In “The Miracle of Purun Bhagat,” Rudyard Kipling uses the setting to let you see the true personality of the main character. The story is about giving up everything you know and have come custom to, to find out who you really are. As Purun Dass, the main character, grew up he realized that things were changing. Dass was of the upper class. He and his dad were so important that everyone looked up to him. Dass realized that being wealthy and having everything was not the right thing to do. He wanted more. He wanted to understand what people believed to be good. In order for him to do that, he had to give up everything. He changed his name and only took with him an antelope skin, a brass- handled crutch, and a begging- bowl.
Purun Dass faked his death and changed his name to Purun Bhagat. Bhagat walk through many different towns such as: Rohtak, Kurnool, Samanah, and he wondered upon the Himalayas. This is where he chose to stop wondering because he was reminded of his mother who was Rajput Brahmin birth. This setting of the Himalayas and the memory of his mother is impor...
The “Dark Tide” by Stephen Puleo was the first book to tell the full story of “The Great Boston Molasses Flood.” The reason he wrote the nonfiction novel was to give the full accounting of what happened in the historical context. He used court records, newspaper accounts, and files from the fire department. He recrafted the tale about what actually happened with painstaking and terrifying details of those affected. Puleo creates a new way to view the dreadful catastrophe as something that changed Boston (“Dark Tide”).
Where Men Win Glory is an ironic euphemism for war. The title is ironic because there is nothing glorious about war or the way it ended Pat Tillman’s beautiful life. Jon Krakauer orchestrates this masterpiece with his diligently, articulated descriptions and with a timeline sewn together from the threads of two worlds. The author’s style can best be characterized by his challenging, precise diction and his ability to fluently intervene pertinent quotes and facts that further persuade the reader toward his cause. Throughout the book, the author’s tone harnesses resentment towards the militant hierarchy; for through its ingenuousness, deceit, and manipulation, the military uses Pat’s death as propaganda to bolster the war’s support. Furthermore, the military covers up the fact that Tillman was a victim of fratricide, and it deceives the nation into believing Tillman’s end was a valiant fight against insurgents. When the truth is exposed and pursued by Dannie - Pat’s mother - the army destroys evidence and pleads guilty to ignorance as a rebuttal. This book is molded by three prodigious aspects that help to illustrate Pat’s life story. The carelessness of war, importance of family, and enhancement through change were all important ingredients that created a virtuous life. Each theme, in addition, challenges me personally to reassess the facts I have been fed and the reality that I have been presented. By doing so, I can achieve a sound base of knowledge and an intellectual prowess capable of challenging all facts presented.
The experience of fatherhood begins at birth of the baby as it comes out to the world. The responsibility parenthood entails is realized when the mother is not fully healed yet or sadly has died in the tough delivery of the baby. Ideally, the child grows up to develop a close bond with their father, although this is not always the case. Sometimes it does not work that way in which in the other hand it may not be constantly full of love which fills the child with longing and pain. The relationship develop as the father prepares his son to understand his mistakes by helping him recognize right from wrong. In his novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini illustrates the importance of a father and son relationship which in turn affects the plot of the novel. Baba and Amir gains the ability to be a father as they demonstrate their differences of being a father to their son. Although Baba and Amir differ in facing their problems, which parallel, the enforcement of the empathetic fatherly figure they both suffer hardships for their sons’ benefit.
In literature, authors use different methods of characterization to truly reveal the personality of a character. There are two types of characterization; direct and indirect. The author of The Kite Runner uses indirect characterization to show Amir’s transformation during his “Heroic Journey” by showing traits that reveal his personality, rather than directly telling us. Throughout this novel, Amir goes on many journeys. Each in which reveal parts of his character and personality that really allow you to feel a personal connection with him so you can feel what he is feeling.
John Cheever’s story “The Swimmer” depicts a protaganist, and the society that has nurtured him, as lacking in seriousness and responsibility. Neddy, the bewildered protagonist, represents a society satirized for centering its values on social status and materialism. During the course of Neddy’s journey, the illusions he has constructed about his life are stripped away, and in the process the truth behind his society is realized. In unveiling the tragedy of Neddy’s existence, Cheever reveals the unworthiness of an unexamined life.
In the book “Night” faith plays the biggest role throughout the entire writing, you could maybe even consider them to be both the antagonist and protagonist. Elie had his fair share of struggles with his faith while he was in the concentration camps. His faith would constantly go from an all time high just for the fact that it was something to believe in, something to get him moving and breathing for another day. Then it would to an all time low just for the fact that his god would allow him and his followers to go through this. But the real question is, was his faith what kept him alive?
Throughout the ages, men and women have been at the heart of myths and legends, evolving into tragic heroes in large part due to the embellishment bestowed upon them over the ages. From Odysseus and Achilles to Brutus, Hamlet, and King Lear, epic poems have revolved around the tragic hero. Pat Tillman was a man of many aptitudes and virtues, never satisfied by the mediocre, striving for more adventure, more meaning, in his tragically short time on Earth, and personifying the phrase carpe diem. Even Pat Tillman had tragic flaws; his unwillingness to be typical, his undying loyalty to family and country, and his curiously concrete set of morals amalgamated to set in motion Tillman’s eventual death. These, whatever the outcome might have been, are not by any means, the archetypical tragic flaws. They are, as Jon Krakauer later described, “tragic virtues.” Where Men Win Glory is not solely a tribute to Pat Tillman. What makes it truly unique is its exhaustively comprehensive history preceding Tillman’s death, and equally essential, the events that transpired following his death, including the cover-ups, scandals, corruption, falsified documents, indignities, and lies that facilitated, also, in emphasizing the core themes, of which Tillman was the epitome. Tillman’s fidelity and devotion to the people whom he loved, the use of misinformation and cants surrounding his death, and others’ responses to what Tillman considered paramount in his life all played a key role in the tragedy of a man who won glory.
