Mountains Beyond Mountains

Hills like white elephants is a story of a couple waiting at a train station in Spain. The couple is facing a big decision, to get an abortion or keep the child. As they talk, the conversation remains very vague and unreassuring. The couple never goes into detail of the abortion. Making the theme of this story: Clear communication is significant to make life decisions without a doubt. Hemingway expands on this theme by using symbolism, Point of view and setting in the story. The symbols clouds…

These lines not only shows Snyder absorbing the imagery of the nature and the beauty of it, for example the beautiful snow of the mountains has provided him with cold water to drink and looking down symbolizes that he realizes the Earth is there just as Buddha did when he touched the earth, they are connected, as well as the awakening or the satori. The still air represents the breaths of meditation, the breaths are still and steady, the world around him is silent and still, and his thoughts are…

the rural life for his lover as a means of a confession of love . He attempts to convince the woman with his planned promises before she accepts his offer. The list of the promises goes from living in the mountains to materialistic objects, such as coral clasps. His offers may seem to be beyond what a shepherd can normally reach for, due to his status. However, the shepherd creates a contract for the love interest to be with him in order to obtain the promises. This suggests that there may be…

horrors even more profound lurk just beyond the limits of perception,” (Neilson and Barth). This was written to show that the way he described the setting of this town gave the reader a hint that something was wrong and something evil had happened there. Lovecraft writes “Those figures are so silent and furtive that one feels somehow confronted by forbidden things, with which it would be better to have nothing to do. When a rise in the road begins the mountains in view above the deep woods, the…

All the Native Americans wanted from the white men was respect and peace. “For the Kiowas the beginning was a struggle for existence in the bleak northern mountains.”(Momaday). This quote supports because it is telling there was a struggle for them to be there , similarly to what Morgan states in his book. “To the west, beyond the mountains, there were no roads at all, only trails.”(Ambrose). This is talking about before Jefferson and as in Morgan’s book he states that if it were not for…

his left hand was still as tight as the gripped claws of an eagle." This quote is showing how tight the hook is to his hand, and what it feels like. “The clouds over the land rose like mountains.” This simile is showing us how the high the clouds rose above the ground, which made them seem as if they were mountains. All of these similes listed in the book help the readers understand what Ernest Hemingway thought of when comparing those two objects to each other, and it makes us think and see…

be proven, and people confused with their purpose in life. Jerusalem has carried many of these characterizations and factors and yet no one truly understood how the religious and holy space was formed in the city. Space remains a mystery that goes beyond the complex unit of measurement and a simple physical area because it can change over time. Fortunately, Tweed suggests three aspects regarding space: it is differentiated, kinetic, and interrelated. The bible successfully…

I found myself in an ironic position when I realized that I was self-deceiving myself when choosing which article, Real self-deception by Alfred R. Mele or Self-Deception as a Pretense by Tamar Szabo Gendler, I supported the most. The first article I read was Mele 's and his way of describing several points of his view confused me as well as some of them enlightened me. As I moved on to Gendler 's article, I found her way of explaining herself somehow more reader-friendly and hence more…

challenges and insects everywhere! However, if you are willing to get out of your comfort zone this journey can offer awakening, clarity and lessons beyond your wildest dreams. Read on if you want to learn how to take the journey from the Peruvian high jungle into the depths of the Great Amazon Rainforest. PARAGRAPHS Tarapoto: fertile soil, breathtaking mountain, fresh water The journey begins in Tarapoto, the heart of the Peruvian high jungle. The city of Tarapoto is bustling, full of stores,…

Long, long ago in Mount Olympus there lived the God of Astrology, Astrios. Astrios was out wandering around in the dark late night sky around the mountains. He was searching for his long, lost, golden sword. He stumbled upon a sparkly, shiny, golden powder that had come from his golden sword. He thought to himself if he should pick it up or not. So he decided to pick it up with his bare, rough, impure hands. It felt like a soft, grainy, pure sand. So he throws it up into the dark nights sky…