Benni McCarthy

The Road augments and mirrors the simple, disorganized life and solitary conditions of the main characters’ journey. Through the use of the simple, unembellished statements and questions that make up the characters’ interaction and conversation, McCarthy gives the reader a clear sense of the undying tenderness and devotion that lives and grows between father and son in the face of impossible odds, without saying much of anything at…

lives in consequence of these trials were paralleled in the McCarthy Hearings and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Arthur Miller uses The Crucible as a comparison between the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism by showing how the accusers in both situations used their power to stir mass hysteria, harbored corrupt motives, and dictated unjust trials and punishments.…

accused of “witchcraft”, and during the Red Scare, over a thousand people were accused of being part of the communist party. The Red Scare and the Salem Witch Trials may have happened centuries apart, but were very similar in many different ways. The McCarthy hearings and The Salem Witch Trials were two very horrific occurrences in America 's’ history that were based on lies and a complete lack of facts and it is very important to learn about these events so that people can be better informed…

The leash, is a poem about a man and his dog outside taking a walk. During their walk he analyzes his surroundings and describes his journey. /After the birthing of bombs of forks and fears/ as he is describing the horrible event that took place makes you think he may have survived a war? OR a metaphor of a tragic that took place in his life. In this poem he describes the tragic events but does not exactly say the event that has taken place. /The country plummets into a crepitating crater of…

In the 1930’s, Hoover was instructed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to investigate various activist activities in the United States, such as Nazi and Communist espionage. Hoover despised any sort of “activist” activities, causing him to investigate the “Ku Klux Klan and Martin Luther King, Jr” (John Edgar Hoover). Hoover would go on to commit numerous illegal surveillance on those suspected to be a threat to the public (J. Edgar Hoover). The Media Creates a False Interpretation of Hoover…

Nature often tests a man’s limits. Sometimes man can overcome these tests and hardships and win; however, these are times just simply fails. In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire,” a man goes through many trials and is tested to make it to survival in which tests his limits. Unfortunately, through arrogance and lack of preparation, the man struggles and becomes frustrated and in battle within himself. Nature has no limits to test man in his task to make it to safety. In the short story “To Build a…

In the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the father’s optimism is retained by his son’s endurance as the boy symbolizes hope. The appalling circumstances of the world results in the characters’ pessimism where they experience feelings of doubt during their journey. However, the father’s reassurance inspires his son to sustain the voyage, accordingly motivating the man’s own persistence. As he confirms his son’s survival day after day, the man’s faith in hope is fortified, inspiring him to…

POETIC ANALYSIS OF “Out, Out-” BY ROBERT FROST In Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out-” Frost uses literary devices to portray the fact that life should be valued. The boy that Robert Frost creates is a hard worker. The boy tries to do the best he can, but because of his age and lack of experience, he is unskilled. His unskilled hands are only trained for work that leads to his painful death. Frost mimics the story of Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth through the boy, and the specific way he dies. The…

In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the story follows the struggle of a father and his son to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where inhumanity, despair, and violence in a loveless world do not seem to save much room for peace and triumph. However, despite the absence of empathy and basic humanity, McCarthy does somehow achieve to highlight some pleasant themes all over the story: the themes of morality, hope, and love that are embodied through the father and son's journey on the road. One of…

The Crucible and 12 Angry Men are two differing plays that unite in the aspect of the justice system. In both plays, we have the conflict that the accused are seen as guilty before the evidence is thoroughly looked into. A difference that sets the two plays apart is that the young girls accused of being witches are not given as much of a chance as the young boy accused of murder. This is due to the differing time periods in which both plays took place in. These similarities and differences are…