The exposition of, “If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth” is that in the future, there is a nuclear war on Earth that leaves it uninhabitable causing a great percentage of the population to make a new home known as, “the Colony” on the moon. Meanwhile, some people stayed on Earth in hopes of coming up with a solution so that everyone may return home. Over time, these efforts proved to be useless against the radiation as Clarke describes that, “one by one the radio stations had ceased to call: on the shadowed globe the lights of the cities had dimmed and died, and they were alone at last, as no men had ever been alone before, carrying in their hands the future of the race.”
This leads the reader into the rising action where we are introduced to both
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Marvin and his father as we learn more about what the lunar colony is like as they travel to the uppermost levels. It is here that Marvin realizes that he will get to experience what it is like outside the Colony for the first time, leading the story into the climax. Once Marvin has finally reached the outside world he becomes ecstatic since it is his first time seeing the outside world. Clarke describes that, “he had seen it in photographs, of course: he had watched it imaged on television screens a hundred times. But now it was lying all around him, burning beneath the fierce sun that crawled so slowly across the jet-black sky. He stared into the west, away from the blinding splendor of the sun—and there were the stars, as he had been told but had never quite believed. He gazed at them for a long time, marveling that anything could be so bright and yet so tiny.” It is here that the falling action begins as the two characters begin their journey across the moon by scout car.
On their journey, Marvin notes that his father was driving with, “reckless and exhilarating skill as if—it was a strange thought to come into a child's mind—he were trying to escape from something.” Marvin’s attention, however, is quickly drawn back to the scenery surrounding him as he watches the sun go down as the hours go by. There are also several times throughout the journey where Marvin takes notice of the beautifully isolated scenery. After a few hours of driving, the purpose of this drive is revealed, as Marvin and his father are now able to see the Earth. At first, Marvin can only see how beautiful Earth is and he doesn’t understand why they cannot return home. After all, the only knowledge he has of Earth is from books that talk about how wonderful Earth is. It is in the next moment that the story reaches its denouement. For in the next moment Marvin recognizes that the part of the Earth that should be in darkness was glowing from the aftermath of Armageddon. Marvin’s father then began to tell him the story of how the Earth came to be this way and it was also in that moment that Marvin knew that he would never live to see the day when they could return home. “That was the dream: and one day, Marvin knew with a sudden flash of insight, he would pass it on to his own son, here at this same spot with the mountains behind him and the silver light from the
sky streaming into his face,” Clarke described. Out of sadness, Marvin refused to look back as they journeyed back into isolation.
In conclusion, the story describes that life changes, and nothing stays the same throughout it. It is in the hands of the people to decide that how they want their life to be. They can make it as beautiful as they want to and they can also make it worse than it has ever been
No earth, no air, no light-” (page 61) Stories told about how beautiful life was before the war, beautiful towns people once called home now remain as empty plains of rubble after the bombs have destroyed them. ‘“ If the old bell had been hanging in the steeple it would have rung to announce midnight, twelve solemn iron kongs which would have woken the villagers from their sleep and startled any small creature new to the village and unaccustomed to the noise. But the bell had fallen from its height weeks ago, and now lay buried in silence beneath rubble;”’ (page 7) The damage to a once beautiful place was caused quite simply by greed, greed for something that was not theirs. The wolf’s wise words were correct “ When a wolf clan battles another, it’s usually over territory, Probably this is the reason for your warring,” (page 59), this war was over territory, people wanting to take what was not theirs and having the power to destroy anything that got in their way, leaving everyone and everything caught up in an unpleasant mess.
There, Chris discovers that his father lives a double life with his ex-stepmother, Marcia. Chris rages about, “ divorcing them as my parents once and for all and never speak to either of those idiots again as long as I live" (64). With an untrustworthy family, he feels outcast and useless. He then only can relate to other outcasts for the remainder of the novel. When he gets a chance at conversing with ‘everyday’ people Chris rants about how ‘fake’ they are. Maybe his trip was his final destination because he eventually realizes he has nothing to come back to. He never plans for the future, just the present scenarios, like sending away $24,000 to charity. When the trip was coming to an end, it overwhelmed him, remembering all the things he still angers him. The trip to El Segundo, California, also arose a very dark: “Two years after Chris’s birth, Walt McCandless fathered another child with Marcia” (64). Chris feels tremendous rage and hurt by this secret. He feels his life is a lie because unveiling this unpublished mystery brings skepticism to everything else surrounding his inner circle and family. Lastly, Chris is extremely heart-broken that his father wasn’t satisfied enough by him. Chris is the type of personality that will go over the edge of sanity if no one is there to stop him. When he leaves his family for good, he was out in the
This story is basic about what the different between Earth and Eyeth. This story basic how deaf had this own world.You earth has red, yellow green and blue. Explain how the earth looks like have everything one included the stars, the sun, and aminals bird flying around the earth. There this building is the while and long hallway. Communicate center and the people preparation to go there.There we many people work there, different people with responsible. They knew about the thirteen planets knew was top secret. They want to know what was going on that thirteen planets, was make lot noise there. They want to know if the live person on that plant so they agree to have met and get permission first before they could send someone there. They were
The world would have been very different if we had not landed on the moon and made it back safely those couple days in July of 1969. Many people were nervous and skeptical that the mission of Apollo 11 wouldn’t work, some even coming to the worst case scenario. As a president, President Nixon had to be prepared for any outcome of this great event in history. Regardless of the mission’s success, a speech was prepared for the outcome of Apollo 11 failing. The speech, In Event of Moon Disaster, written for President Nixon, effectively uses pathos and logos to appeal to a distraught nation in fragile time and uses descriptive language to regain the embodiment of hope again in the country. Because it was written before the event took place, however,
When the storm was over he set out to find his great-grandfathers farm. He found some of the old foundation and the carved name on a tree and knew he was on the family compound of his dreams not terribly far from his soon to be home in the Hemlock tree.
