Like Away Bound Train it has a theme of travelling in a train as the journey. There is no extended metaphor but rather the journey of soldiers to their old towns and communities. The idea of encountering new people is relevant to this journey poem as the people that they encounter are not new but instead it is them, the soldiers, who have changed and are new. “Old terrors doze” shows how the soldier’s journey home has changed them from what they were. I also believe that the soldier’s are going to see the old towns and communities differently upon their return.
About ten to fifteen minutes after Ms. Slick left, Riff’s boss Vibes Blare came into the room and was upset to see Riff playing cards due to Riff owing Blare $50.00. Riff and Blare state Riff gave Blare $50.00 when Blare entered the room and said, “Vibes, the way things are going tonight, I’ll have a new guitar by tomorrow.” Riff went to Red’s office before leaving to ask for a bag to place his winnings in. He received a tan money bag from Red. There was writing on the side, but Riff cannot remember what it read. When Riff finally left Red’s he walked out the back door to the alley and saw Rusty Fender working on a car.
Don Quixote, later on found himself in the Sierra Morena mountain range, where they met a number of interesting people with their own stories. One was named Cardenio, a gentleman who had gone mad over what he thought was treason of his lady and best friend. After traveling further, they (and along was Cardenio) found an inn to stop at for the night, while there, Don Quixote went to bed as Sancho read “The Ill-Advised Curiosity”. Later, a group came in and Cardenio recognized his lover, and as they were talking, a loud noise came from Don Quixote’s room, he had slashed open wine-skins with his sword in his sleep and claimed that he killed the giant. The next day, enchanteners, (men dressed up to take Don Quixote home) came to the inn and took Don Quixote and Sancho home in a cage.
The movie, Bubba Ho Tep, is not just a movie where Elvis and a delusional man who claims he is JFK are the main characters, but a movie about every elderly person trying to discover where they came from and where they are going in their senior years. It serves as a deliberation on aging and the meaning of life. It shows how, inexplicably, in a B-movie sort of way, our body parts and functions mock us into our final years, giving us hope one moment and a fleeting glimpse of our past the next. Elvis was the symbol of sexiness and vitality in America by his early adulthood. He was deeply in love with Priscilla but as Erikson’s Psychological Stages points out, he was at the intimacy vs. isolation stage of his life and although he was capable of a committed, loving relationship, he chose to isolate those feelings in drugs and other women.
Armando gives vivid detail of a specific trip he and his father took to the Mexican/America border in Texas, his father’s home town; Eagle Pass. The racism still seemed to be pretty thick as they were denied a hotel room at a Best Western by the hotel attendant that he described as a “Anglo man” and because of this they had to spend the night in a rundown motel, sleeping on a “ratty mattress supported by cinder blocks”. He then goes into describing the town itself, the people his father knows, the smell of authentic Mexican food being prepared, how his father seemed to be somewhat absent while engaging in small talk with old friends and the popular Mexican dish of melt in your mouth beef made of “different beef heads”. All of these things drew him to his Hispanic roots that he carried with him throughout his short life and even into college studies. He talks of the time he spent abroad in Argentina and the lack of authentic Mexican cuisine available which prompted him to spend an entire day gathering ingredients to prepare his own for himself and friends.
He finds his brothers Virgil and Morgan and their wives, and his friend Doc Holliday, fine player and trigger reaches tuberculosis. Wyatt comes quickly to become a partner in a saloon while his wife Mattie becomes dependent on laudanum. Soon after, Doc Holliday and Wyatt have some friction with a bunch of off-the-law, the Cowboys, led by Curly Bill and Johnny Ringo Brocius a dangerous sociopath with whom Holliday quickly develops a mutual enmity. After a serious incident, the
She decides to call him a medicine man. The medicine man comes and performs a ritual. Soon Tayo feels well enough to help on the ranch and sleep through the night. He goes to a tavern with his friends and realizes how much the alcohol dulls the pain. Soon he tells stories of postwar discrimination and cries for the situation his friends are in.
It is a place that is common for sailors on freighter ships to come to, normally late at night looking for somewhere to sleep and wanting two things most all men want; women and whiskey. Olaf Jenson, one of the two main characters who works at a waterfront hotel in Copenhagen, is automatically judgmental of a new comer named Jim simply because of his appearance. This short story is a good example of why you should never judge a book by its cover. As soon as Jim walks into the hotel where Olaf works, he immediately focuses on nothing but the way Jim looks. “He was staring at the biggest, strangest, and blackest man he’d ever seen in all his life” (Wright 209).
Imagine taking a train trip across the country all by yourself… but you keep catching yourself admiring this one certain person… In My Antonia, a novel taking place in the late 1800’s, by Willa Cather, Jim Burden, the narrator of the novel, takes a journey across the great midland plains of North America. He is sent by train to his grandparents in Nebraska by his Virginia relatives. On this train is when Jim first hears of Antonia Shimerda, a Bohemian girl who he gains more and more interest for. The admiration that Jim develops for her is caused by a number of reasons. Antonia’s beauty, strong opinion towards what she believes in, and her willingness to learn are three qualities that Jim is attracted to.
Critical Analysis of Chapter 1, Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen laughs at her own society of the early 19th Century in her most famous opening line of her fiction novel, Pride and Prejudice, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” This overstatement is a most effective introduction to her novel Pride and Prejudice as it not only captures the readers’ attention but also immerses the reader in the English 19th Century setting, introduces Austen’s ironic tone of writing and light hearted genre of the novel. Jane Austen uses chapter 1 to introduce her concerns regarding marriage, gender and social order. Austen intrigues the reader with the entertaining relationship between Mr and Mrs Bennet and teases the reader by cleverly introducing the protagonist Elizabeth Bennet, through dialogue. Austen relies on dialogue over description to voice her themes and issues; she uses diction and syntax to introduce the setting. Austen typically restricts the setting as a means of using select few characters to make more universal comments.