Secret Life

Stars (Blank Verse) by Kyra Howard a vivid memory, it was midnight during the winter. white powdery snow on the ground, the night sky becomes so different in the country - its becomes like that father and farther away from the city. The stars in the city are like the city dwellers who they look down upon unwilling to come out during the night out of fear. the celestial delights of the night sky, everywhere, they surround us all the time but it's in the country, where if one looks up at the…

know, I am lazy. So, I wrote whatever is easiest, but with a little of my “secret writing sauce”. I literally found NOTHING backing up the reasons I believe in. In fact, this is one of my #1 mottos: “I believe in a perfect world if everyone else believes they can make it one”. I will reveal what that means at my induction into the rock'n'roll hall of fame. Stupid textual evidence, always ruining my opinions, dreams, life, etc. Anyhoo… Letz do dis Aahh, utopias… The non existent crap that…

central themes included in the story include the basis of right and wrong, revenge, as well as justice. Borges bases his account on issues of self-deception, deceit, and the enigma associated with understanding and interpreting reality. As she devises a secret plan that will allow her to avenge the father, she is forced to act against her principles. She goes to the extremes of losing her virginity to a total stranger. In the short story Emma Zunz, Jorge Luis Borges incorporates a sophisticated…

Love starts reminiscing the times she turned the socks of the heel twice. “To find that I’d knitted a second heel. Once I’d done it and lost my young man. Twice and I’d lost my sister. Now a third time. I had no one left to lose.” Mrs. Love felt like life was it for her when lost her young man and sister. Just when she prepares to meet her maker, she starts to think about a picture. “The image of this little cat, with its wet fur, kept distracting me.” Even though she was old and depressed she…

Physician strives to avoid death by supposing that his “relative,” Godfather will not execute him and that Death has the power to light a second candle, giving him a second chance at life, but the results are false and the Physician ends up dead. At the end of the stories, the Physician and the servant were dead, implying that life after death is hopeless or nonexistent. There was no way to redemption or ability for them to control the situation. When thinking from an atheistic perspective,…

Pride and Prejudice It is no secret that Jane Austen was an appreciator of nature, considering it is a frequent theme included in many of her works. Austen’s heroines generally admire and love nature, and often take long strolls to appreciate the charming landscape they reside in. However, although her descriptions of the picturesque countryside are elegant and pleasing, they are intended to serve as more than just a backdrop for her characters to develop their storylines. Austen additionally…

Thus, not a demonstration but a bet, not a certitude but a hope: And if this is true, my friend, said Socrates, there is good hope that on arriving where I am going, if anywhere, I shall acquire what has been our chief preoccupation in our past life, so that the journey that is now ordered for me is full of good hope, as it is also for any other man who believes that his mind has been prepared and, as it were,…

Abram forward into the large marble bathroom the conversation continued. Encouraging his friend, feeding insight of a new beginning, stabilizing his life with self-discipline, while taking his place on the marble bench. Although the one-sided conversation grew, the wish for Abram to shave went unanswered. Lecturing his friend to face the facts of life, earnestly inquired, ‘What’s your problem Abram? Killing yourself over this woman is not the solution! You lost a tremendous amount of weight,…

What is the first thing you picture when you hear the words “Australian nature”? I’m sure most of you instantly think of the green-filled plains or the sunburnt land and the shimmering, blue water we are surrounded by. And yes, the majority of us take pride in our sun flared lifestyle and rhapsodise about what nature brings to us. Consequently, it is no surprise that many Australian poems are based on ideas of the Australian environment, landscape and nature, whether with respect to our…

Unconditional love is another theme that ties in with forgiveness throughout the story. Even though she desperately wants to get away from her parents and leave behind her catastrophic life, Walls still loves and forgives her parents. I can relate to her struggle of deciding which factor is more important in life: family and loyalty or self sufficiency and independence. I, without a doubt, fully agree with Walls, that family comes first. No matter what mistakes they make or what misleading…