First They Killed My Father

In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Hayden, a man looks back on his childhood to realize his father showed his love through his actions. The father woke up before the crack of dawn, even on Sunday, Hayden states, “then with cracked hands that ached/ from labor in the weekday made/ banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him,” (Lines 3-5) His body, at least his hands, showed the physical labor of his job taking a toll on him, but still he woke up early to make sure the house was warm for him…

the ghost, Hamlet’s father, which she cannot see. After Hamlet went on a rampage about what he thinks of his mother, he then talks to a ghost. The ghost of his father is telling him to not make his mother feel too bad. This shows that the dead king still has feelings for…

the best chance to revenge for his father, but he hesitated. He was worried that Claudius would go to heaven after his death, so he decided to choose another time to assassinate him. However, he didn’t anticipate the decision would eventually lead to the tragedy which everyone dies in the end. In my opinion, he is a smart prince. He knew how to disguise himself and let others thought that he lost his mind, and used the play to imply that Claudius killed his father and tampered with the content…

the truth behind the death, however Christopher’s “widowed” father scolds him for searching for information and confiscates the mystery book. As Christopher looks for the mystery book, he finds letters that his supposedly undead mother wrote him; Christopher’s father said his mother died two years ago from a heart-attack. Christopher’s father…

Cormac McCarthy, is a story talking about a father and a son in a world that everything is totally destroyed. For them, it is an unprecedented catastrophe. Even though the condition is hard to have the good characteristics in human nature, the father still makes his best effort to protect his son and protect his son’s good characteristics. The father died at last, but his son does live because of his protection. In the movie “Life is Beautiful”, the father Guido is a Jewish bookshop owner. When…

First, let’s start with the character of Hamlet. In the beginning of this play, Shakespeare paints a very detailed picture of Hamlets character. At first glance, we see Hamlet as a restless young man who is drowned in sorrow. Shakespeare describes him as a man with “a pale face, tousled hair and brooding eyes”. Hamlet plays a very dark character, which at times is spontaneous in his actions. The reason for his morning is over the death of his father, whom he cannot forget. Hamlets grief is…

how long he ruled. When he was in rule he created a set of 282 laws to help keep things fair and in order. Now I am here to tell you Hammurabi’s Code was not fair at all. For each original section I will state how it is not fair and how it supports my claim Family law was not fair because, there were no warnings and there were many sentences to death. Law 129 states that if a married woman is caught with another man the couple shall be bonded…

their own business. The mockingbird symbol represents people who do nothing but either try and be helpful are so innocent to somethings they don't understand exactly what's going on. My first example of a person who is a mockingbird is Tom Robinson. He is a mocking bird because of the color of his skin he is killed. “Easy come, easy go. Just shows you, that Robinson boy was legally married, they say he kept himself clean, went to church and all that, but when it comes down to the line the…

disaster bringing it upon himself. Victor said after he made the creature, "The beauty of my dream vanished, and breathless horror filled my heart." First of all that's Victor's first fault, being selfish wanting to have all the power and attention. Victors denial towards the creation was more…

We enter in to a dark and musty room where Crake lies on a couch, while a therapist examines him. “So crake is this your first time coming to therapy?” Says the therapist. “Yes, what’s it to you?” Crake says angrily. “Well I am sure you are aware that this is court mandated because you tried to wipe out the human race.” “I know exactly what I fucking did.” Crake seems to be not taking this well. “Well now I am going to ask you a few questions to get to the bottom of your motivations and…