The Terrible Action of The Otherwise Kind Hearted Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel shows us people who, despite the horrors they are forced to endure, remain good and kind hearted. For example Clark, despite his loss of a boyfriend and being stranded in an unknown airport far from his old life, goes on to create the museum of civilization and teach people about the past. The symphony is another example, they go from town to town performing for people and spreading news around the new isolated country. However, though some people endure and stay good, some turn to terrible acts which they would have never even considered before. Emily St. John Mandel uses The Prophet to show how otherwise normal and kind people can be driven to terrible …show more content…
Sayid is being held by a gunman and an archer and Kirstin and August are forced to kill them to rescue their friend. However as he is dying Kirsten recognises the archer as one of the people who saw the Symphony’s show at St. Deborah by the water. She says “He’d been in the audience when they’d performed A Midsummer Night’s Dream at St. Deborah by the Water, applauding in the front row at the end of the performance, smiling, his eyes wet in the candle light.”(pg.285). He was touched and moved to tears by the Symphony’s performance and showed his compassion and kindness through that one simple act. However being a part of The Prophet s group and believing in his ideals clouded his judgement and he did awful things to hold to those beliefs. He was willing to kidnap and kill innocent people and because of his newly adopted belief that everything has some greater reason behind it, he was able to justify his actions. The Prophet and his comforting belief of everything happens for a reason provided solace to the archer but also drove him to terrible things in order to hold to that …show more content…
He shows his true character in a conversation with Sayid when sayid and the clarinet were being held captive. He says to Sayid “I know it's not right, … What choice do I have? ...this time we live in, you know how it forces a person to do things.”(pg.292). He shows a whole other aspect of The Prophet and how you don't necessarily need to even believe his teachings to be forced to action be them. Even though he knows that his actions are wrong and the things he does sicken him, he has no choice but to follow along and keep doing them. The Prophet has attracted a group of followers and they have adopted his beliefs and so are able to justify anything no matter how cruel. This means that even for people who don't want to do the things The Prophet asks they have no choice, able to justify any action his followers could judge that said person had become a traitor and for “the good of the people” had to be killed. The way that other people have chosen to cope with the new world has forced the boy to adopt the same way of life. Even if he doesn't believe in what he is doing his actions are still the same as someone who does so in a way he is still the same as all The Prophet s other followers. He has been coerced into this life rather than choosing it, but his
At first glance, Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade bares resemblance to your typical, run of the mill historical textbook. The reader [looking at the cover,] may expect to see ordinary text that would pertain to a standardized African History course. Contrary to the title, the author, Rafe Blaufarb, provides a vivid, contextual look at how slavery spanned out with the use of graphic images and primary sources in a way most authors do not today. Comparatively [to other textbooks,] Inhuman Traffick depicts the development of the raw story of enslavement. From the ships to the whips, it shows concrete details of this haunting era while adding an underlying complexity to the story whilst omitting
In The Murder of Helen Jewett, Patricia Cohen uses one of the most trivial murders during the 1800’s to illustrate the sexiest society accommodations to the privileged, hypocritical tunneled views toward sexual behavior, and the exploitation of legal codes, use of tabloid journalism, and politics. Taking the fact that woman was made from taking a rib from man was more than biblical knowledge, but incorporated into the male belief that a woman’s place is determined by the man. Helen had the proper rearing a maid servant, but how did she fall so far from grace. Judge Weston properly takes credit for rearing her with the proper strictness and education. Was Helen seduced at an early age and introduced to sexual perversions that were more persuasive that the bible belt life that the Weston’s tried to live? Was Helen simply a woman who knew how to use what she had to get what she wanted? Through personal correspondence, legal documentation, census reports, paintings, and newspapers we are able to make our own determinations. Cohen provides more than enough background and history to allow any one to make their own opinion how the murder of a woman could be turned into a side show at a circus.
Lauren Alleyne uses the rigid form of the sonnet to navigate through the healing process after being sexually assaulted. Ten years after that night, she writes the sonnet sequence Eighteen, which deviates from the typical sonnet form in the aspects of the speaker, subject, and format. Playing off of the standard sonnet form, Alleyne is able to recount the emotions of that night during the first sonnet in the sequence. The typical sonnet tends to objectify the female body or one’s lover; in this sequence, the sonnets address what happens when an individual acts on these objectifications and assaults Alleyne. Alleyne deviates from the standard subject and speaker of the typical sonnet form to begin the healing process; the process begins
Age is just a number, well at least for Stephen Quinn it is. Stephen Quinn is 15 years old, but he does not let his age define who he is. Although Stephen was matured for his age when the plague started, he still had a lot of growing to do. Throughout the novel The Eleventh Plague Stephen is prematurely forced through the journey into adulthood. Stephen had to mentally mature enough to allow himself to open up and trust people. Stephen had to toughen up and become a man and he had to be strong enough to have courage in the worst of times. When he thought it could not get any worse he was hit with something that seemed unsurpassable. He had to suffer the pain of losing his dad to the plague.
