What I thought would be peaceful solitude turned out differently than I planned. Tired from walking along the ocean’s tide, I sat down and watched the moon perform its invisible but effective magic making the waves crash one by one. Soon my peace was interrupted by another human. A boy, no younger than I, had sat down next to me wondering why I was alone. After answering his series of questions, we actually get into a decent conversation that held back my temptation to ask him to leave. The awkward pauses between two strangers sharing a conversation are long enough to count three waves crash. During that awkward pause, I guess he could see my fascination as I stare dazzlingly at moon acting as the oceans guardian shining above. He asked if I liked the sky and I responded only at night when the stars come out to dance. …show more content…
He contributes his love for stars with a story that took place the night before. His buddies and he got a bit drunk and he wonders away from the group to go star gazing at the very beach we were sitting on. He stated that being wasted can make the stars bigger than what meets the eye, but he also added that his awareness of their power makes them bigger even when sober. I commented to his tell saying “wow.” Not in a critical tone about his drunken self, but in a fascinated way. Even when his head was dizzy from liquor and not thoughts, he made his was to what shines the brightest in both heart and mind. Three waves had crashed and my thoughts were so loud to notice we had an awkward pause
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At the same time: Snap-Whoosh-Growl-Snap-Whoosh-Growl! Return with a fierceness, causing the rest of the men to separate into two groups with some moving to the left in search of the origin of the beastly sounds and the others moving to the right, combining their numbers with those searching for their missing brethren, while Gottlieb stays behind.
I was born with an inherent fascination for all things celestial. Ever since I was young, I have been staring at the night sky trying to find constellations, or using my juvenile imagination to create my own. My efforts to find, view, and mentally catalogue everything the heavenly bodies have to offer has led me to employ some over-the-top measures, but the most extreme of them all might be the night I stayed awake through the wee hours of the morning to catch a glimpse of a meteor shower. Over the course of an entire year, the memory of this stupefying event is still as lucent and vivid as it was that very night so long ago.
Throughout the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, there are various responsibilities meted out to both men and women. In fact, an important theme of this novel is the continuity in the relationship between men and women in regards to both sharing some form of control over the community. However, in terms of definitive power, often a balance between genders is not found, and rather we are shown Macondo as a world most often shaped, and dominated by either a single commanding Matriarch or Patriarch. It is also interesting to note that while most frequently we are only presented with a solitary authoritative figure of a particular gender, when Macondo is at its most prosperous it is controlled not by a single figure but rather a symbiotic partnership between a male and a female.
The appearance of biblical allusions in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been noted by numerous critics. These allusions are not merely additional literary devices, but rather form much of the structure of the novel. Renowned critic Harold Bloom has even called the book “the Bible of Macondo” (Bloom 1), an apt characterization considering that the novel, throughout its course, contains sections that closely parallel the Book of Genesis. - going to add more to this
In William Deresiewicz’s essay, “The End of Solitude,” he describes how technology has made it impossible to be alone. Media, social networking sites, television have so much influence on our mind that our lives revolve around these things. Everyone wants to be recognized, famed and wants to be appreciated by others such that being alone isn’t appealing to them. William Deresiewicz argues that being alone is a vital part of life and everybody should try to achieve that solitude in their lives, but with technology it has become impossible to be alone when we have technology in our pockets. He suggests that solitude is very important to hear God and to hear our inner selves. He compares the eras Romanticism, Modernism and
Herbert Mullin viciously murdered thirteen innocent people. Herbert believed he was a hero. He thought of himself as a “sacrificial scapegoat”, who killed to save California from a disastrous earthquake. He believed that his father had contacted him telepathically, ordering him to kill. He was eventually diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Paranoid schizophrenics “have an organized system of delusions and auditory hallucinations that may guide their lives” (Comer, 2013).
As humans, we are beings of intelligence; therefore we are capable of compiling thoughts into ideas and beliefs. Our intelligence is also truly tested when we are in agreement or in conflict with the beliefs of other people. What about a popular conception that becomes a misconception? What about a thought that is infamous because of the truth that it preaches? If I am the one out of the crowd, who sees this thought as the truth instead of a punishment, does that mean my intelligence is no more comparable to theirs?
We’re halfway through the show and we’re about to sing “Little Things” and I get this idea. “To make this song even more special, we’ll each pick one of you to come up here with us.” After I finish the room goes insane and the lads look confused. So the band starts to play and we begin to look. Zayn and Harry were the first to find their girls in the first row, but Louis, Liam, and I took our time. This was my perfect move to find her and I know where she sits. When I was holding those small hands her bracelet said “Row K Seat 3”, so that’s where I’m looking. “Niall what’s taking so long it’s not like you’re looking for the one.” Harry joked and the crowd went wild. But I am, there’s something about her that makes me crazy. “I found her.” I reach out for
Bogard appeals to pathos, the reader's emotions, and tugs at the reader's heartstrings. By asking, “Who knows what this vision of the night sky might inspire in each of us, in our children or grandchildren?” Bogard draws out importance about the affecting power of an untainted night sky. He relates the problem to others' experiences, families, and future generations to better get the point across. Through the emotion Bogard induces, readers suddenly feel defensive in preserving the darkness for the sake of their mental and physical health.
"…Races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth." These powerful last words of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude ring true. The book demonstrates through many examples that human beings cannot exist in isolation. People must be interdependent in order for the race to survive.
Have you been noticing that your life that you are living is changing every day? Technology has change on how we live our everyday life. In William Deresiewicz’s essay “The End of Solitude,” he discusses what is happening to our lives through the world of technology, celebrities, friendships, and solitude. Celebrity and connectivity, through his point of view, are ways of learning to become known to what the contemporary self wants. While I was reading the essay that Deresiewicz wrote, I was thinking about how I disagree with him that our use of technology is making it hard on being alone, and I disagree with him that solitude isn’t for everyone.
People are defined and shaped by the choices they make; and those choices are heavily influenced by their surroundings, whether they be isolated or not. The characters in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, exhibits this kind of development. The novels follows the journey of the Buendía and the Aureliano family as they live out their lives in the isolated and timeless town of Macondo. Through heavy amounts of fantasy realism, the characters, as individuals, are faced with the choice to leave Macondo and return changed from the experience. In the secluded town, the families face the conflict of outside influences and adapting or eradicating the source of change. One Hundred Years of Solitude shows how surroundings affect a character through different forms of isolation.
The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches.” This segment is a prime example of the style Emerson utilizes to convey his unconventional philosophy to readers, utilizing rich detail and metaphors. He continues to write, “Every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.” These metaphorical stars carry a message, a reminder of the vastness of the world which encourages readers to contemplate existence beyond the teachings of society. They enable readers to embrace the mundanity of everyday life and find true beauty, just as he does when he looks closer at the stars he finds in the sky each night.
In his article, “The End of Solitude,” Williams Deresicwicz discusses how he believes solitude is almost, if not already gone due to the technology era. I agree with Deresicwicz, technology has made us scared to be alone in a way, and social media has become people our personal diaries. When life gives us problems or we want get away, we use to call upon our solitude. A place to get away, much like Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. This was his secret hide out, built into a mountain, where he would think and get away. Much like the time this idea of Superman needing solitude, which came out in 1966, people enjoy their private lives. There was no social media, people gain knowledge thought literature and they connect with other by interacting