Sibling duos

Founding of Morality and Marble Everything has a beginning, and with every beginning a narrative must always go along with it. Founding stories are tales of how things came to be, they can be extravagant, tragic and even mythical in nature. Two well-known stories which are often paired together due to their similar nature are the tales of Cain and Abel from the book of Genesis and Livy’s Romulus and Remus. The resolutions in these stories had outcomes which established ideologies on sacrificial violence and transformed the tales into founding stories. However, they are two very different kinds of founding stories which is never taken into consideration, with Cain and Abel being more of a founding story on morality, which condemned murder and sacrificial violence while Romulus and Remus was more of a founding story on the city of Rome, lacking an underlying moral message about sacrifice. In order to completely understand the difference between the two stories it is crucial to preface it with René Girard’s theory on violence and what motivates it. Girard’s theory is built upon the idea of mimetic desire which, “proposes that all humans learn their desires from other people….by imitation or copying (Stirling 12).” In essence, we are fueled by the idea that we Villanueva 2 will never be content unless we possess the same limited resource as someone else. If left unsatisfied this desire can continue to grow into a mimetic rivalry with the other person, where we are willing…

Sacrifice, a word that one may not comprehend or perceive when it is put into context. One who sacrifices constantly may not realize the extent of their sacrifice. Throughout history, humans have sacrificed. Frequently done to earn respect or acknowledgement of their God. For example, the ancient Aztec civilizations had regular sacrificial ceremonies to show worship to their God. The most prominent sacrifice of the human race was Jesus Christ. In modern time, sacrifice is not as tremendous as it…

Introduction A twin relationship is more than just a simple sibling relationship. My twin sister Bethany and I were born two minutes apart from each other on September 19th, 1998. We have been inseparable since birth. We have since developed our lifelong friendship into a storybook of many memories of times that we have had together. Hook Characters Setting Tension/Conflict/ Suspense Body The bond between fraternal twins simply cannot be explained, as one must experience it to feel the full…

Mr. and Mrs.Fisher need to step up as parents so their child won't get any worse. If Paul’s parents would have just admitted to the truth in the first place, Paul’s life might not have been affected as it is now. Readers who would enjoy Tangerine, would appreciate soccer, unpredictable plot twists, and breath-taking scenes. Additionally, if the readers could relate to sibling rivalry, moving, and bullying, it'll make Tangerine more easy to be engaged in, and able to be persistent when reading.…

“But what that heart is and where it is I can’t say. I can’t depend on it, so he shouldn’t. Part of me goes out to him. Heartbreak is the sound of ice cracking. Deep. Layers and layers muffling the sound (Wideman 687).” He knows that there were warning signs but instead of stepping in and helping his youngest sibling he went about living his own day-to-day life. “Try to understand where I been. Why I did what I did. You got time for that in here. Time’s all you got in here” (Wideman…

She sat in the car, opened her mouth, and started to tell her grandmother everything that came to her mind, to her grandmother she never shut up. To the rest of the world, she might as well never opened up to begin with. The drastic changes in her life gave her issues that she had to overcome. Adoption changed my outlook on life; it placed some obstacles in my life that would hold me back for a long period of my life. My life was so changed by adoption that I gained some problems in my life…

"A Pair of Tickets" by Amy Tan In the story "A Pair of Tickets," by Amy Tan, a woman by the name of Jing-mei struggles with her identity as a Chinese female. Throughout her childhood, she "vigorously denied" (857) that she had any Chinese under her skin. Then her mother dies when Jing-Mei is in her 30's, and only three months after her father receives a letter from her twin daughters, Jing-Mei's half sisters. It is when Jing-mei hears her sisters are alive, that she and her dad take a trip…

she doesn’t really care about their tradition and heritage was the fact that she changed her name from Dee( which have been passed down for years ) to Wangero Leewanika. Helga Hoel found that the name “Wangero” is a misspelling of the Kikiyu names “Wanjiro” and “Leewanika” which is an African name, but it is not Kikiyu. Hoel also found that Dee’s dress is of West African origin (the Kikiyu are East African) (Hoel 4). These encounters seem to indicate Dee’s shallow nature and how appearance…

Personal bonds between individuals are some of the most important things people have and cherish in life. These bonds hold people together in times of strength and of weakness. Some of the most important bonds are of those between family members. In the short story, the Red Convertible, by Louise Erdrich, there is a brotherly bond between two Native American brothers. This story is meant to show the reader how tight bonds really are and how different objects and events can symbolize the bond.…

Kirsch and That’s Bothered Kate by Sally Noll deal with sibling relationships. In Two Little Boys From TooLittle Toys, two brothers show the type of stereotype they create for businessmen and males. The boys are owners of a toy company where they manage and check if the toys are working properly. Rudy, who is the older brother, begins to explain to Ridley, his younger brother, that he must act like an adult. Rudy wears a suit and starts reading the manuals for each toy, because he believes…