision and odd news story has become the internet’s latest obsession. Through memes like chanting “Dicks out for Harambe,” saying “Harambe died for our sins,” and putting Harambe as a write-in candidate in the US…

In Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, characters Emma Bovary and Daisy Buchanan are very similar in the way they carry themselves, both Bovary and Buchanan have beauty, questionable maternal skills, and a desire for a more charismatic lifestyle. Emma Bovary and Daisy Buchanan share many of the same traits in each novel making them conspicuously alike. Beauty can cloud the vision of the beholder, this is experienced in both novels. It’s established…

Upon further research, I discovered that Cather’s creation of Antonia is actually a play off of a genuine character in her nonfictional life, a girl named Annie who was also an immigrant dealing with a father committing suicide. This is one of the first and most important reasons for Cather admiring Antonia; she is based off of a part of her life. Cather decided to take someone she knew personally and grew to understand, and perhaps found great interest in, and write them in the glory she saw in…

Why do people seek that thrill, that chill down their spine that sends tingles tearing through their bodies to tips of their fingertips? Perhaps no one can answer that question for sure, but no writer doubts that a well-crafted thrilling story keeps the reader turning page after page. Truman Capote, author of the fantastically fearful short story named “Miriam,” writes with an intriguing tone, and paints his tale in the shadowy grey mood of suspense in order to keep his readers shivering in…

Prize displays her ethos quite efficiently. The Nobel Peace Prize is solely given to those who make significant change in the world through their lives and work, therefore, this rare honor elevates Morrison’s reputation and authority. In addition, the aura of her writing is a direct reflection of her integrity and her deserving of that award. In saying, “this opportunity for a national evolution (even revolution) will not come again soon, and I am convinced you are the person to capture it,” she…

writing on the bottom portion of the image, she was an abbess, which means that she would have held a place of leadership within the monastery she lived. Furthermore, the writing also suggests that she died at 82 years old, which adds to the divine aura that surrounds her since that is about the average age people pass away in developed countries in the 21st century and she perished in the…

The clock hit seven pm, a black limo drove to the docks of Manehattan. Rainbow kept moving in her uncomfortable dress Stables gave her a smirk. “You’re too use to wearing suits Miss Rainbow” Stables said,just before stopping the car. “Don’t wait up for me, Stables” Rainbow said, before exiting the limo. He drove off and she was alone. As she walked across the cold planks she sniffed from the cold and immediately regretted it. The smell of the ocean was terrible, The dryness of the sea air…

Oryx and Jimmy for their survival and well being. From the very beginning, we see that Crake possesses this divine presence, an aura of being among the people while simultaneously being not of them. Jimmy, in his reinvented persona as Snowman, describes him saying that “Crake had a thing about him even then...he generated awe...He exuded potential...” (Atwood, 75). This aura and potential that Crake possessed, even as a child, comes in the form of scientific ability and ensures his survival in a…