Homesickness

Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste were married on the 16th of May in the same year as her arrival. Married at fourteen and far from home she found herself unprepared for the life she know led, sending frequent letters home to her mother out of homesickness. To add to her discomfort the young Austrian scorned the multiple rituals she was to perform as French lady of…

The novel We Need New Names written by Noviolet Bulawayo is a quite intriguing novel, because of the strong, vivid, graphic, detailed descriptions. The setting of the story takes place in a shantytown of Paradise in Zimbabwe, where our main character, Darling, grows up alongside with her childhood friends Chipo , Bastard , Godknows , Sbho and Stina. As the story progress, the viewer will explore the tough life of living in Africa when Zimbabwe’s paramilitary police bulldozed their home .…

stumble after Neele from phone booths to coffee shops, pass windows with half naked girls and women, and we exchange knowing glances, like all of us should have better things to do and better places to be at this time of the year. I feel traces of homesickness rising, for the first time for a place that is commonly understood as such. I hope this will pass when I am back in Berlin. I do not like the sensation, it has a dirty feel to it, like something I need to wash off me,…

The Mid-autumn Festival is an important holiday for Chinese people and I would like to discuss the meal on the Mid-autumn Festival in my family. The festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar. Traditionally, the meal is used to celebrate harvest because many crops, such as corn, sweet potatoes, rice, beans, and peanut, are harvested in autumn. Today, more and more people do not plant crops and the meal is gradually becoming a get-together meal for…

Nostalgia manifests itself in many ways; the art of calligraphy is essentially a nostalgic search of the lost totems. Chinese characters are not immutable. As a matter of fact, behind every Chinese character there is a history of evolution, from the ancient oracle bone scripts to modern simplified Chinese characters. In this way, every generation inherits the tradition of Chinese characters, and then overthrows the tradition. Before a nostalgic Chinese speaker can use the lost totems as…

The way that William Wordsworth wrote changed people 's thinking and revolutionized the romanticism of literature. William Wordsworth began writing poetry at a very young age. At the age of 16 Wordsworth composed a poem entitled The Pog: An Idyllium. (Wu, 1). When his mother died, he was sent to a grammar school which helped improve his poetry skills. His enthusiasm for the French Revolution took him to France again in 1791, where he had an affair with Annette Vallon, who bore him an…

On a weathered road, a young teenager walks two miles to his high school to expand his education. When he goes to college, he lives in a dorm 120 miles away from home. When he gets his first job, he moves to Chennai, India, a populous city 200 miles in the opposite direction of his hometown. When he decides to broaden his experience, he starts off simple, by moving to Japan only a quick flight away from India. But everything changes when he makes the choice to move 9,500 miles to Houston, Texas.…

many points in the novel where he feels he is ‘found’ or stable. An example would be, “I tried to think of some saying about bears to reply, but remembered only Jack the Rabbit, Jack the Bear… who were both long forgotten and now brought a wave of homesickness. I wanted to leave him, and yet I…

The theme of fear takes central plot of this novel. This is explicitly evident in all characters that, at a very young age, are exposed to ruthless survival tactics. From the onset of the novel to its final chapters, fear takes preeminence in all their actions as it is the single most walls that keep the boys from reasonable decisions and questioning their very curiosity. Golding employed the role of fear given that he understood the kind of images that fear would create in his novel. All the…

intensive. This trip helped me realize the importance of family and comfort. Some people say, ‘home is where the heart is’, during my experience, this statement reined true. I believe that the comfort of knowing the people around you can substitute homesickness, but almost everyone, at some point in their lives, catch the ‘virus’. Last fall, I auditioned to go to a ballet intensive for the summer. The following February, I found out that I had been accepted into the Boston Ballet Intensive and…