Maria Tallchief

The first main instance is in chapter 6. In Chapter 6, Paul and a few others comes across a few soldiers whose noses are cut off by the enemy’s and eyes poked out with bayonets. Their mouths and even their noses are stuffed with some sawdust so they suffocate to death (if not already dead). This constant view of death that causes the soldiers to fight back like insensible animals. They used spades to butcher the enemy faces and jab bayonets into the backs of enemy’s who was too slow to get away…

“Greed in the end fails even the greedy,” says Cathryn Louis. Kino was very greedy about the pearl which lead to everything he loved to fall apart.In the folktale, “The Pearl,” by John Steinbeck there is a lot of materialism and greed will lead to immoral behavior. In the folktale, the protagonist, Kino, finds a pearl to help his family to try to get out of poverty. In the end, the characters in the story have so much greed that it completely destroys the family. Steinbeck uses the pearl a sa…

All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, takes place on the Western Front of World War I. The narrator and main character of the book is Paul Baumer, a nineteen-year-old boy who fights for the German forces. The book follows the lives of Paul and his fellow schoolmates who have all enlisted in the German forces with the encouragement of their schoolmaster, Kantorek. Throughout the book, we follow their lives and deaths and everything in-between. We are introduced to the horrors…

generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war”(Remarque). Taking place in World War two, a young man loses everything he held dear to him by becoming a soldier. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Erich demonstrates how the war can force soldiers to grow up by destroying their identity, youth, and innocence. In order to be a good soldier, a person must become like everyone else. Remarque writes about how Paul and his…

The novel, A Separate Peace, deals primarily with the internal conflicts of the protagonist Gene and the resulting external conflicts. John Knowles, the author, makes use of the extended metaphor of war to demonstrate the extent of Gene’s internal conflict. Additionally, by setting the novel in the midst of World War II the author furthers the comparison between what Gene was feeling and the actual war going on. However, Gene admits at the end of the novel that “[his] war ended before [he] ever…

Loc Truong Dr. Dylan Eret and Dr. Laura Ruberto Project 1 02/10/2015 "Resources of the Soil" by Benjamin Cunningham, "Agriculture" by Mallette Dean or "Rural Life" by Conrad Buff are some of the famous WPA murals arounding California. Mural is normally a large painting that is drawn directly in the surface of a wall or ceiling. In addition, murals convey the intent of the muralist which can be about the history or the important moments in the past, things in life or just simply to decorating.…

Literary Analysis for The Pearl “This doctor was of a race which for nearly four hundred years had beaten and starved and robbed and despised Kino's race,” (9). In The Pearl by John Steinbeck, a Native American family finds a pearl that lifts their hopes and dreams just to crush them once again. Kino, the father of the family, is a very ignorant man, especially about the town’s doctor, the priest, and the pearl buyer. Using characterization and dialogue, Steinbeck expresses that ignorance leads…

All Quiet On The Western Front In the novel, All Quiet On The Western Front, by Erich Remarque is about a soldier’s experience in World War One. Basically it is about Paul and his group of friends that go through World War one and write about how they felt and all the events that happened during that time. Though there was a lot of themes that popped up in this novel, I am going to tell you about the Lost Generation caused by World War One. Lost Generation played a big theme in this novel. It…

women. For many men, they were afraid that their own reputations would be put at risk should they allow women to study or work at their institutions. Johann Theodor Jablonski, secretary to Berlin academy of Sciences wrote, “I do not believe that Maria Winkelmann should continue to work on our official calendar of observations. It simply will not do. Even before her husband's death, the Academy was ridiculed because its calendar was prepared by a women. If she were to be kept on in such a…

According to an online article, greed is driven by deprivation which is caused by a need for something that is inaccessible. When Kino discovers the pearl, he thinks that he has salvaged his family from an unruly lifestyle. However, Kino consistently focused on obtaining the maximum amount of money he can when he sells the pearl for the medicine to save his son, which further introduced that Kino is greedy for money. Early in the novel, the author suggests that “It is not good to want a thing…