It was a loud bar, with loud people and loud interior design. Neon lit the place, dartboards with rusted darts embroidered with rust still stuck in the board hung on the dark walls. I walked in, and sat down. I ordered a drink and looked around. Same people, as always, due the the flamboyant style of the bar. It was a small village, almost barricaded and completely isolated from the rest of the world by the huge mountains formed by the crater that we inhabit. Some say the remains of the…
Can our love last forever? Can our love for grandparents last forever? Even though we might not always see our grandparents we should always love them. In literature there is a universal theme about it. In the folktale “The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson” retold by Leo TolStoy, it talks about how we could love them even after hurting them. In Sandra Cisneros Poem “Abuelito Who” she shows love to her grandfather that is gone. So these two stories have the same universal theme.…
The play, ‘A Christmas Carol’, was performed at South Bend’s Civic theatre on Wednesday December 09. The play was directed by Kevin Dreyer, David Chudzynski, and was based off of the novel written by Charles Dickens. The main theme was about an older man, Ebenezer Scrooge; and his interactions from his past, present, and future ghosts. The encounters with these ghosts led him to transform into a kinder and admirable gentleman. South Bend Civic Theatre’s replication of ‘Christmas Carol’ was…
The Christmas Carol "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” (Dickens 9) Haven’t you heard that line before? Like during christmas, when you are sitting around the fireplace with your friends and family watching the drama. Well, that drama you are probably watching is most likely, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. This story has been around for many years,…
Ebenezer Scrooge was a grouchy man every day even at Christmas. He was filled with greed and meanness all he really carried about was money. One night he was visited by three ghost. The three ghost were the the ghost of Christmas past, Ghost of Christmas present, and the Ghost of Christmas future. But I believe that he was most touched by the ghost of Christmas future. He touched him the most because he scared him, Showed what people thought about him, and showed him his death bed. The…
great Robert Nesta Marley forever changed the world by spreading his prophetic musical message of peace and love among all human beings. The iconic life of Bob Marley is best appreciated through examining his humble beginnings, studying his beliefs in Rastafarianism, and by tracing his political activism over the course of his career. Robert Nesta Marley was born on February 6, 1945 in the Jamaican parish of St. Ann to parents Cedella Malcom and Captain Norvall Sinclair Marley. From a young age,…
Similar in many ways, every story read has a lesson learned at the end. For instance, Ebeneezer Scrooge is one of the wealthiest men in town, but his greed and grumpy attitude causes him to encounter the three ghosts of Christmas, that change his personality into a more loving and caring man. Without a doubt, Mr. Scrooge is an example of a character that changes throughout the story for the better. In other words, he is an archetype. An archetype is a prototype or model. Literary characters are…
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. In the beginning of the drama performance was Jacob Marley and is a ghost who comes to Scrooge so he won't have to go what Marley went through. The beginning of the movie they begin in Mr. Scrooge’s office. In the drama and movie Scrooge gets mad at Mr. Cratchit for using coal and wasting it on fire. Scrooge keeps saying Humbug after his nephew says Merry Christmas. Scrooge is a old man who has a lot of money. He thinks Christmas is a waste of time and…
In the words of the great Bob Marley, “Your life is worth much more than gold” (Marley). These are lyrics incorporated into his song Jammin’ which was written into devotion to this intriguing concept. If the definition of the word “Jammin’” is looked up in the dictionary, you come across meanings such as chilling, relaxing, laughing and nodding your head to a beat (Jammin’). It has relations to the word “Jamboree”, which means noise making, and “Shivaree”, which is French for a noisy…
Haile Selassie, a Solomonic and African ruler, reined as emperor of the Ethiopian Empire from 1930-1974. Haile Selassie’s role as the only African king and his claim to be a descendant of king David through King David’s Son Solomon and the African Queen Sheba (1 Kings 10) made him the perfect candidate for idolization in a post- Marcus Garvey Jamaica. Garvey’s ideas on Back to Africa and Black Pride influenced Jamaica as a whole, but especially the Rastafarian movement (Manuel 2006: 194). Bob…