The animated Max and Indy interact with each other in a number of internet environments, but they also appear as ‘real’ people in the imagined projections of their characters. When Saskia imagines Max, she sees a muscular, good-looking, charismatic guy who accepts her for who she is, while Noah’s image of Indy (Maria Papas) is of a gorgeous, strong, charming and wise girl. Gradually Noah and Saskia learn to trust each other and reveal more truthful details about themselves, such as where they live, and their real selves start to come through. This is the story of how by projecting their ideal selves in a virtual world, Noah and Saskia get a little closer to reaching their ideals in the real one. “Noah and Saskia” is about two teenagers who deal with tough
An ongoing story throughout his article was that of a near-blind writer that needed an alternative from ink and paper to save his vision. Friedrich Nietzsche was the name. The man bought a typewriter, and quickly mastered it so as to not need to use his vision to write anymore. Soon enough, some acquaintances noticed a change in the style of Nietzsche’s writing. He agreed with his friend, and said under the sway of the machine, he “changed arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.” The story suggests that the Internet isn’t the sole reason for changing the way of thinking, but possibly technology in general.
Searching for an acceptable place to land, Ender starts to recognize the place around him as the giant's corpse from the Fantasy game. It appears that the buggers built it for him, being apprised somehow of the scenario the computer had built for him. He finds the tower at the End of the World, pulls the mirror off the wall, and finds a bugger queen still in larval form. Apparently through her thought-speaking, Ender learns many collective memories of the bugger history, including the feelings of despair when the old queens realized that humans were sentient beings, not just non-thinking workers like the bugger workers. They realized they were severe murderers during the first two invasions.
The resolution to the big mystery of who is sending the cards reads as if Zusak just couldn't figure out how to get out of the hole he'd dug for himself, so he just slapped this on. But if you can ignore the last 10 pages, this is a terrific, at times moving, and thought-provoking story that can lead readers to look at their own worlds in a slightly different
Dickey gets far beyond the stereotypes, infusingall his characters with complex emotional lives, and while Jordandominates the story, the multiple first-person narration shows just howdeep Dickeys willing to get inside all his characters heads. Milk in MyCoffee is a story about two people coming to terms with the attitudes thatshape their identities, where hearts and minds learn painful lessons aboutgetting beyond what the eye can see. This story is told mostly from the perspective of Jordan, a successful African-American male working for a computer software company. Jordan has a girlfriend, J'nette, but the relationship has begun to sour. Meanwhile, Jordan meets and finds himself attracted to Kimberly, a pretty and artistic red-haired white woman.
“Nerds and Geeks” Popularity, being well known, and skipping school just to be a part of the “crowd” or the cool people. Though not everyone can be a part of that world, and that’s where the “geeks” and “nerds” come in. Their story and why we need them is exclaimed in Leonid Fridman’s piece, “America needs its nerds.” To make his point clear he uses satire, making it straight forward and humorous, also making it enjoyable for the reader. He uses an appealing set of word choice in his writings to keep the reader interested from the beginning to the end. Creating a relationship between the readers through pathos make Fridman piece a better read.
The penultimate sentence in this paragraph speaks of “Influencers disconnected from the seasoned wisdom of friends and mentors” (emphasis added). This wordplay relating the “connectedness” of social media to the reality of disconnection from people not only tickles the funny bone of literarily minded readers, but also adds to his logical case against the overuse of social media. Hansen also appeals to the credibility of others by referencing books and authors. This helps us see his intended audience more clearly as he does this. First he references a quote about the middle class from Alexis de Tocqueville “in his famous book Democracy in America” (emphasis added).
In The Catcher in the Rye the main character Holden Caulfield displays a wide variety of interesting character traits that generations of readers have explored an attempted to figure out. The traits include lonesome, lying and fake. Some of my claims may not be very strong but they're well in their own roots. My job writing this essay is to prove to you that those are valid character traits and I'm going to do just that. So sit back and try to make sense of me making sense of a character that thousands of other English students have tried to make sense of.
tInteractive Notes on The Veldt by Ray Bradbury First Reading of the Story: Students generally relish in the gruesome outcome of this utopian (and dystopian) story. The story was written in the 1950’s, but the setting of the story still remains futuristic when compared to this day. Because of its dark nature and ideas regarding family and technology, the story would be excellent to teach in a grade 8 or 9 class. Second Reading of the Story: Some questions came to mind during my second reading of the story: * How would I characterize Mr. and Mrs. Hadley? * How would I characterize Wendy and Peter?
Campbell points out that the spiritual hero fights monstrous beasts. These beasts represent some repressed aspect of his own character that the hero must overcome in order to achieve enlightenment. Monkey, the Odyssey, and the Inferno are literally stuffed with examples of this motif. Monkey is particularly unusual in that some of the monsters change into spiritual guides of the type mentioned in point # 6, above. But Gilgamesh has its share of interesting monsters, what with Humbaba, the Bull of Heaven, the Scorpion people, and Ishtar herself.