Toast

Ex-CIA?” “Slash supermodel”? Slash, mother of four,” she says. “Their dad takes care of the kids.” “And I’ll be?” “Whatever you want, man,” she says. “A guy can dream,” you say. “Cheers to that.” You touch your small coffee cups to each other’s, a toast to something you both know will never happen”(Yu 78). It took me a while to get used to, but I am not quite intrigued by Yu’s writing style in this book. In the first part of this dialogue, we see how he portrays the dynamic. While the White…

Usually, on a typical Saturday morning people 's homes have a pleasant scent of sizzling bacon, fresh toast, and fluffy eggs during breakfast time, but for me, I have this overwhelming smell of dry cinnamon eggs and burnt toast. Thanks to my dad of course. My father 's relentless efforts of trying to improve his cooking was an epic failure, but while my dad continued to struggle to cook, I can defiantly tell you he excelled in being everything else he tried, including being an excellent dad.…

On one shoulder sits an angle and on the other sits a devil; they are in a constant battle to win your approval over a dilemma. Other people call it their little voice in their head that helps them decipher right from wrong. Regardless of what you call it, when someone goes against what they know to be right they develop a guilty conscience. Sometimes a person can even develop hallucinations from their guilt. Just like in William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Macbeth he shows how a guilty…

cooking breakfast, as a segue for a deeper emotional bond. Despite the commonness of these activities, Beth may also feel as though she is doing something special for her family. Beth emphasized that she has not just made breakfast, but it is French toast. Beth is attempting to relinquish her parental role with Buck while simultaneously continuing to, or perhaps build a parental role with Conrad (p.…

Early January, 2016, the Ocean Endevour crawls at a slow 2 knots pushing its way through heavy sea ice. Looking in every direction there is the same view; flat white ice, with dark jagged cracks of sea separating thousands of vast fragments. The sea ice floats around in level pieces ranging from 4 to 20 meters across. The ship meanders through it, parting the patches, trying to find an open area. After several hours of this, it is difficult to not think of early explorers like Shackleton and…

You decide to take a jog you put on your shoes lace them up and head out the door. You take a few stretches and start running throwing your arms in the air pumping her legs and breathing in and out. You as you run with the Lake on your right-hand side the sun beaten on your face. Trying to keep your mind clear of all thoughts you continue this pace for some time you start to sweat breathe heavier and your legs are starting to burn. You realize you ran longer than you thought you actually ran to…

It is no secret that some stories are very similar to each other in plot and theme. “What we talk about when we talk about love”, written by Raymond Carver, and “What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank”, written by Nathan Englander, is no exception. While these two stories are similar, they both have differences. In order to find these similarities and differences, we need to look at the plots of the stories and the characters involved with their respective stories. This is going to be…

In the Seventeenth Letter of The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, Screwtape starts to explain to Wormwood the fallacy of Gluttony when he is tempting his patients. Gluttony has the meaning to be overindulged in food and drinks. The gluttony of delicacy’s should be considered because people do not always car about how much food but, care about if it is properly spiced, overcooked, or if it looks pleasing to the eye. Screwtape provides a great example of Gluttony when he is talking about the…

The director of the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Joel Zwick, attempts to bring to light the cultural differences between Greeks and non-Greeks by portraying the characters in the film, their values, and different events throughout the movie in a relatively stereotypical way. This particular film analysis will focus mainly on the family representations, religious beliefs, dining customs, outer appearance pertaining to hair and style in which they dress, and lastly, on Greek nationalism…

were both disrespectful to women and yelled at their wives, and both eventually ended up divorced. Oskar and Jack fell asleep while watching TV, wore several rubber bands on their wrists, flushed toilets before and after use, and liked to dip their toast in their coffee. But there were some things they could never see eye to eye on, like the subject of Israel and Palestine or who was responsible for World War II. Jack Yufe and his brother Oskar Stohr were separated…