There are numerous themes in Darren Shan’s Lord Loss, the first book of the Demonata series. The main theme revolves around family- the love and sacrifices people willing to make for the sake of their loved ones. “We’re a family. We should face things together” (Shan, 32). When Grubbs’s family is acting strange and not telling him what is happening, Grubbs realizes that family is forever and they need to trust each other in times of hardship. Another important lesson is about the beauty of simplicity, such as when Grubbs beats Lord Loss in chess. “Thinking, plotting, planning- those are all things Dervish told me not to do. He warned me to obey my instincts, let the magic flow…” (Sgan, 242-243). By not thinking, by playing recklessly, and
What are the important themes of the book? What questions or issues about teaching and learning does it address?
Books nearly always have multiple themes, whether they’re evident or not. These themes can vary from being extremely evident to barely perceptible. In the novel, Ranger’s Apprentice, by John Flanagan, there are quite a few themes. In this book, a young orphan named Will is chosen to become an apprentice to one of the most elite of men in the country, Halt. He trains to become a ranger, learning to hone his skills in weaponry and remaining unseen. When the dark lord, Morgarath, attempts to take over, Will takes on a perilous journey to defeat a savage race of beast known as the kalkara that Morgarath set loose. Throughout the course of this novel, Will shows many admirable traits that enhance the obvious themes that Flanagan set in place.
T. H. White's The Once and Future King is one of the most complete and unique portrayals of the immortal legend of King Arthur. Though it has been in print for less than half a century, it has already been declared a classic by many, and is often referred to as the "bible" of Arthurian legend. White recreates the epic saga of King Arthur, from his childhood education and experiences until his very death, in a truly insightful and new way. This is not, however, the first complete novel of Arthur's life. In the fifteenth century, Sir Thomas Malory wrote Morte d'Arthur, the first complete tale of Arthur's life. Since then, a countless number of books have been written on the subject, yet none can compare to The Once and Future King. It has easily become the most popular of all the Arthurian novels as it is loved by both children and adults. Though similar in many ways to other works of the same subject, such as Malory's, White gives new details, meanings, and insightful modernization to the story, giving it an earthy quality, which the reader can identify with. White's rendering of the Arthurian legend differs from the traditional versions in that he includes contemporary knowledge and concepts, adds new stories and characters to the legend, and provides new perspectives by probing deeper into the existing tales.
The theme of this novel is to look at the good you do in life and how it carries over after your death. The moral of the book is; "People can make changes in their lives whenever they really want to, even right up to the end."
(AGG) When you lose a loved one no matter how old they are or you are, it can have a traumatic impact in your life. (BS-1) The loss of Margaret causes much sorrow throughout her life. (BS-2) After the death of her husband, Nusrat overtime attempts to move on. (BS-3) Overall Nusrat has a big heart for giving these Afghan children a school, and something to give them that gives them happiness. (TS) A major theme in Under The Persimmon Tree is how loss, and change can shape an individual.
The idea of race and the stigma and stereotypes associated with different skin colors have been a constant in our society. From our country’s founding, race has been deeply engrained into our culture—the most prominent example being slavery—and has been the main source of conflict among people. The race issue in America has been illuminated in recent years both intellectually and physically; pieces of literature have been created that explore the repercussions of race in society and the historical implications situations, and events have sparked attention through the media that depict the issues that race creates. An example of examining race in America intellectually can be seen in Toni Morrison’s essay Playing in the Dark, which discusses
Changes in the Land by William Cronon depicts the changes in New England brought upon by the European settlers in the 1600s. What was once only occupied by Native Americans, New England’s resources were sustainably consumed by the indigenous people of the land. However, in Cronan’s perspective, the arrival of the settlers brought upon drastic and detrimental consequences that would go on to affect the ecology of New England today. An apparent theme brought up in Changes in the Land is adaptation. Cronan arrays the theme of adaptation by displaying how the natives had to adapt to a sporadically changing lifestyle that the colonists attempted to assimilate into the land and its people.
In White, Richard Dyer discusses whiteness and the imagery it plays that unfairly privileges and paves a path of success for its European possessors, while blinding them to this fact in order to avoid feelings of guilt, because “other people are raced, we are just people.” While recognizing his own privileges as a white man in society and the normalcy his successes are characterized as, he only begins to become conscious to this as he became aware to the oppressions he faces as a gay man. He recognizes his hesitance towards centralizing around whiteness with this book, as society already does, but does so to “dislodge it from centrality and authority.” Dyer also struggles with choosing terminology to reference these discussed whites and feels
emotions and subtle nuances provided by the author in the book, and many of the deeper feelings and emotions therein are missed entirely, or touched on much too briefly
At the being of story, “The Lottery” children looks like playing stones, but that was not fact. The fact was that those collected stones were for throwing the people at the ends of lottery. Every year the old men alone with his family and all other family needs their support of each other to protect from stones attack. Old man warner was saying, “Come on, come on, everyone”, after people start hitting each other by stone (Jackson). In the story “The Necklace” Mathilde, borrow a necklace from her rich friend to wear at ministry party (Maupassant 23). While walking in a party she loses it. That was an expensive diamond necklace and they need to buy another. Before she did not like her husband because of his poorness, but after her mistake she needs husband to help to paid off the necklace’s fee. “The Necklace” and “The lottery” were the story, which shows how family is important to us.
In this book review I represent and analyze the three themes I found the most significant in the novel.
Edward Taylor’s poem “The Preface” consist of questions as to how the world was created. The purpose of this poem is to reveal God's sovereign authority over creation and life itself. No sooner do you understand one paradox that he changes to a different set that gets a little confusing. The need to understand the next set of metaphors and picture it and then to put all together to get the message that Taylor was trying to give.
The first theme connection I made was the importance of memory. In The Giver, Jonas learns a lot from the past through memories transported to him from the Giver. As the Receiver of Memory, Jonas needs to learn these to feel how life used to be. “... my job is to transmit memories to you, all the memories of the past” (p.79). The Giver feels pain from the memories and Jonas willingly takes them from him. The Giver makes it seem like he is carrying a huge burden when he tells Jonas the pain he is feeling. “I am going to transmit the memory of snow” (p.79). The current Giver is the only person who can share memories with other people. He is the only person that we know of that knows what snow is. This really important because somewhere in the
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The most obvious of the themes is that of violence, brutality, and torture. Tied into this also is the idea of injustice. Many of these themes are intertwined. Constantly the reader is berated with violent images, or descriptions of violence. These must be on nearly every second page of the novel. A good example of all these themes together is in the section called “Moderate Pressure: Part Two” This deals with a story of a man called Ghassan who was accused of an affiliation with an illegal group that could not be proven. Ghassan was forced to stand or sit in certain positions for hours on end, he was beaten, deprived of sleep, and restricted from medical attention that he needed. Continually he went to court, and the case was adjourned to later dates to try to confiscate some kind of evidence against him. There was no justice for Ghassan until after several days (approximately 14); he was released for lack of evidence. Ghassan suffers from violence (which is unjust), from brutality (one of the inspectors trying to induce a heart attack), and torture. Ghassan’s ordeal is illustrated in both written and pictorial form. Likewise to this, there are many other pictorial examples and textual examples from front to back of violence, brutality, injustice, and torture .