This month I read Gossamer by Lois Lowry. It is a fictional story about strange creatures that take memories scents and sounds from little things from around a home, and proceed to then implant the happy ones into their charges while they are sleeping. Creating happy dreams for their charges. However there are other creatures called Sinisteed’s which give nightmares and torment the creatures charges. The story follows one of the creatures named Littlest One, or Littlest for short. She and her teacher Thin Elderly visit an old womans home every night and give her dreams. Until one day when the old woman takes in a angry young boy who the Sinisteeds are very interested in. Littlest is in charge of trying to protect John, the angry little boy, from the nightmares. One of the main character’s, Littlest One, is full of curiosity which helps her at times but also can put her in danger. Being so curious also angered her previous teacher, it seems that the community of creatures don't really question things and more just accept them for the way they are, kind of like the people in The Giver...
Knowledge can be the key to success and can lead people to happier life. However, there are some instances that you can not gain any more knowledge because of how it would change your whole life. The drive of wanting more and more knowledge is best portrayed through two well -known books. In Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein, and in Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, both the creature and Charlie are ostracized by society because they are different from everyone else but this distinction gave way for distinct fallouts because of their quest for knowledge beyond their reach to achieve happiness.
Senick, Gerard J., and Hedblad, Alan. Children’s Literature Review: Excerpts from Reviews, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People (Volumes 14, 34, 35). Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1995..
Callicles comes with a hedonistic belief that pleasure is to be associated with “good” and that pain is to be associated with “bad”, which means a good life is the one full of many pleasures. To refute Callicles belief, Socrates first uses the example of health and disease to explain to Callicles that good and bad cannot happen with a person at the same time, yet pain and pleasure can happen simultaneously. To further enforce his point, Socrates uses the concept of a coward and the brave to provide another argument that pain and pleasure cannot be the deciding factors for what is a good life. In both of his arguments, I believe Socrates is successful based on my personal belief that if someone or something is result in pain, it doesn’t mean that it is bad, and that everyone, good or bad, is capable of feeling both pain an pleasure.
This book presents the relationship between human and animal behaviors and the behavior that is now created by our modern day society. The mind has two main parts. There is the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind is the better half, yet it is potentially threatening; therefore, the conscious mind is aware at all times. The unconscious mind influences your behavior in many ways. Pi experiences both of these minds. Pi is consciously planning his survival and how he was going to spend his food, so he didn’t run out. His conscious mind contributed to Pi surviving at sea. Consequently, when Pi`s father fed a goat to a tiger to prove a point, he was unaware that this event changed his personality brutally. He became more
PLOT AND SUMMARY: Fablehaven by Brandon Mull is the story of two siblings Kendra and Seth’s adventure through their Grandparent’s magical reserve. The story starts with the two of them feeling uneasy about being at their Grandparent’s for the summer, but after drinking the magical milk that lets them see what’s really around them, they start to like it more and more. As they venture through the reserve they encounter many magical and dangerous creatures, these include; two satyrs with an obsession with electronics, a dying demon Graulus, a fairy queen, and witch that lives in a shack. After they release the evil witch Muriel, by undoing the last of her knots that imprison her, she unleashes the demon Bahumat.
middle of paper ... ... Our curiosity is what makes our interactions interesting and entertaining. As members of society, it is our innate ability to wander further than what we have in front of us. We want to impose our opinions on everything.
He also learns about concepts such as love, poverty, social life, betrayal and countless others; those helped broaden his view of the world. This education compares with the education a child would get while growing up, so far the Creature’s mind is still foreign to concepts such as revenge and hatred like an innocent child still lacking experience. For example in its account it says: “For a long time I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments; but when I heard details of vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased, and I turned away with disgust and loathing.” This proves that its mind is still untainted by experience and still arbours hope of finding a place where it belongs, however it later attempts to approach the family hoping to be accepted and loved but the Creature is cruelly rejected and has to run away. At this point, the Creature understands that it will be forever forsaken by humanity and realises the wrong that has been done to it. It then decides to seek for his creator in order to get
Before the first Harry Potter film came out in 2001, many fans were worried that the unusual and distinctively English charms of JK Rowling's books would be lost in the journey from printed page to the big screen.
...ature separates how good and evil are both viewed by society and how much of both have existed in the world. The creature has been admiring and discovering life by experiencing and learning the language, interactions, and overall love; he can’t believe how much evil there has been and how he hates it.
When individuals are provoked and questioned, it evokes an emotional and intellectual response which prompts them to reflect on their pre existing attitudes and values. Jane Harrison’s play ‘Rainbow’s end’, explores three Aboriginal women provoked by the realisation of the social and psychological barriers which prevent the indigenous Australians to be accepted. Similarly, in Sean Penn’s film ‘into the wild’, exhibits confronting experience of living alone in the wild, forcing him to reconsider his disbelief of needing human interaction in life to be fulfilled. When discoveries are provocative, it can evoke an emotional response to challenge their belief ultimately leading to reconsider and re-evaluate their previously held perspective. In
Individuals who currently oppose technological advances and also oppose the furthering of research mirror the cave dwellers who, out of fear, ridicule the newly enlightened wanderer.
Continuing with the thread of human development, we see the creature's acquisition of language. The creature most craves this sort of knowledge:...
In the world of science there are many discoveries. “A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature … and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.” (Ferdinand Puretz). Most people in the world we live in lack to notice and or appreciate the gift of sight in life. By not cherishing the gift of sight and using it properly, many discoveries are left unfound. In the writing piece, Seeing, Annie Dillard speaks of nature and the small things that we all are unconsciously blind to and not appreciative of. Seeing explores the idea of what it means to truly see things in this world. Annie Dillard’s main point is that we should view the world with less of a meddling eye, so that we are able to capture things that would otherwise go unnoticed. There’s a science to how we view things in nature. Dillard attempts to persuade her reader to adopt to her way of seeing, which is more artificial rather than natural.
As children we are born with a natural curiosity that pulls us out into the world. Going out and experiencing new things, seeing different environments; like the first time you see the ocean or snow or the Grand Canyon, it adds to the world that we know and changes our perspective on it with each new thing. But if we reflect upon it and ask what is the ocean? Or what is it that gives us life and makes us so different from a rock. These are questions which cannot be easily answ...
At the beginning of the story, Gordimer is sleeping, until it is interrupted by noises, causing her to wake. Without considering other options, Gordimer immediately goes to the worst possible scenario explaining these noises. Gordimer infers that the sounds may be an “echo chamber of the unconscious”, which translates to the author suggesting that the sounds are a representation of her inner mind and consciousness. Perhaps Gordimer is a toxic insecure self on the inside and that spreads to affecting her outside representation. That is just one of the conclusions she reaches, another one is one that many people have when they hear a noise at night: criminals. Gordimer’s fear and insecurity regarding herself and