Zhiming Wang Dr. Flickner Block # 1 5 Feb, 2018 Odyland As Odyssland and his men wandered through the thick green rainforest; a gust of wind brushed by and swept one of Odyssland’s man off of his balance. “Careful guys, according to the locals, there seems to be a numerous sighting of vicious monsters lurking in this very jungle,” Odyssland muttered as he and his crew continued their way up north. A sudden shriek seized Odyssland and his men which ushered them to tumble down into a mysterious unnerving ravine. “Curse you,” Odyssland roared with anger as two of his men had plummeted to their death. From the corner of his eyes, Odyssland spotted a gargantuan beast with glowing red eyes crouched as a tiger would before pouncing on his prey. “Hey Adam,” Odyssland mumbled. “Yes sir,” Adam replied as he too had turned around a faced the beast. “How many men do we have left?” “About fourteen sir.” “Alright then, let’s go to other direction and try to find our way back.” …show more content…
Moments later, one of Odyssland’s men suddenly froze dead in his track and began to transform into stone.
A few of Odyssland’s men started to panic and decided to run off. Judging by the situation, Odyssland decided that the monster would best fit the description of Medusa. “Everybody keep your eyes close! No matter what happens, just keep your eyes close,” Odyssland ordered as he tries to his men’s attention. Odyssland felt something scaly rubbed past his ear and decided it was best to not panic. “Hissssss,” the snake hissed as the men walk by. Out of nowhere, Medusa said, “Where do you think you’re going? Didn’t your parents taught you to look at the person your talking
to?” “Yes ma’am, but my men and I accidentally got sand in our eyes, so we wouldn’t be able to open them for the time being,” Odyssland replied wisely. “Oh yes, why don’t you and your men stay at my place for the night, I mean surely the sun will soon set.” One of Odyssland’s men fortuitously tripped over a rock which evokes him to open his eyes. The man screamed with fear as he transforms into a statue. Sounds of hissing snakes made the situation for Odyssland much worse as he began to tremble in terror. Soon, Medusa commences to get a little snappy and decided to force one of Odyssland’s men to open their eyes. A feeling of anger suddenly rushed through Odyssland, and he reached behind his back and drew his sword. One by one, Medusa transform Odyssland’s men into a lifeless statue. “I can treat your eyes, just open them and let me take a look at them,” Medusa suggested as she comes closer to Odyssland. “May I ask where are my other men? I mean it’s getting kind of quiet out here,” Odyssland asked. “Oh yes, I sent them back to my place, they are being treated as we speak.” Odyssland grabbed his sword tightly and slices Medusa’s off. He later told his men that they can open their eyes. Odyssland was proud of the fact that he was about to slice Medusa’s head off without even looking, but at the same time, he feels anger as he had just lost six of his men due to this monster. Odyssland and his men later continued their journey home.
Billy and his hounds face unexpected struggles each time they hunt. For example, there is always a battle to catch the coons. The first time Billy goes hunting, the hounds tree a coon in the biggest sycamore tree in the forest. For two whole days, Billy chips away at the tree until it finally falls down and the coon is caught. Billy is hot, exhausted, and aches all over. Another example of man versus nature is the weather during the Championship Coon Hunt. During this hunt, Billy and his hounds face a terrible blizzard. The winter weather is described as roaring and “the north wind seemed to be laughing at us” (202). The wind blows and the snow falls so fast that the Earth is instantly covered. Even the hounds have to stay in constant motion to keep from freezing to death. The biggest conflict occurs at the end of the story. Billy and his hounds encounter their biggest opponent, a mountain lion. All alone, they struggle with the wild creature that Billy refers to as a “devil cat” (226). The mountain lion has “yellow slitted eyes that burned with hate” (226). Billy watches as his hounds and the mountain lion tear at each other and fight till the end.
The first representation of the beast that the author portrays is fear. In document A, “... Begin to people the darkness of night and forest with spirits and demons which had previously appeared only in their dreams or fairy tales”. To clarify, the children’s imagination runs rampant without their parents to banish their fears, so their imagination creates something of a beastie-thing. In document
"The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles an hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.
The author uses diction in the passages to signify the effect of the author¡¯s meaning in story and often sway readers to interpret ideas in one way or another. The man in the story arrives to a ¡°[dry] desert¡± where he accosts an animal with ¡°long-range attack¡± and ¡°powerful fangs.¡± The author creates a perilous scene between the human and animal in order to show that satisfaction does not come from taking lives. With instincts of silence and distrust, both of them freeze in stillness like ¡°live wire.¡± In addition, the man is brought to the point where animal¡¯s ¡°tail twitched,¡± and ¡°the little tocsin sounded¡± and also he hears the ¡°little song of death.¡± With violence ready to occur, the man tries to protect himself and others with a hoe, for his and their safety from the Rattler. The author criticizes how humans should be ¡°obliged not to kill¡±, at least himself, as a human. The author portrays the story with diction and other important techniques, such as imagery, in order to influence the readers with his significant lesson.
When we hear the word “beast,” most of us will immediately think of some enormous hairy creature with razor sharp fangs and massive claws coming to kill and eat us. Although these types of beasts do exist, the boys in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, show that a different, much more sinister beast is present in all of our everyday lives, and, like the boys in the book, most of us don’t even know about it. Throughout the book, the existence and meaning of the beast go through significant changes. In the beginning, the boys believe the beast to be a substantive being. At first no one believes it, but later they begin to believe its existence. Later though, the beast reveals itself as an internal flaw within everyone on the island, and slowly begins to take over the children’s free will. As the belief in the beast goes up, its manifestation as the “typical beast” that we all think of goes down, which is ironic because they are creating the beast in their minds, while also living it out in their actions.
