Cowart, Shelby 7/19/12 AP English 11 Some Advice Dear Boy… It is always a huge breakthrough for any family when a child leaves home. This obvious proposition even applies to noble families during the eighteenth-century such as Lord Chesterfield’s family. In his own letter to his son, Lord Chesterfield delivers numerous opinions that many parents today would still agree with. In a tactful way, Lord Chesterfield sends subconscious messages through personification, diction, analogy, and rhetorical questions in order to impose his values on his incompliant son. It’s incredibly evident to the reader that Lord Chesterfield’s son takes advantage of him and this letter is probably Lord Chesterfield’s last effort to guide his son.
In the first two stanzas, Henry Lawson has used many techniques to give a sense of loneliness. Lawson uses words such as ‘vast, vanished’ to express how alone Harry (the drover) is. Also, he tells us that Harry has not been seen by loved ones for a long time, and that he hoped to get back to them soon. This brings us to the next theme, love. Harry is finding his way back home because he wants to see his ‘home-folk’, meaning the people from his home.
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Govinda is his friend and follower who he sees many times intermittently through the book. His father finally agrees the let Siddhartha try his new belief system with hopes that his own life may benefit from the journey of his son. The Buddha, who Siddhartha meets later in the book, tries in vain to introduce a belief system into Siddhartha, and succeeds in convincing Govinda, but cannot convince Siddhartha at first. Kamala, another character in the latter stages of the book teaches Siddhartha a great many things, including the fact that even after his years as a Samana, he can love. Vasudeva is the ferryman who does little but listen to Siddhartha and provide him with food, shelter, and insight into his life through the river.
How briefly this sentence was written and how easily the “good-bye” was said to the couple that took him in and gave him supplies, Chris had displayed that his desire to be on his own was greater than his desire for theirs or anyone’s, friendship. “We were all worried when we didn’t hear from him…I knew he was
At the climax, the hero is severely tested once more on the threshold of home. He or she is purified by a last sacrifice, another moment of death and rebirth, but on a higher and more complete level. By the hero’s action, the polarities that were in conflict at the beginning are finally resolved. RETURN WITH THE ELIXIR. The hero returns home or continues the journey, bearing some element of the treasure that has the power to transform the world as the hero has been transformed.
As a result of this Scott traveled back to his home town. After living back in his home town for about two years mother moon told him he had to set back out and leave his home town. He asked mother moon “Mother Moon, I’m so comfortable here, why do I have to travel to a place where people live in fear?” Mother Moon never would answer this question, maybe because she knew that Scott wasn’t ready to receive the real reason. Anyways, as Scott was on his journey again, he met a man named Mr. Rager. Mr Rager was an amazing man, he was mysterious however.
The Great Gatsby In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the topic of an unreliable narrator arises. Nick Carraway, who is the narrator of this novel, is seen as a biased/unreliable narrator due to his speech when he speaks about Jay Gatsby and also because he is not an omniscient narrator. Because of these decrepencies, it is impossible to see Nick as a reliable narrator. At the beginning of the novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald immediately forms Nick Carraways character. Nick describes himself as being someone who reserves all judgment but, throughout the novel he is constantly relaying his opinion about other people.
Hesse expresses the theme of interior vs. exterior guidance through the different ways these characters find enlightenment. Siddhartha tries many different ways to seek enlightenment. First Siddhartha learns the way of the Brahmins who had “pored the sum total of their knowledge into his waiting vessel: and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still”. (5). In the beginning of Siddhartha’s journey he does not find the teachings of the Brahmins good enough and continues on with his journey.
The jurors cannot base their certainty on concrete evidence as the play indicates that very few facts are absolute because (quote). Instead, they must make up their minds based on the apparent likelihood of various events and on their own personal beliefs. Rose portrays that when it is difficult to maintain certainty about one’s beliefs, in this case the innocence or guilt of the boy, doubt is a reasonable and intelligent state of mind. This is proven by the 4th Juror and the 11th Juror when they say they “ … now have reasonable doubt”. Each of the jurors has a different degree of certainty about the opinions they hold, but cannot be completely sure, as the 9th Juror points out “He doesn’t say the boy is not guilty.