Blow Up

QUESTION ONE: As I read “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the words southern, old-fashioned and foreboding came to mind. We can easily observe the writing style of O’Connor has a lot of Southern influence. For example, O’Connor writes “ain't that the truth?” instead of writing “isn’t that the truth?.” The Grandma’s constant referral to her younger days also reflects O’Connor’s belief in the more old-fashioned way of doing things. She writes “In my time," said the grandmother, folding her thin…

wonder people still bring up chivalry to this day. The Arthurian legend is chock-full of chivalric knights. Arthur himself is plenty honorable and good -- the whole legend is all about him, and he does wonderful things like…

There are many symbols in “Lord of the Flies”. The conch shell, signal fire, and Piggy’s glasses are some examples of the many symbol- Conch -the high hand of authority -Civilized authority, democracy Ralph and Piggy discover the conch shell on the beach at the start of the novel and use it to summon the boys together after the crash separates them. Used in this capacity, the conch shell becomes a powerful symbol of civilization and order in the novel. The shell effectively governs the…

have had their chance and they didn't follow the rules so they should be the ones to die. All the citizens believe they are innocent and they are choosing what is best for their own interest. the man that steps up and decides that he would have all that blood on his hands is stepping up for everyone else who doesn’t want to die, but doesn’t want to be responsible for killing all those men. In the video a prisoner steps forward and decides for everyone else what the men should have done form…

Human beings are made up of an array of qualities. Dehumanization is the process of depriving humans of their qualities, to make them feel and/or behave like they are less than what they are. Humans are capable of recalling memories, and many times, incapable of forgetting them because some experiences can make them unrecognizable. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the Nazis dehumanized the Jewish people through too many traumatic ways that leave them with nothing but suffer and numbness. Nazi methods…

bombs planted and ready to go but one of the two messed up on the timers, and the bombs did not go off. The pair had planted the bombs in the school and on other students and staff members cars! They were going to blow those bombs up when police and news vehicles arrived so that the death total would grow even larger. They wanted to gun down students and teachers running out of the school, and then when the time was right, they would blow up the…

However, Min’s words, “Know this orphan boy, if ever you learn to make a pot, it will not be from me.. You are not my son,” broke Tree-ear’s spirit and he started questioning his path. Crane-man reassures him that “the same wind that blows one door shut often blows another open.” Tree-ear doesn’t know the meaning of the metaphor at first, but the process of understanding it is what leads him to continue his quest. Each of these situations test the characters’ knowledge of their personal history,…

do things which they otherwise would not be able to do. Piggy holds immense intelligence some of which ends up being of great significance to the boys on the island. Immediately following the discovery of the conch, Piggy dispenses every bit of knowledge he holds about them, “ S’right. It’s a shell! I seen one like that before. On someone’s back wall. A conch he called it. He used to blow it and then his mum would come. It’s ever so valuable—” (15). Piggy’s rambling, having sparked an idea in…

The term ‘genocide’ has inflicted a feeling of evil and fear for many for thousands of years. It’s no wonder why the word gives off such a negative vibe, as the countless instances of genocide all over the world have always been unspeakable and unimaginable. The Cambodian Genocide that took place during the late twentieth century was no exception, it was filled with torture, death and tragedy that all clearly follow the eight stages of genocide. Classification, the first stage of genocide,…

collection of short stories, In Our Time, contains many symbols and topics about the future, and more specifically about how events don’t always go as planned. Many of those symbols are expressed in the short stories “Indian Camp,” “The Three Day Blow,” and “Big Two-Hearted River: Part 1.” People may have a plan for their future, but they can never know exactly what’s going to happen is a big theme that is expressed throughout Hemingway’s collection. One of the first stories, “Indian Camp,”…