The Camel Rider Analysis

117 Words1 Page

There are two main themes in ‘The Camel Rider’. The first one is that even people don’t speak the same language or have the same beliefs you can still work together and achieve so much. This is shown throughout the whole book because Adam could not speak Arabic and Walid could not speak English yet they still managed to communicate. The second theme is that people in wealthy countries are very lucky because not everyone has the luxuries that we often take for granted. An example in this book is when Adam gave Walid the money and Walid was astonished of how much money there was while Adam thought that it was a normal amount of money.

Show More
Related

  • Indian Horse By Richard Wagamese Essay

    586 Words  | 2 Pages

    Indian Horse is a novel by Richard Wagamese that beautifully explores the idea of family, and what it means to have people around you that make you feel at home. The reader is bombarded with an overwhelming sense of family and betrayal in the first few pages of the novel. As Richard Wagamese continues to write, one is able to see how safe Saul Indian Horse felt with his biological family, and he also shows how lost he felt without their love when he was taken to the Residential School. The school he was brought to was drained of all consensual love the moment it was open, and continued to fill the children with horrible feelings the entire time they were there. Indian Horse was unable to really feel as though he still had family while he was in the

    Read More

  • Thomas C. Foster's 'Every Trip Is A Quest'

    742 Words  | 2 Pages

    From my understanding, The Arab’s Farewell to his Steed in the beginning is a man who has just sold his horse for gold and he is happy. However, as the poem goes on, he begins to regret his decision and hopes for the horse to return. I believe that in some way “Jack’s” control and focus is relative to the horse, and the girl is relative to the gold. Throughout the story, we see Jack constantly thinking about her outside appearance, losing focus in school and attending a bazaar only because she wanted to go. He wasn’t worried about the inside. Similar, to the man who allowed his greed for gold drive him to trade something he needed and

    Read More

  • Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael - Horrifying

    1394 Words  | 3 Pages

    Desperately confused, this everyday writer tries to step out of his culture and experience a whole new world. Day after day, this half ton gorilla, Ishmael, opens the narrators eyes and teaches him "how things came to be." He starts out by dividing man into two different cultures. He calls the people of our culture takers and the people of all other cultures leavers. Each culture has a story. In Ishmael's teachings, a story is a scenario interrelating man, the world, and the gods. This story is enacted by the people in a culture. In other words, people in a culture live as to make the story a reality.

    Read More

  • The Decline of Chivalry Explored in Araby and A&P

    1205 Words  | 3 Pages

    Joyce, James. “Araby.” The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter Eighth Edition. Eds. Jerome Beaty, Alison Booth, J. Paul Hunter, and Kelly J. Mays. New York: W.W.Norton.

    Read More

  • The Kite Runner Amir's Relationship Analysis

    958 Words  | 2 Pages

    Escaping his father’s aloofness in his mother’s books was the only thing keeping some connection with his father. His father was distant towards Amir. Amir thought that his father hated him because his mother died while giving birth to him. Amir feels responsible for his mother’s death. “Without me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that Baba saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little” (Hosseini 15). This tells the reader that they did not have a close relationship, but there was a lot of respect. Baba was a powerful man and got whatever he wanted. Amir was intimidated by this. It shows that Amir and his father weren’t close in Amir’s early childhood.

    Read More

  • Mules and Men

    1586 Words  | 4 Pages

    Beneath the lies a hidden history of unorganized, everyday conflict waged by African-American working people. Once we explore in greater detail those daily conflicts and the social and cultural spaces where ordinary people felt free to articulate their opposition and power in African-American "folk" communities. Folklore's function as an everyday form of resistance in the Jim Crow South. Zora Hurston, narrative frame is far more supple than has previously been acknowledged. She gave the title Mules and Men a depiction of comparison of African Americans in the South(niggers) to mules. The mule is a work horse that is not used for speed, but known for eats weak minds and strong back. Hurston brings a clear view of the strong minds that enable this culture to thrive.

    Read More

  • Arby

    1404 Words  | 3 Pages

    James Joyce's use of religious imagery and religious symbols in "Araby" is compelling. That the story is concerned somehow with religion is obvious, but the particulars are vague, and its message becomes all the more interesting when Joyce begins to mingle romantic attraction with divine love. "Araby" is a story about both wordly love and religious devotion, and its weird mix of symbols and images details the relationship--sometimes peaceful, sometimes tumultuos--between the two. In this essay, I will examine a few key moments in the story and argue that Joyce's narrator is ultimately unable to resolve the differences between them.

    Read More

  • James Joyce's Dubliners

    1429 Words  | 3 Pages

    In the story “Araby,” the boy has a negative view of the community. Many aspects of his life affect the way he sees the things around him. For example, because of his uncle, he is unable to reach the bazaar in time. This makes him angry and frustrated. Although the boy reminds his uncle about the bazaar, his uncle forgets and comes home very late and the boy says to himself, “I asked him to give me the money to go to the bazaar. He had forgotten (25).” He teases the boy and tells him not to go, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” meaning working too hard with no fun makes you a boring person. Because all the boy’s desires are focused on his goal of getting the gift at the bazaar, he becomes frustrated. The boys’ uncle is one of the people the boy is around all the time; this frustration causes him to become very jittery and get irritated with the world around him. By things like the clock ticking it gradually drove him to just have to totally change his train of thought and just dwell on the girl and the boy thinks, “...

