Waiting So Long

full service dining restaurant I choose to dine at was Olive Garden in Holly Springs with my family. When we ate dinner there it was a Friday night around seven pm it was pretty busy when we walked in and there were people sitting inside and outside waiting for their names to be called. The service started out great; there were three hostesses standing behind the host counter and they were all wearing black shirts and pants as their uniforms. They all had smiles on their faces and waited…

This short story takes place in a café. It is a night and the café is empty, except an old, deaf man and two waiters, talking about him. The young waiter wants him to leave the café so he could go home, but the old one is more understanding. When the old man „asks“ for another brandy, the young says that they are closing. When he is gone, the waiters resume their discussion. The young wants to hurry home to his wife, whereas the old waiter is one „of those who like to stay late in the café“. The…

the different drummer, and most important of all to live life deliberately. Yet there are books out there that might be completely different and most important they have a opposite message. In Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for godot we learn about two men who waste all their time waiting for this “Godot” without actually knowing anything about him…

thousands died for an unknown cause. This is highlighted further when the Vietnam War (1955-75) is mentioned, as Powell was a soldier and Rumsfeld President Nixon’s assistant. The Vietnam War is also known to many as an interference on America’s part, so Hare was potentially draws parallels between the two wars by mentioning Vietnam. Hare juxtaposes the differing attitudes of the two cabinet members within the same scene, with Powell stating that “war should be the politics of last resort” and…

1) In my opinion I think that older waiter is so slow and unwilling to go to bed because the fact that he suffers from insomnia. I believe that he is (based on what's seen or what seems obvious) holding/hiding/giving shelter to some form of guilt of something that affected him in his earlier years. Weather her he did something, either something bad happened to him andscarred him. This Nada refrain shows the old waiter has had some (having to do with human existence) terribly unfair treatment…

Lighting the Olympic Torch In the image I see two women in front of four other women on the background all of them wearing white dresses and sandals that look similar to those worn during the Roman empire period. One of the women who is in the front is kneeling down with both of her hands stretched out with a bowl that is ignited towards the other women, who is a leader or an important figure. The image demonstrates her as a leader role by her standing up while the woman with the bowl is…

be there but it is also a place for men who have no substance or who are not very sure of their identities. The men may be switching back and forth between opinions and pasts because it does not matter to them what is real and what is not. They are so far past reality that it no longer matters what is the truth. The men are drinking and expressing emotions simply to feel alive. They are constructing multiple realities in hopes one of them will stick. It is clear that this will not happen,…

“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.” This quote extracted from Waiting for Godot, an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett that premiered on 5 January 1953, holds the essence of absurdist theatre and what its playwrights seek to express- the inescapable meaningless and futility of life. The origins of absurdist theatre are commonly linked to the avant-garde experimentations of the 19th century, but there has been speculation that there were traces of absurdist theatre in works…

Only the ones from elite class stand a chance to contest election and so, in literal sense, there is not much freedom left in the form of choice with the voters.On the contrary newspapers assure that citizens have elected the representative and this makes them a free citizen in a democratic country.And most amazing thing…

Vladimir 's Song as a Representation of the Play in Samuel Beckett 's Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett 's two act tragicomedy Waiting for Godot depicts the endless wait for something better as told through the eyes of two homeless men named Vladimir and Estragon who have nowhere to go. As both men wait for a person by the name of Godot, they find ways to pass time in the form of friendly banter, contemplating suicide, philosophical conversations and reminiscing about the past. Both acts end…