The Walk

When a tsunami raged through the lands of Chennai, Ahalya Ghai (17 years) and her sister Sita (15 years) are left homeless and abandoned. Their entire family perished in the tsunami and they are now orphaned. Their only hope is to get a ride to the convent in Thiruvallur where they had studied, which is many miles away. A driver is ready to take them but the moment they get a ride, their fate is sealed. They fall into the trap of human trafficking and sex trade. They are sold into a brothel in…

To Walk Again in Manderley It was a wonderful day indeed when on May 13, 1907 British writer Daphne Du Maurier came into this world. How very different it would all have seemed if we hadn’t had the chance to read her fascinating and interesting novel “Rebecca” which she wrote in 1938. She was born in London, England and received her education in Paris, France. She was already born with creative genes I would say since her father was a well-known actor and theater manager. When Du Maurier was in…

Forster and Le Guin, in their short stories “The Machine Stops” and “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” respectively make many assumptions about human nature in regards to what people seek and value most. Both texts, set in Dystopian and Utopian futures, present the Marxist ideas of commodity fetishism, alienation and modernity as it relates to the human need for happiness, security and spirituality and/or religiosity. The futuristic worlds that both authors set up in their short stories deal…

“ Where is my family?” (9), that is the question that so many people living in Sudan had, just how Salva had asked a million times. A Long Walk to Water written by Linda Sue Park is a true story about the war crisis in Sudan. An 11 year old boy named Salva Dut has to leave everything behind, even his family when the gunfire from the war hit his village of Loun-Ariik (Dinka village). Salva walked for months and months across an arid desert to reach safety at a refugee camp in Ethiopia only to be…

renowned architect and although he was not raised in St. Louis, Obata should be on the St. Louis Walk of Fame because he spent his formative years in the St. Louis area and designed places like the Children's Zoo, the Thomas F. Eagleton Courthouse, and many more. Gyo Obata is a true nominated candidate of the Walk of Fame because of how he worked throughout his formative years. He worked…

It wasn't the best idea for Nova Rivers to walk home alone, but it was the only choice she had. More like she felt like it was the only choice she had. She hated walking alone in the dark yet she felt the urge to get away and walk home by herself. Which now that she thought about it, she shouldn't have given in because being a sixteen year-old-girl walking alone in a sketchy alley, something was bound to go down. "Okay, Nova. Maybe this wasn't the best idea," she whispered to herself and made a…

Brent Staples, in his article, “Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space,” reflects on the issues of false snap judgements, race, and gender. A victim of racial profiling, Staples asserts that first impressions as well as racial stereotypes are inaccurate. Through the usage of pathos, ethos, and logos, Staples convinces the audience that as a result of misleading snap judgments and stereotypes, black men are unfairly perceived as threats. Staples makes strong appeals to pathos by evoking…

In Brent Staples “Just walk on by” he uses ethos to show the reader that he is kind. Staples have been perceived as dangerous because of his color. The first instance he remembers was one night in Chicago a women misjudges staples to be a mugger leaving him with embarrassed feeling. Others think of him as being dangerous. Staples later moved to New York were more populated streets minimize these stereotypical encounters. Staples uses words such as ‘victim’ and ‘mean’,, by doing so he sets a…

In the memoir A Long Walk Gone, Ishmael Beah shares his memories of the Sierra Leone war. The war caused many hardships to the citizens of this country. It also caused a loss of innocence. Ishmael Beah embodies the loss of innocence by explaining life’s casualties before and during the war. Before the war broke out in Sierra Leone, Beah’s life was innocent. It is evident when Beah shares that he would dance and sing. Beah says that he loved to learn the verses of “I Know you got Soul by…

Both protagonists had thought-through the deadly situation before undertaking it, however the reasons for their actions are very divergent. In “You Can’t Just Walk On By” the young boy decides to kill a sleeping water moccasin for something that can cause harm for him or anyone in his town. The young boy even states “ I, or somebody else. Might be...snakebit” (Deal 150). In contrast, in Gardner’s story the hostess, Mrs.Wynnes, did not harm the cobra; she remained calm and told a young boy to put…