Boy Meets World

In “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, a book written by Benjamin Alire Saenz, Aristotle Mendoza and Dante Quintana are two fifteen year old boys living in El Paso, Texas. One day, when going to the pool, Aristotle, or Ari, meets Dante who offers to teach him how to swim. After this encounter, the boy’s friendship bloomed, and they grew closer and closer, putting aside their differences in personalities and developing a great relationship. In the beginning of the book,…

are traveling “south, map in hand, no particular destination in mind except the ocean and the end of the continent” (Semeiks 1). The man and the boy are also in hopes of finding other “good guys” still like them. “To Build a Fire” is similar to The Road, however in the short story it is about a man and his husky dog that are trying to make it to the boys at the camp in time with the horrendous blizzard amongst them. In the end, both unnamed men have their main goal set which is to safely and…

story, “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx presents us with a character named Ennis del Mar who is unwilling and unable to reach for his heart’s desire, a man named Jack Twist. Jack and Ennis meet when they are both young men, having grown up in almost identical situations. Both were high-school country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough- mannered, rough-spoken, inured to the stoic life. Both are real cowboys, both are also living the life expected of them…

William Golding, a Nobel Prize winning author, was inspired to write Lord of the Flies after he came back from World War I. He was greatly affected by the things he experienced in the war, and related these acts to a survival situation. He had learned how quickly people can snap and become someone they are not. The novel is an allegory for the hardships and conflicts he had to deal with during the war. This novel is filled with examples of survival in this novel such as surviving on the island…

Ariel’s, the heroine’s, fascination with this white prince whom she doesn’t even know or has ever spoken to, is not unlike that of an obsessed schoolgirl as she caresses artifacts from his unreachable world and sings of her desires to be a part of him. Her idolization of this untouchable, gorgeous and rich ‘princely’ star, shoots him up to celebrity status in Ariel’s mind as well as the audience’s (Sells, 2008). Hence, success in the form of money is…

Females should undoubtedly be allowed to play on male sports’ teams. In this world of inequality there are few things we can do to alleviate that. For example, allowing females to play on male sports’ teams would be a great step. This has already been happening around the world, but it’s been causing controversy due to their, the girls, physicality and how fair it is then for the boys in return. If we don’t allow women to play then we can never truly be an equal and free nation. Women were…

How many freedoms would you give up for a peaceful society? In The Giver, the author fills our imaginations with a community where color, emotions, and choices of your own are nowhere to be found. The Giver is about a twelve year old boy named Jonas, who lives in the emotionless, colorless place called The Community. Twelves are given jobs on their communal birthday, but instead of receiving a job, Jonas starts his training with a man called The Giver, to become the new Receiver of Memory, which…

make sure the house is taken care of. As the novel continues, Anne becomes a responsible, and educated young adult. When Anne first goes to live in Green Gables, she was not what Matthew Cuthbert and Marilla Cuthbert expected, since they had wanted a boy to help them with the farm. Although Anne was not what they originally wanted she was the joy that they needed in life, and they were the stability that she required. Throughout the course of the novel Anne succumbs to the gender stereotype of…

For as long as time itself men have lived and died for Honor. Men have been elevated to Knighthood or left in squalor for an act or breach of Honor respectively. In the story “Barn Burning,” by William Faulkner (1897-1962) describes this very battle between a man and his son. The honor of the family versus the honor of one’s self. The story takes place in Yoknapatawpha, an imaginary county in Mississippi. In this county like most across America there are a couple family names that hold a lot of…

Arts, and Letters XLII: 349–356. 7. Robert P. Weeks (1962). "Fakery in The Old Man and the Sea". College English XXIV: 188–192. 8. Ernest, Hemingway. 1998. The Old Man and the Sea. ISBN 957-606-285-3, 94 9. Ibid, 94 10. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1759143.stm 11. Ernest, Hemingway. 1998. The Old Man and the Sea. ISBN 957-606-285-3, 62 12. Ibid, 46 13. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_and_the_Sea Wikipedia: Symbolism of character 14. Ernest, Hemingway. 1998. The Old Man and the…