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Manatee was breathing heavily, as if he had just run a long way. Alpen thought this was weird as the prince had just been casting spells. His eyes followed the SeaWing as he plopped himself down by a clear pool and took a drink. Alpenrose turned to look at his superiors. Fluorite, Tundra, and Seal where talking to some stuffy looking SeaWing teacher. They looked deep in conversation. Alpen saw this as a good time to get to know the Prince better. He turned and walked over to the pool. The Prince was resting by the cool water. His emerald eyes flashed up at Alpen as the IceWing sat next to Manatee. Something about the Prince's gaze made Alpenrose’s heart jump. He quickly leaned down to drink the cool water and scare the blush off his cheeks.
He teaches the kid what to do in order to successfully reel in a large, beautiful fish. Ironically, the narrator is the one who learns from the kid in the end. At the beginning of the story, everything is described negatively, from the description of the kid as a “lumpy little guy with baggy shorts” to his “stupid-looking ’50s-style wrap-around sunglasses” and “beat-up rod”(152). Through his encounter with the boy, the narrator is able to see life in a different way, most notable from how he describes the caught tarpon as heavy, silvery white, and how it also has beautiful red fins (154). Through the course of the story, the narrator’s pessimistic attitude changes to an optimistic one, and this change reveals how inspiring this exchange between two strangers is. This story as a whole reveals that learning also revolves around interactions between other people, not only between people and their natural surroundings and
One of the characters that shows his loyalty to the queendom is Hatter Madigan. At the beginning of the story Hatter Madigan jumps into the pool of tears with Alyss to save them from the cat. “Alyss Heart holding tight to Hatter Madigan, plummeted toward the surface of the water below.” This quote represents Hatter jumping into the pool of tears to save Alyss’ life. “Hatter bowed his head.
He owned a small motor boat that he used to take Anna to a new country. Along the way he smiled at Anna and tried to make her smile, but other than those few times, he was a quiet man. The Fisherman was a good man that did a favor for the Swallow Man. He was bringing Anna to a new country where she would have to live life on her own. 1.
When you were 11 years old, have you ever thought what kind of person you have chosen to become in the future?" If you want to answer this question, you need to have the ability to consider what background, values and personal evolution are. Turtle Island" by Joseph Boyden also talks about the story about an 11-year-old aboriginal boy who caught between the rough world of the Indian Posse and his dawning affection for his little brother’s pet turtle, named Island (Joseph 1).At the beginning, he was a rebellious and Impulsive person who was against cultural belief. In the end, of the story, he had chosen to become a person who was brave, responsible and mature.
, how it drowns to his attention how much he had longed for his sister/future wife to be. Yet he never felt so lonely whilst within her company. Whether it was the fact that the burning desire driven him away. Or just his sheer highly intelligent curiosity got in the way of settling for second best.
Confined behind his castle’s walls: King Gabriel Wylie stood on the windowsill of his study’s window, desperately feeling a dire need to escape from the ruthful eyes of the bereaved that are still in mourning of those that came before him. He opens his eyes to the color of amber, feeling a gentle breeze sweep across his honey nut skin from the morning’s shower.
Therefore, Oliver’s incorporation of imagery, setting, and mood to control the perspective of her own poem, as well as to further build the contrast she establishes through the speaker, serves a critical role in creating the lesson of the work. Oliver’s poem essentially gives the poet an ultimatum; either he can go to the “cave behind all that / jubilation” (10-11) produced by a waterfall to “drip with despair” (14) without disturbing the world with his misery, or, instead, he can mimic the thrush who sings its poetry from a “green branch” (15) on which the “passing foil of the water” (16) gently brushes its feathers. The contrast between these two images is quite pronounced, and the intention of such description is to persuade the audience by setting their mood towards the two poets to match that of the speaker. The most apparent difference between these two depictions is the gracelessness of the first versus the gracefulness of the second. Within the poem’s content, the setting has been skillfully intertwined with both imagery and mood to create an understanding of the two poets, whose surroundings characterize them. The poet stands alone in a cave “to cry aloud for [his] / mistakes” while the thrush shares its beautiful and lovely music with the world (1-2). As such, the overall function of these three elements within the poem is to portray the
He went on down the hill, toward the dark woods within which the liquid silver voices of the birds called unceasing - the rapid and urgent beating of the urgent and quiring heart of the late spring night. He did not look
The main issues of the African people in the book “The Kidnapped Prince” were kidnappers and slave traders. An example of this is in the beginning of the book. While the adults of Equiano’s (main character) village are working in the fields, three kidnappers hopped the wall surrounding his peoples village. They kidnapped Equiano and his sister while they were playing. They are forced to travel with their captors and sold into slavery. Eventually Equiano is separated from his sister, as they both go to different “masters”. And although they do see each other at some point later in the book that would be their last meeting and they never see each other again.
