Beryl Markham’s West with the Night is a collection of anecdotes surrounding her early life growing up as a white girl in British imperialist Africa, leading up to and through her flight across the Atlantic Ocean from East to West, which made her the first woman to do so successfully. Throughout this memoir, Markham exhibits an ache for discovery, travel, and challenge. She never stays in one place for very long and cannot bear the boredom of a stagnant lifestyle. One of the most iconic statements
The stories “Brothers are the Same” by Beryl Markham and “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing share common themes throughout the stories, yet are based on two vastly different cultures. Both stories have their main characters going through a rite of passage, both in their own ways, so how do they compare? Well first it is important to know the background of these two stories. The stories take place in two vastly different areas, both with their own cultures, traditions, and people. “Brothers are
In the two short stories “Brothers are the Same” by Beryl Markham and “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing two main characters go head to head on quests or “rites of passage”. In “Brothers are the Same,” a young man named Temas in a tribe in Africa must hunt and kill a lion in order to become a man; along with Jerry, from “Through the Tunnel”, puts himself in a position of life or death in a tunnel under water. With that, both characters put themselves in difficult situations that include many
In the Language Book of Literature there are two amazing stories; One theres “Through The Tunnel” by Doris Lessing, and the second story is “Brothers Are The Same”, by Beryl Markham. These boys turn into men but sometimes others need to see an accomplishment to believe it. In the story through the tunnel, jerry is an 11 year old boy with his mom on vacation (mother has no name). Brothers Are the Same the story isn't really what you'd think it would be. These brothers are Temas and Medato
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