Ursula K. Le Guin

Le Guin, a wife is struggles after finding out that her husband is a werewolf. Every night, the husband would leave not telling his wife where he was going and come back smelling awful and being silent. After many nights, their daughter begins to be frightened and says “Make it go away, make it go away” (Le Guin CR5). Her daughter calling the husband “it” , really made the mother question what was going on…

widely-known topic that all people face. This is why authors, all over the world, incorporate it into their work. “American Flag Stands for Tolerance” by Ronald J. Allen provides the idea of acceptance through the burning of the American flag. In Ursula K. Le Guin’s “A Wife’s Story,” she makes the connection between acceptance through the eyes of a wolf. “My So Called Enemy”, a film about girls of different backgrounds and religions, explains the…

when it comes to different groups of people. We let expectations dictate our actions and emotions when it comes to certain people. In the story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Le Guin, shows readers a good example of through the use of characterization of the people within this town handles expectations. Le Guin demonstrates, “The terms are strict and absolute, there may not even be a kind word spoken to the child” (1314). This quote refers tot he horrifying act that the town continues…

"The wife's story" is Written by Ursula K. Le Guin, "What of this goldfish, would you wish?" written by Etgar Keret, the "Lottery" written by Shirley Jackson these stories are connected in their background is kinda the same, but their stories are about how people do not accepted the change in some things usually the writers wrote their stories in a dark way, they idea is to prove in the stories that when they are talking about changes in some parts of the stories they accepted but in some they…

For my final paper, I choose to read the novel “The Left Hand of Darkness” written by Ursula K. Le Guin. This story touches on many key topics including the importance of communication, trust, acceptance, gender, and love in a society. It always deals a lot with politics and what it means to be a traitor. All of these topics are combined to show the intent of the story, which is the importance of unity. The main character, Ai, goes to a foreign plant and tried to get the people of the planet to…

Sacrifice of Human Being The Ones Who Walk Away form Omelas is a sad story by Ursula K. Le Guin. This story is starting tell us about the society of Omelas city that they were enjoying their festival to celebrate summer time. All people of this city come together that time for festival; they had different show: a horserace, singing, dancing and parades. The story is telling us that this community have everything they need and no complain for anything else but if you read better and get the…

by a common currency of value, although most people would argue that human lives cannot be minimized to a dollar value. Another example by Sandel is that of the City of Happiness, a story by author Ursula K. Le Guin, to explain why utilitarianism is not an acceptable philosophy. In this story, Le Guin, details the fictional city of Omelas, which appears to be perfect on the exterior; the people are all happy and prosperous, the city is filled with beautiful buildings but at the heart of the…

Jeanette Winterson is a British writer, she is also a lesbian. Being a lesbian writer has become a common identifier when she would rather be referred to as a writer who is a lesbian. In “The Semiotics of Sex,” Jeanette Winterson tackles the inherent relationship between the artist and their artwork by digging through the biased judgment that encases it. According to Winterson, using sexual preference “to judge the work of the writer” creates a distorted reality about their work of art (173).…

Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi is a fourth-century Latin poem arranged by Faltonia Betitia Proba after her conversion to Christianity. A cento rearranges verses written by other poets; this one repurposes Virgil to tell stories from the Old and New Testament of the Christian Bible. Much of the work focuses on the story of Jesus Christ. The poem was widely circulated, eventually being used in schools to teach the tenets of Christianity, often alongside Augustine of Hippo's De Doctrina…

Since the mid-term, there have been a number of stories that deal with the issue of race. One story that really dealt with the issue of race was Kindred by Octavia Butler. In Kindred, Dana Franklin is transported back in time whenever her ancestor, Rufus Weylin, is in danger, and when Dana goes to Rufus’s time, she realizes that she is going to a time where African American people are still slaves. Every time Dana goes to help Rufus, she is treated even worse than the last time she had gone…