Journey's End

One of Jack Kerouac’s most memorable novels, On The Road, written in 1951 but published in 1957, is a highly influential response to the current events of that time. Scars of World War II had started to heal and society, fed up with the sense of danger and terror, rightfully decided to give in to conformity and passivity. However, some of them rejected such an approach, believing that there is much more to life, rather than blissfully accept the monotony of everyday experiences. Kerouac could be…

The mind is capable of wandering many places. In Virginia Woolf’s short essay “Street Haunting”, Woolf travels the streets of London to get away from her confined room. She sets out on a journey to discover the potential and limits of the mind’s eye. In her journey, Woolf switches her viewpoints very frequently where her imagination twists her reality. Woolf’s use of imagery helps the reader create the same dreamlike image that she has in her head. In “Street Haunting”, Woolf is making the…

heaven to humanity; the Mosaic Law had, by the fact of Jesus’ salvation, been repealed and replaced by the Law of Jesus. This brought the Jews and Gentiles close together there was no longer any division between them. (McRay, 2003). His missionary journey’s made Christianity more popular among the Gentiles as he went around putting his life on the line to preach with his aggressive campaigns. The church owes its gentile character to Paul’s missions.”(Online.infobase.com.…

Sunshine” Beauty Pageant to fulfill the daughter’s wishes, while the Bundren family has to travel to Jefferson, Missouri to fulfill the mother’s wishes. Both families are dysfunctional units acting together to reach an end goal. Their end goals may be entirely different but their journey’s are similar. The movie Little Miss Sunshine is an effective modern depiction of the archetypal journey portrayed in As I Lay Dying because both the movie and the novel have different character developments,…

abyss that stands before him removing the the Orc-shield and flinging aside his helmet (916). They go through this process of letting everything go and taking only that which is needed coming into their purest forms going full circle into the journey’s end (917). As Gollum tries to take the Ring from Frodo, Sam’s hand begins to waver as he becomes divided with the two parts of himself; the first part wants to seek its revenge and murder Gollum, but the other half restrains him as he finally…

told. This story establishes the facts on a society where everyone is held equal, to the point where first person does not exist. Throughout the novel Anthem, Ayn Rand shows the development of Equality 7-2521’s individualism through inventions, journey’s, and love. As the story of Equality begins, he becomes to start finding himself with his invention of electricity. As to start, Equality 7-2521 was given the job as a street sweeper and soon finds himself with a friend named International…

responsible for his dog’s death especially after being with it for so long. Candy states that “I oughtta of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t oughtta of let no stranger shoot my dog” (41). After hearing this, George started thinking about it. At the end of the book, George was the one who shot Lennie. He didn’t let the other men do it because he knew that if Curley found Lennie, he would torture Lennie until he died. George didn’t want Lennie to have to die in pain so he pulled out the…

There’s More to Life Than Just The Physical One moment can change a person’s life forever, whether it is something seemingly simple or disastrous. In the book which was created into a film, “Life of Pi,” by Yann Martel, and later directed by Ang Lee, the moment that changes an adolescent boy’s life begins when his father decides to move the family zoo across the Pacific Ocean from Pondicherry India to Canada. The Tsimtsum, the name of the ship that was carrying Pi, his family, and all of the…

To begin with, regardless of nations, religions or customs, individuals hold similar or, to some extent, same attitudes towards death, which is an inevitable law of nature that no one is able to escape. People are scarcely dare speak plainly or reluctant to confront it directly for its mysterious and frightening, fearing that it would bring bad luck or a terrible curse. In order to shun to refer to death directly, people make great endeavor to disguise and obscure the word “death”. And this is…

Growing up I watched tons of action movies with my dad, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Wayne and Sylvester Stallone. Movies that really portrayed this American power, where the good guys Americans conquered every challenge and portraying this American badass. America is a country that symbolizes a lot for people, look at the Bald Eagle as an example as to the freedom that America tries to represent. Growing up children are lead believe that America is perfect we’re the good guys, it's…