The Way of a Pilgrim

specific way, often emitting and emphasizing on certain aspects, to sway us towards a particular view of it. I believe that the YouTube video “No More Kings” emphasizes the American colonists’ perspective of the American Revolution favorably due to the way it is depicted in the video. The video “No More Kings” is a cartoon that briefly talks about the American Revolution in three minutes. It begins by showing…

crusades were the most intense example of Europeans on the offense. It started because for several years’ nonviolent pilgrims had been roaming from Europe to worship at the birthplace of Christ also known as the Holy Land. By the tenth century leaders were organizing mass pilgrimages to the Holy Land. The largest of these was from Germany in 1065 and included about seven thousand pilgrims. However, an issue began to arise, the Christians became concerned by another group of people known as the…

Jenni Fagan is a Scottish author of the novel The Sunlight Pilgrims. The Sunlight Pilgrims tells the story of two broken, yet interconnected families. At the onset of the novel, Constance is in a love triangle with Caleb and Alistair. Alistair and Constance no longer live together. However, they have a daughter named Stella. Stella is a transgender teen, and she resents Alistair for calling her by her birth name, Cael. Dylan is a single man from London. He moves to Clachan Fells following the…

religion and conquests of new land surge through the colonies of the New World in the 1600s. Puritans and Pilgrims both have struggles and successes flowing through their history that is traced to their independent motivations as well as overlapping motivators. Puritans focus on generating a purer Church of England that breaks away from the interventions of hierarchy in the England faith. The Pilgrims work to create a better life in the newly formed colony while keeping the thought of religious…

Comparably, the theme of fate versus free will is addressed frequently in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse Five. As the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, proceeds through life, he is burdened with a peculiar destiny, and his response to the given situations is a direct comment on the concept of predetermination. Essentially, Vonnegut utilizes Billy Pilgrim to explore the idea that it is foolish to assume one’s fate is…

individual; one whose life has been altered from reality. Billy Pilgrim, the main character of Slaughterhouse Five, disconnects from reality from the destruction of war. On the other hand, Charles Watkins, the main character of Briefing for A Descent into Hell, becomes disconnected from reality due to a mental breakdown. These novels deal with the works of the inner mind and the events that shape the way one thinks about life. Billy Pilgrims mind jumps around to different time periods due to his…

into Hell it is obvious that Dante feels like these purchases of simonies was a terrible thing and was corrupting the church. Pope Nicholas’ first words to the pilgrim are “Is that you here already upright, Boniface? By many years the book has lied to me!” (Alighieri, canto XIX, 53-54). The significance of the first words to the pilgrim is that Pope Nicholas was already expecting another pope to follow him down into that circle. Showing Dante’s displeasure not just with his current pope but…

passage from Slaughterhouse Five analyzed in this essay, the main character Billy Pilgrim, a time traveler and World War II soldier, travels a few hours further in time to watch a World War II movie backwards. This passage was chosen due to the way Vonnegut uses a backwards movie to exemplify the…

Time: Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut’s semi autobiographical satirical war novel Slaughterhouse-Five journies through the life of the protagonist Billy Pilgrim. Following his abduction by alien, he becomes unstuck in time; his life is no longer linear, but sees the past, present and future all happening at once. Discovering this. Pilgrim realizes he can never die, because even if he is dead in the future, he is still alive in the past and present. The novel moves between times in Pilgrim’s…

Jammu and Kashmir and especially Kashmir valley where a lot of separatist propagandas are going on. The state is also trying to show to the people of the state of Jammu and Kashmir that the state will always be with them by promoting the yatra in a way that the locals’ i.e., Kashmiris are given employment. As we all know, many people in Kashmir work and earn only for two to three months a year as the rest of the year the climatic condition will not be favourable and almost all the cities will be…