The Howling

Within every novel, the author uses their voice to send specific messages to the reader. These conscious and subconscious decisions give authors their own unique and distinct style. Mo Yan definitely had a voice of his own and knew how to use it. When reading Mo’s Red Sorghum, readers will begin to pick up on his subtle techniques. Mo’s heritage bleeds through in his work with the strong influence that folk culture has had on him. He creatively weaves past and present tense within his nonlinear…

“Howl” by Allen Ginsberg: Holy! Holy! Holy! Once in a great while, a poem comes along, that has so many hidden meanings you get lost in the spaces. There are an abundant amount of ways to interpret Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl.” To me, “Howl” depicts the five stages of loss and grief in an attempt to deal with Ginsberg’s emotional fallout from the loss of his friends. In 1969, Elizabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler defined the five stages of loss and grief as 1.) Denial, 2.) Anger, 3.) Bargaining, 4)…

is going on and where he is exactly going, all of these strange behaviors leave Johnathan questioning his quest to the castle. Boarding the carriage that will take him to the castle, he has the impression that is covering the same ground, he hears howling and becomes scared (38). Investigating certain stops, Harker witnesses that you can see through the driver’s body, once he arrives to the castle he is paralyzed by fear at Count’s dark mysterious mansion…

Brave New World Like death and taxes, there is no escape to color; or isolation. Isolation is pale, white, and blank because there is an absence of substance, just like with the color- white - there is an absence of pigment. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, two characters face pallid isolation in different ways, Bernard and John. The author exhibits it within a particular passage in chapters seven and eight when Bernard and John share their feelings of alienation from their respective…

1. Loewe, J. Andreas. “‘Musica Est Optimum’: Martin Luther’s Theory of Music,” Music & 0 0 0 Letters 94, no 4 (2013): 573-605 “‘Musica Est Optimum’: Martin Luther’s Theory of Music”, an article by J. Andreas Loewes begins by citing a volume written by Carl Schalk titled Luther on Music, which updated previous records on the subject written by Walter Buszin and Paul Nettl. Schalk claimed that their works “caused frustration because of a lack of documentation”, though there were other…

The Comparative Study Of Hoof Print Petroglyph At Kansas Rock Art Site 14EW405 and the Ethnographic Ledger Books of the Late 19th Century Introduction The study of the rock art in North America is a vast milieu of differing peoples and times. Some areas, and traditions, are well studied, with the understanding of the people who created the works are more defined in their source. Kansas, with the exception to a few sites, is not one of those areas. With a slow trickle, the expansion of…

There was always the cabin. Always the darkness outside of it, the calendar on the wall, and the flickering bulb But some things do change. There were more of us once. Gumpaw and Gamgam for starters. How we cried deep sobs of anguish when they could not be saved. Too slow, too feeble. Father can only do so much, he is already spread so thin protecting us that nobody blames him for what happened. Out the window I can see other lights in the distance, spread out like strange constellations.…

Music is everywhere. Music is a melodious tune one either makes his or herself or hears in one 's surrounding. A person can whistle a tune or hit against objects. We can hear it in nature: wolves howling, birds chirping, and the rivers rushing to meet the sea. In today 's day and age, music evolves and rap music is one of the genres. Rap music begins as an alternative to violence but many believe it has a negative effect on the behavior children. Rap music is an underground phenomenon of the…

The Sport of Hunting You see an older gentleman going down the road and you see a big shinny chrome looking box in the back of his truck. You hear a dog howling in that box and you see him just grinning from ear to ear. Suddenly, a deer runs across the road and three hounds are chasing him. A hunter is a person who attempts to supply for their family or hunts for a buck of a lifetime. Hunters have specific methods to hunting which could be still hunting. A still hunter basically sits and watches…

the same to me. My leg is rotting. The stench coming from it smells worse then the dirty billets back by the front line. People are screaming in the other rooms. Their losing their minds in here, I can relate. The squeaking of a rusty stretcher is howling down the hall towards our room, I see…