The Pawn

The Man in the High Castle: Pawns of Fate Does fate or free will determine history? In Phillip K. Dick’s novel, The Man in the High Castle it is evident that fate is what determines the lives and choices for many characters. The novel takes place during 1962, after World War 2. Although, the situation is a little different than what really happened during the war. In Dick’s world, the axis powers, Japan and Germany, won the war and America is under the rule of the Germans and Japanese. Robert…

I found it funny that Jackson seems in denial that he is violent and thinks he is a perfect non-violent teenager. He doesn’t like to admit all the things that he did wrong. For example, he was married a few times and fathers a few of his children. As a reader, you are unable to rely on him because he was suppose to return the dance regalia to the store within twenty-four hours since he things that the dance regalia is his grandmother. Jackson doesn’t understand that it could be his grandmothers,…

plan already laid out to defeat her opponent. Within six minutes, Vinyl had accumulated a few pawns, a room, two knights, and a bishop from her opponent, while he had a couple pawns, one knight, and one rook. I kept stealing glances between them, wondered what Icicle had planned for her. They were coming down all over the place now: Vinyl was advancing her knights and rooks, while Icicle advanced his pawns to charge forward. My eyes kept wandering over Vinyl, still thinking intuitively of the…

ashore. After this nothing was ever the same, he used all the people that were loyal to him as just another piece of a game. In The Tempest by Shakespeare Ariel, Ferdinand, and Miranda shows how loyalty can oppress devoted followers into becoming a pawn in someone else’s game.…

all of the Indians ' valuables that they sell to him. The Indians end up pawning everything: "The Indians pawn their hands, saving their thumbs for last, they pawn their skeletons … and when the last Indian has pawned everything but his heart, Buffalo Bill takes that for twenty bucks" (3-4). This is an analogy to the degradation of the Indian culture by white people. Buffalo Bill and his pawn shop symbolize the way that white people have taken advantage of the Indians. The Indians are unable to…

life or the people that agree with it because they believe the same thing about us. Vonnegut showcases the game of chess played between two opposites for no prize but survival using the least valuable amongst them as pawns, and O’Brien transplants this to the jungle and lets the pawn have a voice. Therefore, both Vonnegut and O’Brien check off all five of the shared themes, for questioning the justice of fighting someone else’s war because…

It has been weeks since authorities have arrested and charged one Leslie Merritt Jr. in connection with the shooting spree that took place along a large section of the I-10 in Phoenix about a month ago. Merritt Jr., of Glendale, was arrested outside of a Walmart on Sept. 18 has been indicted by a grand jury and arraigned on 15 charges after his High Point 9mm semi-automatic handgun was forensically linked to four of the 11 highway shootings, and is currently being held on a $1 million bond…

premises that are generally assumed to be true.* A master of this art is none other than Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant detective from Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery story “The Red-Headed League”. In this story, a job is given to Holmes by Jabez Wilson, a pawn shop owner. Wilson explains to Holmes he was a part of The Red-Headed League because of his fiery red hair, but it was abruptly suspended as shown in this statement: “The Red-Headed League is dissolved October 9, 1890”. The Red-Headed…

destruction in other words, language is verbally and visually like a chess game that plays us all, choosing whether to call someone friend, foe or ally. However, in this chess game, every pawn has the potential to control the board like a king piece. That being said, every King piece needs an army, so they set out to find pawns who speak a similar language. In the animal kingdom, the ability to use language is a survival technique that has put one animal above all the rest. That animal is a…

and to reach a specific goal. Although some may disagree, the US Army does not engage in war because they have the power to do so, but for political reasons. Same goes for the Driver and Nameless, who are prompted to assassinate the King and rob a pawn shop, not for personal satisfaction or achievement, but for personal self duty. Whether they fail or not is fully judged by the characters Driver and Nameless themselves. Nameless plots to kill the King to avenge the Kingdom of Zhao and Qin, but…