"The Sweet Hereafter and the Pied Piper" A tragic event can occur in no longer than a moment and produce a domino effect that can change everything in your life. The book "The Sweet Hereafter" by Russell Banks contains such an event. This book has a modernized undertone of the folk tale "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" by Robert Browning. This tale is carried throughout the books entirety. Both of these stories show connections in many ways and almost parallel one another in their basic plot of showing
Robert Browning's poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child's Story" details the strange occurence in a town called Hamelin. This poem is a retelling of a popular piece of folklore about the real town of Hamelin in which children did actually disappear. Browning credits that disappearance to the character of the Pied Piper -- a figure wronged and who retaliates by taking children. In this essay, I aim to explore the depiction of the Pied Piper. He is a character that works on both the levels of
Journal Installment #3 “The Dead” sharply depicts the intersection of life and death. In Gabriel’s speech, he laments the present age in which hospitality like that of the Morkan family is undervalued. The Morkan’s party makes existence so meaningless. The party events repeat each year. Freddy malins arrives drunk, everyone dances the same memorized steps, everyone eats. Just like the horse that is circling around the mill, people are living in a state of paralysis. They cannot live without the
and his girls, Professors, colleagues, Ann Arbor friends, Chicago friends, cyberspace friends who'd never met him "in the flesh"... Trying to walk down the street with him was an exercise in frustration, as Martin's fans flocked to him like the Pied Piper. He was so much, to so many. One of his greatest gifts to us is each other. I remember the first time I saw Marty 12 years ago. You couldn't miss him, of course. It was Computer Science 101, a lecture hall with hundreds of students. He would
The Sweet Hereafter is a Canadian film that is an adaptation of the novel that is also called The Sweet Hereafter that was written by Russell Banks. The sweet Hereafter the Canadian film was written and directed by Aton Egoyan in 1997. Aton gained a lot of attention at the Sundance Film Festival for his earliest works. A few years later he broke out into the public with one of his most famous works, Exotica that was made in 1994. Later in 1997 is when The Sweet Hereafter got him major attention
Children of Hameln by the Grimm Brothers, the Pied Piper is the character who did what seemed too good to be true and as a result did not get paid because the people did not have the money. This resulted in him getting his revenge on the town by making the children disappear, just like he did with the rats, and this lead to a representation of failed mourning by the townspeople. The children disappeared due to the Pied Piper in a mysterious way. The Pied Piper was first introduced to the reader as a mystery
children’s book author after selling over 85 million books around the world. It could be said that, “if she writes it, they will come”, since millions of young girls and young adult women pour over her words with fervor. The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a popular legend based on the town of Hamelin in Germany where a colorfully dressed man plays his pipe to lure rats, then later children, to their doom in the river. Blume has in essence captivated her audience for decades with her “pipe”, which is simple, easy
villains in such stories as “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, “Hansel and Gretel”, “Little Riding Hood” and “The Three Little Pigs”. While the overriding theme in this story is “coming of age”, the underlying message and setting parallel the framework of the aforementioned fairytales. This essay identifies and discusses the similarities between Oates’ short story with the themes, characters, and events of the identified fairy tales. In the fairy-tale, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, we can draw comparisons with
there are always those that try to harm others or put them down, and fairytales teach children that those who do that do not succeed in the long run. The story of the Pied Piper is a perfect example of this. The people in the city of Hamelin refused to pay the Pied Piper even though they had promised. Because of this the Pied Piper led the children of the village away with his magical music (Young). As one can see this story shows how those that do wrong will be punished for their wrong and cruel
“We entered into the Hitler Youth with body and soul,” said Inge Scholl. “And we could not understand why our father did not approve, why he was not happy and proud… Sometimes he would compare Hitler with the Pied Piper of Hamelin, who, with his flute, led the children to destruction,” (Bartoletti 30). “We heard much oratory about the fatherland, comradeship… and love of country,” Inge Scholl wrote. “This was impressive, and we listened closely… they told us that we
Synopsis/Summary The Pillowman takes place in a nameless totalitarian state. The play opens in a police interrogation room as two officers, Tupolski and Ariel, question a man named Katurian about some belligerent child murders that have occurred recently within their town. Katurian is a writer of convoluted stories involving children, and several of the murders mimic conceptions presented in his stories. The detectives additionally interrogate Katurian about his brother, Michael, who is described
qualities are elucidated by the protagonists in the video. The Beatles made people swoon and dance to their tunes in the 60s and 70s, and it was during this time that a man by the name of Elvis Presley turned Pied Piper and had women the world over follow his music like the children of Hamelin. These personalities were so popular that they could make people stop in their tracks and take notice. So powerful was their music that even politicians tried to make use of their popularity to gain political
dark, threatening themes that contain some sort of moral lesson and/or depict the ancient struggle between good and evil; such elements are evident in Hans Christian Andersen’s original tale of The Little Mermaid as well as in the tale of The Pied Piper of Hamelin in which gave inspiration to Joyce Oates short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”. Modern fairy-tales
rich while the black farmers lived in adverse poverty. Hearing the trumpet sound of Johannesburg they set out from their farmlands one after the other. Like the story in Aesop's fables The Pied Piper of Hamelin where we find children following the sweet sounds of a bagpipe from the Pied Piper only to find themselves trapped in a cage. Over a long period of time the long full dangers were not seen, but fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters went to work in Johannesburg and never
In the midst of a heartbreak, crisis, celebration, or milestone, we use music to help express the emotions that we feel or may have felt during that time. Music allows for us to escape our reality, though only for a moment in time. It has an adverse reaction on our emotions. Music can trigger feelings regarding a past experience, a loved one, etc. Music is universal. Regardless of the lyrics, tone, or time period of the song music is an incredibly powerful work of art deeply connected with human
Travis Cline Mrs. Flemming World Lit 5/20/14 Research paper The Victorian Poet There are many people in the world that follow the literature art of poetry. There are clubs for poetry and people who aren’t that crazy about it. Some people think it is a way of expressing emotions or feelings and some simply think that it sounds pretty or has a certain elegance to it. A poet that is well known for expressing emotions with a little bit of elegance is Robert Browning. Robert Browning is one of the best
Idealism in Auden’s O who can ever gaze his fill, Out on the lawn I lie in bed (A Summer Night 1933), and The Shield of Achilles W.H. Auden’s poems are celebrated for their intelligence, detachedness, and musicality. Often, idealism is associated with romanticism and the excessively personal, because it is an attempt at envisioning the world as it ought to be and not as it is. However, Auden successfully blends idealism into his objective poems, and this idealism manifests itself in his “O
Born in Germany amidst one of the darkest times in recent history, the “Hitler Youth” was formed with the intent of turning the country’s young citizens into its future Nazis. The Hitler Youth were taught to be dedicated to the cause of the community and the nation above themselves, even to the point of sacrificing their lives. Hitler expresses his reliance in the young people of his nation explicitly, crying, “Give me the Youth and I have the future” (qtd. in McKissack 6). Though textbooks and documentaries