Novella

Right now in the novel so many things have happened. News about Kino’s great pearl spreads throughout the neighborhood which leads to everyone talking to Kino just so they can have the pearl. The doctor comes back again, just because he realizes that Kino is now rich, only to give Coyotito something, that actually makes him worse! Only to come back right when he gets worse, and give him something that makes Coyotito better. I think the doctor only did this so he could get in Kino’s good graces,…

“ If you’d saved up on the days when you had plenty, then there’d never be a day when you have nothing,” This is what the Ant, the one from “ The Ant and the Grasshopper” By Rob John, says about the Grasshoppers choices. When the Grasshopper didn’t prepare for what’s ahead there was consequences for his actions. The Grasshopper doesn’t listen when the Ant tries to help and doesn’t store food for winter. This shows that he is not preparing. The first reason is that the Grasshopper thinks that…

When Coyotito, Kino’s son, is stung by a scorpion, Kino and his wife , Juana search for a pearl in order to have money to pay to the doctor to heal Coyotito. Turns out, they finds a very large pearl, The Pearl of the World that will lead him to selfish ambition. As the Pearl is found, word about it spread immediately and people began having ambitions about the Pearl. At first, Kino simply wished for his family to have clothes. Gradually, he began to wish for more and more. Kino’s pride begins to…

Across the world many people struggle with procrastination. Like putting of homework or work. Like in the story “The Ant and the Grasshopper” By Rob Jon the Grasshopper puts off preparing for the winter and later pays for it. Like when he is not prepared for winter, because he was self-centered and thinks he has all the food he needs. A reason that shows the Grasshopper was not prepared was when the Grasshopper told the Ant “Winter won’t come for ages . Won’t be winter till… well winter.…

There are two major themes that dominate the score of this film, a melodic solo saxophone, and dissonant trumpets over rhythmic drums. The sighing of the solo saxophone evokes the lonely melancholy of an individual alienated from the bigger environment he dwelled in. With the smooth, jazzy tones from the eight-bar sax, it also complements the night glamour of the New York City’s urban terrain. When we see Travis on his yellow cab passing through the various neighborhood of this fascinating city,…

Writing is a representation of language in visual form. Just like how the limitations of your imagination are endless, writing is the same. This undoubtedly applies to literature where you are not recounting the lives or events of the past like in a history textbook, but instead you create the characters, events, settings, and traits. Because of the many possibilities literature has available, there arises different styles of writing. You may find it alluring to create a story where the next…

The rush of power can be an overwhelming and intoxicating feeling, it can bring you to places in life that you never expected or dreamed about. The need for power can also be the end of everything you worked towards. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and Mary Reilly by Valarie Martin, a man named Henry Jekyll discovers first hand the reality of seeking power and how it can ruin everything around you. The ripples of Jekyll’s mistakes not only effect him but the ones around him,…

John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is about two migrant workers, George and Lennie, from California during the great depression. George and Lennie fled from Weed after Lennie unknowingly grabbed and held onto a woman’s dress and he was accused of rape. The men made their way towards a new farm where they planned to make a stake and eventually buy a small plot of land where they would live by themselves. George and Lennie both expected a similar outcome from their new job, but they had different…

Of Mice and Men: Foreshadowing A shot rings out. The dog has died, but later, so has Lennie. A foretold event of Lennie’s eventual demise. Curley’s wife’s foreshadowed death. A hiding place decided between George and Lennie, that Lennie, in the end, uses. Foreshadowing is illustrated in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. To begin with, a foreshadowed event was Curley’s wife’s demise. There had been several inclinations of some sort of trouble that something would happen to her. Whit and…

In class we are reading “Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.” This story is about two workers (Lennie, George) that are trying to get a job on a ranch. Steinbeck was very successful at making Lennie a sympathetic and dynamic character because he cares for others and and also changes a lot throughout the story. Lennie is a very big and strong man but not very intelligent. I know this because Steinbeck explains Lennie’s character traits. The author says Lennie is not the brightest man and this…