The Ice Palace

Tarjei Vesaas’ The Ice Palace, Siss experiences all of the above as she struggles to understand Unn’s loss. Guilt floods her senses, manifesting itself in a promise to think of Unn and only Unn always. Her promise isolates Siss from her friends and family as she forces herself to keep Unn alive in her memory. Siss so dutifully observes her promise that the thought of spending time with her friends as she used to terrifies her, and she envisions the ice palace, which she heavily associates with Unn and the promise, crumbling beneath them as punishment. However, the pain and loneliness her…

The story I'd like to interpret is entitled “The Ice Palace” and it’s written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. The author is one of the greatest American writers. His books nowadays are as successful as his own life was a failure. He wrote five novels, four volumes of short stories and a selection of his autobiographical pieces. “The Ice Palace” is one of Fitzgerald’s stories. The author reveals some problems in this story: a problem of generation gap, a problem of choice of future husband and wife,…

The process of discovery is a profoundly meaningful experience which involves moving into unknown realms, causing a re-evaluation of the known. Discoveries occur in a multifaceted fashion as part of a re-consideration of experiences and values, generating new perspectives of ourselves and our world. Rosemary Dobson’s poetry and Fitzgerald’s The Ice Palace position us to recognise the significance of time, change and its confronting challenges. The persona’s desire for creative freedom within…

The Ice Palace So many people wake up “tired” which is ironic because they had just slept. But is live really living when you go through your day sleepwalking due to your sense of being apathetic? In the short story, The Ice Palace by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sally-Carrol Happer faces this same sense of being apathetic. Sally-Carrol seems to have apprehended this lesson of life through her life. It was the longest lesson she had to learn through her life. Within the first chapter, Sally-Carrol has…

The two main characters are Gerda and Kai who are excellent friends. When Kai is struck with evil magic, it changes his outlook on life, making everything he sees ugly. When Kai is out in a village in Denmark, he meets the Snow Queen, who kisses him which causes him to forget all about Gerda. The Snow Queen then whicks Kai off to her palace, where she hides him away from the world. When Gerda goes to search for Kai, a kind reindeer named Bae tells her that the Snow Queen took him into her…

The Jewels That Mountains Wear Image source: google.com How much ice did you ever see in one place? An ice tray full? A skating rink full? A pond full? A river frozen from bank to bank? That 's a lot of ice. But there are places in the world where there is more. Much more. You know how high mountains are. There are places where the space between mountains is crammed and jammed and packed full of ice. This kind of ice is called glacier. This video simply explains how glacier is…

expected that there will be dangerous heat waves in the summer. “Their findings, published Monday in the online journal Nature Climate Change, suggest that once every five years, Europe is likely to experience “a very hot summer,” in which temperatures are about 1.6 degrees Celsius, or 2.9 degrees Fahrenheit, above the 1961-90 average. This is up from a probability, just a decade ago, that such events would occur only once every 52 years, a 10-fold increase”(Christidis, 2014). This heat buildup…

I value winter for not only its activities, snow days, or cheering fires, but above all for its simple, natural beauty. I stop in my step, mesmerized by the painted canvas around me. I feel a tingle inside me as I take in my surroundings. There is the perfect mix of blues, greys and whites as I gaze into the sky amongst the fluffy grey clouds. Amongst this painting in the sky, rings of yellow and pale orange create a precise flickering circle. The rings cast a dim glimmer through the colours of…

Crystal Joy The things that snow crystals can do Do you know amazing things about snowflakes? Do you someday want to know everything about them? Snowflakes are wonderful things that come out of no where. Also, the topics I am going to tell you are fantastic! Snowflakes are the most interesting things to learn about. Snowflakes are Amazing because they come in all shapes and sizes. Also, they can stop us from having school! Lastly, Snowflakes have a fantastic form. To…

When you look out your window on a snow day, you will see snowflakes fluttering down, and silently resting on the ground. Snowflakes are commonly mistook for what the replicas look like, and people don’t stop to look at their appearance, formation, or they don’t ask themselves if the ground has an effect on their snow day. So for everyone who wants to learn more about these fascinating figures this story is for you. To start out with, we have appearance of snowflakes. According to the…