The Wanderer

When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire such customs as are inherent with existence in the new land; he must abandon the old ideals and the old gods, and oftentimes he must reverse the very codes by which his conduct has hitherto been shaped. To those who have the protean faculty of adaptability, the novelty of such change may even be a source of pleasure; but to those who happen to be hardened to the ruts in which…

those days it was not than now" (Thiébaux). This was the day that she was lonely. The day that her husband has left her behind. She still had feelings for him. She then "left on a journey to seek and serve him" (Thiébaux). She becomes "a friendless wanderer" and was at the mercy of the world. The wife had her doubts at first. She thought that her man "began to plot with secret scheming to split" (Thiébaux) them apart. However, her passion for her husband immediately dismisses this idea. She…

The vast size of the human population today in our modern time bring with it an almost arbitrary phenomenon, that most people do not seem to understand and accept. It is of course the phenomena that allows some people to live in huge mansions with a fifty meter pool in the backyard, and there are human beings who are forced to dwell in the many tunnels and sewers under major cities and who have to beg for their food. It is an extreme example of course, but is not farfetched at all. It is a…

Frankenstein and the Bible are two completely different pieces of literature. One the religious text that still captivates the world. The other text the standard on which modern fictional horror was built upon. Categorizing these two texts, would often cause someone to place these books on completely different shelves. The items that Frankenstein and the Bible have in common are very interesting. Both Books start in different ways, yet they have many similarities. For example, God’s creation of…

This course explored four novels, which examined the connections between race, gender, age, and class. The women characters from each novel dealt with their own victimizations. The two women that will be discussed within this essay are Janie Crawford from Their Eyes Were Watching God and Etta Mae Johnson from The Women of Brewster Place. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Crawford is the main character, and the novel explores her story which consist of confusion, love, and hate. Janie…

patients or the healthcare system. I. Introduction: The Historical Roots of Hospice In Homeric times (8th century B.C.), all Greeks without exception were regarded as being under the protection of Zeus Xenios, the god of strangers and supplicants. A wanderer would be treated as a guest and offered food, shelter, clothing, and gifts. Violation of the duties of hospitality were likely to provoke the wrath of the gods. (Forman and Kitzes, et. 2003). Patients who were not cured by an…

“It’s All Greek to Me” In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein alludes to the story of Prometheus as they are both creators that go against God, that only lead to their own destruction. In the story of the wise Prometheus, he was the creator of mankind and taught them art. In Frankenstein, Victor was the creator of a monster when it says on page 51, “Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticality. It was with these feelings that I…

Deemed “provocative” by the Denver Post (Ostrow) and a “Confident, Controlled Artistic Achievement” by New York Magazine (Seitz), the second season of American Crime is an intricate and thought-inducing TV series. The 10-episode anthology created by John Ridley tells the tale of a high school rape in Steubenville, Indiana. The psychological action begins from the very first episode and if the viewer was hoping for a cut and dry mystery, she will not see one. Ridley takes a left turn; the…

Independent Women Zora Neale Hurston, one of the leaders of Harlem Renaissance, influenced a lot of women in the late 1930s by writing Their Eyes Were Watching God. In traditional perspective, it had been a common thought that women need men to live and are only about who they end up with. However, Hurston encouraged many women to raise their voice by letting them know that women and romance do not always go together. The novel demonstrates how modernism has built the new structure of women’s…

2. Interpretation 2.1. In-Text The first chapter introduces us to Jim Gallien, a union electrician, is on his way to Anchorage when he stops for a hitchhiker. The hitchhiker introduces himself as Alex from South Dakota, although his real name is Christopher Johnson McCandless and he is from Virginia. Alex tells Gallien that he “wanted a ride as far as the edge of Denali National Park, where he intended to walk deep into the bush and “live off the land for a few months”” (Krakauer 4). Gallien…