Sons and Lovers

In "Quitters,Inc." by Stephen King's short story follows the life of an everyday man, Dick Morrison and how his life will be turn upside down with his choice of stop smoking and the results are terrifying. Stephen King's most powerful use of foreshadowing is the card where both cards appear in the beginning of the story and the end of the story. In Stephen King's short story smoking is a symbole of depression." Quitters, Inc., was in a new building where the monthly rent on the office space…

Pride, a simple word, yet a variety of meanings to different people. Pride seems to encompass our daily lives, impacting our decisions. For many pride runs their lives because they care too much about how others view them, instead of what’s right. Correspondingly, with this idea, Sophocles asserts that the only crime is pride and that we must stop our wrong and fix it. This idea by Sophocles is valid due to the fact that for various people pride runs their life and influences their decisions.…

Arthur miller was born in the year 1915 in Harlem, New York. His father owned a coat manufacturing business but unfortunately the business didn’t last and lost almost everything in 1929. And because of this he and his family had to move to Flatbush, Brooklyn. He attended the University of Michigan. During his time in college he won the school’s Avery Hopwood Award for his first play, No Villain. After this he moved back East to pursue his career as a playwright. And soon after that he married…

Just Mercy, A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, and All American Boys by Jason Reynolds are connected by the theme and moral lessons each novel puts forward. Just Mercy, is written from the viewpoint of Mr. Stevenson as he goes through many people's cases trying to give them the justice they deserve. All American Boys is the story of a young teenage boy who is beaten up by a cop because it is believed he is stealing a bag of chips. Although the storylines of these two stories…

The Prodigal God The parable of the prodigal son is one of my favorites possibly because of how often it has been preached and how much I "thought" I knew all about its meaning. When I look back over my experiences I realize that many of our awesome preachers have all been focused on the returning son and never really given the older brother much thought. Author Timothy Keller has a very unusual and distinctive theological approach to presenting both sons as failures in the eyes of the Lord,…

criminal, as if it were a button to an overcoat. As time goes on, that string is worn from stress, making it more susceptible to snap. Just like a string, all guilt has a snapping point. Joe Keller is the protagonist in Arthur Miller's play All My Sons, who is consumed by the guilt of killing innocent World War II pilots. The guilt of this tragedy is unbearable for Keller, as it drives him to insanity and ultimately compels him to commit suicide. Keller's greatest enemy is his internal demon. He…

Arthur Miller was looked at as a prominent figure during the twentieth century. Miller was an essayist and wrote creative American playwrights. Throughout his career he earned the Tony Awards for Best Play, Kennedy Center Honors, and several more. He is also famously known for his short marriage to Marilyn Monroe. Miller started as a young man with a dream and ended with a wonderful life, and several writings behind. Miller was born on October 17, 1915 in Harlem, New York to a family of…

In the late 1940s, Arthur Miller created a unique play - "Death of a Salesman", which is still very popular in different parts of the world. According to the play, the action takes place in Brooklyn, in the postwar years, at the end of the 1940s. The play tells us about the 60 years old, unhappy salesman Willy Loman, his family, and his misunderstanding of achieving the American Dream. We see four main characters: Willy Loman - the father of the family, Linda - his wife, Biff and Happy - his…

situation that would present him with guilt. In the analysis of “Death of a Salesman” Schultz notes. “In Willy’s case, his goal is so strongly motivated by the love of money, he neglects his family. (Schultz, 2010, para. 7). Willy has his wife and sons’ admiration but chooses not to see or at least admit to his neglect of his family’s feelings. The dramatic irony of Willy’s flashbacks of his brother Ben show that Willy chose the life he is living originally in support of his family and with good…

In All My sons by Arthur Miller, the usage of symbolism is used in a post war world to show the death of a son and a community’s disregard for the truth. Symbols include an apple tree and a jail created by the patriarch of the Keller family. The neighborhood is living in a time period following World War II. The time period allows for the symbols to have more impact. At the beginning of the drama, the symbol of the apple tree is presented. The apple tree was planted in memorial of the Keller’s…