Just Like Heaven

Mathilde Loisel was a selfish woman. She always had thoughts of herself. She dreamed about living like she was an upper class woman. One could say that she did not love her husband because of the selfishness she implied. This selfishness along with her greedy personality brought her to her downfall. She caused her and her husband to become poor and have to work hard to pay off a priceless necklace. Her husband sacrificed everything for her. He spoiled her even though he did not…

I had gone through bit of a rough patch for two years, my family was on the edge of being separated, I love to play the cello and as you can see I like to paint, and I own a porcelain doll shop.” I say and wave my arms in the air, his eyes trailed to my wrist and I quickly put them back in my lap. “Rough two years?” He asks and I nod. He nodded as well and pulled up his sleeves. “Me too.” He smiles…

into a straight line and put his paper in the curve pile of papers. "He's actually been improving if you asked me. If you even cared to look at the monitored homework, you would see as well." He bit his lip and placed a hand over her pen. "Feisty I like it." Diamond roughly snatched her hand from his and flashed her 15 carrot ring. He licked his lips and glared at the glistening moon through her window. "Hey babygirl." A voice boomed through the now quiet classroom. She grabbed his jaw and…

Ursula K. Le Guin’s, The Lathe of Heaven, is a science fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic future that revolves around a man named George Orr. George’s dreams have the ability to alter reality, including the past. Before any dream-altering realities come into play, George is referred to a sleep specialist named Dr. William Haber after George gets into trouble for stealing dream-suppressing drugs. Through these “voluntary” meetings with Dr. Haber, George explores a variety of alternate…

Heaven bestowed this mandate on a person that had Virtue; kindness, wisdom, and reverence. This Virtue was said to be passed down to descendants but would be revoked by viciousness and bestowed to someone more worthy and virtuous. However, by the time…

towards social constructs, such as gender, freedom, and race. By exposing readers to alternative worlds, science fiction allows one to reevaluate one’s perspective of familiar assumptions. Within Ursula K. Le Guin’s “A Woman’s Liberation, The Lathe of Heaven, and “Coming of Age in Karhide,” the alterations of gender, freedom, and race challenge…

ruling principles of the Shang, as opposed to those in The Book of Lord Shang, lacking righteousness and virtue from the ruler, was the reason for the collapse of their empire. From that moment, the philosophical and historical idea of The Mandate of Heaven rise. This belief consists in thinking that whoever has the most moral corectness gets the right to…

A Turtle and Some Beans Anais Nin, a renowned author, once wrote, “And the day came when the risk to remain a tight bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom” (“Quotes About Growth”). In the story, The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver, the courage to bloom is one of the many themes. Taylor, a young woman travelling westward, is unwillingly given a child. Taylor and the child, Turtle, eventually settle in Arizona. They live with a woman named Lou Ann, and Taylor works at an auto…

Turtle and she first met. The frustration of Taylor implies Taylor have tried to improve Turtle’s ill mental condition by acting as a protective mother. Taylor’s maternal qualities are further characterizes when Lou Ann describes Taylor that she is not like what she used to be when they first met. Lou Ann’s description implies that Taylor has developed into more maternal parent from a skeptical young woman. Taylor’s change of personality characterizes the peak of maternal qualities of her and…

her. I knew it from her eyes…” (222). This incident not only leads to a huge setback for Turtle, but Taylor blames herself and her once trusted community for what happened. Angry, Taylor withdraws from the child who feels she has let down “there’s just so damn much ugliness. Everywhere you look, some big guy kicking some little person when they’re down” (229). Obviously, Taylor feels the world is an unfair place due to much of the problems Turtle has had to face and life with. Taylor shuts down…