Childhood's End

Edgar Allan Poe: A tragedy Edgar Allan Poe, the poet that brought us gruesome tales, has a traumatic history that found its way into his writing. Although his poems and short stories are well known in the literary world, Poe himself remains much a mystery. His dark past and never ending struggles are the bases of his writing. Poe’s childhood, like the rest of his life, was not the picture of perfection. “Edgar was the second of three children born to traveling actors”(poemuseum). “His father…

makes him decide to try to save Sohrab from the Taliban-ridden Afghanistan, because saving Sohrab is the equivalent of making things right with Hassan in Amir’s eyes. On his road to saving Sohrab, Amir encounters opportunities, ones similar to his childhood’s,…

Commentary Write-Up The poem that will be covered in this write-up is called “How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barret Browning. The poem is about the author making a list about why she loves someone’s. The poem is located on page 26 the theme of this poem is “Love is like devotion, it can be seen in any way no matter how little or big it can be”. In this theme the poem had shown devotion for love through reference of religion ideologies and through her meticulous passionate phrasing. Also, it…

is, before we explain its correlation to psychology. Music has no concepts, no images, no symbols or any relation to language, yet it has a power over human emotions we can only begin to understand. What is music? In Arthur C. Clarke’s novel, Childhood’s End, alien beings puzzled over this question. They themselves lacked music, and therefore were immensely confused at the emotional reactions humans had to “meaningless tonal patterns”. Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, in his book The World as…

“man-apes” to use tools and weapons, and they also are the ones responsible for Bowman’s transformation (Clarke, Space Odyssey 8, 93). In Clarke’s first major novel, Childhood’s End, he even gives a negative voice to the omnipotent aliens that govern the human race. These aliens harvest humans for a cosmic “Overmind,” which eventually ends in the destruction of the earth (Contemporary Novelists). In nearly all of his fiction, Clarke portrays the wisdom of alien races as superior to however…

21-year-old college student, I am constantly teetering on the edge between adolescence and adulthood. I live alone in a big city. I know how to cook and clean. I’ve made many difficult phone calls that made me want to hide under a blanket for days on end. However, I am financially dependent on my parents in a huge way and I am ignorant regarding large parts of the world. Though this ignorance is shrinking with each day, it is still there. When I was first considering potential paper topics, I…

back on Estella, she was taught by Ms. Havisham to treat men poorly because of the incident regarding to her wedding. Meanwhile, as she realizes Pips feelings towards her grow rapidly, she still treats him as if he was nothing. Up until the very end, she then understands the person she’s become is not the person she desires to be. As Pip fails to exceed his feelings towards her any longer, Estella begins to be aware of how much he actually cares about her. She also recognizes the way she…

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence–whether much that is glorious whether all that is profound–does not spring from disease of thought–from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect” (Poe 513). Influential author of the 19th century, Edgar Allan Poe, is renowned for his dark, ghastly representations of emotionally haunted, and mentally insane characters; However, the very man who wrote of such…