Silk Road

and compassionate, are what the father and sons in The Road and Gilead faced, respectively. Many fathers around the globe would agree…

such as going to the bathroom or finding an area to sit. A clear example of failure of aesthetics can be seen in the example of a man sitting on the back of a chair towards the road, therefore implying that the pedestrians would prefer to view the road than the current…

Mark Smith’s ‘The road to winter’ (released in 2016) Is a story of a boy (Finn) in a post-apocalyptic world, where a disease has taken over. ‘The road to winter’ is a story about survival, love, and fear. With good preparation comes power. Ramage made quick decisions when the disease hit and that’s why throughout the book he is in a position of power. When a disease hits, especially as lethal as the one in the book, the littlest amount goes very far. In the second chapter Rose is amazed by what…

On the road, you can will see many drivers going beyond the speed limit, these drivers are risking danger to themself and other people on the road. Yet most of them do it anyway, they like how the thrill of the speed makes them feel, making them want to have more power and to excel in speed. This is how some of the many car accidents are created, there are people who are innocent and others who are of fault for the accident. In the book Of Mice And Men, the author Steinbeck uses Curley and…

What was the last decision you made? Do you wonder what might have happened if you chose differently? This is the same feeling Robert Frost wrote his famous poem The Road Not Taken about. The poem is about reflecting upon and fretting over a past decision, a decision you may feel you chose poorly or picked the wrong option. This feeling happens so commonly, everyone has experienced it at some point, and on different levels of intensity. It can happen when you think maybe the chocolate ice cream…

Imagine I’m walking down a road and i’m not aware of a car driving down the road the same direction as i’m walking. The driver gets closer down the road around where i’m walking but I have moved off the road. The driver gets a text and thinks there’s nothing wrong with checking it because it won’t take but a few seconds. He becomes unaware where he’s driving and sees that he’s directly in front of me. He begins frantically swerving to avoid hitting me. He tries to swerve away from me but with…

We live in a world where people are constantly facingInto the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine is not just a light-hearted entertaining musical, but also a work of literature with a deeper understanding in both the story and characters. One of my favorite songs from the musical is “No One is Alone,” which is sung by Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, the Baker, and Jack during a difficult time. Everyone has had an instance in their life where they feel alone and as if they are having…

“Life is a choice, and determining what to choose shows self-reliance, the dignity of the doer as well as the essence of human right in running life”, this is according to R.B Edi Pramono. The Road Not Taken was a poem written by Robert Frost (1875-1963). The poem uses the two roads as metaphor, for it symbolizes the choices we do in our lives, like when we arrive in the point that we have to choose between two things. The poem uses a rhyme scheme, written in the first person, and is composed of…

The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, is a story about overcoming the many issues that life presents us with. The story is narrated by an intelligent and witty dog named Enzo, who is owned by an aspiring race car driver named Denny Swift. To the pair, race car driving is a way of life and they constantly reminisce by watching recordings of Denny win races on wet tracks. Despite Denny adding on to their family with a wife and daughter and Enzo having to share his attention, man and man’s…

Following North, Heaney’s next collection of poetry was Field Work which largely documents his four years spent in Glanmore County Wicklow. The significance of this move is that it took him South of the border with the Republic of Ireland, a haven away from the sectarian violence of the North. Inevitably, this could be assumed as Heaney’s deliberate removal from the political situation, however, Joshua Weiner wrote: While the move south seemed to some a deliberate withdrawal from a previous…