(pgs- 56-61) 82: “Works of damnation cannot lead to salvation.” The Bodhisattva and Hui-yen came across a monster when they came to The River of Sands. This monster was originally a marshal and because he had broken a crystal dish was banished and transformed into a Monster upon the orders of the Jade Emperor. The Bodhisattva questioned the monster because he was being punished for a sin and is was still committing sins by eating travellers who happen to pass by the river. “If the Government gets hold of you they’ll flog you to death; if the Buddhists get hold of you they’ll starve you to death.” The monster replied telling the Bodhisattva that it didn’t matter how many travellers he ate or the fact that he ate them because he would still be stuck in the river trying not to starve either way. “Heaven helps those who mean well” The Bodhisattva made the monster an offer and told him about how they were on a quest to find a seeker of scriptures.
Parable of the Sower is a futuristic, science-fiction novel where the United States has been dismantled into city-states, the government has been demolished, and the economy is becoming reborn as company towns. The main character in Parable of the Sower, Lauren Olamina, is the daughter of a Baptist minister (who serves their walled-in neighborhood) and a drugaddicted mother (who because of her excessive encounters to prescription drugs) birthed a premature Olamina suffering from hyper empathy. When seventeen-year old Olamina’s community is attacked, burned, and looted, she barely escapes with her life, and travels, at great danger, into northern California in search of a haven where she and others can build the first Earthseed community. The beliefs of Earthseed are recorded in the fictional book Earthseed: The Books of the Living. Olamina "writes" in short, poetic passages.
Does it offer significant insights into the complexities of human existence and the development of American culture, or does it simply appeal to vulgar adolescent minds with its obscene language, complaining about everything without developing any positive insights of its own? While some of the initial reviews of The Catcher in the Rye were negative, critics later acknowledged it as a significant literary work and demonstrated how the novel's narrative structure, themes, and character development resemble other great works of literature. For example, Arthur
Manipulated easily by Iago, that he wrongly considers as his friend, he falls into all the traps set by Iago and finally kills his wife and himself while McMurphy sees at the first glance how the Big Nurse got the power and manipulates the patients and the hospital staff as shows this sentence of McMurphy, just after his first meeting:” Is this the usual pro-cedure for these Group Therapy shindings? Bunch of chickens at a peckin' party?”. We can conclude that Othello is pretty naive and tends to trust the wrong people when McMurphy is smart and as good as the Big Nurse to manipulate people. But we can add that Iago is also more discret and smarter than the Big Nurse, who is clearly the ennemy, which makes him more difficult to detect. This point is
Both Winston and V want to take down a dystopian government that rules by people intoxicated with power. They both believe a revolution can happen if the proletarians rise up. The main power of each work (Big Brother in 1984 and the government in V for Vendetta) tries to suppress the people and ruin their lives by using fear. The main characters V, Evey, Winston, and Julia all represent the rebellion. Both the movie and the book have the government watching the people to gain control.
The “hero” of the story (I use the term “hero” loosely, as some of his actions could be considered more vengeful than heroic) is a masked man, who calls himself V, which has set out to destroy the government, and free the people. The story begins when Evey Hammond, an average citizen, is caught outside after curfew, and as a result, suffers an attempted rape by the Fingermen (police), until V rushes in and saves her. She then accompanies him to a rooftop, where she witnesses as he blows up the Old Bailey, a historical judicial building while playing Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, a piece oftentimes associated with American Independence, over the loudspeaker. Later, the government tries to hide the act of terrorism by spinning the news, on government-run television, as a planned demolition. V takes over the television studio, where Evey happens to work, and transmits a message to the people about what he did, and calls for them to
She calls him a “poor monkey” which at the time was a term of endearment. The conversation between her and her son continues with a discussion about Macduff being a traitor and the possibility of him never returning. She is completely prepared to assume the role Macduff has left vacant. Lady Macduff then stands up for her children and Roberts 2 herself when the murderer invades the castle and questions where her husband is
Paul Edgecombe and Brutus Howell (other prison guards) greatly dislike Percy Wetmore as he is arrogant and cocky and mistreats the prisoners. Percy calls the prison “a bucket of piss to drown rats in” and he believes he has authority over the other guards as his aunt is the governor’s wife and so looks down on everyone else. To ensure a quick death in the electric chair, a wet sponge is placed on the head to direct the electricity straight to the brain. During Eduard Delacroix’s execution Percy decides to purposely not wet the sponge causing Delacroix to endure a long, painful death. An aural technique used to create a strongly negative mood in the scene of Eduard Delacroix’s execution was sound and music.
Green mile was about a 8-foot giant, John Coffey, who cries, is scared of the dark and has god given powers. He stumbles by two young girls in help, yet finds them too late for him to cure them and bring them to life. He then was sent on death row to the Louisiana state penitentiary, accused of killing the girls. The story takes place mostly on the “E-block”, the block where Paul worked. Paul worked along side with his fellow guard mates.
Who easily trick him into taking his gold coins to the “Field of Miracles” in order to grow a gold tree. In the very same day Fox and the Cat trick him again, conning him into paying for their exorbitant meals, needed because of their medical conditions of course, and rooms in the inn. Pinocchio is such a brash perpetrator of gullibility and lack of sense, the judge in the town of Fools’ Trap sentenced him to four months in prison for the crime of foolishness. If Pinocchio had but thought a little more about the stories he had been told he would have avoided many of the misfortunes which befell him. Pinocchio was almost always disobedient, every command and request that he received, he ignored, consequently getting himself into deeper and deeper trouble.