Borges' The Book of Sand is the story of a man who is visited by a stranger trying to sell a "holy book" called the Book of Sand. The narrator looks at the book and is unable to see the first or last pages of it because, as the stranger explains, the number of pages is infinite. The narrator is fascinated by the book and buys it, only to become obsessed with it, until the point that it is all he thinks about. He eventually gets rid of it by mixing it up in a pile of many other books in his basement
Etched in Sand is a riveting novel that proposes life through danger and strength. Regina Calcaterra details her life story in this novel and how she lived through treacherous moments fearing her life. As a middle child of five, Regina thrived to support her younger siblings, Rosie and Norm, after her two older sisters got away, Cherie and Camille, and took on the role as a mother for them. The five children preserved an abusive childhood because of their cruel, alcohol mother, Cookie, in the streets
because of our limited knowledge of things outside of our solar system there is no way to know how time works outside of it. In The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges the narrator is sold a book that is said to be infinite, at first he is skeptical of the book, but as the time passes he becomes consumed, attempting to find the end or the beginning, but like sand, the book doesn’t seem to have a
Abe’s Woman in the Dunes opens with chapters that leave the readers thinking about what those ironic tones and sentences are actually trying to convey. One such passage in the few opening pages is that when sand has been described in two different ways. The passage then goes on to questioning how sand, the desert and life share in common the fact that they are victims of competition as well as means of escape. This passage holds a lot of foreshadowing as the author cleverly, but subtly drops hints as
This book by Jason McClure is about as unbiased and all-inclusive you can get. The book appears to be targeted towards younger children and is formatted more like a picture book than a scientific article. Despite this, the book remains factual and accurate. Even though it is a Canadian book, it talks mostly about oil in general, not just oil in Canada. In particular, it covers the earth’s oil reserves and details of Canada's oil reserves, uses for oil, how (both normal crude and bitumen based) oil
A Sand County Almanac is a non-fictional anthology, a collection of short stories, with some fictional aspects, written by Aldo Leopold. The underlying theme that Leopold uses to connect about 50 short stories is that of nature, nature’s importance, and lack of appreciation, all of which tie into the main topic of the book, conservation of the wilderness. The book is organized into four different sections. The first section Leopold’s account of a year on his secluded farm titled “A Sand County Almanac”
In the book Fahrenheit 451 there were a lot of symbols throughout the book. The three symbols throughout the book were The Salamander, The Phoenix, and The Sand and the Sieve. The Salamander can be symbolized as a symbol for Montag’s job as a firefighter, as fire, and the fire truck they used to go to houses and burn the books. In the book on page 13 it says “He pulled out his igniter, felt the salamander etched on its silver disc, gave it a flick” Also on page 6 it says, “When she seemed hypnotized
The Riddle of the Sands is a psychogeographic story. Childers , like his main protagonist Carruthers, was a pillar of the British establishment: born in Mayfair to an Anglo-Irish land-owning family, Cambridge graduate, parliamentary clerk and veteran of the Boer War. But, like his other leading character, the unconventional Davies, Erskine Childers was a man not given to doing exactly what was expected of him. He became a committed Irish nationalist in later life and was executed by a Free State
In the book, A Misplaced Massacre Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek by Dr. Ari Kelman is trying to set the record straight about what really happened and why we needed to make the land of the historic massacre to be transformed as an historic land. Kelman expose the fact that many people don't know or care enough to get it right. Throughout our history, events like the Sand Creek Massacre have shaped our outlook on life. This event affected the lives of many children, women, and men
would expect Sands and Sandy soils (large particles) to have the lowest Water Holding Porosity and therefore the lowest Total Porosity. Silty Soils should have a Water Holding Porosity and a Total Porosity, that are greater than Sand but less than Clay. I am basically predicting that the smaller the particle size of the soil, the greater the Porosity. In my experiment these soils will be used : 1. Newport (Silt Loam) 2. Hamble (Silt Clay Loam) 3. Wallasea (Clay) 4. Sand For Total
Las Vegas Sands, an American casino and resort located in Nevada, has to pay $9 million in a penalty fine for neglecting to appropriately authorize and document millions of dollars paid overseas. After a six-year investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and with the aid of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, they provide no evidence of corruption or bribery of foreign government officials by the company; which, is the main concern of the United States Foreign Corrupt
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 This is a story of future society where all books are restricted, the government attempts to control what people read and think, and individuals are anti-social. But, this book is not only about danger of censorship, it is also about the effects of television and mass media on the reading of literature. Unlike other famous dystopian novels, this book holds out some hope. This novel will be examined by three criticisms; biological, Marxist, and psychanalytical. Historical
In Kobo Abe's The Woman in the Dunes, the protagonist, Niki Jumpei, finds himself as the Sisyphus of the sands, stuck with the onerous task of removing sand in order to survive. The sand is more than landscape; it is a representation of death. Endless, and universal to all, it causes Jumpei to change from an egotistical glory-seeker to a resigned, yet satisfied man with purpose. Abe uses unique characterization, cryptic allusion, and dramatic irony to show that despite the instinctive fear of death
The story is dramatic and she initially wanted to keep it a secret, but in attempts to help the antislavery movement she proceeds with the story. Lydia Maria Child writes the preface to the book, and explains that all the stories are true. Linda Brent is the pseudonym that Harriet Jacobs used to narrate her book. Linda was born into slavery and her parents were considered “well-off” slaves. Linda’s mother dies when she is 6 and is sent away to her master’s mistress who teaches her to read and write
her reasons for writing an autobiography. Her story is painful, and she would rather have kept it private, but she feels that making it public may help the antislavery movement. A preface by abolitionist Lydia Maria Child makes a similar case for the book and states that the events it records are true. Jacobs uses the pseudonym Linda Brent to narrate her first-person account. Born into slavery, Linda spends her early years in a happy home with her mother and father, who are relatively well-off slaves
crashing. The sun is setting. People are laughing and embracing under the sunset. I feel the sand squish slowly through my toes as I gaily walk down the shoreline of the Outer Banks. My all time favorite place to be is the beach. The weather at the beach is the most quarreling of all places in the world. One minute you are relaxing lazily on the sandy seashore reading a most invigorating book. I sit engrossed and allow the foamy mist from the rampant ocean spray your face lightly as
and the re-built and re-vegetated sand
people can sometimes do terrible things. This question is the key to the underlying theme of The Good Thief, as Ren is good-natured at heart, but this is not reflected in his actions. Does Ren’s good-nature make up for all the things he does in the book, or do his actions simply outweigh his
express his idealistic, dystopian views. He displays his concepts through symbols. Named after the title and three parts of the novel, these symbols are; Fahrenheit 451, the hearth and the salamander, the sieve and sand and finally 'burning bright'. Fahrenheit 451 is the exact temperature book paper burns at. This symbol not only has a literal meaning but also has a direct link to the protagonist in the novel, Montag. Not only does Montag burn the worlds literature for a living but another fire burns
Tom’s Cabin. When Belloc objected that perhaps there were already enough versions available, the publisher, M. Charpentier, is said to have replied: “Il n’y aura jamais assez de lecteurs pourun tel livre,” or “There can never be enough readers for a book such as this.” Having had slavery recently abolished, slavery was therefore fresh in the minds of the French and they were persuaded to to “cry for the brotherhood and freedom from the American slave.” Among this enthusiastic reception, the French