Welcome to the Monkey House

Houston Buehler Mr. Disney/7 English 1 Honors 13 October 2015 Collection 1 Essay Collection 1 portrays how individuals who have different views cannot make society better. In the articles “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and “A Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen all show how when there is people butting heads nothing is fixed it only gets worse. In the story “Once Upon a Time” Nadine Gordimer describes how the family’s “trusted” housemaid is too afraid to give the people that live on the streets “bread and tea” because she has heard stories about how “ somebody’s housemaid was tied up and shut in a cupboard by thieves while she was in charge of her employers’ house.” (85-87) and did not want that to happen to her. It is baffling that the “trusted” housemaid is black just like the people that live on the streets but is afraid of them and looks down on them like the white people do. The housemaid acquired this trait because she has been with the family for so long that she feels she is part of the family. Gordimer also mentions that they families are so scared of intruders that they continue to upgrade their security systems. Also the families become oblivious to the alarms because their cats set them off at night that…

Themes show the subject or main thought of a story. In the book, Welcome to the Monkey House, the author, Kurt Vonnegut uses many themes that show the most important ideas in the short stories. For example, the author uses the themes of humanity, technology, friendship, warfare, money, and more. From these many themes, the two major ones I chose are fate and technology, because the author shows them more than just a few times and mentions them many times throughout the book, which makes me think…

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rural areas in Rwanda build their houses out of woven branches and grasses (King 80). Also 90 percent of the people who live in Rwanda live in the rural area (79). Most of the people in Rwanda have small households, and they grow and sell their own crops (“Welcome to Rwanda”). The women in rwanda are expected to get married when they are old enough,but if the husband does not own farmland then the couple can not get married (King 85). Rwanda’s education is very low, only 14 percent of the kids…

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American writer whose career lasted 50 years and was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1922. Vonnegut has written many novels, short stories, plays, and even a few works of non-fiction. One of the major influences on his writing, is due to his war experiences during World War II. During the time that he attended Cornell University, he enlisted and left before graduating. In the war, Vonnegut was captured by German forces and sent to Dresden, where he survived bombing…

Will was on his way to leave but, in the corner of his eye he saw something strange. He went over to it and picked it up, William had never seen anything like it. The thing he was holding in his hand seemed to be a small hairy hand, the object had intrigued William so he called out for Tom White to come over. “Hey tom I saw this hand and, I was wondering how much it is for sale for?” said William, staring at the hand in his hand. “Oh… I don’t think you would want that monkey paw,” Tom said,…

In the story The Monkey’s Paw, the reader is likely to experience a continual desire to keep reading the story. The story has skillful foreshadowing and uncomfortable suspense that get the reader nervous and anxious to discover the final outcome. This story involves a enchanted, mummified monkey paw that is said to have the power to grant three wishes to three different people. As the Whites make their wishes, they realizes that they would have been better off without this talisman. How can a…

skin treatment and elephants are killed for ivory tusks. Welcome to the world of endangered animals in China. Poaching of endangered animals started happening in the 1900's when the Chinese made a law for animals welfare and animal rights. Chinese people wanted these endangered animals for food, medicine, showing off when guests come over, valuable items, uniqueness and to sell animal products. Some might say there is a lot to help out these going extinct animals. Although others say it will…

once in the novel teach Christian doctrine in India and try to sooth the Indian’s nerves by telling them that God’s mansion welcomes “the incompatible multitudes of mankind” (38). Regardless of its feasibility, the missioners’ religious theory seems to solve the racial problem, but their mission becomes problematic when they are asked, “May there not be a mansion for the monkeys also? And the wasps? And oranges, cactuses, crystals and mud?” (38) The missionaries cannot agree with the extension…

amongst one another, footsteps are heard outside the house and in front of the door. The old man answers and at the door is an old friend, Sergeant-Major Morris. the soldier tells the family of his experiences in “distant parts” as the family listens in awe. The old man reminds the soldier of a story about a monkey’s paw but the soldier hesitates…