Billy Strayhorn

establish a strong central and over-arching theme for their writings. Authors such as Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, and John Steinbeck use setting and conflict to create theme. In his nautical novel, Billy Budd, Herman Melville deliberates the idea of conscience versus law and the vulnerability of innocence. Billy Budd, a newly impressed crew member…

In Ruth Reichl’s, Tender at the Bone, the reader witnesses the impact that food can have on peoples lives along with the relationships we form through food. Food becomes a catalyst in Ruth’s life, finding her true identity and the people she wants to surround herself with for the rest of her life. Ruth Reichl’s love and passion for food opens up a world unimagined in educating her and nurturing her into the women she is today. Ruth is determined to escape the negativity and control her mother…

The lyric in this song relates to many celebrities and also to multiple affairs that happened in specific years. For example, the first verse involves topics related to the year 1949, or very close to 1949. Billy Joel mentions Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, and Joe DiMaggio in the first two lines of “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” First, Harry Truman became the U.S President in 1945 after President Roosevelt…

stem from. Applying Freud’s psychoanalytic to an analysis of Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, will shed light on certain aspects of the story. In particular, looking closely at the three main characters in the novella, John Claggart, Billy Budd, and Captain Vere provides a deeper understanding of the overall story, and provide insight to why they act the way they do. I argue that Claggart is representative of Freud’s id, Billy is representative…

profounder understanding of their psychological state. Applying Freud’s psychoanalytic to an analysis of Herman Melville’s novella, Billy Budd, will shed light on certain aspects of the story. In particular, looking closely at…

transformation of William McCarty, the hard working ranch hand into “Billy the Kid,” the notorious western gunslinger. Taken into perspective, were it not for the fact that Billy’s cattle rustling caught the eye of John Tunstall, who persuaded the young outlaw to work for him and the fact that Tunstall was a successful enough rancher that he posed a real threat to the local cattle barons, the events that preceded the crime wave of “Billy the Kid” would have never occurred (Forsyth, Blakely, and…

In “The Colour out of Space” the first-person narrator arrives at a place described as “West Arkham” where he discovers five acres desolated and covered in ash and dust. There he asks an old man nearby, Ammi Pierce, what had happened there. From then on the narrator retells what Ammi tells him. Back in his earlier days there lived a family, the Gardners, on the farm there and Ammi was a close friend of the father, Nahum. Then someday a meteor fell onto their property close to their well and was…

is written in a non-chronological order with many events detailed through flashbacks of the main character, Billy Pilgrim. It is written in the perspective of Billy who as a witness to the destruction like Vonnegut, seems to suffer from Post…

After being captured by the Tralfamadorians, Billy is able to observe life on Earth from a completely different perspective. He realizes that the “Earthlings must be the terrors of the universe! If other planets aren’t now in danger from Earth, they soon will be. So tell me the secret so I can take it back to Earth and save us all: How can a planet live at peace” (116). While living on Earth, Billy fails to realize how foolish going to war is, especially considering the…

is written in a flashback where the main character, Billy Pilgrim, goes back and forth of when he was apart of the bombing of Dresden. Billy Pilgrim has PTSD, in which he goes from his present life of being a successful optometrist while having two children too his past life of joining the army and being captured at a prison camp in Dresden. These flashbacks are present throughout the book. One of Billy’s first flashbacks occurred like this, “Billy Pilgrim first came unstuck in time. His…