The Chosen Ones

his laws too rigid, and his entire government as a fun buster. I thought maybe that god needed to lighten up a little, stop being such a straight lace, and have a little fun. I could not imagine god as a fun god, one who laughs and encourages laughter (imagine that, when he is the one that created laughter). I just pictured him on a great, massive, sterile looking white throne with his fingers pointing towards me saying “thou shalt not.” As i became…

to it. And at the Gloucester County Courthouse in south Jersey, construction workers, courthouse employees, and elected officials have all reported strange noises and lights during a renovation project in which old jail cells were being removed. One cell was temporarily left intact; it had housed an inmate who committed suicide in the 1950s, and workers and an administrator theorized that it was this convict’s restless spirit behind the strange happenings. With the approval of a county…

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.” This quote is exactly why I chose the Alchemist as my novel. These are the lessons YOU need in your life. Good Morning Mrs Lamplough and class. Paulo Coelho the author of the incredible life changing novel, The Alchemist, a novel that is well-worthy for the Grade 12 Syllabus. This passionate story contrasts completely with the theme of death…

The Thousand and One Nights: The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey The Thousand and One Nights is a collection of folk tales arising from the Islamic Golden Age. The book was compiled by many different authors over many hundreds of years. Today I have chosen to analyze The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey, which is the first tale told in The Thousand and One Nights. Shahrazad, who is the daughter of the king's vizier, is the narrator of almost all of the stories in the “Thousand and One Nights” except…

with small use of literary devices author Louise Erdrich has made the story very intriguing. To clarify, some of the literary devices used in The Leap are simile, flashback, and analogy. In the story, the literacy device simile is used to compare one element to another. An example of simile used in The Leap is when the story reads “they loved to drop gracefully from nowhere, like two sparkling birds” (2). Without doubt the author has used simile in a delightful way to compare Anna & Harry Avalon…

In the beginning, the brothers were inseparable from each other and the car, they went places together in that car throughout that one whole summer. But after at least three years, Henry comes back from the army, everything about their relationship, their brotherly bond changes dramatically. Lyman tries to recover their brotherly bond by beating up their car and “[making] it look just…

Unfair Balance of Power One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories from India, Persia, and Arabia and have been translated by various authors over hundreds of years. Even though it is a collection of different stories, they are all centered on the frame story of King Shahryar and his wife, Scheherazade, who narrates different stories for a thousand and one night in hopes that the King would stop killing innocent young women as punishment for his first wife’s adulterous act. The…

The mere mention of the word death evokes fear, anxiety and restlessness. It preys on the young and old alike, the poor and rich, the strong and weak, the brave and the cowards. Because of its nature that remains to be a mystery, men and women have turned to poetry to vividly describe it, seeking to shed a glimpse of light on this “might foe” Such thoughts are captured in the two poems by John Donne, “Death, Be Not proud” and “The Tyger” by William Blake. For sure death is just a temporal state.…

Whether one enjoys it, life can be altered from one point to another. Even though Carver does not directly tell the audience that his wife (the girl) has left him, a reader can infer that something negative has occurred to the family. By spilling his breakfast on his lap, the boy…

and literary elements in the Things They Carried to emphasize the effects that the war had on the soldiers. First of all, by expressing how O’Brien and his group of soldiers changed through the war he used many literary devices, such as anaphora. One example of O’Brien using anaphora in his novel is “Forty three years ago, and the war occurred a half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will sometimes lead to a story, which makes it forever… Stories…