Imagine being able abandoned on an island for eighteen years with no human companionship. In Island of the Blue Dolphins this was Karana’s life. When Karan’s and her brother Ramo collect food for their village, they notice a peculiar ship heading towards their island. After the ship comes to shore, the captain of the Aleuts negotiates a deal with the chief of the village, Karana’s father to hunt otter on their island in exchange for goods. Though during the Aleuts time hunting there was a large amount of tension between them and the people of Ghanas-at. After the Aleuts tried to leave the island without properly paying them a battle broke out. During which all but 15 of the men in the village were killed, including Karana‘s father the chief. The village then chooses Kimki to be their new chief, he first thought that they should stay on the island, but after much difficulty they decided that it be better for them to find a new home. He then left to prepare them a new home, after taking almost a year a ship returns that to take the villagers the new place. In a hurry everyone from the village board to ship, but when Karana is on
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Next, the Albatross gives the sailors a feeling of prosperity, while the Raven gives the old man a feeling of remorse. The Raven’s presence and repeatedly saying “Nevermore” reminds the...
This action against nature is rather extreme, for he takes this thought of death lightly. The Albatross, as a representative of nature, means nothing to the Mariner. These thoughts are quickly changed, though, as Nature begins to start the punishment for his crimes commence when there is, "Water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drink." He is punished harshly for killing the symbol of nature that everyone reveres. He is beaten down by the sun with its rays and is taunted by the endless sight of water that he cannot drink.
The tone of The Little Prince is often lonely and fragile-sounding, much like the little prince himself, when he ventures into the world of adults in an attempt to understand them. The writer emphasizes, throughout the story, that loneliness is what isolates the adults rather than children because they are unable to see things with their minds, hearts, and imagination. Both the protagonist (the little prince) and secondary protagonist (the narrator) lead lonely lives because of this isolation due to the differences between the minds of children and adults. "So I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to," writes the narrator, before his plane crashes in the middle of the Sahara. He explains this in the first few chapters - living his life alone - because this 'world of grownups' does not understand him and wishes for him to talk of their idea of 'sensible' and 'practical' things. This made him very lonely, not so much in a physical sense, but so that he could never really find anyone to relate to. The narrator explains that after flat responses to his imaginative observations to things, "'Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and gold, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.'" In one of my magazines is an article called, "Popularity Truths & Lies," where popular girls talk about their social status. In large, red print, it says, "Lie: Popular girls are never left out or lonely." The girls then go on to explain how sometimes, they feel as if they are making so many friends only because of their popularity. They say that it's great to be popular, but difficult to find someone that really wants to befriend them for true qualities rather than social status. The situations between the narrator of The Little Prince and these popular students is that it seems that they would never be isolated (popular students from their admiring peers and the supposedly sensible-minded narrator from the adult world) - physically, at least - but inside the kind of friend they are really longing for is someone to understand and honestly talk to in order to end the abstract barriers between these worlds of people.
...e was at a loss of words. An amber glow danced across Elsa's dress, dazzling Anna as she sat up to take in the full view. She was used to seeing Elsa with a blue look, not as in sad but rather there was always a cool feel to Elsa's exterior; however, Anna found that the warm and golden appearance fitted her sister's just as well.