Golding constructs these images carefully, and at their very centre lies the concept of the beast. In the heart of the island, crawling about in the dark foliage of the jungle, the boys begin to unknowingly personify the beast as the snake. They become overcome with fear of the unseen monster which attacks from all fronts, land and sea, and from which there is no refuge. This broad abstraction of the beast later crystallizes to the reader when it evolves into the Dead Parachutist, who, while being human, has departed, still snared by a "complication of lines." His man-made trap, which will remain long after his earthly body has deteriorated, gives the illusion of life to the deceased soldier. This Dead Parachutist is aptly referred to as a "message from the adult world", as the parachute stands as the clinching metaphor for the hollow and bureaucratic constructs that serve as both the pillars and bars of society. For beyond the wars, the...
Many believed, (and still do) that "monsters" were real, that the fictional creatures that "go bump at night" actually do go bump at night. So, a few people formed a society of men and women called "Hunters". From generation to generation, men rose to the responsibility of protecting the life of others, by hunting them. The two story of two of these remarkable group of people will forever live in the minds of men, we are forever indebted to them.
...e by the desire to hunt and kill and how they are putting themselves at risk by venturing into unknown, unsafe land. Hence, the reoccurring them that humans are naturally savage is evident in this passage. With savagery comes danger, reinforcing the feeling that the boys will encounter trouble.
This leads to the fact that a beast really does exist within all human beings, but is only expressed when human instinct for survival becomes the main objective. At first the boys aren?t able to kill, but as survival instinct starts taking over, the reader?s are able to se the true character?s play out, and lives are compromised. ?You feel as if you?re not hunting, but- being hunted, as if something?s behind you all the time in the jungle,? (pg.53) proves that it?s every man for himself and people will do anything to survive. An example of this in the novel was when Robert became the ?pig,? and was wounded even though it wasn?t intentional, but the situation became worse when Piggy?s death happened as a result of all civilization lost and evil taken over.
In the beginning of this story, one expects for the characters to follow the concepts that they represent. This story displays one man's journey to leave his home and comfort zone in order to fully explore his curiosity. He goes off into a forest and undergoes a life changing experience there. He encounters three different things that set him on the path to the journey of knowledge. This forest was symbolic of an assessment of strength, bravery, and survival. It took determination to survive in the forest and the young person entering into it would not emerge the same. Conversely, this story is more representative than realistic and the peril is of the character. This story is more of a vision or conscious daydream th...
Have you ever been away from home for a long period of time? The main character Odysseus from Homer’s The Odyssey has been away from his kingdom fighting in Troy and sailing from island to island for twenty years. While at sea, Odysseus deals with both alienating and enriching experiences as he is surrounded by monsters who want to eat him and his men, and women who want him to love them. Odysseus survives the troubling situations and finally realizes how much he misses the love of his wife who is caring loving, and patient. She gave birth to his son who he has not yet met, which makes him anxious to return to his kingdom. Sometimes being away from what you think are the little things can give you a better perspective of what is around you.
This tribe brings nothing but death and destruction to the island. Moreover, the newly formed group of warriors even develop a dance that they perform over the carcass of the dead pig. They become so involved in this dance that that warriors kill one of their own kind. By chance, Simon runs from the forest towards the group that is already shouting “‘Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!’” (152).
In Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Circumstance” she tells of a woman who is visiting a sick neighbor. Where they live neighbors are miles apart, with the woods between being home for many wild animals, as well as Indian tribes. The woman stays with the neighbor too long and does not realize night is approaching, and she hurries home. Spofford begins the story in a very realistic tone. On her way home she is attacked by a sort of mountain lion. Spofford gives a romantic description of the beast, never giving the exact name of the animal. “Suddenly, a swift shadow, like the fabulous flying-dragon, writhed through the air before her, and she felt herself instantly seized and borne aloft. It was that wild beast - the most savage and serpentine and subtle and fearless of out latitudes- known by hunters as the Indian Devil.” (86) In her definition she keeps the beast from being real. Describing the animal as a beast, a flying dragon, and a devil gives the reader a mysterious impression of the animal, rather than being realistic and calling this flying dragon ...
“It was unearthly, and the men were—No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it—the suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity—like yours—the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but
Her spry, Timberland-clad foot planted itself upon a jagged boulder, motionless, until her calf muscles tightened and catapulted her small frame into the next stride. Then Sara's dance continued, her feet playing effortlessly with the difficult terrain. As her foot lifted from the ground, compressed mint-colored lichen would spring back into position, only to be crushed by my immense boot, struggling to step where hers had been. My eyes fixated on the forest floor, as fallen trees, swollen roots, and unsteady rocks posed constant threats for my exhausted body. Without glancing up I knew what was ahead: the same dense, impenetrable green that had surrounded us for hours. My throat prickled with unfathomable thirst, as my long-empty Nalgene bottle slapped mockingly at my side. Gnarled branches snared at my clothes and tore at my hair, and I blindly hurled myself after Sara. The portage had become a battle, and the ominously darkening sky raised the potential for casualties. Gritting my teeth with gumption, I refused to stop; I would march on until I could no longer stand.