Max McGee Mrs.McGee English II May 29, 2024 The Known and Unknown Battles: The Challenges of Adversity and The Ability To Overcome “It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop.” -Dieter F Uchtdorf. Adversity is something that can’t be avoided. No matter what path of life is chosen. Challenging circumstances can change somebody into the person they are supposed to become. Many stories highlight the significance of adversity and especially how one can deal with it, including “The Masque of the Red Death”, “Hearts and Hands”, and finally “A Sound of Thunder”. These stories are very powerful and can teach a lot about adversity and how it can be dealt with. By looking at how others …show more content…
Locking himself, and other nobles away from the disease until it’s gone. After several months he hosts a ball with all the other nobles. At midnight an unknown guest appears and when Prospero confronts the guest he dies. All the other ball members try to attack the man, but there is nobody to attack. The story ends with everybody dying as the Red Death has infiltrated the castle. This story is incredible at showing multiple ideas. Most importantly, how a problem of the past can come back and become a problem of the present. He was able to avoid the disease for 7 months successfully. This doesn’t mean that he is safe forever. The unknown guest entering the ball signifies how the castle isn’t an entirely safe place and he has been lucky enough to avoid it for 7 months. When looking at our own lives, we can see different challenges that we have faced in the past, and how they have the potential to affect us in the future. Whether that be an internal issue, like mental health, or an external issue, like a car breaking down. Everything that we have faced before in life can come back to challenge us again in the …show more content…
Whether that be a parent, friend, or coworker. Many people are willing to help someone through whatever adversity they may be facing. The final story is A Sound of Thunder. This story takes place in a futuristic United States where they have invented time travel to the past. A group of tourists go on the Time Safari and want to travel back to the Cretaceous period to hunt dinosaurs. The officials explain how they can’t change anything about the past, otherwise it will change the future. They travel back to the past, looking for the dinosaur that they are supposed to kill. Eckels, our main character, starts messing around, believing that no harm can come from it. “Eckels, balanced on the narrow path, aimed his rifle playfully.’ Stop that!’ said Travis. Don't even aim for fun, blast you! If your guns should go off ’” (Bradbury 5). Eventually, they spot the T-Rex and Eckels gets nervous and runs off the marked path before they kill it. They travel back to the present and notice that everything is different. Even the English language is different “TYME SEFARI INC. SEFARIS TU ANY YEER IN THE PAST”. YU NAIM THE ANIMALL.WEE TAEK YU
He shows off his prosperity while ignoring the sick people of his land. Poe unmasked, “There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were within. Without was the "Red Death."”(Poe 1). Prince Prospero shuns the Red Death without worries; he mistakenly believes his wealth will protect him from death itself. Unlike the Prince, Goodman Brown falsely assumes that his faith will protect him. The two characters rival in thought and inevitably both pay the price for
In the summer of 2000 five people were murdered by the Helzer Brothers (Glenn and Justin) and Justin’s girlfriend, Dawn Godman. The three members named their cult The Children of Thunder and committed these murders because they believed the murders would usher in the return of Christ. The victims were 22 year old Selina Bishop, who was the daughter of the blues guitarist Elvin Bishop, Jennifer Villarin and her companion James Gamble, and a couple who have been married for 55 years, Ivan and Annette Stineman. Their bodies were cut in pieces, put in black duffle bags and thrown into Mokelumne River.
In the short story called A Sound of Thunder there is this guy, and his name is Mr. Eckles. And he pays a 10 thousand dollar fee to go back in time to kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex. He is scared because he does not know if he will come back alive. And there are four other men with Eckles, and their names are Travis, the Safari Leader; his assistant, Lesperance; and two other hunters, Billings and Kramer. Throughout all of the time travel going on there happens to be a lot of foreshadowing in the story.
The plague is known as the Red Death and it causes a very bloody and almost instantaneous death. The ruler of the country, Prince Prospero, decides to shirk his responsibilities as the leader and isolate himself and his friends. “When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and lighthearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.” (Poe 447-448). To keep everyone distracted from the grim reality that lied outside the abbey walls, Prince Prospero organized several forms of entertainment. “The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was beauty, and there was wine.” (Poe 448). His citizens were dying horrible deaths, yet he and his friends’ gluttony caused them to get drunk. A few months later, a masquerade ball is held all the while the Red Death is rampaging through the country. “…and while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad, that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence.” (Poe 448). Prince Prospero’s first concern was to confine himself and his friends, forgetting his obligations as a leader; alternatively choosing to
The story continues as Prince Prospero (meaning happiness and prosperity) summoned a thousand of his worthy friends to join him in his home that was surrounded by high walls and iron gates, he reinforced the idea they all would be happy and secure inside while the “Red Death” destroyed the world outside those gates as they knew it.
