The Wanderer

The principal character I want to analyze concerning alienation/isolation is Bartleby. Bartleby is viewed as an enigma by the lawyer as he states, “But I waive the biographies of all other scriveners for a few passages in the life of Bartleby, who was a scrivener of the strangest I ever saw or heard of” (Melville). The first instance Bartleby steps into the office, the narrator already has the motive to isolate Bartleby from the rest of the office: “I resolved to assign Bartleby a corner by the…

novel assumes a tone of racial exploitation that ends leaving a bloody trail of violence, resulting in the brutal death of Joe Christmas, its main character. Christmas who is unsure about his racial identity throughout the novel is presented as a wanderer, a man who does not belong to any place since his racial makeup is dubious. The dilemma of Christmas is not only social but psychological too, as he is unable to relate himself to a community that is fanatically concerned about racial purity.…

The concept of one’s identity has been analyzed through various fields of study and in relation to many works of art throughout time. How an individual sees the world and themselves is generally based upon particular influences that have created the individual identity. Much of this identity is credited to the influences of the environment which include culture, religion, political, familial, and legal characteristics of the time period. There are also arguments that give biology a large portion…

The Painful Journey Into the Wild by John Krakauer and The Catcher in the Rye by D.J. Salinger are stories of opinionated, stubborn young men on introspective journeys provoked by feelings that they are unable to comprehend. The protagonists, Chris McCandless and Holden Caulfield, both travel nearly identical paths, though they have very unique idiosyncrasies. Both Chris McCandless and Holden Caulfield are linked by the unhealable wound archetype, and fueled by oppressed feelings of discontent…

An assassin or a hero It is always about the perspective, the way people look at the matter defines how people judge the character involved under every circumstance. One character in question will be judged differently from the opposite perspective of people, one side says an assassin and the other says a hero. Some stories tell the sacrifices made by determining individuals in history to pursue a cause, although they must surrender their life to the hands of death. Nevertheless, the…

The game of basketball would not be around today if it wasn’t for one man, his name was James Naismith. James was born on November 6, 1861 in Ontario, Canada. He was born to the parents of John and Margaret Naismith. When James was only nine years old both of his parents had died, leaving James an orphan. This was a very rough time in James’ life. After becoming an orphan, he was raised by his very strict grandmother for a little bit, and then his bachelor uncle. While growing up James enjoyed…

Emerging Technologies in Greener Networks Name Institution Emerging Technology Emerging technology refers to technology that has the capacity to either refine the existing technology enabling it to be better or using the existing technology as a basis for evolution in technology (Rotolo, Hicks, & Martin, 2015). New technology may result from a number of changes for example the convergence of previously separate technologies to create one new technology or the divergence of previously…

Ken Jennings’ Maphead narrates his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so interesting to him and to fellow fans everywhere. Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Fair to the bowels of the Library of Congress, from the prepubescent geniuses at the National Geographic Bee to the computer programmers at Google Earth. Each chapter delves into a different aspect of map culture: highpointing, geocaching, road atlas rallying, even…

In general structural theories and frameworks consider narratives in universal terms, denying often the cultural, historical, and geographical or gender specificity of narratives, authors, readers and narrators. Such unifying analysis and interpretation have been found lacking in expanse by the exponents of Feminist Narratology like Susan Lanser, Kathy Mezei and Moly Hite. According to them the discourse of arrangement of components in narratives and their narration through a fictional or real…

permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take-up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker. When people across national borders during their migration, they are called migrants or immigrants (from Latin: migrare, wanderer) from the perspective of the country which they enter. From the perspective of the country which they leave, they are called emigrant or outmigrant. Sociology designates immigration usually as migration (as well as emigration accordingly…