The Drowned Cities by Paulo Bacigalupi is a very interesting and captivating novel about a area in what used to be the US that is now plagued with war. An important quote from the beginning of the story is on page 71. At this moment, the two main characters, Mouse and Mahila are sent to collect food, but they find something unexpected. “It wasn't one creature, but two. Monsters intertwined. A big king of an alligator, and another creature- a thing that mahila hadn’t seen since the cease-fire died and the last of the peacekeepers cleared out, all of them running for the docks as the Drowned Cities returned to war. A half-man.” This is an important quote primarily because it is the first time the narratives from Tool’s perspective and the narrative from Mahila’s perspective meet. This is the end of the exposition and the beginning of the rising action. Before now, nothing had really happened except for introducing us to the characters and a quick little scene for all 3 of them. This is the first time that something actually happens that changes their lives (since we have know them.) This would be like when Harry Potter finds out that he is a wizard, or when Katniss Everdeen gets selected for the Hunger Games. This has a similar effect on the rest of the book like those two events impacted their respective books. Tool becomes a main character and follows Mahila around for the majority of the rest of the book, and he saves her life on countless occasions. If Mahila had found tool in a different way, by perhaps watching him from afar, their relationship would had ended quite differently. From the way Tool respects Mahila on in the book, we can tell that he has a lot of respect and adoration to her for saving his life after she found hi...
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...e lines. However, I was also surprised at how quickly Tool and Ocho accepted each other as allies. While I doubt they are at the point where they would give their life to save the other, they went from owner and captive to allies surprisingly quickly. This quote is also an example of how Paolo lets us get inside the characters’ heads and see what they think and how they are reacting to a situation. If Ocho was thinking something more along the lines of how he could take Tool down again or how he could use Tool’s abilities to his advantage, we would be the first to know. Not only the quote, but the context around it is important. I found it interesting that the humans are in shambles, either literally or emotionally, and Tool is just in the middle trying to get Mahila and Ocho to follow him. Ocho is wondering what he has done, and Mahila is still grieving over Mouse.
of how politics and the quest for personal power interact with a major natural disaster on one of the worlds's major rivers was quite rivetting. Once started, I found the book hard to put down.
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The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson tells the story of Daniel Burnham’s World Fair and H.H. Holmes’ murder spree. The tale focuses much on the conflict between good and evil, light and dark. However, the book also goes deeper, utilizing contrast to demonstrate the greed, exclusiveness, and exploitation ever present in the Gilded Age of America.
Typically, a novel contains four basic parts: a beginning, middle, climax, and the end. The beginning sets the tone for the book and introduces the reader to the characters and the setting. The majority of the novel comes from middle where the plot takes place. The plot is what usually captures the reader’s attention and allows the reader to become mentally involved. Next, is the climax of the story. This is the point in the book where everything comes together and the reader’s attention is at the fullest. Finally, there is the end. In the end of a book, the reader is typically left asking no questions, and satisfied with the outcome of the previous events. However, in the novel The Things They Carried the setup of the book is quite different. This book is written in a genre of literature called “metafiction.” “Metafiction” is a term given to fictional story in which the author makes the reader question what is fiction and what is reality. This is very important in the setup of the Tim’s writing because it forces the reader to draw his or her own conclusion about the story. However, this is not one story at all; instead, O’Brien writes the book as if each chapter were its own short story. Although all the chapters have relation to one another, when reading the book, the reader is compelled to keep reading. It is almost as if the reader is listening to a “soldier storyteller” over a long period of time.
Right off the bate, the title of this book is called City of Order, which as reading through its entirety is a huge contradiction in itself as the author focuses a lot of his attention on the disorder and instability in the city between the years of 1915 to 1935. In his book Michael Boudreau pieces together, with the use of case profiles; a depiction of the citizens; policy makers; and enforcement officials, a picture of the criminal justice system and its influence on the city of Halifax during its period between the two world wars. Boudreau emphasises on the modernization of Halifax and how changes in ideas and technologies impacted the justice system and its effectiveness in maintaining security and order in Halifax. Boudreau clearly discusses the struggle to adopt to the new ideas and technologies
As a result, their lives changed, for better or for worse. They were inexperienced, and therefore made many mistakes, which made their life in Chicago very worrisome. However, their ideology and strong belief in determination and hard work kept them alive. In a land swarming with predators, this family of delicate prey found their place and made the best of it, despite the fact that America, a somewhat disarranged and hazardous jungle, was not the wholesome promise-land they had predicted it to be.
