End of the Spear

wave of warmth, a distinct contrast from the merciless chill outside. I am constantly reminded to hope for a good summer as my cheeks persistently sting from the bitter winds. The winds had grown and its powers could now take my breath miles away, spear through my coat and prickle my skin, sinking down to my very bones. Slowly, I pulled the door closed behind me, but the tingling of my hands and their lack of color debilitated my grip. The door, decorated with dark patches of mold, groaned at…

away from the wrong person. Staying away from his false parents led Oedipus to kill Laios and marry Jocasta. If Oedipus knew his biological parents he would have stayed away from Laios and Jocasta so that Oedipus could prolong his fate and even put an end to his fate. Instead of staying away from Polybos which led Oedipus to follow his fate. If he would have stayed with Polybos he would have never crossed paths with Laios. For that to happen he would had to have found out who his real parents…

could be a possibility he would find out he has been dead. Telemachus suffered from having to convert from childhood to adulthood. He faced the suitors along with his mentor Athena, where one sees at the begging of the poem he is frightened and at the end of the poem he steps forward and fights with his father. This identifies he has faced his fears, and shaping to a man like Odysseus. This shows how each character felt suffering, yet it was the thing that made each individual…

fighting and breaking Piggy’s glasses. “The chief[Jack] led them[Jack’s hunters], trotting steadily, exulting in his achievement. He was a chief now in truth; and he made stabbing motions with his spear. From his left hand dangled Piggy’s broken glasses. (Golding 302)” This particular part is toward the end of the book. Jack and his hunters came to steal Piggy’s glasses. After the fact they had murdered Simon. This had brought the boys apart by anarchy. Jack had stolen the…

courage is to be a coward. A fearful person is full of humility. John Wayne once said, “ Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.” Throughout The Odyssey, Odysseus always claims to have fear in his heart, but in retrospect, he always ends up acting…

and that instead of stumbling upon a field of daffodils, he has stumbled up a group of friends. On the other hand the nettles are personified as an opposing force. They are described as a "regiment of spite", and are described using the metaphor “spears". Within the first three lines of the poem, the nettles are presented as a militant group of soldiers to highlight and justify their destruction in the aim of protecting his son from repeat…

entire novel; as Simon’s theory is proven correct, that the “beast” is simply a natural characteristic that all humans possess, symbolizing their thirst for bloodlust and savagery. Jack, a character used to symbolize violence and savagery, throws a spear at Ralph, the protagonist, “[v]iciously, with full intention” (Golding, 181). In the novel, Jack’s tribe demonstrates…

Bryce Uphold Ms. Rossbach Honors English II 3/6/24 The Battle of Thermopylae Imagine a small number of soldiers trying to defend their land from upwards of 10 times their people to almost 40 times their people. This was shown in The Battle of Thermopylae, which was a war that took place in ancient Greece around 480 BCE and only took 5 days. This was a defense against the Achaemenid Persian Empire, led by Xerxes, and the defense was led by an alliance of Greek cities and states which were…

Published in 1954, William Golding’s magnum opus, Lord of the Flies, tells the tale of a group of boys who are stranded on a tropical island after the breakout of a nuclear war. Despite that the boys managed to establish a democratic society successfully, it slowly began to erode: order and reason gradually ebb and chaos and impulse begins to flow. One of the boys who are stranded is Piggy. Piggy, who has poor asthma, eyesight, and is overweight, acts to preserve order, but ultimately fails. He…

Fixing society, it’s a commonly discussed topic with many many different opinions, but who really holds the key to unlock our full potential. In Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn, he claims to know the answer. He claims that our society is doomed unless we make drastic changes, and flip what we know upside down. Daniel Quinn goes on to say how we need new minds to come up with a solution, rather than old minds coming up with programs and how we need to orient…