The Looking Glass Wars

The Strength to Overcome Perseverance is defined as the quality that allows someone to continue trying to do something even though it is difficult (Perseverance, 2016). The theme of perseverance is shown a variety of ways in literature and art, including through image, text, and through context. Of all of the themes relevant to the selected works from Literature: A World of Writing, perseverance has by far had the greatest impact on the development of the pieces. The speaker, in Annabel Lee, a…

Kingston opens her autobiography with a tale of a nameless aunt. She describes the way in which women who are impregnated out of wedlock are treated in China, in this case, utterly erased from memory. Her father 's sister committed suicide after all of the villagers in her rural Chinese village destroyed their home, taking the baby along with her. Then her name is forgotten, her line is severed, and she is denied the sacred burial rites of the Chinese. Kingston reflects on this harsh treatment…

In Sable and Dark Glasses Joan Didion remembers her distaste for being a child and her yearning for a glamorous, grown up life. I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother’s definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty and finish every bite of…

ruffled its feathers. “A bird?” Birdie and Albert’s eyes locked for a moment, and he gave the smallest of nods. “I’m a Birdie!” she called in a sing-song voice, and the man instantly turned to her direction. The crowd parted, and the man was soon looking directly at her. He plopped the hat back on his head, and raised his eyebrows at her. “Why, hello, Birdie. My name is The Great Enzo Ormanni.” He said the last part with an exaggerated Italian accent, his eyebrows nearly touching the…

Freedoms such as being able to vote, express them-selves, and gain a sense of respect from others. Not only was fashion a piece of material back in the 1920’s, but also a form of movement. With the turn of the decade and fashion, women were able to speak for them-selves whether their voices were seen or heard as negative or positive. The Flapper image became negative for the elders but the image allowed young women to be able to grow out of that stage into mature women. Wanting to move out due…

Courthouse workers at the Union County Courthouse in Elizabethtown claim sightings of a ghostly figure that is said to be the spirit of Hannah Orton Caldwell. Caldwell, a minister’s wife, was killed by British soldiers during the Revolutionary War. Her ghost supposedly roams the grounds of a nearly cemetery as well as the corridors of the courthouse. The sightings have been so persistent that the SciFi Channel TV Show “Ghost Hunters” even devoted an episode to it. And at the Gloucester…

approving. They met because they attended the same church, but it started long before that. Since they lived around the corner from each other, he would watch her every time she passed by. Henrietta and her friends noticed this, and she recalls always looking forward to passing by so she could wave. John eventually asked her out and their first date they just walked for around talking for hours, and the rest is history. After dating for about a year, John proposed and they got married shortly…

Alfred F. Jones He was a mistake, that's what his father told him. He just wanted to be a hero, to have his name written into history. And everyday while the slaves were being slaughtered and carted away. Across the harsh waves he struggled and kept his guard up. Inside he felt empty, he would do anything to survive. Whether he beg, steal, borrow, or bartered. Than a hurricane came and devastation reigned he saw his future slowly dripping down the drain. He put a pencil to his temple, connected…

In William Blake’s poetical verses explaining the two contrary states of human existence, he observes the world with an extensive view from a state of “innocence and of an imagination unspoiled by stains of worldliness” (Keynes 12), and from a state of “indignation and pity for the sufferings of mankind as he saw them in the streets of London (Keynes 12). Holding firm to such ideologies as proposed by John Milton and Emmanuel Swedenborg, Blake believed in the philosophy that because all men were…

the most prominent situations in history but they have also been defeated by some. They could not be named the greatest without the trials they faced. Nelson Mandela overcame apartheid, Alexander the Great conquered the most belligerent fighters in war, and Martin Cooper made a wireless phone. Obstacles make a person stronger and provide them with the wisdom they need to triumph. In ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’, Huck Finn is a motherless child and is trying to escape his drunk and abusive…