The Shadow

The novel Roots and Shadows (1983) is the first authentic and organized effort of Shashi Deshpande to probe into the various dimensions of feminine sensibility and its human possible. It was published in1983. Roots and Shadows is a symbolic depiction of the dialectical nature of man and woman Set against each other in material terms for power struggle. “Roots” stands for tradition and “shadows” signifies the marginal culture. The dying tradition is soon to become shadows against a backdrop of…

Jun’ichirō Tanizaki uses “In Praise of Shadows” to relate to the audience by talking about the multitude of differences between traditional Japanese aesthetics and modern Western inventions. He shows how these differences affect the past culture, causing it to fade away with the introduction of innovations that are more useful, beneficial, and efficient. Tanizaki explains the deeper meaning and significance of the simplest things. The author explains how there is a significance to everything…

Shadow Warriors starts off on the seventh of October, 1985, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. This is the day a large cruise ship was hijacked in the Mediterranean with Americans on board. Though, as the book proceeds, it goes all the way back to the Vietnam War in the 1950’s to the 1990’s while talking about how the Special Forces started from the small core units in the military. This book is most written from the view point of General Carl Stiner (Ret.), who helped write this book. He was very…

“Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.” In the book Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, shadows are an important symbol which shows the relationships between people and the tone of a time period. As Paul struggles with living in the shadow of his brother, he feels invisible, but soon he learns that he is as good as Erik, and he begins to regain his self confidence and becomes a new person. At the beginning of the novel, Paul Fisher was a quiet and polite boy with…

Queen of Shadows “No Masters, No Limits, No Regrets” Queen of Shadows written by Sarah J. Maas is the last book available in the Throne of Glass series. This series has a total of six books and there is to be one released in September of 2016. Maas also wrote A Court of Thorns and Roses and A Court of Mist and Fury. The main characters of Queen of Shadows are Aelin Galathynius otherwise know as Celaena Sardothien, Dorian Havilliard, Chaol Westfall, Aedion Ashryver, Rowan Whitethorn and…

Ender’s lesson In the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, unfriendly aliens mounted an attack on Earth. After repelling the buggers, Colonel Graff creates a military school aimed to find the next great commander. Finding interest into Ender, he is recruited to battle school. Here, students study strategy, tactics, military history and goes deeper into math and science. At school, Ender finds himself at the top spot, which impresses Colonel Graff. Ender graduate from battle school and is…

Imagine being six years old and the third child in an overpopulated world with a planet of aliens called buggers threatening to attack. This is what life is like in a futuristic world for the brilliant Ender Wiggin before his departure to the Battle School on a space station orbiting Earth. Not only is Ender the most intelligent child at the Battle School, but is also a talented strategist which sets him apart from the other children. Ender wants to be a good person and tries to avoid violence…

Walking in Circles – Talking in Socratic Circles (1-Pager #3) In class today, we were put in a large Socratic Circles for Ender’s Game. This was done to encourage critical thinking. It was comprised of approximately fifteen students. We discussed the chapters that were assigned. We were encouraged to use sagacious discussion to develop strategic questions. Specifically, we used figurative language such as e=mc2 and connected the purpose of the author. Ender was promoted to a Commander.…

“I could kill you like this.”(page 12) This quote is taken from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. In this one quote, it sums up the relationship between Ender and his brother Peter. Peter is one of the greatest influences in Ender's life, even if Ender refuses to admit it. Because Peter was so cruel and violent towards Ender, often physically abusing him(page 12). Due to this End began to imitate Peter's actions when he played the war games ruthlessly. This led to Ender being a remarkable…

Name: Tutor: Course: Date: Old Man Warner: The Custodian of Tradition Character: Old Man Warner Plot: The Lottery follows a community detached from its humanity that allows cruelty and its blind faith in tradition to drive it into making inhumane decisions. Setting: The early hours of June 27th in a monotonous town with a population of about three hundred people. Old Man Warner is a symbol of the conservative archetype that dominates the plot of the short story as a central character in The…