In the book Michael Vey: The Last Spark By Richard Paul Evans the character I would love to know would be Michael Vey. One reason is that Michael Vey is electric, which started with a complicated birth defect, and would most likely be the most powerful person in the world if he truly existed. The native people of Tuvalu (A small island in the South Pacific) called him Uira te Atua, which translates to Lightning God. He once was pure energy and can create lightning bolts, lightning balls, deflect bullets, burn through walls, and the list goes on. He would be able to easily defend me if we were good friends, and he could be very useful if my car needed a jumpstart. Michael’s also very smart and able to think in the moment, but the main reason
In The Return of Martin Guerre, one man's impersonation of an heir from an influential peasant family in the French village of Artigat ultimately leads to his public execution. The tale of Arnaud du Tilh alias Pansette (meaning "the belly") is full of ironies, not the least of which is his death at the hands of a man who by some accounts harbored some admiration for the quick-witted peasant. Set in a time and place where a hardly discernible line separated proper behavior from that which was grounds for death, du Tilh was guilty of more than one serious charge. Yet he was well-known as a strong farmer, loving husband, shrewd rural-merchant, and eloquent speaker. Arnaud's actions are not the result of his own audacity, rather of something more universal, so universal its results can be seen in other historical figures from the text. Du Tilh assumed Martin Guerre's identity because doing so represented a unique opportunity to test the extent of his abilities and leave behind his presently troubled life.
Throughout our lives we encounter dilemmas which help us learn the real meaning of courage, which differs with every person. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. This could be interpreted that courage isn't committing an act of temerity without a reason, however, it is facing your fears to accomplish something which is more important than fear itself. Throughout the book B for Buster by Iain Lawrence, the main character of the novel learns the real meaning of courage through his acts of temerity in order to achieve something which is important to him. This novel takes place during World War II, when an underage sixteen year old signs up to become a crewman in the Halifax bombing of Nazi Germany. Although he is young, Kak makes it through his missions through his courage and determination to accomplish his dream and his love for flying. Lawrence uses characterization and many examples from the novel to show the true meaning of courage.
I Could Never Rescue You: The Rise and Fall of Jamie Wellerstein Narrative – Jamie Wellerstein is the lead male character in Richard LaGravenese’s “The Last Five Years,” a 2014 movie adaptation of the hit broadway musical of the same name. In the movie, Jamie is a Jewish, twenty-something budding writer who dreams of his work getting published. While working hard day and night, he meets Cathy Hyatt, an aspiring actress struggling to find her place in New York’s theater scene, who ends up becoming the love of his life. Months into their relationship, Jamie gets a call from Random House, a publishing company interested in getting one of his novels published. He accepts the offer and makes a better life for him and Cathy by earning a lot more
John Edgar Wideman’s essay “Our Time” presents us the story of his brother Robby. The essay is unique because Wideman uses the “voices” of his brother Robby, his mother, and himself to convey the different perspectives of each person. The author uses the three different points of view in an attempt to express his emotions, and what he was going through while trying to understand the motives behind Robby’s transgressions. Wideman articulates that choices in life are often difficult to make, and other people will be unable to understand the reasons behind a particular choice. In addition to telling Robby’s story, Wideman includes the problems he faced as a writer in order to tell the story from his brother’s point of view.
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, inner struggles are paralleled with each setting. Taking place in the twentieth century each setting plays a significant role in explaining a theme in the novel. Fleeing Greece in a time of war and entering Detroit Michigan as immigrants parallel later events to the next generation of kin fleeing Grosse Pointe Michigan to San Francisco. These settings compliment a major theme of the novel, society has always believed to be missing something in their life and attempted to fill the missing piece.