    Read More

  • Camel Driver In The Alchemist

    281 Words  | 1 Pages

    In the book The Alchemist, the camel driver experiences type 3A epistemology. On the way to the Al-Fayoum, Santiago had befriended a camel driver whom had traveled beside him throughout the expedition. During nightfall they would exchange stories about their own life. Santiago related to the driver his adventures as a shepherd. During one of the conversations, the driver told of his own life as a farmer, and how he had been successful in life as a follower of the Koran, father and farmer; however, an earthquake had caused the Nile to overflow its banks and destroyed the land, forcing the former farmer to become a camel driver. Instead of being scared, he learned from this, he says to the boy, “But that disaster taught me to understand the

    Read More

  • A Man Called Horse Character Analysis

    350 Words  | 1 Pages

    Dorothy Johnson in “A Man Called Horse” writes about a young man who was born and raised in Boston. He lives in a gracious home under his grandmothers and grandfather’s loving care. For some reason, he is discontent. He leaves home to try to find out the reason for his discontent. Upon leaving he undergoes a change in status and opinion of himself and others. He begins a wealthy young man arrogant and spoiled, becomes a captive of Crow Indians- docile and humble, and emerges a man equal to all.

    Read More

  • An Analysis of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

    922 Words  | 2 Pages

    According to dictionary.com culture is: “The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that is both a result of an integral to the human capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations. Culture thus consists of language, ideas, beliefs, customs, taboos, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, and works of art, rituals, ceremonies, and symbols.” Keeping this definition in mind it is quite easy to recognize the differences between Afghanistan culture and the culture of the United States. Additionally the amount of cultural stress that both main characters must have encountered when they relocated from Afghanistan to the United States. This essay will examine the cultural stress and differences that the character Baba went through with his relocation from Afghanistan to the United States.

    Read More

  • Amir's Character Analytical Essay In 'The Kite Runner'

    446 Words  | 1 Pages

    All of the times that Amir’s caring gestures have been accepted cannot be mistaken for proof that he has found redemption; they simply provide evidence that he is going in the right direction. Sohrab’s smile in the last scene of the novel may make it seem as if Amir has redeemed himself. However, as Amir addresses, “It didn’t make everything right” (Hosseini 371). Throughout the novel, Amir’s persistence is evident. Therefore, due to his own nature, this smile from Sohrab is not enough to convince himself that he has found redemption. As Harriet Dennys describes, Amir’s journey is a“tireless quest...to atone for his childhood cowardice” (Dennys 1). Therefore, he will need to continue forever because, even though he so badly wants to, he will never be able to fully atone for his

    Read More

  • Police Horse Training Analysis

    2164 Words  | 5 Pages

    Police horses have been used by the Australian Police since 1879. Over the decades additional states and territories have added police horses to their units. Mounted police have further advantages then a policeman on foot, like an elevated 360-degree view when in crowds and the ability to move efficiently through streets. According to Queensland’s Senior Sergeant Mark Paroz ‘In a very simplistic way, QMPU officers perform a combination of general duties, traffic and specialist response that provide operation, community policing and public relations support to the Police Service and the greater Queensland community. The horses are our primary mode of transport to fulfil these functions’.  This

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Ride Like The Wind By Christopher Cross

    1154 Words  | 3 Pages

    I would quite often hear “ba da da da, da da, da da” as a kid on the radio. There was awe listening to those specific vocals, but I never knew what the song was called. Fast-forwarding years later to 2014, I finally found out what this song was after all those years of wondering: “Ride Like the Wind,” by Christopher Cross. With an uncommon “storyline [that] is one not often heard on Adult Contemporary radio,” Cross was able to gain instant fame as a result (“Ride Like the Wind” par. 1). Within “Ride Like the Wind’s” promo video, Cross and his band are shown playing as part of a studio recording. Though there was rarely anything portrayed that would make the video display a visual message, Christopher Cross romanticizes the idea of a wanted man escaping the law to Mexico through the lyrics.

    Read More

  • The Importance Of Camels In The Culture Of The United Arab Emirates

    1033 Words  | 3 Pages

    Camels are named as the ships of the desert, because they have always been valued as a mode of transport. The camel was provided as a means of transport across the desert. Camels are known to be able to survive for several days without water. They can also provide food for themselves by roaming around the desert; they are also capable of feats that are of great strength. The camel became known as the “ship of the desert” by providing the Emirati Bedouin nomads with a way of transportation, by moving them from place to place to search for both food and water.

    Read More

More about The Camel Rider Analysis

Open Document