Circus

“Elephants,tigers,and other animals that the circus use to entertain the adences do not stand on their head, jump through hoops, balance on pedestal because they want to. They perform these and other difficult tricks because they're afraid what will happen if they don't.” - A volunteer from PETA. In the USA there are many laws to help save endangered animals yet something as bad as the circus does not. Circuses should no longer have animal acts due to the abuse and bad nourishment for these wild…

In The novel night circus women are treated less than man. In the novel the night circus there are many examples of feminism to Celia and Isabel. In the beginning of the novel they are treated different from the males but when the males start noticing that they are actually the same and even better at magic they start treating them like the aren't just women who is bad at magic but is a good magician and start treating them right. Feminism appears a lot in the night circus, it appears when celia…

Kyle Kennedy Nordsiek Honors American Literature 12 October 2015 Expectations Versus Reality in A Prayer for Owen Meany Throughout A Prayer for Owen Meany, events often do not play out as the characters originally intended or predicted. This motif – that “nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently” – is one of the most important motifs in the novel, and it is realized through several major events. Three components of the book are significant examples of this motif: Johnny’s…

Throughout the novel A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving writes a story about two boys growing up and learning the works of the world. The protagonist, John Wheelwright, is narrating the book about his life as an adult and sharing details about his childhood. In his childhood, he writes about his closest companion, Owen Meany. Owen leads John to become an anti-American, pessimistic, all girls private school teacher in Canada. As John is going through college and Owen is serving the Vietnam war…

God’s Instrument After years of typing away on his antique typewriter for hours on end, the Oscar winning storyteller John Irving triumphantly finished his seventh novel A Prayer For Owen Meany in 1989. The emotional tugging that the novel forces upon its audience made it one of the most read novels of the 20th century (McCarthy 2). This humorous yet heart wrenching tale tells of an unlikely friendship between two boys just before the Vietnam era. As a time full of war, death, and lost hope;…

Life is filled with many unexpected situations, nothing ever goes as expected which is the definition behind Thomas Hardy’s quote. The quote reads, “Nothing bears out in practice what is promises incipiently”. Thomas Hardy’s quote relates to a numerous amount of events in A Prayer For Owen Meany mostly with how John’s life starts to unravel. The way John Irving wrote the novel has a unique chronology in the way that the novel tends to skip through different parts of John’s life. A Prayer For…

is precisely what Jenny, from “Circus in Town” by Sinclair Ross, and Chris Gardner, from “Happyness For Sale,” which is an interview conducted by Jia Lynn Yang, did. Although Jenny and Chris come from less fortunate families, they optimistically proceed forward towards what life has installed for them. Jenny, in “Circus in Town” dreams of participating in the audience of a circus, but due to her family circumstances, her family denies the right to go to the circus. However, because she was…

In the passages “Circus in Town” by Sinclair Ross and “‘Happyness’ for Sale” by Jia Lynn Yang, optimism plays a significant role in the character’s lives. Both passages show the hardships of two different characters, and how despite the rough circumstances they were put in they found a way to create a better life for themselves by being optimistic. Not only did the character’s positive attitude on life help them make a better environment for themselves, it also aided them in surviving the…

The loyalties of Celia Bowen, main protagonist of The Night Circus, shift throughout her life, extending her feelings of protectiveness from strictly herself to incorporate the lives of both the members of the Night Circus and Marco, her competitor. Throughout her life, Prospero, Celia’s father, forces her to play different roles. As a child, she was often clothed in ribbons and lace in order to complement Prospero’s image. When she spent a few years pretending to be a medium, Celia dressed in…

Ban the Bullhook, written by Huffington Post is an article spreading awareness on an important protection measure for elephants. Recently the California Senate has had a tremendous amount of feedback regarding this issue that pertains to elephants currently being held in captive. The bullhook is used frequently to inflict pain on elephants in attempts to control them using nothing but fear. The bullhook, also referred to as the “guide” that looks like a long thin pole with a point out of the top…