Childhood's End

Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote sonnet 43 in a series of sonnets titled Sonnets from the Portuguese. Although the individuals in the poem ‒ the narrator and the lover ‒ are ambiguous, there is a strong correlation between Barrett Browning's love life and the complex love of the sonnet. Even though there can be an argument made that sonnet 43 is not Barrett Browning’s husband, I will be using the assumption that Barrett Browning is the narrator and her husband is the lover. The theme that…

When a giant star explodes into a supernova, it can eject terrifying flash of radiation known as gamma ray bursts, one of the brightest electromagnetic event in the universe. But in order to find the brightest sustaining phenomena, one paradoxically has to look at the darkest thing in the universe: a black hole. Black holes interact with light, reflecting so little, that they do not let any escape. That is dark but the intense energies created by black holes in the process of eating stars is…

But while we have discussed the most important diegetic components of epic—heroes and their victories—no discussion of that genre can be complete without a consideration of the way in which their story is told. To this end, we must consider Absalom, Absalom! an oral epic, despite its novelistic form. We may resolve this seeming contradiction by considering David Konstan and Kurt A. Raaflaub’s assertion that “[t]he notion of “oral” epic is [itself] problematic. What survives from antiquity is…

It can be positive or negative. It really depends on how you feel you should end up on top. Kids who are brought up with drugs and alcohol abuse will not ant to necessarily grow up to do the same because they see the conflict around them and how people were affected in a negative way. Children may opt for more in life based on such…

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funny. You could tell she wasn’t too sore at me anymore. ‘Maybe I will the next time. I’ll watch ya,’ I said.” (211). During this scene, Holden comes to understand that his childhood life has almost come to an end and his adult life, a beginning. He comes face to face with reality that childhood’s meant for children and adulthood, for adults and instead of riding the never-ending feeling of childhood, Holden decides to proceed on with his life. While the rain starts to pour on Holden, he…

Edgar Allan Poe was a marvelous writer. Neil Gaiman describes Poe as “a working writer who kept himself alive with his words” (Poe xiii). Most of Poe’s stories and poems are works of horror, but not the kind of horror most would think of. Jeffery Goddin says that “his horror, rather than revolving around vampires, werewolves, and the like, is usually psychological horror, bred from a character’s obsession and paranoia” (Dziemianowicz xiii). Gaiman said, “He was vain, envious, good-hearted,…

The Australian philosopher Peter Singer, believes that when we refuse to help end world hunger, we become murders. He believes that it is are moral obligation as Americans who live comfortable lives, to help “the worlds poor” (Singer 1). It is wrong to continue to live a luxurious life, when we know that others are fighting for the mere chance to survive. In Peter Singer’s “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” he compares us Americans to two fictitious characters Dora and Bob, due to the fact…

quatrain, the poet has compared her to a windy day, when he says "thou art more lovely and more temperate:" it gives us a suggestion of saying that she is better, more lovely and more calm than summer. By the colon which Shakespeare has used at the end of this line, it indicates that he will provide an explanation of the point that he made. Also the rhythm of this line creates a pause, that aloud the readers to absorb the first two lines more clearly and easier to understand the image which he…

continued trying to find a dream of there own. They were desperate trying to escape multiple troubles of their realties to find happiness. But, because, their dream was far fetched it left them in hopelessness. Capote uses a flashback to Dick’s childhood’s poverty influences the desire for wealth and envy, “We never had much money, but we were never really down-and-out” (218). “After he graduated from high school-June, 1949-he wanted to go on to college. Study to be an engineer. But we couldn’t…