The stories “The Life you Save May Be Your Own,” “The Lucid Eye in Silver Town,” and “Everyday Use” all feature family, and the different aspects of different families. “The Life you Save May Be Your Own,” by Flannery O’Connor follows a woman and her child, a thirty-or-so old woman, with mental disabilities and deafness, […]
“Field Trip,” “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” and “A Rose for Emily” all share a common theme of Remembrance and grief. In “Field Trip,” by Tim O’Brien, the narrator, a veteran of the Vietnam war, takes his daughter to Vietnam, to show her her father’s history. He takes her to a spot where one of his friends, […]
One thing that “Winter Dreams,” “The Minister’s Black Veil,” and “A Worn Path,” all have in common is their theme of Guilt and Regret. In “Winter Dreams,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dexter Green lives his life chasing after Judy Jones, a woman he’d been loving since childhood. After she leaves, he falls in love […]
“‘So I hushed. I was so peeved at them not listening to me I kept hushed the livelong four weeks I picked that field, workin’ right along side of them, listening to them prattle on about this uncle or that cousin. Or if somebody didn’t show up for work, gossip about him. Four weeks and […]
“I think McMurphy knew better than we did that our tough looks were all show, because he still wasn’t able to get a real laugh out of anybody. Maybe he couldn’t understand why we weren’t able to laugh yet, but he knew you can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to […]
“I’m the last one. Still strapped in the chair in the corner, McMurphy stops when he gets to me and hooks his thumbs in his pockets again and leans back to laugh, like he sees something funnier about me than about anybody else. All of a sudden I was scared he was laughing because he […]
“The Big Nurse’s key hits the lock, and the black boy is up to her soon as she’s in the door, shifting from foot to foot like a kid asking to pee. I’m close enough I hear McMurphy’s name come into his conversation a couple of times, so I know he’s telling her about McMurphy […]
Journal 3: Consider Chief Bromden as both a character and a symbol. What can we conclude about him so far? [provide evidence from the text] So far in the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kessey, Chief Bromden is a very seclusive character. He keeps to himself and has been pretending […]
Comment on an article about a place that you dont know much about. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26602018 This article explains the recent attacks in central Nigeria. There have been many attacks on different villages throughout the state of Kaduna. Many of the people in the nearby cities blame the Fulani community, an enemy in land and religious fights. […]
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/12/zooming-in-for-survivors.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email This article is about Malasian Flight 370, and a company named Tomnod, who is working to find the missing plane. Tomnod is using satellite images to let regular people look at a pixel of land, and identify anything that looks out of place. Each person can flag anything that could possibly be a plane, […]
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