The Circus

Stowaway The pay phone, on the wall outside of a tiny grocery store, was a short walk from my apartment. In 1980 I was 18 and had been living in a small town in central Arkansas for less than a year. Since anything resembling a cell phone or the Internet existed only Sci-Fi flicks, conversing with anyone not standing next to you consisted of a letter or a phone call. I’d never been a letter writer, they are so slow and I was all about instant gratification at 18. By the time a letter is…

Alexander Calder came from a long line of artists. His mom was a painter, his dad and grandfather were both famous American sculptures. Since art was an everyday occurrence in Calder life, he grew up always loving to create things and was encouraged to do so. He even had his own little studio as a young child where he made his own toys. Even though he loved making things growing up, he never saw art as a career in his future. Calder wanted to do into engineering and his parents encouraged that…

When she returned home, she found that Nazi Soldiers had overtaken her family’s old house. She was later offered a job at the circus by her old neighbor, which she took and used as an opportunity to begin a new life. Later in the story, Asterid and Noa meet and Noa is taken in by the circus and forced to put her life in jeopardy to perform on the trapeze as an act in the circus. To Asterid’s disliking,…

“Are you thinking what I am thinking?” “Yes. If we put little wheels on the bottoms of our shoes, we could just roll around everywhere...” The characters Helena and Valentine from the film MirrorMask have this dialogue and it sums up the randomness of surrealism. It emphasizes how two completely arbitrary unrelated objects can be fused together in the creative world of surrealism where there essentially are no boundaries. This essay will discuss that in terms of the film MirrorMask, and Un…

As a prank and revenge, Jim Kendall invited his wife and two kids to the Evan’s Circus. Jim does not provide his family with enough money to support them, only giving her two or three dollars a week if he does not spend it on alcohol. To support her children, Jim’s wife would go to Jim’s employer and ask for an advance on the his wages…

telling Atta the truth about the circus bugs not being "bigger, tougher, bugs" ( A Bug’s Life Walt Disney/Pixar). Because Other colony members and the royal family regard flick as a irresponsible, immature and unrealistic, most consider Flik to be a threat to the entire colony’s safety c.) Differential association is the belief that if you associate with deviants then you yourself will engage in deviant behavior(Henslin,2013). Flik engages in the lie with the circus bugs and pretends that…

endure through time, problems, and separation. To begin, love is shown to face many problems in both stories. In Water for Elephants the most substantial problem Marlena and Jacob face is that Marlena is married to her abusive husband, August. The circus is really…

We read about the life that Jacob lived and his love for Marlena, as he sits in the nursing home, and the patrons are watching the circus set up across the street, when Jacob begins to recal his memories. Jacob Jankowski finds him self dealing with the loss of his parents, in his finals about to finish at vet school. There was no money and no practice to go back to. Worse yet his…

Author’s use multiple tactics in order to portray many different ideas and layer to their audience. Things such as themes and symbols help the readers focus on the central idea of the story that relates to a specific event in history. In his novel The Prince of Mist, author Carlos Ruiz-Zafron uses things such as imagery, locations, and symbolism to emphasize on the events of the second world war which took place in 1939- 1945. Ruiz-Zafron uses things such as location and events in order to…

William Stafford uses language to depict the attitude of the speaker in “A Ritual to Read to Each Other”. He uses repetition of the first line to emphasize his point that the speaker and the reader are strangers, as with most people in the world, therefore one should not be quick to judge others. Stafford uses a descriptive metaphor in the poem about elephants holding each other’s tail. The speaker uses this unique example as an image that the reader can get about the ceaseless chain of…