The Creatures

To Kill a Mockingbird: Similar Creatures “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us” (103). This quote from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird refers to the notion that mockingbirds are harmless creatures, they do nothing but sing and bring happiness to the world. Although mockingbirds are harmless and benevolent they are still susceptible to a hunter’s gun…

In Susan Blackmore’s “Strange Creatures” she describes the concept of the “memes eye view”. She claims the “memes eye view” is what makes humans different from animals, meaning humans can imitate therefore must be different from animals. As a reader dwells more on the thought of the “memes eye view” they can relate it to life experiences and other works of literature. For example, the “memes eye view” can be seen very clearly in “Bumping into Mr.Ravioli” by Adam Gopnik. In Gopnik’s work he…

as his imagination and his crayon take him anywhere he thinks possible. However, with freedom comes limitations. To make sense of the freedom within limits in Johnson's story, we are going to examine a text by Walter Percy called "The Loss of The Creature." In this text, Percy talks about preformulation in symbolic complex. Preformulation is something that is previously formulated by our culture and society. Percy uses the Grand Canyon as an example of preformulation. Garcia Lopez de Cardenas…

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor’s world is in a continuous state of change, from his family to his environment. However, the one thing that never deviates in the novel is Victor’s negative perspective of the Creature. Victor cannot change his perspective because he sees himself in the Creature, he has grown to despise himself due to his various actions in the novel, and because of this he hates the monster. Elizabeth, the most important member of Victor’s family, appears to be one of the…

G. Edward Griffin’s novel, The Creature from Jekyll Island, proposes a conspiracy between the United States government and the central bank of the United States, The Federal Reserve (the Fed). This alleged conspiracy dates back to the establishment of the Fed with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The basis of Griffin’s conspiracy is that rather than acting as an emergency line of credit for American banks and a regulator of the money supply, the Fed is a scheme for private bankers to profit off…

feel like you lived that day to the fullest protentional for whatever reasons you have. Huge moments should not be how we define whether or not we truly lived because those moments do not happen every day. In Walker Percy’s essay, The Loss of the Creature he is constantly…

Each person has different tastes in animals, such as dogs and cats. People also have different preferences for art. James Herriot mixes these ideas together into one in his story, All Creatures Great and Small. Whether it was suturing a wound or the birth of a cow, it was beautiful. Precisely like art, all of the different colors are easy on the eyes and the different textures make for an entertaining experience. The art of Dr. Herriot's surgeries convey the theme that every small action will…

Throughout the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the individual stories of Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the Creature, reveal how their strive and determination for success, can lead to misery and distress. Mary Shelley implies that all knowledge is sorrow. When Victor sat in his laboratory and reflected on his actions, he states “I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats: but now, for the first time,…

University of Ingolstadt. He attempted to discourage Victor from studying alchemy. Professor Krempe represents that little voice in your head that tells you not to do something. If Victor had taken his advice and ended his study of alchemy, the Creature would have never been made and all of this confusion could have been avoided. Professor Waldman was the professor that piqued Victor’s interest in chemistry. Although he did not believe in all the hype of alchemy, he did not bash Victor for…

Maine. Although Stephen King is a famous horror author, the real horror lies in his text; where Stephen King fails to uphold proper Scholarly writing. For example, in King's essay My Creature from the Black Lagoon he fails to introduce his thesis. King opens his essay by explaining his experience from watching My Creature from the Black Lagoon as a child, but he does not have a thesis that explains what his essay is about. Aside from missing a thesis in the beginning he continues to talk about…