The Narrow

The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a collection of poems written by Bashō, one of the most famous Japanese poets. To understand the inner workings of his poems it is necessary to not only analyze one but to also examine the cultural themes present in Japanese culture and the poet’s life. Art is laced with the culture of its author. Therefore, examining classical Japanese poetry is impossible without understanding the prevalent themes of the time, one such motif is mono no aware (物の哀れ) or…

easy, for he has school to worry about, his little sister to care for, and he must overpower the harsh racism in his town. Jem is attaining in finding himself and overcoming his communities abhorrent manners. The authors purpose is to express that narrow-mindedness and ignorance was very common involving race back in that era. She wrote in the mind of a child to show how it really used to be in entirety. Prejudice has a lot to do with helping Jem become more mature. For example, his father,…

Poet Elizabeth Alexander reminds us, “what poetry does is distill language with a kind of precision that reminds us of what it means to take care with the word, that the word has tremendous power, that each word matters”. In “A Narrow Fellow”, Emily Dickinson uses precise words and groups of words to convey certain images to the reader. She uses three poetic techniques to express her theme that although nature can be fascinating, it can also be frightening. These three techniques are diction,…

they all feed on insects, and they all have fluffy tails. Narrow Striped Mongoose: Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Eupleridae Genus: Mungotictis Species: Mungotictis Decemileata The Narrow Striped Mongoose lives in South Western Madagascar. They only have about 500 square kilometers in habitat area. It is primarily an insectivore. It is eaten by dogs, humans, and cat-like fossa. The Narrow Striped Mongoose has a 23-27 cm tail and a 25-35 cm long…

In “ How to Narrow the Gender Gap” by Aernofsky, Janice, the author explains that different gander in work not bad. Janice says that both men and women are from the earth not like as it was told in the previous. Janice discuses, women and women have different preference…

that bring to question their humaneness; therefore, there is a lack of confidence within a human’s capability to be humane, and it is still not completely known as to why this occurs. However, according to Richard Flanagan, renowned author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, humanity in and of itself is lost in times of circumstantial pressures. According to Flanagan, one reason that inhumane atrocities occur are due to the racial tensions instilled within people during times of ethnocentric…

A Christian children’s home in Muskogee has turned down a US$100 donation from an atheist, but the move has sparked a US$25,000 crowdfunding campaign. According to Matt Wilbourn, the Murrow Indian Children’s Home refused to accept his US$100 donation when he asked to put it under the Muskogee Atheist Community. He said he got a call from the home informing him that he would have to change the name on the donation in order for the money to be accepted, KRJH details. The Murrow Indian Children’s…

In the novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North written by Richard Flanagan, the theme relayed about the importance of accepting the consequences is relevant in today’s society in regard to becoming an active part of society, examining the potential consequences to rethink…

I was first intrigued by Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, due to the focus of the story being on the Thai-Burma Railway (or the Death Railway as it was also called) during World War II (WWII). This setting interested me as I have always had a curiosity about history and the study of history. Similarly I was also interested in the Thai-Burma Railway as last year I had done a project on it in my history class. However as I started reading the novel, the setting became less important…

Abstract: The 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge, was a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. It opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed into the Northwestern coast of Washington on November 7 of the same year. At the time of its construction, the bridge was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world in terms of main span…