“Stop the Sun” & “The Great Rat Hunt” Some of the similarities of both stories was that they are fiction and both are about a relationship between father and son. In both stories, the characters are going through difficult times that they are trying to overcome and in conclusion, they reach their goal. Some of the differences between the stories are that they are written by different authors. While “Stop the Sun” is written by Gary Paulsen, “The Great Rat Hunt” is written by Laurence Yep. The father and son relationships in both stories have different approaches with one another as well as different personality.
Ethan's treatment, on the other hand, seems a bit more just. For returning Debbie he is regarded by family as a hero, but he remains lost to them in a sense, when he stays outside the Jorgenson's home and then walks away. Both men live on to continue their personal search for life's purpose, meaning and happiness. Turning to other characters we can see ties between Taxi Driver's Iris and The Searchers Debbie. Both of these young girls are the intense focus of the main character's journey and search for purpose.
They might be corrupt in different ways but both have almost the same characteristics. To begin with, both Daisy and Tom have their own affairs during the story which are different in certain ways. Daisy is involved in an affair with Gatsby but also loves Tom at the same time. This creates confusion at certain times during the novel. At one point she understands that she can only be with one.
He also makes loose references throughout the text that go unexplained. The plight he tells about is intended to leave readers pondering the magnitude of loss in identity, culture, and number of people when being brought over from Africa in stream-of-consciousness. These and other elements help to make this work a modernistic piece. The narrator describes the Middle Passage as a “voyage through death to life upon these shores.” He also says “sharks follow[ed] the moans, the fever, and the dying.” This gives readers the first indication of modernism. The voyage, in his personal view, was a journey of turmoil and hardships to get to American “shores,” and the ships that carried the slaves were a “festering hold” that harbored an entire people who were dying, ill, and “blacks [who were] rebellious.” “Some try to starve themselves… [some] leaped with crazy laughter to the waiting sharks.” The narrator’s depictions of the events taking place, like much of this story, are written in stream-of-consciousness, a major characteristic of modernism.
Karn Randhawa 5/10/11 Period 3 COMPARE/CONTRAST ESSAY The books To Kill a Mockingbird and Great Expectations are closely related both in structure and in meaning. Two characters that are similar and different from both of these novels are Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird and Pip from Great Expectations. They lead similar lives, both under the shadows of those they want to become and pressured by many around them, shaping their overall qualities and characteristics. After analyzing both novels, it’s apparent that both of these characters are similar in their traits, but they also have some differences that set them apart. Scout and Pip are similar in the fact that both characters are different, or long to become different, in regards to their environment and those around them.
Both of them end up leaving their community because they are fed up with the corruption that takes place in a dystopian world. They both stand out from their community in their own respect which gives them similarity through standing out. In each of the novels the plots are similar in the way that both of the main characters are unique, try to change their civilizations, and leave in the end. The plots follow the same beginnings with a person being unique to the others, such as Jonas being able to “see beyond” or in color and equality having curiosity and individualism. As the story
The Meaning of Darkness Within the Heart Of Darkness There are many possibilities as to what the actually meaning of the heart of darkness within Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness. The heart of darkness may be Europe, the driving for behind the development of Africa. Africa and the river upon which Marlow travels hold many mysteries and perhaps the heart of darkness. Kurtz may also be the heart of darkness, due to his influence. Europe, Africa, the river, and Kurtz are all plausible candidates for the heart of darkness within Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness.
Although he may not understand what happened in his past, he feels he is chained to it and that his life is already set for him. Throughout the story The Misfit behaves in ways that show he doesn’t want to live the life he has, but he feels obligated to fill in the gaps that his past has created. The Misfit is very similar to the father in a short called “The Boat”. The father works extremely hard on a boat in the harbor to support his family. He has a son that helps him, daughters that help around the house and a very old-fashioned wife that disapproves of many things that make him happy.
The Light Reflecting Darkness Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now is a movie inspired on the novel Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad. In both works the director and author emphasize the light and darkness of every event. This imagery of light and darkness is used to represent the good and evil in everything. With each detail one can realize how light can cause a sense of good, while darkness shows evil in many ways, the contrasts of both also convey a deeper meaning in a situation or place being shown, in this case that of the movie and the novel. In the Heart of Darkness Conrad describes how the sun sets upon London and how the lights “began to appear along the shore” (67).
Hunt Hawkins believes that Conrad’s Heart of Darkness was an anti-imperialism novel, as opposed to what some may believe while reading the novel; an example would be Chinua Achebe, who believes the novel to be racist and de-humanizing. Imperialism in Africa was evident in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and the affects of it was not only political, but also social, psychological, and spiritual. This essay will show a critical deconstruction on imperialism and Conrad’s work. Background In order to understand the point of this essay, one would need to understand what deconstruction is as well as imperialism. Deconstruction, according to Jacques Derrida, started in late 1960s France and “upends the Western metaphysical tradition.