Throughout an individual’s life-time, he/she has a vision as o what his/her should be. But when things do not go as planned and the unexpected occurs, does that person face it, or run away? In “An Act of Vengeance” by Isabel Allende, running away is not an option at well. Through the usage of plot, character and irony, Allende illustrates the cost of war.
Topic/ Thesis Statement: Don’t judge a book by its cover, some people are not who they claim to be, or looks can be deceiving.
Think of a North America without electricity, no running water, no government, almost no buildings left intact, and ravaged by a Chinese manufactured plague, even though it’s hard to imagine that's what happened in Jeff Hirsch’s The Eleventh Plague. In Jeff Hirsch’s Eleventh Plague a family made up of the Dad, Mom, Grandfather, and son are trying to survive in a North America ravaged by a Chinese Plague , But then the mom and grandpa die and dad and Stephen are left on their own, but when the dad gets injured running away from some slavers, A Town named Settlers Landing that seems too good to be true takes them in. Then Stephen befriends a girl named Jenny, and when they play a prank that sends Jenny, and when they play a prank that sends the town into chaos. A war is started and it is up to them to help stop it. I thought that The Eleventh Plague was a believable piece of Speculative Fiction because of Hirsch's use of elements of Conflict, Theme, and Red Herrings.
For this reader response I decided to read “World Gone Mad” by Derrick Jensen. This reading was about society and it’s sociopathic, and psychopathic tendencies. I agree with the author's point of view almost completely. In his writing he mentions how the government and the people who are in charge of society share a lot of the same traits of socio/psychopaths. He did this by siting in his work the definitions of the Sociopaths, and psychopaths with examples of them as a stereotypes and in the world of the government. For example, he starts off his work talking about how the “go green” commercials and movements make him upset because of how the world currently is, and how they have ways of “fixing it”. The way that they are fixing it though, is just like putting a rug over how we are destroying the world.
In the month of March 2016, Women of the World Poetry Slam had Rachel Wiley, a poet and body-positive activist, present her now viral poem called “The Dozens” (Vagianos 2016). This poem was about slams white feminism as a clear indication of whiteness self-defense mechanism. In this poem Wiley included various kinds social events that have occurred in the past years and just to name two: Raven Symone on blackness and Miley Cyrus and Nicki Manji at the VMAs. White feminism continues to become more problematic as the media continues to allow it to be because whiteness makes money; however, intersectionality about race, public imagery, and actual feminism also continues to go viral as the diversity of American become more and more productive.
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, inner struggles are paralleled with each setting. Taking place in the twentieth century each setting plays a significant role in explaining a theme in the novel. Fleeing Greece in a time of war and entering Detroit Michigan as immigrants parallel later events to the next generation of kin fleeing Grosse Pointe Michigan to San Francisco. These settings compliment a major theme of the novel, society has always believed to be missing something in their life and attempted to fill the missing piece.
The man assures the boy that they are good people, and that there’s a fire burning within their hearts. The book of Hebrews notes, “for our God is a consuming fire.” (New International Version. Hebrews. 12. 29.). The phrase, “carrying the fire,” simply means that the boy is carrying God within his heart. With the inferno of God radiating within the boy, the boy may act as a prophet. Fire is a contagious substance and when it begins to spread, it becomes difficult to
This madness that is generated by the Prophet causes the conflict to become even larger and provides a type of madness that is not often talked about today. A madness that is described as being wrong to so many, but right in the minds of a few. The madness in Station Eleven seems to be a new way of life to the characters who must fight the Prophet and his
Emily St. John Mandel’s book, “Station Eleven” and “The Giver” is a dystopian novel. These two books are widely creative and fictional. “Station Eleven” shows of how an epidemic can change society and “The Giver” shows the controlling and the government of how it can affect society. In the beginning of, “Station Eleven,” there is a leading actor, Arthur Leander, who is dying from a heart attack. This is just beginning of the epidemic, known as the Georgian Flu. It wipes out the whole civilization. The book then skips forward to the present to a woman, Kirsten, who was eight when she was on stage with Arthur Leander and is now trying to make her way in a world that 's been dealt with the epidemic. Kirsten doesn’t remember much of from this
“Orient Express is arguably her most enduring work as far as the average reader goes, due to the daring gimmick the author was able to pull off: they all did it ("Murder on the Orient" 155). This critical comment made by Greg Wilson gives an accurate depiction to the mystery that Agathe Christie builds up in her book. The Murder on the Orient Express has many aspects that played big roles in creating the novel. The way the author uses the aspects, such as plot, setting, the author 's style, and the characters are what made the book suspenseful and intriguing to the reader.
3. Female Abject As examined above, determining the abject is quite difficult since it has abject has many facets and can be found almost everywhere, without being explicitly portrayed as being abject. Yet, certain groups of people are easier to target as a victim or even perceived as an abject. Women have always fit into the target group of being either excluded, not taken into consideration or being abused physical and mentally without being spared violence.