The castle is a safe hold from the world that high up people go to for protection. When the Red Death kills half of Prince Prospero's dominions, he takes his rich friends, and seals themselves away from the world in his castle. Poe writes, “When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light hearted from among the knights, and dames of his court, and with these retired the the deep seclusions of one of his castellated alleys”(Poe 82) The castle
“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.” -Fredrick Pohl. A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury is about a man name Eckel who was seeking the ultimate hunt of killing a tyrannosaurus rex in the past. However, he had failed to follow the rules and went off the marked path, killing a butterfly. When he and the rest of his troop returned back to their time they found things had changed and Eckel was soon after shot for what he had done. Nethergrave by Gloria Skurzynski is about a young boy named Jeremy who was seen as a failure in real life, but made a home for himself online. He was transported to a website he had never seen before and chose to stay inside the game rather than return to his
...th the impression that Prospero represents Poe’s image of the artist who insists on creating an ideal artwork, but whom is permanently imprisoned by the time-bound nature of life. Poe emphasizes that the artistic effort to transform temporality into spatiality is condemned to failure. Even the seven rooms, which suggest a orderly pattern of static placing, become misshapen into an image of the time span of life when Prospero follows the Red Death through a time-based development from birth to youth to maturity to old age and finally to death. It is when Prospero must confront the reality of the temporality of life that he inevitably must confront the death that life always insists on. “The Masque of the Red Death” should not be relinquished as a simple gothic horror story, but rather should be understood in terms of the aesthetic concept that dominated Poe’s work.
...agraph, the author mentions that the disease had come "like a thief in the night," but this statement is entirely untrue. Poe wrote a cohesive story which acknowledges the fear of trapping oneself in a doomed situation. Ironically, the very place the Prospero built to keep himself safe led to his hideous destruction. However, the audience was never permitted to believe that the prince would escape death, because even Poe's choice of environments reflect the triumph of the plague; the isolation and quarantine of the abbey, the fever and delirium of the masquerade, and finally the progression of time and eventual death. The clock strikes midnight, and with its shadowy expiration, "the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all," (213).
The level that the conflict is on plays a big role, bringing together two characters emotions to. Inner and outer conflicts within the Prince, and the Red Death assist in analyzing the theme of death and madness. Prince Prospero’s main conflict is with death itself. The madness of never knowing when death will come for him. The point of view in the story helps the reader to know what a specific character is thinking. Gale states, “Poe carefully chooses his words to paint a picture of unrelieved fear, suspense, and dread.” Poe’s as a special way of writing and using techniques correctly is why this story a is the reason why thousands of people still read it
The Red Death described in the story is a fatal pestilence which causes “sharp pains, sudden dizziness and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution”. (page 386) Once the pestilence hits, the person dies within ½ an hour. Prince Prospero’s motivation is to survive the plague and he believes this can be done by taking his wealth and inviting one thousand of his upper class friends to stay in his palace. In Prospero’s mind the “external world could take care of itself” while he and his friends lived lavishly. (page 386)
In the story, “Masque of the Red Death” it covers six months during the Red Death.It takes place in a castle which has seven different colored rooms.In the beginning of the story it describes the main character prince Prospero as happy,fearless and wise. Towards the end of the story a new guest appears to the party and everyone is scared and Prospero goes from being happy to mad and in the end the new guest kills Prospero and everyone dies because he was the Red Death. The message in this analogy ,”The Masque of the Red Death “ by Poe is life passes by so quick that you don't realize what's going on until it's your time to die.
While hiding in the midst of the Red Death’s terror, Prince Prospero throws a huge gala, much like a gothic version of a Jay Gatsby party from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” novella. Climatically, the Red Death also arrived at the gala, terrorizing the event as well, wiping out Prince Prospero and each guest one by one. The story is stimulating, in that it makes the reader’s heart beat just a little bit faster, fast enough to make you sit down and continue turning pages just to get to the resolution. Once the reader reaches the end, the Red Death “comes like a thief in the night,” leaving the reader wanting more. Throughout the story, the reader does not ever find stability or comfort, from beginning to end, the fear of demise and inability to escape death is a theme that is developed through the use of allegory.
With this idea Prospero shortly realized a figure dressed in red, with anger he calls upon this figure with little known he called upon his doom. Poe states the selfishness of Prospero; the material reads “The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think” (Poe 1842) Poe’s character of Prospero established the corrupt of society that has made man selfish. The Red death was the justice for Prospero actions, for this death was his prison. Poe’s ending was yet again correct proving that no matter what way you try to conceal yourself from death, death is
Imagine going back millions of years just to hunt a dinosaur. Imagine trekking through the jungle and seeing a gigantic thirty-foot tall ten-ton beast. Shooting at it causes the dinosaur to run forward, and a little step off of the Path in fear causes a catastrophe. “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury proves that making mistakes can cost you more than you ever imagined. Looking into certain aspects of the story will help to define how mistakes came about, and how to solve them.