Waking Life

the figures that inflict the most damage. Shelley uses indirect characterization to reveal Caroline’s selfless nature, describing the source of Victor’s obsession with life and the beginning his undoing. Victor recounts his first tragedy to when Elizabeth fell sick, and his mother, despite numerous warnings, upon hearing “that the life of her favorite was menaced […] attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper” (28). Shelley indirectly…

Isolated far away from the reach of civilisation, is a stone, concrete fortress, which houses the scum of the world. I was one of them. In this place the dreams of every person are crushed with the weight of pure isolation and solitude. The cold, merciless bars and the constant darkness of the cells engulf us in a pool of frustration and despair. You see nothing and all you can do is aimlessly grasp about the lifeless walls, hoping to somehow grab onto the dream. All you hear are the clanging of…

There are many things in a person’s life that can and will change a person’s life. These events can be different for any one. For me this event was when my house burnt down. It’s hard to believe that a night that started so well could have ended so terrible. It was the eve before Easter 2008. My family was visiting my aunt and uncle who lived on lake Zumbro, which is near Rochester, Minnesota. We were in their garage playing foosball. This is when we my sister received one of the biggest message…

After losing his looks and having his heart broken, life became too complicated for Cesar (Eduardo Noriega) to handle, he cryogenically freezes himself, without taking into consideration the consequences of his choice, hoping all his problems could be solved in the future. Directed by Alejandro Amenbar in 1997, Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) a mystery/science fiction/drama long feature film, speaks of a 25 year old handsome, promiscuous, rich young man called Cesar whose best friend Pelayo (Fele…

Throughout time, The Pearl has been a poem subject to criticism and profound analysis on behalf of common readers and academics alike –this in regard to the manner in which the poem’s main themes are presented, and what the unknown author initially intended by introducing such topics. The Pearl, indeed, is complex poem to study and one on which the medieval dream visions, symbolism and allegory are used by the poet as narrative techniques to further develop his work. In the dream vision,…

depicts the tales of a father and his son, living their lives in the southern U.S., desolate and destroyed.Throughout the story, McCarthy uses many context clues to depict many scenarios of choice in these harsh conditions, like attempting to make ones life a little better, or even forgetting all that you have known to continue on. McCarthy shows us these scenarios via the pairs choices throughout the story, like their encounter with Ely, the options to share the dreams between the two, and the…

that doesn’t allow people to accept the present. An example would be the nightmares that the man experiences. His nightmares are more like memories of his past and extensions of the present. Furthermore, the man notes that “What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return” (130). The man returns to his happy memories of the past in his good dreams, especially…

Life is full of things that occupy our time on a daily basis and most days’ life can hit and be awfully hard to overcome. However, life is not meant to be that way. Everyone should not always be occupied with things to do because it can overlap and cause huge burdens. In the story, “Bumping Into Mr. Ravioli” by Adam Gopnik, it shows how his three-year-old daughter Olivia has an imaginary friend named Charlie Ravioli. It turns out that Olivia never gets to play or see her imaginary friend because…

obtain the hearts of sponsors. Peeta thinks he can win, but to do so I need to talk them through strategy on how I won, but I'm scared its to much for them to handle. Every waking minute unknowing that this could be your last day, they need to understand that this is life or death and every decision they make in the area there life depends on…

Involuntary memory arises into our everyday life without our physical or mental control so we just hold on tight or wreck our brain trying to forget until the feeling has past. The fact that we can go back into time with a simple sense is beyond our mental capacity and is something that can often…