Memorable life experience

The fictional story of Liz’s life and death deserves a place in the magical realism genre. Written by Gabrielle Zevin in her novel “Elsewhere”. The story fulfils all five points of magical realism: lyrical/fantastic writing, an examination of human existence, criticism of society, cultural hybridity, and authorial reticence. Done in two-hundred and seventy-five pages though the viewpoint of Elizabeth Hall. It starts with an examination of human existence early on. Through the mind of their…

relating the book to his life; in his high school years he was called a “Monster” because of his speech impediment and the trouble he got into at school. He accomplished connecting it to his life because when Steve was making his letters, he wrote monster in his notebook during court because he felt and believed people saw him as a monster. The intended audience for this book is anyone who but mostly to teenage kids who like and might feel connected or understanding of the life of urban low…

into routine and monotony like a cog in a machine. I consider myself incredibly fortunate to have had opportunities in my life to reconnect with nature and rediscover the freedom and expansiveness associated with it. I must have seen the same old roads and buildings and restaurants of my medium sized suburb a thousand times in my life. However, no experiences have been more memorable and impactful than climbing Whistlers Mountain, or the meditative silence of the Negev, or the tremendous expanse…

Chimney Sweeper” is a title of two poems by William Blake, the first one was published in the collection of poems Songs of Innocence in 1789, the second one in Songs of Experience in 1794. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience contain several titles which are contrasting with each other and Blake presents innocence and experience of the poems of chimney sweepers as a perfect example of it. As both these poems depict the loss and subsequent absence of innocence and considering high death…

you start to lose your innocence. When you first have your innocence you think the world is perfect and you see it through a black and white lense.However when you lose your innocence you start to notice the hardships people start to go through in life, and you start to notice that the world is not just black and white it has many other colors waiting to be discovered. I started my portfolio with a haiku, that sets up childhood. Then I put a poem on Innocence, it explores the innocence people…

describes the journey of his father endured in the holocaust. Both share a common theme of perseverance because they both never gave up. In “Man in the Water”, he kept rescuing survivors by giving others the life raft instead of taking it himself. In Maus, Vladek dodges near death experiences and becomes determined to make it out alive of the concentration camp. First, Rosenblatt lectures the audience about the man who humbly saved several lives after a plane hit a bridge. The author says “His…

emancipated, or many other situations. Why does there need to be a dollar value to someone’s life if everyone came to Earth the same way? The most meaningful thing in life is that each person sees the value in themselves and there is nothing worth more than a life. Society has been placing dollar values on lives, however; the value of a person’s life should be determined by their attitude, achievements, experiences, and relationships everyone has attained as they lived on Earth. In William…

becomes so significant throughout the story. This particular type of happy ending greatly satisfies the reader, and teaches a moral lesson. In The Rent Collector, the teacher, Soriyan Song, exemplifies a protagonist who undergoes, at the last minute of life, a major spiritual awakening that offers the reader an enduring and fulfilling happy ending through moral development. When Sang Ly asks Sopeap, “Will you teach…

author, Timothy Ferriss: “Lack of time is actually lack of priorities” ("Tim Ferriss Quote"). This quotation provokes the true meaning of time and destiny. After a long life of complications, adults tend to have a different mindset towards time. If fact, even the priorities of the adult population alter depending on past experiences. The novel To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and the short story “A Day Goes By” written by Luigi Pirandello show a similar theme that both of the characters…

absence of civil movements and revolutionary activists. Our beliefs and ideology forms what we are and what we identify others. Unfortunately, I do not have the ideal moral standard when I observe the people that live in the same world as I do. My experience and observation have led me to a conclusion that political power, social media, and other variables ruin our society. What is the main source of your ethics and moral? Some would say religion, and some would say friends and family.…