Toy Story

I am a person who is attracted to the unusual or the “out of the norm”. Once I saw the pieces created by Nathan Pietrykowski, my eyes began fixated on them due to it being an unusual piece. His piece, Creating Nowhere, attracted me the most just because of all the weirdness surrounding the piece. This piece reminds me of how strange life can be at times and how you can just sometimes not know why things are happening. I had an instance like this happen yesterday when I lost one of my best…

People always look for ways to fit in; they look for places where they belong. That is the struggle of Paul and his decision to find a place for which he can be himself. “Paul’s Case” written by Willa Cather is a story in how Paul struggles to fit in at his hometown but decides to go someplace else to be accepted. Paul is conflicted about reaching the expectations put on him by his father and being accepted by his classmates and teachers, he chooses the path of pursuing his own desires or…

sense” –C.S. Lewis. In the story, “To Build a Fire,” a man displays a lot of pride in his abilities to survive the severe cold climate across the Yukon wilderness. With this sense of arrogance, the man seems to do everything in his will throughout the journey to successfully master the inclement weather in which ultimately was a fatal mistake before the man even began the travel. Pride goes before destruction. Jack London’s “To build a Fire” is an unforgettable classic short story of a man’s…

the time. They have no memory to look at mom and dad. All they have is the maze, walls that surround them yet endanger them, and each other. Throughout the story, there is a continuous display of manipulation and fear using numerous figurative languages. The Maze Runner is a story that has a higher power than the one presented…

Family are the friends we do not pick by ourselves, but are born into. “The dress” by Julia Darling is a short story about the sisters Rachel and Flora, and their mother. The story focuses on the deterioration of the sister’s relationship but also on their relationship to the mother. The story also focuses on what happens to a family when it is missing love and communication. Throughout the story, the main topic is a certain dress, and this leads to a dispute having immense consequences. In the…

The title of the book I read is The Lord of Opium, which was written by Nancy Farmer. The publisher of the book is Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing Division. It was published in the year of 2013. In the book there are 405 pages, and the awards that this book has won are the National Book Award, Newbery Honor, and the Printz Honor. At the start of the book Matteo Alacran, only 14 years old, wakes up next to his safe horse after running away after he hears that most of the people from El…

In life, we all must create our own story. Our story is not made up only of the big obstacles that we overcome or if we meet our goal, it is made up of every little thing we do. The little actions everyday that we decide to do make up the story of us. In the widely popular BBC series, Doctor Who, The Doctor once said, “we are all stories in the end. Just make it a good one” our lives are stories, no matter how big or small, we only have to make them complete. This quote shows that many people…

to be conquered to succeed, and completion of the quest, in that order. Throughout this analysis over "Araby", Mandel goes through the story chronologically, and at the same time going through the specific events in order, to show the structure of "Araby" is that of a medieval romance. To start, the author states his thesis: Joyce structures his short story to be that of…

internal conflicts lead them to do the unthinkable. Guilt is a force that can destroy even the strongest of minds. The seemingly innocent Vera travels to the island to work as a secretary for the Owens. Under her professional appearance, she is hiding a story that can kill. Vera is responsible for the drowning of a child. This is done for the love of a man who leaves her after the events of that day. She falls into a depression, and eventually lets that kill her. She is not the only one who…

Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called the “Small Assassin”. It is about a baby who has ill intentions towards the people around him. The “Small Assassin” was then created into TV Show adaptation on the Ray Bradbury Theater .Even though the short story and the TV Show adaptation were both written by Ray Bradbury, the “Small Assassin” shows different points. There is more mystery written in The Small Assassin and you have more empathy towards the characters. In spite that fact, the plot is…