Franz von Holzhausen

He who is guilty and driven by ambition will be blindly pulled around until justice stares him in the face. The Lion King by Roger Allers and Macbeth by Shakespeare are two very different pieces of work but have similar themes throughout. The Lion King and Macbeth have two character in which guilt haunts them in different ways. Blood is significant in both pieces of literature because the main characters feel that they cannot get the blood of others off their hands. Both characters go on a…

Loneliness Faces All Throughout John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, he illustrates the journey George and Lennie have throughout a significant part of their lifetime. Throughout the novel, many characters, including George and Lennie, are facing lonesome and they struggle to deal with it the noble way. Furthermore, many of the men are alone because they have no relatives left and they isolate themselves from everyone else around them. Having no relatives and isolating themselves can affect…

Choices in The Road Throughout literature, stories that depict a survival scenario in a post apocalyptic world has drawn the attention of readers everywhere. Where still subliminally sending the message of the author into the reader. In the story The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, the author depicts the tales of a father and his son, living their lives in the southern U.S., desolate and destroyed.Throughout the story, McCarthy uses many context clues to depict many scenarios of choice in these harsh…

I) I believe that Martin does have a phobia towards the elevator. C) In the text, The Elevator, and the text, Fears and Phobias, there are many correlating links between how Martin feels and the indications of having a phobia. The Elevator reveals how Martin has an obvious discomfort in elevators, but is forced to ride it as time progresses. He has many unlikely concerns while riding, such as the elevator falling or boxing him in between the floors. He starts trying to avert this condition by…

Have you ever felt like you didn't need to or feel the want to do something, but because there was a person that motivated you to persevere because you didn't to let them down? In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel him and his father are sent to a concentration camp and can hardly survive the harsh weather, the cruelty, and the starvation. Elie Wiesel needs a way to live and his father helps him achieve this by being his motivation to keep his own father alive. Elie’s father becomes weak and old…

Chris McCandless was the protagonist of the book Into the Wild. Chris set out to travel into the wild because he lacked clarification in his life. It all started from Chris’s youth when every day his father Walt McCandless and Billie Jhonson worked nonstop and did not express their love towards their kids. Instead, they fought because they were constantly stressing on bills to pay and mouths to feed; As a result, Chris and Carine distanced themselves from thier parents. The only real…

In Breakfast With Buddha by Roland Merullo, the main character Otto Ringling journeys through the states to North Dakota. Otto Ringling travels to North Dakota because his parents died in a car crash, and it is the duty of him and his sister to settle the estate. When otto arrives to pick his sister up, she has a very “special” surprise for him. She ends up not going and instead sends her friend Rinpoche on the trip along with Otto. During the beginning of the trip, Otto finds Rinpoche a little…

Ostracism is a common experience among individuals in a social group or community. Many of these outsiders often question the reason for their exclusion – is it because they are misjudged or misunderstood by their peers? Franz Kafka’s short story “The Metamorphosis” and the Christmas song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” demonstrates that outsiders are those with unique qualities that cannot contribute back to their community as opposed to those who are misjudged or misunderstood. In “The…

Wilson uses Gabriel to establish the fact that family members can be codependent, and support each other even when hurting. Troy reminds Rose that due to Gabe's injury from the past, Troy was able to buy the house with money Gabe takes in from the government by saying, “That’s the only way I got a roof over my head...because of that metal plate”(15). In the quotation, Troy says that he was only able to get a roof over his head, due to his brothers injury, this is one of the most influential…

Okonkwo kills himself because he feels like he no longer has anything to live for. Initially, he falls into a depression after kills Ikemefuna, and he deals with this depression by having “something [work] to occupy his mind” (69). However, when Okonkwo is banished, “work no longer had for him the pleasure it used to have” (131), and so he had nothing to occupy his mind. Since, when an individual has depression, they begin to believe that they are worthless, Okonkwo falls into the mindset that…