A Scientific American article published in October 2001 and named "Drowning New Orleans" essentially predicts the large scale impact a giant hurricane would have on the area, years before Hurricane Katrina.
In my essay I will discuss the differences between national cinema and Hollywood cinema by using Rio de Janeiro¡¯s famous film City of God. There will be three parts in my following main body, the first part is a simple review of the film City of God, I will try to use the review to show the film structure and some different new points from this, show the how did the ¡®Shocking, frightening, thrilling and funny¡¯ (Nev Pierce) work in the film. The second part is my discussion parts; I will refer some typical Hollywood big name films such as Gangs in New York, Shawshank¡¯s Redemption, and Good Fellas to discuss the main differences between City of God and other national films. The third part is my summary, I will use my knowledge to analyse why there have big different between both kind of films and their advantages.
Foreshadowing is used in many of Charles Dickens' novels. It can bring about a sense of wonder and imagination of what might occur later in the novel. The conceopt of foreshadowing means to present a warning sign, or hint beforehand. Dickens is able to use this concept in three examples. The threatening footsteps in the Manette home, Gaspard's illustration of "blood," and Mr. Lorry's dream of brinnging a man back to life, are all examples of warning or foreshadowing. that Dickens' uses in his novel A Tale of Two Cities.
A Tale of Two Cities In every great novel, there is a theme that is constant throughout the story. One of the better known themes portrays the fight of good verses evil. Different authors portray this in different ways. Some use colors, while others use seasons to show the contrast. Still, others go for the obvious and use characters.
Archetypal Characters: Characters are presented from the start of the novel as good or evil. There are no characters that the reader see as good and turn out to be evil at the end or vica versa. Their goodness or evilness is clearly shown from the beginning. 	
A character or objects are the images that the three authors use to tie the plots of the books together. Gould’s essays seem to be completely unrelated, but in reality, they are tied together under the general theme of evolution and the metaphor of dinosaur in a haystack that is linked into each essay. The persistent use of the storm in The Perfect Storm, and its development in the chapters serves to show that the storm is the object that ties the story together. Much like the dinosaur in Dinosaur in a Haystack, it becomes a sort of central character that evolves through the developing plot. It appears that Sedgwick does not utilize one metaphor to bring her novel together, but in fact, the recurrent images and pictures are used instead. There is no dominant common theme like the dinosaur or quilt, but the story of Hope and Magawisca bring the characters together. Sedgwick’s sympathy lies in Hope’s views and story, but some can be inferred from Magawisca. Magawisca is linked to Everell, and links Hope and Faith together. Their stories help to create the plot and bring in the links to the scattered plot. Hope Leslie " . . . and her Indian counterpart, Magawisca" (x) comprise the opinions of the author and relate the plot through prejudiced perspectives. In fact, "The text is dominated by two decidedly unconventional women: Hope Leslie, fos...
In 1898, H G Wells wrote “The War of the Worlds,” a novel that envisioned the destruction of a great city and the slaughter of its inhabitants. The invaders were Martians, but aliens were not needed to make this devastation a reality. In a few years after the publication of the book, human beings would play the part of inhuman pillaging with the realization of war and its effect toward society.
Vincent Leaphart was born July 26, 1931 in the Mantua neighborhood in West Philadelphia. When Vincent was in his teens, his mother died and Vincent placed blame on the hospital that treated her. Shortly after that tragic event, Vincent joined the army as a foot soldier in the Korean War. Both events had an enormous contribution to Vincent’s resentment towards American Society (Dickson 14).
We have all heard about the legend of Atlantis. It’s said that Atlantis was an advanced civilization with highly developed economy and technology. But one day, catastrophe occurred in sudden. Atlantis entirely sank beneath the waves in only one day and one night. In thousands of years, Atlantis has caught the imagination of people from all over the world. Many adventurers, historians and anthropologists spent their whole life trying to open the mysterious veil of Atlantis. But has Atlantis ever existed?