Along Siddhartha’s search he runs into a river. He realizes that the river was flowing downhill. Which was the same way his life had headed. “This is it,” said Siddhartha. “And when I had learned that, I looked at my life, and it, too, was a river, and Siddhartha the boy was separated from Siddhartha the man and from Siddhartha the old man merely by shadows, not by anything real.” (Hesse page 58).
The authors writing was able to make me imagine what it would be like to be stuck swimming for my life while bullets and cannons fired at me with little hope of escaping before being hit. Then after surviving a hanging, guns, and cannons he is then thrown into the woods where he has to find his way home with no water, no food, and no rest.
He seized the branch instantly but it resisted. He broke it off impatiently and brought it to the Sibyl. But before he could enter the underworld they had to go back and bury a soldier, Misenus, who had fallen of the ship drunk and drowned. He was now allowed to enter the underworld. The underworld was a very crowded place, especially at the mouth of the Styx where Chiron the 'no longer young' boatman ferried the dead across the river.
A man escapes San Quentin prison in a barrel and rolls down a hill. The spinning of the barrel in the first-person perspective gives a different experience into the situation of the character. What is very unique about the how the story begins is actually the narration of the beginning of the film. We as an audience begin to receive the set-up of the scene from the main characters thoughts. We can tell that the escape was not planned at all but the wit and intuition of the main character, which at this point in the movie is actually the viewer, is going to escape.
In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury makes lots of predictions about the future and some of them are exaggerated but some of the predictictions are pretty close to what is happening in the modern world. The citizens in Fahrenheit 451 aren’t allowed to read books because the government banned them so they wouldn’t get too smart, because everyone should be equal. In Ray Bradbury’s, Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury makes numerous predictions about the future, some of which are coming true today such as the importance of technology, people moving so fast they don’t have time for others, and people’s lack of responsibility for their actions. In the book people can’t reading so they sit inside on the couch and watch TV. Today it is almost the same, some people like to sit down and watch TV or play video games more than they like to sit down and read.
After the flashback, the hanging commences and as Farquhar begins to fall, the grave sensation of his death is described. But suddenly the rope breaks and Farquhar is freed dropping twenty feet down into a fast flowing river. He manages to free his hands, remove the noose from his swollen neck, and swim for freedom. The Union soldiers on the bridge fire at him, but miraculously he escapes. He then wanders through the forest back towards his home, eventually walking on a known road to his door step.
He also altered the purpose and reason of the life in future America if things don’t human continue to let technology overpower them. In Fahrenheit 451, reading books is against the law.
George Elliot, an English novelist stated “it is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view” (qtd. in Goodreads). Tony Alamo, a manipulative preacher, is a prime example of a narrow-minded individual. In his article, “Taking Sides”, he claims, “it is the responsibility of honest and upright adults to weed out the novels that would damage children”. He continues his claim that the works of well-known authors such as Shakespeare and Hemingway should be banned from American Culture.
A common theme through Anil's Ghost is violence. Anil Tessera is symbolic of the Western audience, and the inability to understand the trauma due to postcolonialism. Through out the novel, Michael Ondaatjee uses different literary devices to describe trauma, and what it does to victims during civil wars. As a novel focused around historical strife, there is no mention of government and religious factions. Since there is no mention of key factors to point at Sir Lanka, readers are to take the novel as a commentary about several places that experienced post-colonial trauma.
In Utopia, Thomas More describes the way of life of an ideal society. The philosophical ideals of the society, though somewhat morally sound, are too righteous to be realized. Also, there are several unreasonable restrictions on almost all the aspects of life from the choice of one’s occupation to travel around the city, and from personal aspects like religion and marriage to even the way one thinks. Throughout the text, we learn about their policies, which, although benefit the society as a whole, seem to largely neglect human emotions. Thus, More’s Utopia is a sternly righteous and puritanical state, where only a few of us would feel happy; this is because the communal way of life and the laws of the state forbid its citizens to have absolute personal liberty, which is essentially the main ingredient of happiness.