Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

and not be hired to work in this time period, but he is instead treated exceptionally well. Besides Lennie’s disability, another character on the ranch, Candy’s dog is also disabled, he is blind and can no longer work. Even though Candy’s dog is extremely frail and disabled, Steinbeck portrays him as loyal to his master and particularly selfless. This would show the reader that Steinbeck does not disregard people because of their disability, but rather gives Lennie and Candy’s dog especially…

jobs that are being taken by illegal immigrants are low wage paying. There were approximately 11.9 million illegal immigrants in the country in 2010. Of those 11.9 million, 1,296,670 million have jobs in just the state of Texas (since Texas is so close to the border to Mexico). So many illegal immigrants employed makes it less attractive to U.S. workers who have other options of work. But are illegal immigrants that take American jobs really causing a problem? Illegal immigrants take jobs that…

Nick Wilde, the main character in Disney’s Zootopia, is cunning and driven. He’s a red fox, and his portrayal in the film isn’t as far off from historical beliefs of foxes as one might expect. Throughout history, foxes have been seen in various environments, come in different shapes and sizes, but have retained a well-known reputation as clever. In Europe during the Dark Ages and Renaissance, foxes were portrayed as tricksters or those of fraudulent behavior, according to Janetta Benton’s Holy…

seldom took time to think about others and remember that each person has their own story. We all meet different people, have different mindsets, and undergo different experiences. Thus, if anyone is asked to present his “life story”, it would be extremely lengthy and interesting. Nobody’s life is exactly the same; there are over seven billion “life stories” in the world--this is the beautiful diversity of life. Yet despite all our differences, I and the other regular passengers on the bus were…

Foer, the idea of raising children vegetarian is discussed a great deal. Jonathan Foer is an American Novelist. He now teaches creative writing at New York University. Foer is best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which were both adapted into films. The article “Against Meat” is from Foer’s book, Eating…

trafficking work, from the poor, to the rich, to the king pin drug dealers. He aimed to show what the real root cause of drug trafficking is and what is the evils of drugs can be. This film portrayed all aspects equally and his point was strong and extremely powerful; some of scenes seemed dreadfully stereotypical and not fair to Mexican people, Black people, and even white females. The cinematography use of color in this film was an excellent way of portraying the multiracial cast either in a…

wrote beautiful sonnets about love and thrilling poems every night. It really was spectacular what he wrote. If you were to read what he wrote, you would be extremely confused as to why he wasn't published. Most seventeen year olds don't normally get published, however, and being from a small town certainly didn't help. All of his works were extremely short. Poetry and the such had to be short. If you tried to write a poem the size of Harry Potter then everybody would have tuned out after the…

innocence and Scout and Jem’s innocence are ruined by the racism in Maycomb. Also, there are many metaphors in the novel, an example is on page 5, “Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.” This metaphor explains how incredibly old Maycomb is, and how long the racism has been set into the town. Another metaphor is on page 23, “Walter looked as if he had been raised on fish food: his eyes, as blue as Dill Harris’s, were red-rimmed and watery.” This metaphor…

through the hardships of isolation, a person can find themselves discovering their gumption and stride in life. This can be readily seen in Tobias Wolff’s Old School, where an unnamed narrator attends a high-class preparatory school which has an extremely competitive focus on literature. In the story, three authors, Robert Frost, Ayn Rand, and Ernest Hemingway, come to visit campus, and are available for a one-on-one meeting to the winner of a writing contest. Through the narrator’s quest to…

No less an authority on literature than Leo Tolstoy wrote that there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. The same is true for English teachers: There are as many reasons to teach literature as there are teachers of literature. The most philosophical teachers could assert that fiction serves as a self-actualizing force, that people read “to set the darkness echoing” (Heaney 1463). Still more could posit that an English class serves as an introduction to the canon, ensuring that…