Grandfather's Journey

Happiness can be defined as feeling or showing pleasure or contentment, but what does that really mean? For someone of great fame and fortune, their definition might be completely different from someone who comes from poverty. In today's world it is so hard to truly know whether someone is happy or just showing out for social normalities or to look a certain way for someone. I ask myself whether or not I am truly happy with the life I have lived so far and what it really means to be happy. My…

Right now he is living in a hole in the ground contemplating the future. He begins the story by saying that his grandparents were freed slaves. The narrator’s confusion begins when his grandfather’s last words are to use the white-dominant system against them. The narrator doesn’t understand what his grandpa means and constantly wonders if he is angering the whites or following his grandpa’s last words with his actions. The narrator writes…

“Young Goodman Brown” was written around the 1830s, which is roughly about a hundred and eighty years ago and gives us an insight on how Hawthorne feels. In the story he refers to how his grandfather’s and father’s doings are part of the devil. Hawthorne felt remorseful and ashamed of what they did; he could not have found a better approach to describe how he feels by writing a story that incorporates his emotions without revealing his past.…

Literary Analysis of Invisible Man Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” is narrated in the first person by an unnamed African American male who struggles to find his identity and succeed in a racially-divided society that works to constrict him to stereotype and prejudice. The readers witness the narrator’s growth from a naive and blinded ignorance to consciousness of his individuality. The narrator attempts to define himself through the standards and presumptions prescribed to him. He later…

eight Juana Ines began to write. Juana Ines still wanted to study since she had a vast knowledge with reading books and was really intelligent. Although she did not have an adequate education she had found ways to be taught with the help of her grandfather’s books that were old and there weren’t that many, but she liked spending time reading those books. Juana Ines still wanted to study and asked her mother to let her go study at one of the universities in Mexico, but…

There is a huge controversy in the United States between whether teachers should educate students on Natural Selection. South Carolina passed a law to allow students to begin learning it this year, but their teachers cannot use the term ‘Natural Selection’ because it does not agree with their senators religion. Evolution has been an issue for many years and goes back to when Darwin created the theory in 1858. He informed the world of his findings after a long period spent observing the…

Many stories that are famous today originated from past legends of greek mythology, so let’s take a closer look at the popular Percy Jackson series. In the book, The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, the quest plotline, perfect hero archetype, and the good vs. evil theme have been modernized from the myth “Danaüs, Perseus, and the Gorgon” by Edgar Parin D'aulaires. Devising the quest plotline was the heroes protecting their mother, help from gods (and goddesses), they kill the same monster, and…

Drew Hayden Taylor’s Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion, tells the history of Canada’s Indigenous People. The play shows how Canadian Confederation created a lot of resentment and mistreatment for Indigenous people which is still felt today. The play is divided between two different eras; 19th century Canada with Sir John A MacDonald and present day where the characters debate MacDonald’s legacy and the impact of his policies. MacDonald’s character describes important historical…

Everyone ask the question ‘who am I’ this question has no black and white answer, but is answered through how people act in situation, opinions, thoughts and perspective as well as actions and feelings, but there is infinite possibilities to why someone is who they are, all very personal realization the individual has to explore. Both Ransom Riggs and Michael Ondaatje explore this in their novels Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children and The Cat’s Table as they both tell a story about…

Unity in diversity’ is the motto of our nation. India is a diversified country with many languages with many cultures and the people also different from one state to another. India’s is called as ‘Hindustan’ as it was full of Hindus once upon a time. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni employs myth in her novels to show the people how culture, tradition, religion and ecology play an important role in the lives of man. Myths are the stories that are based on tradition, culture and religion. They are not…