Grandfather's Journey

written by Primo Levi in 1947, that documents Levi's experiences as well as his struggles. The novel acts as a testament to the cruelties inflicted on the prisoners but also to their level of endurance. Cormac McCarthy's novel, The road, follows the journey of a man and his young child in a post-apocalyptic world. The novel explores the perseverance of the father and his son to survive in a world destroyed of most civilisations. While both novels are set in unnatural environments, with The road…

September 11th, readers of this novel are exposed to a melancholic yet intricate story about dealing with any sort of tragedy. The first main character in the novel is Oskar Schell, a nine-year-old genius. The plot of his storyline is about his journey to find out the purpose of a key he finds that belonged to his father. A trademark of Oskar’s writing is that his ideas seem to be sporadic and all over the place. For example, he comes…

Flack, Marjorie, and Kurt Wiese. The Story about Ping. New York, NY: [Viking], 1933. Print. Ping was an adventurous duck who lived on a beautiful wise-eyed boat on the Yangtze River. He liked his life on the riverboat just and liked his large family and his kind master. He didn't like to be the last in line to board the boat at night, for that unlucky duck got a loud spank. So what did Ping do when it seemed that he would be the last on line? What else but set out on his own to explore the…

shocked. Tim O’Brien’s ability to characterize through items that are carried and reactions to events is amazing. He demonstrates this especially well with the character of Kiowa. A reader is able to focus in on one character and follow him on his journey in war and learn about physical, emotional and psychological burdens that he encounters. Kiowa is just one of many men who have a whole story that can be told about them based on the items in their…

Sam Witwicky is a “normal” teenager who is in the 11th grade. His father promised him a car as long as Sam gets an ‘A’ on his school project. When Sam gets the grade, his dad takes him to Bolivia’s Used Cars. Sam wants a 1977 Camaro with custom racing stripes, but the price of the car was too high. When Sam starts looking for other cars the Camaro lets out a high-pitched shriek which shatters the glass on all the other cars. He buys the Camaro and drives it home. One-night Sam wakes up to the…

thinking about in my head. The beginning reminded me of the time I had to do a report for social studies and I had to record my great grandma and her amazing holocaust survivor story. The son mouse in the book wanted to record in a journal the grandfather's (Vladek Spiegelman)…

family was hungry and had little food, and when she had to support Inchun on their journey to the south. One way Sookan became more resilient is when Sookan's grandfather died when he lost the will to live. This took a big toll on Sookan's family, but mostly on Sookan and her mother. This made her mother rarely come out of her room. This made Sookan very lonely on top of her being melancholy due to her grandfather's death. "I felt like a different person. I felt so many conflicting emotions…

of her great grandfather’s famous mint snowball and the history behind it to share the importance of family heritage and objects of a family member and what they bring to the future descendants. When Nye writes this story, she wants it to always relate to her readers. At the time that the memory of Nye’s great-grandfather’s was disappearing, so was her family’s heritage. As Nye’s mother took a bite of the snowball, “She closed her eyes to see the Swiss village my great-grandfather’s…

My grandfather was shell of his former self. Like an empty peanut, my grandfather’s whole being was missing; my mom’s father was different. To her he was a storyteller, weaving intricate and foreign places together like the ideas were in his hands and setting himself as the main character in each. He told so many elaborate tales that she laughed when she questioned their credibility. The story I never doubted was his journey to America and how passionate drive became a heretic trait in my family…

Throughout the first reading assignment for My Ántonia Willa Cather uses vivid imagery to accentuate Jim Burden’s journey. The first signs of imagery are noted in the introduction where an unknown narrator describes the Nebraskan fields as “never-ending miles of ripe wheat.” There, under the “burning summers when the world lies green and billowy beneath a brilliant sky,” Burden’s childhood rears his love for the great country and he soon begins “to lose himself in those big Western dreams.” He…