Kurt Vonnegut

Both the authors, William Golding and William Shakespeare highlight severe human weakness in the novel Lord of the Flies and the play Macbeth respectively. This was deliberately done in response to their profound yet interesting lives that they had experienced as a human. This is evident as; Lord of the Flies was portrayed as an allegorical microcosm of the world Golding was involved in, which included real-life violence and brutality of the World War II. Perhaps, it was intended by the author…

Yellow Intro We live in a world in which we have numerous of things to look out after, expectations to fulfil and challenges to keep up with. Now, if you’ve found yourself on the bottom of a deep dark whole where you’re constantly failing to meet both your own and society’s expectations, how do you get up and reach the light? This problem is exactly what the protagonist deals with before he makes up his mind in the short story “Yellow” by Peter Carty. The following content is an investigation…

Loyalty is not a word, it is a lifestyle. This is shown time and again by the characters in The Godfather by Mario Puzo. The Godfather is a crime novel written by Mario Puzo and was first published in 1969 and later inspired a film of the same name in 1972, sequels to which were made in 1974 and 1990. The story of The Godfather follows a mafia family in New York over the span of a decade. The family in the novel…

“No. My dad leaves bruises on the inside”(pg 70). In Ironman, Chris Crutcher, the author, shows physical and mental abuse through the main characters in this story. They have been abused internally or externally by either a parent or a close family member. The main characters, Bo and Shelly are affected by the continual bullying from the ones that are expected to protect them. Unfortunately, there’s a handful of children who experience this type of hardship throughout their lifetime. 5 Bo…

Age and danger. No matter where you go in life these words will cling to you like weights slowly dragging you down. “You’re too old to do this, it’s dangerous”, “You’re too young to believe in that, it’s unsafe”. The message behind The-Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson and the movie Guardians of the Galaxy by James Gunn is to break these weights called age and danger, Live life to the fullest and do not let such things hold you back.…

Ultimate Control Results in Ultimate Danger All three stories differed in many aspects, but they all shared one common theme. Their common theme connected them in ways that shaped each story and left the reader with a memorable lesson. “Harrison Bergeron”, “A Rose for Emily” and “A Small Good thing” all shared a common theme of dangerous control because they all had different means of “taking away of personal freedoms.” “Harrison Bergeron” told a story of a society where everyone was equal.…

The way humans live when no one else can see them can be interpreted as the human spirit.. In “Harrison Bergeron” the entire community is equal to each other in every single way. “The Rocking-Horse Winner” is a story about a young boy who becomes obsessed with betting on horses to satisfy that never-ending desire of greed. “Young Goodman Brown” shows a discussion between the character Goodman Brown and his companion or otherwise known as the Devil. Throughout “Harrison Bergeron,” “The…

In Equality's totaltarian society Equality realizes that his individual rights are being suprressed because of his government wanting full control over all of the people. In Anthem, Equality says it's a sin to write this because they can't think for themselves. By the end of the book equality realizes that thee society he is living in is oppressive; moreover, his character changes to the point that he wants individual freedom Equality society is very suprressive and likes to keep everyone on…

like on the inside and out. Society is on a downhill slope and there’s no coming back. Evidence from Harrison Bergeron states, “Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything, except in short bursts” (Vonnegut 21). The smartest people in the world can come up with a solution, but the government forces them to wear a hearing handicap. To “resolve” all inequalities, everyone has the same level of intelligence. It is much easier to make intelligent…

The Great Gatsby Essay 2 In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, parallel scenes exist throughout the novel that outline patterns or juxtapose changes in characters or themes. One particularly decisive and insightful example is when Nick drives across the bridge towards the city (Fitzgerald 68) and then drives again across the same bridge some months later, this time away from the city (Fitzgerald 135 – 136). Because Nick constantly tries to offer, through the language of his narrative,…