Rain shadow

In the slums of Mumbai, India, in a half acre in the shadows of Mumbai International Airport, resides the city of Annawadi. A poor place, where children wander trash heaps in search of something valuable to sell so that they may have a mouthful of food. Yet, the city is a place of rising hope because of the affluence that is slowly spreading through India. Katherine Boo is a reporter, trying to spread awareness in her book “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” that extreme poverty has not been…

South Asia is where I am from one night I took a walk down to the forest. It started to rain, then, lightning quick, thunder roared across the sky and lightning struck below almost touching the ground. On the way home it suddenly, was pitch black outside I could not see anything but shadows of the trees. Then, I started to run home, I tripped over a stick and fell to the ground I got struck by lightning as I was lying there in pain. The next morning, the sun was out, the sky was blue everything…

with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares” (543). Chopin describes Louise’s atmosphere exactly how Louise would be able to see it and nothing more. Even though the language makes Louise’s surroundings seem extraordinarily beautiful, while they may be beautiful, it does not attempt to describe anything out of Louise’s view. It is her exact realistic life. The breath of rain is described as “delicious” but this is…

I shoved a crumpled green wad of paper at a man sitting in a small booth near the entrance. He took my money and gave me a half-smile. I found my way to the bridge that crossed a small creek of muddy, water that was swelling from the many days of rain we had in the past few days. While partially crossing the bridge, I stopped mid-stroll in amazement of the grand structure that was beore me. All of the trees nearby seemed to curl around the great building, their branches full of lush leaves…

In the poem ‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti, the speaker feels that as their death is inevitable, they must focus on the loved one that they are leaving behind and ensure that they will not waste their lives grieving. Likewise, in the poem ‘Song’, the speaker feels similarly to that of ‘Remember’, as they try to ensure that their loved on will not be afraid or distraught once they have died. Rossetti expresses these feelings in both poems by her use of language features such as sibilance, as…

The Battle of Helm’s Deep was the first major battle of the War of the Ring where the Rohirrim defended Helm’s Deep from Saruman’s militia of Uruk-hai and orcs. The Battle of Helm’s Deep acts dissimilarly in both the film and the book. In the film, it is a pivotal battle, similar to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in The Return of the King. In the book, it is simply just another battle in the lead-up to the finale at Pelennor Fields and Minas Tirith. Per se, there is much less detail in the…

anything else. Pi, similarly, believes that God is responsible for the many ordinary miracles of life, especially in the Muslim aspect of his faith. His Muslim teacher, the imam, relays the belief of “the essential miracle of existence. Birds flying, rain falling, crops growing-- these are miracles enough for us.” (Martel 67). Aquinas’s beliefs that God causes everything are similar to the imam's words about the basic miracles that are caused by God. Next, Aquinas’s beliefs on the cooperation of…

Minutes had passed and the rain still pounding against him decided he could no longer wait. As he was about to try and enter the door opened with such ferocity he lurched back with a sense of shock and fear. A man appeared from the shadows standing at the door. The candle light in the castle revealed the silhouette of a tall skinny man. The silhouette with a deep and gravelly voice…

sensations rushed into my head: fear, scenes of death, sorrow, pain, the route to a cave in the Forbidden Forest that I was to hide in, and the feeling that something far more dangerous lay ahead. There were other visions, visions shrouded in secrecy and shadows, visions I couldn’t understand. You’ll know the meaning of these prophecies soon enough. Kheiron landed in the meadow where the other centaurs were waiting for us. As Mason and I slid off his back, I heard a different voice—possibly the…

but in return they have only given them pain and suffering. This may very well be the intention of the Kite Runner, to portray the betrayal of its people and the true horror of the Taliban. Betrayal is a dagger, that tears into you and creates shadows and wariness in places where you once felt safe. A large portion of Hossieni’s novel is growing up through the turmoil of Afghanistan and discovering deception in a world you once knew well. It is about the betrayal of love…