Everyday Life

family includes a mother who is absent due to being hospitalized and her father, who is a writer concentrated on his work. For that reason, the role of supporting the daily life of the family is posed upon Satsuki. Satsuki who is 10 years old is still a child. However, she is forced to bear the adult role for everyday life and takes care of her younger sister and her father. Her sister, Mei, also acts cheerful and bright even without her mother around. “My Neighbor Totoro” is the story of…

Meena and Manju discuss the concept of suicide quite frankly, as well as the hope the community has held in Navratri. Death and Hope is also prevalent within my own life with my experiences in depression and suicidal thoughts jading me to the different methods and motives for suicide, as well as hope and my general outlook on life and how I live every single day. I can relate to Behind the Beautiful Forevers through the motif of Death because of how the characters discuss methods and motives…

American Literature, “realism implies a rejection of romantic, heroic, exaggerated, and idealistic views of life in favor of detailed, accurate descriptions of the everyday.” Naturalism tends to be confused with realism, however, realist tend to focus more on the middle class. Naturalist have a problem with realism as they (naturalist) want to shift the focus on natural forces and how it shapes human life beyond human control. Going back to The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Edith…

lives easier. Everyone knows things always come with a cost, and it seems that now, the human race, is paying for it. Air, water, and land pollution has become a part of our everyday life- seeing a piece of trash on the ground has become normal, and even wearing face masks outside in some cities is just a part of their everyday routine. Temperatures are breaking records at such a fast pace, who knows when we'll reach our limit? Animals, and even humans, are dying daily from pollution. The…

reason behind life and help us answer the question, “What makes life worth living?” The play Our Town is, simply put, about life and how we choose to live it. It is not noticed upon first watching the play that it is about anything other than an ordinary family just doing what everyday people do, but after analyzing it you discover it’s about much more and relates to the life that each person lives every single day. Each play, song, or movie relates to Our Town- they're all about life. In the…

happiness, Grey’s Anatomy is the perfect option. You’re constantly at the tip of your toes wondering what will happen next. Not only, will it cause you to wonder what you’re doing with your life at possibly three in the morning, but it’ll leave you lying awake questioning every circumstance you have personally faced in life. It seems like an exaggeration, but it is one of the best shows ever produced on television. Shonda Rhimes truly captures what it is to be a successful television series.…

just-- life. “Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.” ― Suzy Kassem. This quote can be a better understanding, even with conflicting with yourself, being emotional and messing up or having “bad forces” does not define you, it is apart of everyday life, as the good is apart of life too. whether you know it or not, the human condition is apart of our everyday life. In short terms, It is the way we do things, the way we grow and proceed through life.…

The Beauty of Life in “Common Magic” by Bronwen Wallace: A Thematic Analysis In Bronwen Wallace’s poem “Common Magic”, the theme of seeking out beauty in seemingly banal, everyday occurrences and people is explored through the use of metaphor, diction, and imagery. Wallace implicitly emphasizes throughout the poem the universality and, counterintuitively, the reality of the described common magic. Furthermore, she utilizes the aforementioned poetic devices to show the audience how one can…

Seeing my life on a timeline left me with lot of emotions. I have never tired doing this activity ever before, but it really made my mind overflow with million thoughts. We spend whole of our lives planning for future, setting different goals to achieve throughout our life; whereas truth is that we are not even sure what change the next second is going to bring in our lives. It has really changed my perspective on death so as to live life to the fullest. Be that as it may, it will be alright.…

anything for it. But if you contemplate on this thought a little longer you will find the cons of living everyday without fear of end. Take Wolverine from the X-Men as an example,he has claws, he doesn't age, he cannot be killed, and he has nightmares everyday. Those nightmares serve as reminders of the tragic memories he can never forget and the many people he loved who just come and go. Eternal life could be a curse when you lose sight of your purpose. In order to understand why Gilgamesh…