In the Novel The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, survival becomes the biggest quest to life. The novel is set to be as a scene of isolation and banishment from people and places. The author uses the hidden woods as a set of isolation for the characters, in which creates the suspense of traveling to an unspecified destination near the shore. Cormac McCarthy creates a novel on the depth of an imaginative journey, which leads to a road of intensity and despair. The journey to move forward in an apocalyptic world transforms both of the main characters father and son tremendously as time progress. In particular, the boys’ isolation takes him from hope to torment, making him become fearful and imaginative. The images indicate that McCarthy’s post apocalyptic novel relies on images, particular verbal choices, and truthful evidence to how isolation affected the son emotionally and physically.
The arrival of winter was well on its way. Colorful leaves had turned to brown and fallen from the branches of the trees. The sky opened to a new brightness with the disappearance of the leaves. As John drove down the country road he was much more aware of all his surroundings. He grew up in this small town and knew he would live there forever. He knew every landmark in this area. This place is where he grew up and experienced many adventures. The new journey of his life was exciting, but then he also had a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach of something not right.
That the planet was covered by glacial ice under long periods during neoproterozoic is today an acceptable but still debated hypothesis, and there is some paper against the snowball earth. According to Allen (2008) there is evidence that indicates some ice-free oceans and thereby contradict that the whole planet was covered by glacial ice.
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque reveals the strong reverence soldiers felt for the earth as they focused solely on their instinct to survive whilst combatting the fear they face on on the front line. The front line is described as “sinister” as soldiers feel the “agony of terror” whilst they fight to survive. For safety, they turn to the earth, thus feeling as if they owe their lives to it. The earth is personified as the soldier’s “only friend, his brother, [and] his mother”. This personification makes the earth feel more relatable to the reader, and also shows how the soldiers have forgotten their families and now seek comfort and safety only from the earth. Syntax is used in a worshiper-like fashion as Remarque writes “Earth-earth-earth-!”,
And one of the most stressful thing they faced, was when their fuel and oxygen were about to end, so there was a risk on their lives. The scientists on the ground debated on whether to go around the moon or come straight back. Around the moon, was gonna use less energy “fuel” but it was going to take longer and maybe they were going to lose oxygen. The straight back path, was going to take less time, but it was going to use more energy, since it was faster. The path they chose, was around the moon one, and they chose it because it use less energy, and people on earth, were trying to figure out a way so the oxygen will last longer. People on earth, were really concerned with the amount of power the spacecraft had, because they were afraid that the fuel won’t be enough for the astronauts to go back home “Earth”. To make the power last longer, they chose to make the spaceship go around the moon so less energy will be used, they also asked the astronauts to shut down the computer or anything they are not using and might use energy, to save it for them to go back to earth. The quality of air in the spacecraft was a concern, afraid that the astronauts won’t have enough oxygen, so they will not survive, especially after they lost a huge amount of
... Animals, for the most part, have no control over their destiny and submit to high powers—unlike man, who tries to control his own life. The earth is personified when it is referred to as a friend, brother, and mother. These soldiers lack the protection a family provides. Like how the earth becomes a form of religious figure, it also becomes a person that they can put their trust in to keep them safe. Fellow soldiers cannot always be totally relied on, but the always surrounding earth is a source of stability. Repetition is used when the word “earth” is repeated three times. It is used to emphasis the importance of this word, and the value it holds to the soldiers. Being pressed up against the earth means safety for these men, and in the chaos of fighting, sometimes it is the only sure object they can see. Sometimes, it is the only thing that offers any support.
Even to the casual observer, using just the ability of the human eye, there is a noticeable order in the manner of the movement of the celestial objects as they travel across the sky. The Sun, Moon, and the stars, all have a discernable pattern to their rising and setting. Upon closer observance, one might notice slight seasonal changes in the relative location on the horizon where the Sun rises and sets. Alternatively, one can notice more drastic variations in the Moon's relative position, the timing of it's appearances, and the variation of the portion of the Moon that is illuminated on any given night. In addition, the stars, if tracked even for a short period, clearly have a pattern to their rising and setting on any given night. Again on careful observance over a period of time one can see that there is a seasonal variation to the location of some stars, with some not being visible at certain time of the year, and others appearing instead. Finally, still with the naked eye, if one were to place close attention, one would notice that some of these "stars" do not follow the same pattern, and seem to follow different rules. So, what do the observable facts all add up to? Are there rules of order that the celestial objects follow? If one were to study the celestial objects long enough, could one discover the rules and be able to accurately predict the movements of celestial objects with accuracy? Surely, peoples of ancient civilizations pondered the same type of questions.
The Narrator wandered around in London trying find if there are any survivors but what he stumbles upon are a dozen dead Martians lying silently killed by a bacterial disease. The Narrator finds that the Martians are dead and that there were survivors. Ships were coming across the channel, the Irish Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean bringing food to relief the civilians. The Narrator returned back to his home noticing that his home is desolate. He looked out his French window and he stood amazed that he saw his wife and cousin. When the Narrator met back up with his wife, she fell right into his arms.
Suddenly, I felt myself falling from the cloud. Down, down, down he fell, farther and father from home. At last I landed on the earth, in the dark green foliage of the rainforest. Around me as far as I could see were tall trees, dense green leaves, red mushrooms and multicolored insects of every shape and size. Strange creatures surrounded him, and the sounds and sights were like nothing I had ever seen or heard before. All I was sure of was that I wanted to go back home. But how?