Be My Escape

The song, “Be My Escape”, by Relient K, uses one main poetic device to convey the story that the speaker is telling: metaphor. Throughout the poem, the speaker illustrates that they are locked inside a house. We are told that they know how to get out, because they know who has the key, however they are afraid of what lies beyond their safe walls out in the world. They initially think that they know what is best for themselves. Eventually they come to the conclusion that they must take the chance to be out in the world rather than stay in the house. Specific connections that can be made to Christianity throughout this song prove that it is a metaphor about the speaker’s struggle to fully surrender their life to God, and through understanding…

Humans tend to create temporary methods of escape to break free from the true reality of life. In “The Glass Menagerie”, by Tennessee Williams, the main characters are trapped in a difficult life during the depression, which leads them to seek mechanisms of escape from the real world. This desire for escape from reality is an underlying message throughout the play. Laura, Amanda, and Tom each explore different methods of breaking away from the confinement, and they try to transcend the reality…

During my readings of various female road narratives, I noticed that murder recurred throughout the texts as a catalyst for change the protagonists use to their advantages. The protagonists in Thelma & Louise and Arya in Game of Thrones all use murder to flee existing structures which seek to wrongfully punish them. The murders they carry out also disassociate them from the typical depiction of women during their respective time periods, as well as empowers them to go on their own adventures…

In both Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and Freire’s “The Banking Concept of Education”, the two authors focus on a similar topic: education and delusions. In Plato’s Allegory, Plato discusses a scenario where prisoners, except for one who escapes, are inside a cave that impairs their ability to view the outside world. His writing is an allegory discussing his views of education and false beliefs with the use of the cave and the prisoners. Freire discusses two different styles of education: the…

My Escape The day a simple act of kindness changed my life forever. It was the day I discovered I could escape my life and get lost in the imagination and dreams of others. That day took place in the summer, sometime in the seventies, in my childhood home in northern Virginia. Times were much different then. Starting with my parents, who were also a little different then, atleast to me. My parents met through working at a drug store in Washington DC. My mom worked behind the soda counter…

Hurricane Joaquin was just a tropical storm when the ship name El Faro was leaving Jacksonville, Florida to Puerto Rico on Thursday. As Joaquin started to get bigger and stronger El Faro started to get 30 to 35 foot waves by the time the hurricane was category 4 they had lost all type of communication, the coast guard believes the wind could have destroyed the ship’s communications equipment and lost contact with the ship. El Faro had 33 people on board 28 of them were U.S. Citizens and five…

Lena has access to. In this movie, City of Ember, Lena and Dune uncover a round map that may lead them out of their underground life. It is during their trek to find the truth that I discover many similarities between the plot and Plato’s metaphysical views. There are many instances where the theory of forms is present. In addition to a metaphysical comparison, this film showcases elements of Plato’s cave allegory quite definitively. I will be writing about these instances throughout the paper. …

(I think this is the reason Sharon Draper's book is called Copper Sun, like a setting copper sun as they escape.) Amari is restless for adaptability and wishes just to escape. Polly, Amari and Tidbit, somewhat dim child escaping with them go up against starvation and peril. At one point Clay, Amari's proprietor, tails them and about gets Amari again, and tries to take her back. Customarily in the midst of the impeding and testing enterprise Amari contemplates whether Cato, a slave on the farm,…

their families. But it’s clear that it’s just a way to make them to work. The ideas didn’t seem to work either, since the prisoners didn’t really know what the family was. In the video, Shin said that his mother and brother were killed because they tried to escape. He also admitted that it was himself that reported to the officers because he thought he would get some credit from them. He said that didn’t feel any sadness and showed no remorse back when his mother and brother got killed right in…

have been trapped for a very long time and cannot find a way out. Over the years, they have transformed into women the mill wants them to be, rather than who they really are. When Dai dies, the thought of rebelling starts to enter the girls’ minds. They realize there may be a way out and they must do everything in their power to get back to their old lives. Even though they finally rebel, the girls are still trapped. The girls have changed so drastically from their old lives that there is…