Franz Schubert

Settings Forest Winter is set near the surroundings of the quiet valley which the Nilsams live in. The winter has a big effect on the valley, as many people leave for winter and come back summertime. The surroundings of the valley consist of trees which are either cut down or still in the forest as the area used to be a logging town. The house which the Nilsam’s live in is made out of wood just like the other houses in the valley. Unlike Forest Winter, Gravity is set in the city during the…

Red wolf essay Depression, it is one of the most powerful themes in the novel red wolf. Just a few chapters into the book and depression becomes a part of the story. There are 350 million people in the world who struggle with depression, That's 5% of the world's population. Depression can cause you to feel alone and that no one cares about you, that's how red wolf feels. It is understandable why red wolf would feel depressed considering the situation he was in. Red wolf had one real…

The novel ‘The Outsiders’ written by S. E. Hinton is a novel written with many conflicts. ‘The Outsiders’ novel was first written and published in 1967. Throughout the novel, we are faced with family complications, involving the brothers. Who are Ponyboy, Darry and Johnny. We discover socio-economic statuses between the Greasers and the Socs, and we find out that Dally has an internal conflict of himself. Throughout the chapters, we uncover family complications. A major reason why Darry…

end, it’s all up to the reader who discerns whether something actually happened or not. This method of writing, achieves the basic end result in regards to the plot, but also succeeds in disorienting the reader and allows for more interpretation. Franz Kafka’s diction constantly reinforces the tone and mood of the novel as despondent. “Admittedly, the petition meant an almost endless task […] it might provide a suitable occupation for a mind turned childish.” (pg. 210) The choice of words in…

The primary message of this short film is compassion and redemption. Although the ants have prepared for winter unlike the grasshopper, the ants are sympathetic. The ants welcome the grasshopper into their heartfelt home and provide food and warmth to the grasshopper. Unlike Aesop’s classic, “The Grasshopper and the Ants”, in Walt Disney’s version, the queen ant utters, “with ants, just those who work may stay, so take your fiddle…and play”. In response, the grasshopper begins to play a tune on…

As I read the novel Everything is Illuminated, I, like many others in the class, struggled to separate reality from fiction. At the heart of this confusion is the fictional Jonathan Safran Foer. We had lengthy debates over the artistic value of naming the fictional Foer after his real-life counterpart, but as I finished the novel, I realized that one of its most frequent motifs is names, and what they signify to an individual. When the novel begins, Alex goes into great detail about how his…

Penelope and Telemachus are absent to Odysseus because they are back in Ithaca and Odysseus is deserted to travel back alone. Odysseus longs for the family reunion, mourning and grieving over the fact that family is not whole. Ever since the beginning of The Odyssey, Homer constantly pushes the plot by providing motivation for Odysseus: Penelope and Telemachus. Despite the years spent with beautiful nymph Calypso, Odysseus never fails to grieve over the absence of his beloved wife Penelope.…

Franz Kafka’s engrossing characters and plot in The Metamorphosis develop the story’s overall reputation. The Metamorphosis opens as Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, awakes to find himself transformed into an insect, and we read upon the chronicles of this transformation. Although Gregor indeed suffers a change in some sort, is it truly physical or all a hallucination? Gregor veritably beared several mental disorders, such as: psychotic depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia, which were never…

“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in,” Shannon L. Alder said. The negative factors in your life can change you as a person and how you view certain things. In Night, due to harsh conditions Eliezer is forced to face, he struggles to fight starvation and puts himself first during his father’s time of need. Eliezer doesn’t stay by his father’s side because he didn’t want to be beaten. He clarified that he was well aware of his father’s misery, but he was “afraid,…

Throughout life, we grow from depending on our parents, to becoming independent, and then to having people who depend on us. In Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” the main character, Gregor, has a family that has become dependent on him. As humans, we are all pushed into circumstances that we have no control over, just as Gregor was. When the story opens, we meet Gregor, whose family depends on him before his transformation into a bug, but afterwards he was dependent upon them. Gregor’s…