When reflecting and writing on Eiseley’s essay and the “magical element”, I balk. I think to myself, “What magic?”, and then put pen to page. I dubiously choose a kiddie pool to draw inspiration from, and unexpectedly, inspiration flows into me. As I sit here in this little 10x30 foot backyard, the sky is filled with the flowing gaseous form of water, dark patches of moist earth speckle the yard, the plants soak up their scattered watering, and the leaves of bushes and trees imbue the space with a sense of dampness from their foliage. As my senses tune into the moisture that surrounds me, I fill Braedon’s artificial pond with water. I stare at the shimmering surface, contemplating Eiseley’s narrative, and the little bit of life’s wellspring caught in Brae’s pool. I see why Eiseley thought the most abundant compound on the earth’s surface is mystical.
The Sun Also Rises is a great novel about the “lost generation”, which is the post war generation. Ernest Hemingway was inspired by real life events when writing this novel, basing the events and characters off of his personal experiences with friends and life after war. In this novel there is an abundance of casual sex between characters, and Lady Brett Ashley is the main character that displays these shows of promiscuity, constantly seducing men to get what she wants. Brett is the only woman that is fully developed in the story and her value is of expensive jewelry to the men, yet she uses and treats them differently. Brett has sexual relations with many men in the novel. Ernest Hemingway portrays Lady Brett Ashley as a masculine, promiscuous, and self-destructive.
How different are families compared to the past? Lately there has been some major changes in relationships, weather female dominance, or even just having no relationships at all. We also see that relationships are based only on a basis of reproduction and sometimes the child of the relationship is rather irrelevant. In a Temporary matter by Jhumpa Lahiri, the reader can see how relationships have developed with the rest of the world into failing, no relationship, and feminist relationships.
When examining historical political cartoons, an individual must be cognizant not only of the lens with which they see the world, but the lenses that others use to view such items. Each viewer brings a set of life experiences and biases that shape their perceptions, in ways both subtle and profound. Those who favored emancipation and Reconstruction argued for better treatment of newly freed men and women, but at times may have done so from a sense of paternalism, a prescient assumption of Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 poem “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands.” Visual representations often portrayed blacks as passive victims of racist southerners and neglected to show them as individuals who
John Cheever is an American writer best known for his powerful criticism of American middle class. His stories are characterized by his attention to detail parts of his life inside his careful writing. Cheever lives drives the reader to his short fiction, “The Swimmer,” where he details the exploratory journey of Neddy Merrill. A main character who has name himself as a pilgrim. Neddy decides make an exploratory journey to swim his way home across his neighbors’ pools which represents the surface of his life. A life filled with swimming pools, parties and alcohol. Cheever focused in portraying a man with a perfect life on the surface with a content family, a high social status and many friends, which suddenly disintegrates through the story by an alcohol abuse. Therefore, this story stand as a metaphor for life, delivering the reader this message: life is short and valuable, and every actions performed brings its own reactions.
Night, written by Elie Wiesel, takes place in Nazi, Germany. It describes terrifying predicaments during the Holocaust that discusses the harsh conditions of the Jewish society. There are three major quotes in this novel that show the Jew's unyielding faith in God has slowly declined due to their suffering. These quotes are undoubtedly significant for many reasons. They show the effects of someone being treated so terribly that they begin to lose faith in their God and how being surrounded by pain and death changed the very meaning of who they are.
My life journey was not a smooth ride, nor it had any structured path which I had followed it; on the other hand, Santiago knew his personal legend, so he was prepared for his life journey and his dream gave him the final destination where he should ends his journey. That’s why it was more structured journey for Santiago as he knows where he will finish his journey if he overcomes the obstacles. For me it was an unknown journey in a distant land. My life journey was based on survival to the fittest which encouraged me to make my own path to reach my goal. My goal was set by the rule of the society. So I took every little chances to make my life better, and my own community was my biggest obstacles to block my growth in hand of an adversary. Due to my elite family background, I was in a minority group when I reached to Nepal’s Indian community. Nepal’s culture is more wild compare to Indian culture. There were many Indians at Nepal, and they were wealthy enough to live in a mansion, but their culture is more influ...
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, in 1865 when India was still part of the British Empire. Young Kipling was fascinated with India and its folklore and customs, which would later inspire many works set in a romanticized India. At the age of six, Kipling and his sister Alice were sent to England to further their education, as his parents feared the influence that Indian society would have on their children. While boarding with an abusive foster family in England for the next six years of his life, a period during which he was intensely miserable, Kipling began inventing companions in the form of anthropomorphic animals (Kipling, v). He was then enrolled, at the age of twelve, in the United Services College, an unruly paradise in which the highest goals of English education are met amid a tumult of teasing, bullying, and beating (Britannica). Given his rather tumultuous and difficult childhood, it is no surprise that many of his works have a streak of cynical and brutal sentiments within them.