Sacrifice

“Hey! Wanna go for a bike ride tonight?” Karli texted me this one-night last summer. This one night where my whole summer ended. The last night I remained able to hang out with my friends for the entire summer came before I knew it. No one had ever guessed bad things might happen. This will give you insight into how I received my concussion. One summer night my friends and I wanted to do something. Karli thought we should go for a bike ride and then texted me. The only people who had the…

I didn't need to do this. I needed to find food and shelter so I could survive… but was it too much to just have a bit of normalcy? If only for a bit? We’d won, Scion was dead, was it too much to ask for a bit of… I tried to think back. When had I just had a moment where it wasn't necessary to plan, or prepare for something, or think about fighting, or worry about the apocalypse? I stopped running my fingers through my hair. I couldn't remember. Back in Brockton, surely, but… before…

On the twenty-first of February, Melanie met a guy named Milton. Milton was a senior college student working on his way into the world of technology. They met in front of a bar as she was walking over to her friend's house. He saw her walking then stoped her with a smile. "Hello, I'm Milton. Are you coming to the bar?" He asked looking as quirky as ever. Melanie laughed. Then Milton realized how dumb he sounded. "Im not old enough to go in there." Melanie Informed. "Really?" Milton dug his…

Isac's eyelids flung open, a painful light instantly burning his dark pupils upon doing so, a bright light situated directly above him, causing him to shut his lids again and a pained groan to escape his lips at the surprisingly rude awakening. He rolled himself over in an attempt to escape the brightness and found himself rolling off whatever surface he'd woken up on. Slamming stiffly onto the ground, Isac voiced another groan this time more angry and pained then the last one. "For fuck's sake"…

During the book The Tale of Two Cities , Charles Dickens presented us with many themes throughout the novel. I decided to incorporate the central themes Fate, History and Sacrifice, because those select themes stood out the most to me during this novel. I chose sacrifice as a theme due to the fact that Dickens presented it to us as a necessity to achieve happiness. During the novel the revolutionaries prove that a new french republic can come about with only a heavy and terrible cost and emotion…

both 12 Angry Men and Macbeth characters are trying to reach a goal or achieve something.A theme shared by 12 angry men and Macbeth’s monologue from act 1 is that sometimes you have to make sacrifices or give up power to do what is right. Generally, the play 12 angry men can connect to the theme of sacrifice because at the end juor 3 gives up his power to agree with the other jurors for what's right.The author states,”Eight:[to three]your alone...Four:If its a hung jury there will be another…

Sacrifice John Ford’s inspiring film, Grapes of Wrath, pulls at the heartstrings of viewers. The film tells the story of the Joad family and their struggle to find work during the depression. The story begins with Tom Joad, the eldest son of the Joad family, finding that his family has been evicted from their home during the Oklahoma Dust Bowl and set out for California along with thousands of others in search of jobs, land, and hopes for a brighter future. Ford uses the story of the Joad family…

In Sophocles’ Play, Oedipus at Colonus, the character of Oedipus is commonly seen as a tragic hero, abused by the gods but ultimately redeeming himself in death. However, he functions more as a sacrifice, linking the demise of his homeland to the rise of his adopted city. His actions show the concept of fate and its power over all mortal beings. When he arrives in Colonus, Oedipus is greeted by a chorus of citizens who, upon learning his name, berate him for coming to their sacred city and…

Caesar is not fit to rule Rome and must be dealt with. This leads Cassius, Brutus, and many others to carry out the assassination of Caesar. Since Caesar dies in Act 3 Scene 1, it raises the question, Is Caesar’s death a “sacrifice” or “butchery”? Caesar’s death is a sacrifice because Brutus tells his group, also known as “the Conspirators”, that they should be sacrificers and not…

The theme of Sacrifices between the families is portrayed in the texts. Written text ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ by Jodi Picoult and short story ‘The Gift of the Magi’ by O’ Henry. Media text ‘Mamma Mia’ directed by Phyllida Lloyd and Script ‘Billy Elliot’ by Stephen Daldry. These texts introduce a range of sacrifice that can occur in family relationship; married couple, mother and child, father and child and between siblings. All of these texts are connected sacrificing their most valuable. The Gift…