Cloak of invisibility

Wishing for desires of wanting is different from needing a wish that is beneficial. The theme of wishing for what is needed and wanted goes to the stories “The Monkey’s Paw” “What of this Goldfish, Would You Wish?” and “The Three Brothers.” These texts show different outcomes towards the theme and how all the choices affected the characters. Authors show the progression of the theme of focusing on what is needed rather than wanting through thinking, doing what is right, and knowing the…

#1 In the pre-commencements of life I am or was one of four angels conceived in heaven or the outer sphere of metaphysical creationist zone, I laughed out loud to myself, mumbo-jumbo, you know. I was conceived 500 years before the creation of humans. Before Adam, Lilith and Eve’s vicious love triangle. Divine Being told me the only reason he conceived us divine being was to aid him and to keep him company. He conceived Lucifer first and she was beautiful, he conceived her as an equal to him…

voice and gently led me to the bench in her room. I almost fell asleep right then. It was so wonderful to lie down again and I was ever so tired. She called my parents which forced them to see, just a for a moment. Just for an instant my invisibility cloak came off. My skin was yellow. My eyes sunken. But I was glowing/beautiful/radiant. I was hungry and scary looking. I was everything she wanted me to be. I was what she made me. And now she had left to I don’t know where and she…

Move and Act As If someone is tracking you while in the Woods This is a Survival Habit That Anyone Can and Should Develop Camouflage, also called cryptic coloration, is a defense or tactic that animals and humans use to disguise their appearance, usually to blend in with their surroundings. Camouflage is used to disguise location, identity, and movement. Crypsis is simply blending into your surroundings to avoid detection and most humans would use cryptic coloration. In other words, mimic the…

A dry January afternoon heated the milk pan in a nearby tea stall. Its owner, an old man in his sixties, looked on at the woman walking by with his lips pressed to the stained tea glass. She was barely five feet and had a sea shell in her leather purse tucked on her left hip. Her hair resembled stiff analogue signals, and her tiny feet called to mind two silent bells constantly in a battle. The city council had declared a holiday due to the scorching heat waves that were being carried from the…

and team Gryffinndor wins but his friends blame Snape for putting him in danger. During the winter break, Harry stays at Hogwarts but all his friends expect Ron go home to be with their families. For Christmas, Harry anonymously receives an invisibility cloak that once belonged to his dad. He begins exploring the school at night and he discovers the Mirror of Erised, in which the viewer sees his deepest desires. When he looks into the mirror he sees his parents, Professor Dumbledore catches…

In the film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the setting takes place in a magical world in London, England where the main characters attend a school named Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In the film numerous characters and moments embody the theories Malory Nye point out in his book Religion: The Basics. Essentially, rituals and beliefs are prevalent in this film and the use of the theories can analyze such things. Examining Harry Potter using Arnold Van Gennep’s rites of…

.Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince is the sixth book in J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series. It is a pivotal point in the seven book series. It was all fun and games up until this point, but with the ever growing power of Lord Voldemort, fear is sinking into the heart of all witches and wizards. Harry tried to warn them years ago of the dark master’s return to power but nobody seemed to want accept the fact that the most powerful dark wizard in existence is back. Now it is up to Harry Potter,…

Carl Jung is deemed as one of the greatest contributors to the world of psychology. The man who founded analytical psychology made great advancements in the collective unconscious, the complex, and most importantly, archetypes. Jung believed that in the unconscious mind is a form of psychological inheritance in which there is “all of the knowledge and experiences we share as a species”, and so the archetype was born (Cherry). Simply put, an archetype is a recurring symbol in literature. J. K.…

Depression Discrimination: Caging the Beast Within There’s a world in which most people aren’t able to comprehend. A world that’s dark, cold, and oppressive. One that is inhabited by so many, yet spoken by so few. In a personal account, one woman speaks out about such horror. Jamie Flexman states, “It’s like being trapped inside your own prison and true access to your brain lies behind that locked door. Sometimes, briefly, you are allowed outside to stretch your legs but you know this is…