Puppet on a String

Hulga Hopewell of "Good Country People" is a unique character in O'Connor's fictional world. Although O'Connor uses the intellectual, or the pseudo-intellectual, in one of her novels and in seven of her short stories, Hulga is the only female in the bunch. Her gender, however, does not keep her from suffering the common fate of all the other O'Connor intellectuals. In every instance, the intellectual comes to realize that his belief in his ability to control his life totally, as well as control…

Every author has their own unique writing style. Kurt Vonnegut’s just so happens to be very effective. The unique pairing of black humor, social satire, and science fiction make the stories of Kurt Vonnegut both intriguing and effective. His way of satirizing contemporary society using themes such as war, sex, and death makes his stories bluntly honest. To verify the assumption made, three novels were read. The novels include: Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions.…

Are there evil spirits working for the devil in Salem or just dramatic teenage girls causing chaos to save themselves from punishment? Could it be Tituba, the slave from Barbados who has a habit of talking to the dead, or Abigail the “ringleader” of every girl in Salem? The Puritan society of early Salem Massachusetts centers around the church. The events in the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller show how unstable this society can be when another force comes and disrupts it. People will believe…

at County levels and secretly run USA Inc, to serve the British Crown. The US has always been a secret British colony and all your taxes go to the Temple of the City and to the Knight of Malta, to Vatican and to the black Pope, who pulls the strings. The Puppet Master serves also the Temple of the…

The reason that I picked this quote was not only because of its strong argumentative claim, but one that I could easily identify and find common ground with. From this quote, we learn that how we display and present ourselves in the public is influenced by conventional norm. This norm derives from our culture’s idealization of what femininity and masculinity is, that is, how society defines female and male. Then, it is through this norm that all of us come to know as the criteria for our…

The era we live in is so heavily influenced by technology that it can often times blur our understanding of reality. We as a society are more connected than any other era in this world. That idea in itself is very intimidating. In the blink of an eye a leaked image can reach millions of people. We see this happen all the time, artist or big corporate companies have images, sound bits, product details etc. leaked to the world in a matter of seconds. More times than not those images are false…

The plots in both “The Man Who Knew Belle Starr” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” are driven more by chance, coincidence and irony than by character. From chance encounters to ironic deaths, each story bounces from one irony and coincidence to the next, until it is clear that their authors started with the seed of these coincidental events, and then grew their stories around them. In “The Man Who Knew Belle Starr” the protagonist Mcrae has a chance meeting with a young girl that goes by the…

Many questions have been asked since the beginning of time. Questions still remain, but one we have been unable to answer is: What separates us from other living beings? In the definition from Merriam-Webster, it is stated that a human is “of, relating to, or characteristics of human”. This could mean many different things such as the ability to ask questions, acting on emotions, and the ability to create using our imagination. The ability to ask questions is almost second nature to most people…

On the contrary, Roald Dahl uses familiarity to initiate suspense in ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’. For example, the quote of “warm and clean, the curtains draw”, a familiar setting of a loving home gives a comfortable feeling but at the same time, it makes the audience anticipate what is going to be the outcome of the story. The wording of “warm” makes it feel like a home full of love and tenderness, which makes it creepier to expect something to happen. In addition to that, this point can also be…

time one of them put their hands on the coins, they received an electric shock. The symbolism behind this is showing how blacks struggled economically. The only way African Americans could make a lot of money was though pain and y becoming a “puppet on a string” for the white people. Every time an African American got a foot on the stair of life they would always get knocked down and out of the door. Great examples are people like Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Frederick…