The Day of the Locust

Within the novels The Day of the Locust and The Grapes of Wrath, both authors create meaning through the use of symbols, metaphor and allegory. Both novels, The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, were published in 1939, a year of high tension both within America and the world on a whole. Nazism seemed ready to sweep through Europe, Communist Russia looked an unlikely ally and, within its own boarders, America was still recovering from both the…

5. What percent is your internal locus and what percent is your external locus? My internal locust is 61% and my external locust is 36%. a. Describe a situation where you felt you had control over an event in your life. Being able to control my life is important to me because I want to make decision that will help me, not hurt me. When I play video games, I have complete control over what I am doing in the game, and what I’m doing in real life. Another instance where I had control…

“Fortunately, among these people a man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father.” (Achebe 9) This quote is significant to the novel because it tells the reader Okonkwo's motives for all his actions during the course of the story. Okonkwo wanted to be the complete opposite of his father and everything his father represented. He wanted to be judged by his own accomplishments and not the lack of his father's. In Igbo culture, since you are valued by your own…

For this class, I learned a lot of material covered throughout the Old Testament. I learned about the chosen people, their mistakes, their punishment, and how God showed his grace even when they disobeyed. However, there is one group of people that kept the descendants of Abraham throughout their time, the prophets. These people were chosen messengers of God’s word, and even though the messages weren’t always pretty, they were always true. As a result, I have decided to give an insight on the…

death, birth, disappointment… All of that is expressed in culture.” That quote does a fantastic job of explaining what culture means to the Igbo clan. It directly affected every single member of the culture every single day of their life. They had some practices that we see in modern day customs, as well as very questionable practices that we very much frowned upon. Which raises the question, did the old traditions of the Igbo society have more of a negative than positive impact on Okonkwo and…

Questions about Irony The two most prominent examples of irony in Things Fall Apart are the District Commissioner’s novel, and the death of Okonkwo. After the entirety of the novel, the description of a whole world and culture with copious amounts of people, after the gigantic critical tragedy of Okonkwo, the District Commissioner decides to write a book. He ponders of giving this great man, powerful leader, a replete life, a single paragraph in his novel, “The Pacification of the Primitive…

about the main character, Okonkwo, is his ideological detachment from both his father Unoka, and his son Nwoye. As the novel begins with the story of Okonkwo’s father and his leisurely attitude on life, Achebe states, “Unoka was like that in his last days. His love of talk had grown with age and sickness. It tried Okonkwo’s patience beyond words” (25). There is a disagreement between Okonkwo and his father, as their differing outlooks on life are completely different. An additional disconnect…

was a swarm of locusts. A swarm of locusts were enough to cover land of Egypt. The ninth disaster was darkness. Egyptians could not get sun and they lived in darkness which people could not see each other’s face in fourth days. It is record in Exodus chapter 10 verse 23.…

In the article Franklin D. Roosevelt the author states, “ The New Deal became a way for many citizens of America to play an active role in defeating the Depression.” “During the first 100 days of his presidency, a never-ending stream of bills was passed, to relieve poverty, reduce unemployment, and speed economic recovery.” (“The New Deal”) Roosevelt also developed The Conservation Corps , which sent 3 million single men from the ages of…

Whenever the locust was invited to a new community, after few days, one of their members would commit adultery which would result to them being send away. In addition to that, the number of times the creatures made mistakes; the Holy people always came to their aid. The theme of manifest destiny…