The prisoners are forced to run 42 miles in one night during a blizzard. Those unable to keep up are shot. The refugees stop in a small village where Eliezer and his father keep each other awake to avoid freezing to death. Rabbi Eliahu enters a small shack occupied by Eliezer, looking for his son. Eliezer recalls--after Eliahu's departure--seeing his son desert his father, something he prays for strength never to do.
As time goes on he reminisces of the time he left his father in the snow. As he sat there awaiting his fate, he is surround by a pack of wolves. At first he fights them off, then he just gives up. “All men must die… It was the way of life” (12), so he just sits there and accepts his fate. London uses the plot of the story, the character, and the setting as a great example of the naturalism worldview James Sire talks about in his book, The Universe Next Door.
Frankenstein Dialectical Journal Entry # | Quote/Category | Chapter/ Page/Speaker | Commentary | 1 | “The floating sheets of ice that continually pass us… [do not] dismay us.”Theme | Letter 3/ Page 8/ Robert Walton | Walton informs his sister Margaret Saville of the vast and empty ice sheets that passed them every day exemplified the Romantic themes of mystery and the wild. The emptiness of the arctic also showed many Gothic themes of isolation and loneliness, which Walton and the crew all experience before the arrival of Frankenstein, who was almost dead. | 2 | “We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the distance of half a mile; a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature”Foreshadowing/ Connections to English class | Letter 4/ Page 9/ Robert Walton | The book has just begun and there are no other characters other than Walton at the moment. So when there is a giant figure on the ice, it is apparent that there is foreshadowing of the monster itself before the main character is even introduced. Later on in the novel, the monster is described as having a gigantic stature, with limbs in proportion.
When Oka declares that in order for them to survive they must cross the cold, high mountains to find food Toklo is delighted. When Tobi suddenly dies while crossing the mountain, Toklo’s mother takes her anger and grief out on him. Leaving him near a river, Oka strands him in the wild. Will Toklo be able to hunt and find food without starving in this strange, inhospitable place? Lusa, her parents, and two other bears are happy living in the “bear bowl” at the zoo, but when a strange new bear is put in a cage nearby, Lusa is anxious to make friends.
The husband leaves all the time and it distresses the wife. He refuses to tell her what he does while he is gone. He finally gives in and disseminates that he is a werewolf and goes out into the woods hunting in the form a wolf. He reveals to her that in order to turn back into his human form he must have his clothes. The husband tells her where he secretly hides his clothes.
English 9 The Fight for Survival in Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet Scrambling for his life, Brian Robeson a 14 year old boy left alone attempting to survive. Throughout Hatchet, Gary Paulsen continues to vividly elaborate on Brian’s horrifying struggles to survive all the way to the unexpected ending. A thirteen year old boy, Brian, boards a small plane and heads toward Canada to live with his dad for the summer. In the midst of his flight, the pilot suffers a massive heart attack and dies. This leaves Brian with no choice but to crash land the plane in the center of the Canadian forests.
Thomas runs away from the Mission School and returns to his mountain home. When he arrives he expects to find his brother the bear and the rest of his animal family, but instead he finds a “charred circle” (70) where his lodge used to be. Tom then “…stood among the ashes and whispered the sorrow chant…For small griefs you shout, but for the big griefs you whisper or say nothing. The big griefs must be borne alone, inside” (70.) He knows that it was Blue Elk who did it because there is not one item of worth left behind, not even the knife Tom’s mother gave him.
The snowman is one of the many symbols that Harper Lee uses in To Kill a Mockingbird. Jem and Scout, who are brother and sister, go out to make a snowman. When they go out to make this snowman they realize that there is not enough snow, so Jem goes to Miss Maudie and asks, ”Could Scout and me borrow some of your snow?”(88) Miss Maudie says yes so they use some of her snow to construct their snowman. When they finally got the snow from Miss Maudie’s house and brought it home, Jem and Scout realized that they still did not have enough snow so Jem, “went into the house, returned with the laundry hamper, filled it with earth and carried it to the front yard.”(88) The lack of snow in the yard leads
The other man was Hugh Glass who was attacked by a bear and crawled one Hundred miles to saftey from the grand valley all of the way to the Missouri river. Each tale filled with different obstacles and hard ships. Well since it is two stories I chose the one story I liked better. This is from the story of John Colter "He came out of the mountains and staggered into the sea of grass that lead to Fort Manuel Lisa. he limped as he walked with the sun hot on his neck.
As Radu is escaping from Willem the miller (who is now a hostage) through the woods we get an idea of Chust “sending snow flying in little spurts” tells us that Chust is a cold and snowy place, another is “all he saw was a hundred thousand Birch trees” telling us that a very dense forest surrounds the village of Chust. What’s more, Radu’s death is very bizarre when it ends he is finally caught out by his pursuer and his heart ripped from his chest this moment in the book is a bit gory and shows gothic horror, “the man lunged forward and shoved his hand like a knife into Radu’s chest, feeling for his heart” this I find is disturbing but is a very good ending to chapter one as it really grabs the reader’s attention. Radu’s funeral is not normal and no one seems to care or have sympathy for him because they believe him to be a suicide” there was no coffin” and “Radu was turned over so he lay face down” I think these quotes tell us that this funeral is not the norm’ as this quote proves even more so “ Teador placed the twigs on and around the body” the sexton seems to have placed thorny twigs on the body which makes peter question his father but he does not reply. This adds even more suspicion and uncertainty to the