“The Moon Cannot be Stolen” is a zen story originating from the Far East. Since zen stories are passed down orally, then written down decades later, the author is unknown. Zen stories are short stories that are created to teach a moral. The speaker in these is called omniscient narrators: all knowing, truth telling.
Throughout the story “Walk Two Moons” written by Sharon Creech, Mrs.Winterbottom is faced with internal and external conflicts that lead her to change.
John F. Kennedy once said, "No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space...We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard”. The main motive for this quote was to ensure that the United States wanted to beat out the Soviets in the space race. Ever since the Soviets tried to advance on the moon, the United States wanted to be the first successful nation to accomplish the first ever moon landing. At the time, the tension between the United States and the Soviets was very strong because the Cold War just ended and neither nation wanted to lose to each other in the space race. Just as the United States planned their mission to the moon, the Soviets were the very first nation to ever settle on space. The U.S. as well as President Kennedy were shocked to see the Soviets be the first nation to fly in space. The United States had to come up with a plan in order to beat out the soviets, by becoming the very first nation to ever land on the moon. Overall, it is clear that the United States hoaxed the moon landing in order to beat out the Soviet Union in the space race through observations, evidence from a Hollywood studio, and allowing NASA to pull off the Apollo mission.
The stars perish only to reform into more radiant heavenly bodies; humans encountering quarrels is the path to a greater expectation, for the future and beyond. As Life evidently offers many challenges, obstacles in the early times cannot indeed foreshadow the turns of the tides of Destiny. And since History tends to draw its parallel upon fictional tales of valor, it is stories such as “A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune” and “One Friday Morning” that manifests how iron can be burdened with fire, but still constitutes itself into steel. It is logical to suggest that the core reason for the stories above, written by Chris Crutcher and Langston Hughes respectively, are aimed to demonstrate that courage against impediments can turn the future of one’s journey, as alleged in “A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune” and “One Friday Morning” where Angus Bethune and Nancy Lee faced challenges with courage during their journeys that made them stronger in the end.
Often, when a story is told, it follows the events of the protagonist. It is told in a way that justifies the reasons and emotions behind the protagonist actions and reactions. While listening to the story being cited, one tends to forget about the other side of the story, about the antagonist motivations, about all the reasons that justify the antagonist actions.
For example, in the story ‘The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates’ The daughter ignores her mother’s paranoia driven by a Chinese book. This ignorance later leads to the daughter’s downfall. In this section, the daughters struggle to see the true meanings of their mother words and actions and the mothers struggle to protect their daughters from all harm.
Storytelling is one of the major themes in the book “The Things They Carried”, and is conveyed several times throughout most of the novel. The author, Tim O’Brien, uses the theme storytelling to convey his experience in VIetnam during the war. Another reason is to show what his soldiers had felt during the war, and what they experienced from their perspective. He uses many factors to convey this theme like how it has to be embarrassing and has no moral, story truth and happening truth, and he includes the stories of others. These really contribute to the theme of storytelling and why it is such a major theme for Tim O’Brien.
Mather, C. (2008). From the Wonders of the Invisible World. In N. Baym (Ed.), The Norton Anthology of American Literature Volume 1 (pp. 147). New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
"Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy...
Moon Shadow lives in the Middle Kingdom, or China. He has never met his father, Windrider. Windrider left to go find money and work in the Land of the Golden Mountain, or San Francisco. Cosin Hand Clap returned to China one day. He was sent by Windrider to get Moon Shadow and bring him back to San Francisco to live with him. When Moon Shadow arrives, he meets The Company. Uncle Bright Star, Lefty, Windrider, Black Dog, White Deer, Hand Clap, and now Moonshadow are in The Company. They run a laundromat together in the Tang people’s village in San Francisco. During Moon Shadow’s first night there, the demons, or white people, threw a brick through the window, making the glass shatter into little pieces. Upstairs in their room, Windrider shared
Stories are our essence of life. They grow and change with us. They allow us to reconstruct the pas, and put our slant on things. They don’t’ have make sense, and they don’t all have to be fact. That’s what kind of story this is.
“The Secret History of the Women Who Got Us Beyond the Moon,” written by Simon Worrall, takes a more direct approach than its counterpart. Rather than using many quotations and pictures to drive the argument home, Worrall conducts an interview of Nathalia Holt, the author of the book that the article focuses on. Worrall most heavily uses the rhetorical device induction, particularly with the interview’s arrangement. Opening questions of the article covered the general topic of the book and the article, such as: “Who are the rocket girls?”; “Why have we never heard of them?”; and “What drew you to this story, Nathalia?” Worrall later uses more specific questions to narrow down his argument to a more definite point, but his argument turns slowly
That all of us are affected came home to me in my writerly life. I began to notice that when the moon was most aglow I was as voluble as Shakespeare, a cacophony of voices struggling to be heard, like a high volum...
On May 25, 1961, Congress met in a joint session to hear the American president, John F. Kennedy, address them in a speech he referred to as a second State of the Union. In his speech, the young president geared America for a race that would send men to the moon. Kennedy challenged America to “take longer strides” and to take a “leading role in space achievement, which, in many ways, may hold the key to our future on earth” (Burrows 330-331). America rose to the challenge, and within a decade, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were walking on the moon, becoming the first of the human race to walk on a world besides our own. The giant strides of which Kennedy challenged us soon slowed to a crawl, however, and after a few more missions, America would not go back again, possibly for good. America would soon turn its attention to other earthly issues, and its moon program would become nothing more than a memory. This gives rise to an inevitable question: should humans return to the moon? This question has haunted us for years, continuously rising and then fading away again. In recent months, new discoveries have brought it to the forefront, and with these new discoveries, the answer becomes obvious: humans should once again set their sights for the heavens, and putting a civilian lunar base and colony on the moon should be our next step.
People are still arguing if the moon landing in 1969 was real or faked by the United States Of America. Some people think it was faked and if they are true this would be very embarrassing to America and NASA. Some think it was real because of some of the evidence they brought back supposedly from the moon's surface but this is my opinion.
As far back as anyone can recall, the art of storytelling has been practiced by individuals of every race, gender, and culture. Whether it be native americans sitting around the fire, speaking about the greatness their ancestors possessed, or even grandma telling a bedtime tale. Storytelling is defined as, “The interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener's imagination”. With that being observed, it’s apparent how storytelling serves to become a very prevalent idea contained in the book, “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. Set during the Vietnam War, a time known for great quantities of American casualties, these very stories portrayed in the novel serve to express