White Sun of the Desert

Legend, if he resorted to doing what was comfortable or familiar to him. Additionally, the crystal merchant does not like change because he fears the unknown, and Santiago realizes that he too was afraid of the challenges that he would face in the desert, a strange and dangerous place. Santiago’s success while working for the crystal merchant,…

worshipped as the god of light and sky. Pharoah’s back in those days thought of themselves as incarnations of Horus. Set who is the brother of Osiris is the god of desert and storms who later became associated with chaos and punishment had killed his brother to become the king of Egypt but he got killed by Horus and died. Ra, he is the sun god and one of the most important gods of Egypt. He was also associated with the building of the pyramids and resurrection. Ra symbolically was…

Bless Me, Ultima is a beautifully written novel that connects the audience to the characters and paints a wonderful picture, immersing readers into the story. This story is set in the desert plains town of Las Pasturas, New Mexico during the 1940s, around World War II. The main character, Antonio, lives with his mother, father, and two sisters, Deborah and Theresa, in a house in the llano, the open plain. When Antonio is almost seven years old, his mother and father send for the curandera,…

Scorching summer vaporized the water cover of entire Banni and left behind a continuous endless white plains with scattered vegetation. May and June are the hottest month here and temperature goes up to around 50˚C sometimes. Even in such harsh condition life in Banni is capable to survive even without water. Crepuscular Desert fox know all about, that is must to survive in such harsh climate. It barely drinks water and feed mostly on insect and succulent plants…

vicinity. “But this is the day that the world will come to an end.” In the blank following the announcement, distant cicadas resumed their noisy stridulation. Air conditioners hummed, only making the stifling heat and dry hair seem thicker. The bland, sun-baked streets themselves were oddly quiet, as if drivers had fallen asleep over their steering wheels, leaving cars idling where they were. The people were staring up at the sky blankly.…

beginning of a divine family of gods (Clark Figure 1). Atum, like the floods, retreated from his creation and the reign of Shu began. Shu’s children, Geb and Nut (earth and sky respectively), were separated to create a space for mankind to live under the sun god Re (Breasted). Re would serve as the ally and protector of the Pharaohs. Osiris would teach man the arts of civilization and he would come to be identified with the waters of the Nile, the soil and the vegetation that grew from it…

arrogance she had toward people who were more superficial than she was. In “Beauty” the section about Walker going to the desert has an appreciative tone. She stores beautiful images in her memory so that if she went blind in both eyes, at least she had seen the world. The desert is something she really wanted to see so she is grateful to have seen it, the sky, the clouds, the sun, trees, and more. In her poem, she wrote that nature was beautiful because it was unblemished whereas she was not…

dark and also at night where as I picture a landscape being during the day or at sunset. Also, in his landscape I can’t tell if there is any grass which leaves me thinking if there was grass or not. When I think of a town without grass I think of a desert and a dry environment. After reading the biography of van Gogh, he suffered depression so I am assuming that is why his picture is very dark. To add, this picture makes me feel gloomy with all the dark colors. What else I am confused about is…

Political Pharaohs had full control over the Egyptian state and were regarded as gods come to earth to ensure the wellbeing of citizens. One of the earliest Pharaohs, Menes, is accredited as the founder of the first dynasty and uniting Upper and Lower Egypt. He is widely believed to actually most likely be the pharoah Narmer. The land of Egypt was divided into 42 Nomes, each ruled by a Noble governor whom was appointed directly by the pharaoh. The law and justice system of Egypt was based on a…

derived from nature and things seen by the eye. Soto employs imagery to bring the readers from the beginning to his final destination. Soto’s six-year-old self, under the porch, is innocent and naive. The whole of Soto’s first paragraph is filled with white summer images, such as “angels flopping on the backyard”, “flowery dust”, and “bark-scarred limbs”. Through the use of these pictures, he demonstrates his innocence. By using imagery with the connotation of airy, bright, childhood, he doesn’t…