In Jeffrey Eugenides’s book Middlesex, Calliope Stephanide tells the story of not only her transformation, but also the world’s transformation into a completely different entity. Brother and sister become husband and wife, Greeks become Americans, and, most importantly, a young girl becomes a man. Along with being a transformative novel, Middlesex is also considered a modern epic. It is an epic account that retells the history of a recessive chromosome that made its way into the life of the main character. Cal describes this recessive chromosome’s journey as it travels through many imposing events: “Cal needs to tell the story of his past in order to function in the present” (Cohen). This genetic chromosome survives a fire in Smyrna, the trip to America and through Ellis Island, Detroit during the race riots, and gradually makes its way into the body of Cal Stephanides. “Middlesex, therefore, is a Bildungsroman with a rather big twist: the Bildung it describes turns out to be the wrong one—a false start” (Mendelsohn 1). Through the hardships in life, Calliope describes how she eventually becomes known as Cal.
Letters from Robert Walton--the captain of a ship headed on a dangerous voyage headed to the North Pole. Robert writes letters to his sister Margaret. In the first letter, he tells her how he wants to accomplish the undiscovered or “some great purpose”. In the second and third letter he tells her how lonely and isolated he feels, how he’s romantic, with his “love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous,” and he thinks he’s not going to be anybody. In the third letter, Walton tells his sister that his ship has set sail and that he is confident that he will achieve his aim.
I am extremely indebted to both Colin Stanley's The Work of Colin Wilson and Howard F. Dossor's Colin Wilson: The Man
In “A Prayer For Owen Meany, the main character Owen can be seen as a prophet. There are plenty of examples leading towards Owen being a prophet, but a significant example that I saw was different between the film and the novel was The Christmas Carol play they did on New Year’s Eve. In the play, Owen played the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. During the play, Owen sees his name on a tombstone and ends up fainting. Starting from that point on, the rest of Owen’s life is focused on that date he saw on the tombstone
Imagine this, you’re seventeen and the harmonious life you have always known is being threatened to be thrown off by a devastating war. On top of that you’re struggling to find internal peace. How would you manage to balance everything and what would you do to find unity in chaos? In the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles characters Phineas, Brinker, and Gene strive for this “separate peace”. Phineas is distinguished as the classic rebel, super-athlete, and genuine kid. He seems almost too perfect, especially for Gene. Brinker is known as a natural leader and seems like he always has his life together. However, with time he transitions to a rebel character. Finally, Gene who is characterized as struggling with typical ailments such as jealousy or
In this book, Julie Barenson is a young widow, whose husband Jim died earlier from cancer. Her husband left her two unexpected gifts. The first was a Great Dane puppy name Singer (this gift was delivered the first Christmas after his passing) and the other gift was his promise that he would always be watching over her. About four years after his passing, Julie is twenty-nine years old and is too young to have given up on love just yet. She may be ready to risk caring for someone again but she just can't figure out who that person is yet. She starts dating Richard Franklin, a sophisticated, handsome engineer who treats Julie like a queen. The other person she has an option to date is Mike Harris, the down-to-earth guy who was her husband's best friend.
Despite the fact Time and Again is fictional, it makes one wistful, thinking of how incredible it would be to be in Simon Morley’s place. To be able to see the world exactly as if a day had not passed in the time of 1882, to converse, to touch, to just breathe the air of the past – is merely dreaming.
Thiessen, Michael, and Elizabeth Thiessen. “Lightning.” Dream Central's Online Dream Dictionary. 14 October 2002. http://www.sleeps.com/dictionary/lll.html.
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” abruptly ends in the middle of the story. Poe’s intent in doing this may have been a way to make the story seem realistic. Pym’s narration of the story, especially during the preface, makes it seem like this could have really happened. In the preface, Pym states that “the public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable” when his editor, Poe, printed some of his narration earlier. At the end of the book with the note from Poe, the public is already aware of Pym’s “sudden and distressing death.” (384) The story was almost over, only two or three more chapters before the ending but we’re told that the editor Poe declined to offer to finish the narration because of “his disbelief
Zeus is the god of law, justice, morals, thunder, lightning, and rain. It was his job to oversee and make sure laws were being kept. He was worshipped originally as a weather god. He was depicted as a middle-aged man with a youthful appearance; he was regale and was almost always shown ready to throw a lightning bolt (pantheon/zeus).