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Jesus borrows Peter’s boat so that he can teach from the lake then he asks him to get his nets after a long unsuccessful fishing day, to throw his nets out to the water and try to catch some fish again. At this moment Peter’s immediate reply is more like, “Yeah, whatever Jesus. I’m the fishermen and you are the carpenter.” but then the line that was the catalyst to Peter’s new life, “But at your word I will let down the nets.” 17 This decision was the first step into the greatest journey of his life. Peter has been known to make declarations of Jesus but this declaration, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”18 moved Peter to phase two of Jesus’ master plan of getting the gospel out to the world. Then Jesus does not ask a question but tells Peter what he will be doing for the rest of his life, “... from now on you will be catching men.”19 At this point, Peter finally realized that this carpenter from Galilee was more than just a carpenter but that the miracle He just produced revealed the presence of God, and that was what Peter needed to start the journey into becoming one of the most famous people in
His voice is like butter. I’m afraid he’ll talk me back the other way I was. Only a week ago, pumping a kerosene hose, I thought: God, what fun!’”(Bradbury 85) With Faber's help, Montag returns to his job to confront Captain Beatty. Beatty recites many lines of several different works of literature, in attempt to change Montag back into a follower of society. Again, Beatty tries to bring Montag down one last time, his dying words are quoted from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “There is no terror, Cassius, in your/ threats, for I am arm’d so strong in honesty that/ they pass me in an idle wind, which I respect not!” (Bradbury 119).
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The Great Gatsby “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (180). This is the last line of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby . In this novel Fitzgerald tries to show that each of us carries our past with us, but trying to change or relive the past is useless. The novel’s narrator, Nick, tries to show Gatsby that “you can’t repeat the past,” to which Gatsby replies, “Why of course you can!” (110). Throughout the novel, the past plays a enormous part in Nick and Gatsby’s lives causing them to have different views on the present and future.
The Odyssey A hero is often one who is idolized for his courage and excellence, such as Odysseus in The Odyssey, written by Homer. In this epic poem, Odysseus endures several obstacles on his journey home that exhibit his real traits. Though it took twenty years to return back to his home Ithaca, Odysseus’s curiosity, determination, and intelligence is what kept him alive during his expedition. Because of Odysseus’s curiosity, he want to hear the Siren’s song. After visiting Tiresias and being told “plug you oarsmen’s ears with beeswax kneaded soft; none of the rest should hear that song.” (Homer 678) , his crew continues on the path that was set for them.
Cabrera, 1 Hannah Cabrera Block 4 Awp 9/21/11 Life Death is only the beginning. In “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, translated by Stephen Mitchell, the meaning of life is mainly death. Gilgamesh goes searching for eternal life and discovers something better the meaning of life, in “The Epic of Gilgamesh” the book portrays the meaning of life to be that death is inevitable. The thought that life can be restored after death leads Gilgamesh into the quest for everlasting life. For an example, when Gilgamesh’s friend Enkidu dies he is left broken hearted and thinks, “If my grief is violent enough perhaps he will come back to life” (Mitchell, 445).
The battle was over, Beowulf had been granted new glory: Grendel escaped, But wounded as he was could flee to his den, its miserable hole at the bottom of the marsh. Only to die, to wait for the end” (lines 498-503). Finally in Beowulf part two explains after the defeat of Grendel and his mother he became king because since Beowulf had so much honor in battle, that people learned from him and is looked up to (pg 43). These steps that Beowulf went through define what an archetypal hero perfectly and this is why Beowulf is an archetypal hero. So to the following conclusion Beowulf is an archetypal epic hero because he carries both traits of both an archetypal and epic hero.
Andrew LaFave English 112 Final Research Paper Of Mice and Men: Steinbeck’s Underlying Messages In 1937, John Steinbeck published a novel, Of Mice and Men, which reflected the life of migrant workers of his time. The book is a story of two migrant workers, George and Lennie, that dream of someday living on a farm of their own. Steinbeck tells this parable of two men traveling through their lives and maintaining the eternal hope of a better life while having to face the reality of shattered dreams. Steinbeck is a master at using themes to portray this story and to emphasize the messages he wants to get across to the reader. Steinbeck addresses the underlying message of the human condition and the importance of relationships, and uses the characters in the novel to illustrate the hopes and dreams of Americans in the 1930’s.
This relates to the theme of coming of age because Gene towards the end of the book finally decides to enlist in the war with Brinker Hadley and he finds himself with the war and that’s why the war symbolizes Gene growing as a person in this novel. Another symbol that