Ring-tailed Lemur

During a hero’s journey, a hero must travel to the underworld to receive the knowledge needed to complete their journey. In Daniel Woodrell’s Novel Winter’s Bone, Ree Dolly must travel to her own Underworld to learn the truth about her father’s where about and save her home from being taken. Ree’s begins to enter her Underworld when she re-visits Hawkfall for a second time looking for Thump Milton, after being told to never return. Although Ree went through many Underworld like events, her…

Golding’s dark and provocative Lord of the Flies delves deep into the soul of man in a ruthless tale meant to explain the essence of why evil exists within us all, and how that evil is coaxed into action. In this insightful story, a group of schoolboys crash lands on an island during an evacuation in the midst of a future war. At first, all is well and order is established with assemblies guided by the elected Chief, Ralph, and the power of a conch shell, which grants the boys a turn to speak.…

The tales of the wild men, Iron Hans by Friedmund Von Arnim and The Wild Man by the Grimm brothers, have distinct differences which gives a definite choice of which is the more thought out of the two. Where Iron Hans is longer and more thought out with a cohesive plot, The Wild Man is shorter, thrown together, and overall very choppy. The tales both had the same basic plot, with the wild man being caught and then released by the young son of whoever is keeping him, both of them leaving the…

To begin with, the book ‘Lord of the Flies’ is composed by William Golding right after World War II events have ended. The book tells a story about a faction of English boys who deserted on an island during the era of the war. While being stranded, the group of English boys had identified that the island has already have been developed, so then they decided to try to make their own civilization in order to sort things out as they wait to be rescued. Nevertheless, as days pass by, their society…

`Expecto Patronum` Harry incantates and conjures up his Patronus – a silver shining stag that fends off hundreds of Dementors at a time. Harry Potter fans would already be on a trip to Hogwarts in their minds – fighting Lord Voldemort alongside Dumbledore`s Army. For the uninitiated, the ‘Patronus charm’ is the only effective magical spell available to wizards at Hogwarts as defense against the Dementors – vile, villainous, dark creatures who suck up every positive emotion from the human soul.…

Her name is Rosie and she is placed on my right hand, ring finger. She is a sterling silver, heart shaped diamond ring. She is a size 7 and is from Kay Jewelers. There are little diamonds that make up her shape. Rosie has been with me since April 1, 2015 and has never left my finger, but still managed to get a couple of scratches on her. Everywhere I am, Rosie is. I guess it is true what people say, diamonds are really a girl’s best friend. Rosie has a sentimental value and is worth more…

The classical requirements of a hero were originally set forth in the Greek epics composed by none other than Homer, the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Within these ancient texts, Homer expertly crafted his idea of a hero: honourable, courageous, and fierce warriors who instilled hope in comrades, and struck fear into the minds of the enemy with their overwhelming valor and inherent expertise on and off of the battlefield. Classical heroes like Odysseus and Achilleus were the embodiment of…

In the beginning of the book, Tolkien uses vivid descriptions to give us a view inside of Bilbo's life, and to briefly show readers his hobbit hole located in Middle Earth. Tolkien writes in page 1, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit... It was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” His hole is symbolized as a place of comfort, similar to our comfort in our own homes. Most people in life search for power, sometimes all people want is money, with that comes greed. With a good…

The Monk in the Garden by Robin Marantz Henig is a novel which follows the life and the experiments of Gregor Mendel. It provides great insight as to what the world was like at the time of Mendel’s experimentation, who Mendel interacted with, and different scientific discoveries made over the course of his life. In Chapter 2, entitled “Southern Exposure”, Henig goes into detail about the importance of the location of Mendel’s garden. Mendel’s garden has been a place of controversy for nearly…

What drives us to undertake a mission? What would you be willing to risk just to reach your goal? Maybe, it's just the satisfaction of feeling good about your self,or maybe you do it just to reach a certain goal. Look at Bilbo Baggins from the story "The Hobbit" he did not like danger what so ever, yet he still went on a dangerous adventure with dwarfs that he didn't even know. On the other hand, you could look at Farah Ahmedi from the passage "The Other Side of the Sky" she was in a war-torn…