These texts set out the traditional story of the foundation of Japan and its people, and demonstrate the very close relationship between the gods and the people of Japan. The stories also demonstrate many parallels between human beings and the kami. Through this story it explains how Japan was created and how it was the first land to be created. It helps to depict key lessons and explanations. If certain rituals are not properly executed and if the natural harmony of things are disturbed many bad things may occur. The Land of the Dead helps depict and explain further detail towards the Kami. Through this part if the story it displays that Kami are mortal as they are vulnerable to injury and can die. Due to this human like characteristics…
Land of the Dead In a small town called Camellia Vermont, a cemetery lies on the very edge of it all. Running, a normal person going in for a dare, wouldn't last two minutes. (1) Unlike some, graves there are well-kept and polished but, the farther you go, the worse they get. (2) The oldest grave could never be dated back as far as some of them are, as the words are scratched and eroded. Paranormal investigators have gone in, and left immediately. Although, some do last a while, scared and…
Lost Souls She started to read, and as she continued her horror only grew. Lost Souls are those that are unable to enter the Land of the Dead due to past deeds that they made in the Living World. The souls are too corrupt to exist in the In-Between and are sent to the Other World where they live in constant pain, reliving the same pain that they caused to others. They wander the Other World, searching for Spirits that have wandered in and feed off their fear in order to feel powerful. They…
like a tree branch. The branch, in fact is the finger of a dead bride who is so excited by the vision of wedding that she rises from the grave and take Victor to the Land of the Dead. In the amazingly happy afterlife, Victor finds out that his new fiancé name is Emily and she was put to death in the woods on the night of her wedding. Victor, wanting to get back to Victoria, persuades the magical Elder Gutknecht…
The short story, “The Dead Boy At Your Window” is about a stillborn baby boy who is given to his mother to hold; his mother refuses to believe her child was dead. The boy begins to kick his legs (even though he is actually dead) and his parents take him home and raise him as a living boy. Since the boy is dead, he does not eat, grow or have hair; he also has leathery skin, a raspy voice and his parents “stretch him” to make him as tall as children his age. When the boy turns six years old, his…
Coco: a film made by Pixar about Miguel, a twelve year old music enthusiast, and his journey through the Land of the Dead during Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. He is joined by a bright and charming cast of characters of skeletons, animals, and even crazy, exotic animals called alebrijes. Coco is multicultural due to its many references and ties to Mexican culture, through the setting, characters, and plot of the movie. Characters…
very depressing town that are going to get married by force. The movie takes a terrifying turn and changes the whole movie. Victor (Johnny Depp) accidentally ask to marry a dead bride and comes to life Emily (Helena Carter) chases Victor in the woods. Emily takes victor down to the underworld during when Victor is in the underworld Lord Barlcis tries to marry Victoria (Emily Watson) for her riches that she doesn’t have. Puns put humor in this sad tale when Victor tricks Emily to going to the…
Afterlife through rituals as expressed by Achilles in the Iliad after he received a premonition of his cousin Patroclus after he had not completed his funeral right and could not move forward to the realm of the dead. Homer’s Odyssey Book XI raises several important themes about the presentation of the Afterlife in Greek mythology during Homeric times. In Book XI readers see another step and obstacle that Odysseus must overcome to return home. In this book Homer formally introduces The…
as well as information to help expand our minds. In the movie, The Book of Life we see one perspective of the day of the dead from the life of one people. And in the article, Dia de los Muertos, we see a history and reality of the day of the dead. While they both inform us of the same topic, they have similarities and differences. In both platforms of media, they describe to us a little bit of history of Dia de los Muertos. They give us a little bit of similarities in them such as the colorful…
Throughout his Journey, Odysseus faces danger and it takes him a long time to get back home. The epic, The Odyssey, contains multiple graphic and violent scenes. Some of these scenes are done in anger and other scenes are not. One example of an angered scene is when the cyclops tries to kill Odysseus and his men. When Odysseus ventures into the cyclops, Polyphemus, cave, he sees some pretty disturbing stuff. Polyphemus eats one of his men, and threatens to eat him as well. Odysseus then creates…