Grandfather's Journey

Golan convinced Jacob that the creature had been nothing more than his imagination; and the trauma of his Grandfather’s had made him see something that wasn’t really there. There was a name for Jacob’s condition, “Acute Stress Reaction”. Jacob staring getting twitchy and paranoid, he was bad at interacting with people to. Dr. Golan’s advice is for Jacob to go and…

In A Hebraic Obsession, Mort Laitner invites reader’s on a journey from his childhood to adulthood. The book focuses on his father’s experience during the Holocaust, and how an event that occurred years before the author’s birth, had a major impact on his childhood. I recommend this book to readers because it’s educational and filled with information about historical figures and events that occurred during the Holocaust. The reader gets a vivid picture from detailed descriptions given by the…

chose who he had wanted to be. Every time he had encountered a different community, or person, they had put limitations on to him. These limitations shaped him into who he was. Throughout almost the entire story, the man refuses to believe his grandfather's advice, “Overcome ‘em With Yeses”. However, it takes him almost the entire story to realize that by letting himself be shaped by society, he was using this advice. By letting society decide who he was, he was not able to…

situation. She gave me a sense of invulnerability which made me realize a valuable life lesson that I still live by today. It does not matter where I start, all that matters is where I end up. Her words resonate with me as I continue my academic journey. The experiences and life lessons that I have learned from these two women have pushed me to strive for my own personal success in the goals I aspire most for. I am proud of the person that they helped me become. I have my grandmother who has…

The Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne was and still is one of the most influential writers of all time. Although Hawthorne is often recognized for his successful novel, The Scarlet Letter, he became noticed for his excellence in short stories. One of the most commonly mentioned is “Young Goodman Brown” published in 1835, fifteen years earlier than The Scarlet Letter. Blending isolation and sin, “Young Goodman Brown” displays a theme of sin and felt the isolation from others after…

The American Dream The American Dream is a term that is associated with the American way of life. It is a statement that keeps everyone moving to become better, to do better, and to be better. The process of getting to these ideals is not the most pleasant, but can be the most rewarding to those who strive. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan come from money yet they seek much more. In the short story The Egg by Sherwood Anderson,…

This is shown when the Indians are expected to follow through with Christian custom, yet still practice their traditional beliefs. The protagonist, Leon, goes to the priest to ask for holy water to use at his grandfather’s burial. When asked, the priest says, “I could have brought the Last Rites… For a Christian burial it was necessary” (Silko 52). For centuries Christianity has been pushed upon Native Americans by missionaries and settlers, as a way to convert them…

It was fall when my grandfather died. Sitting in the kitchen one afternoon after school, my mother walked over to me with stained cheeks and delivered the bad news. Sitting there shocked as any child who received this type of news would have. See my grandfather had a long history of alcohol addiction and had been in and out of hospitals before so while shocking, his passing was not out of nowhere. One failed liver, and a few days later I sat on my bed thinking, not sad anymore just at odds.…

Award Winner. For this, I am thankful. I am very happy that this story is well-known, and that despite the lack of official American acknowledgment, people know that the Armenian Genocide happened. Balakian does a wonderful job of documenting his journey as well as the more literal one of his ancestors. His research and sources are strong, many are firsthand accounts, and in lieu of stories I may never know about my family’s history in the Genocide, he accurately and effectively portrayed what…

according to Eugene Avra, is “an empathy-driven consciousness the enable authors and readers to act out and/or work through trauma by means of magical realist images,’ (V) and I believe Rushdie uses this approach to take the reader on a theraputic journey through the history of India. One example of this takes place in the early chapters of the novel, when the Amritsar Massacre takes place, in which Rushdie draws attention away from the massacre to the ‘magical’ powers of Aadam Aziz’s nose, “as…