All posts tagged Story
nisovich Shukhov, who is in a Russian Siberian prison/labor camp for expression of anti-Stalinistic ideas. The story describes the events of a single day in this man’s life and his struggle to survive. I feel that the main theme of this book is survival. However, Ivan shows the reader that . . . Read more
Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” is a story that emphasizes the natural symbolism of the surroundings. The main character in the story, Phoenix Jackson, is an old black woman who seeks out to find medicine for her sick nephew. This story contains a motif, which is the continuous walking of . . . Read more
In 1995,Toy Storywas produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Studios (Wiki). In the film a young boy named Andy and his toys that come to life when humans are not around, move to a new house in a new neighborhood and encounter many challenges following the event. Directed . . . Read more
from the state prison. He’s finally on parole. He served four years of his seven year sentence. While walking, he catches a ride with a truck driver who takes him to his old house, on his family’s farm. While he walks the rest of the way from where the truck . . . Read more
ily’s epicStruggles of survival during the time of the depression. Tom, the eldest son of the JoadFamily, finds himself in a unique when he must leave his home and head out toCalifornia with his family. As Tom and his family headed West on their journey, hefound himself as the leader . . . Read more
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway, is a typical love story. A Romeo and his Juliet placed against the odds. In this novel, Romeo is Frederick Henry and Juliet is Catherine Barkley. Their love affair must survive the obstacles of World War I. The background of war-torn Italy adds . . . Read more
Candide on the surface is a witty, gelastic story. However when inspected deeper it is a philippic writing against people of an uneducated status. Candid is an archetype of these idiocracies, for he lacks reason and has optimism that is truely irking, believing that this is the best of all . . . Read more
Among the oddballs and exhibitionists whoclustered around Andy Warhol in the 1960’s and70’s perhaps the scariest was Brigid Berlin, achubby, motormouthed rebel from an upper-crust NewYork City family who relished the way her undergroundcelebrity embarrassed her proper conservative parents. Herfather, Richard Berlin, a friend of Richard M. Nixon andan admirer . . . Read more
At first glance The Wizard of Oz seems to be a simple children’s story, a fairytale of sorts. Further examination however reveals that there is much more to this story. The movie, which is based on the book The Wonderful World of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum, contains many intriguing . . . Read more
The amazing stories of the great flood that are described in, The Epic of Gilgamesh which is translated by N.K. Sandars and ““The Story of the Flood”” which is the King James version, both stories similarly. Many of the events of each story are very similar in ways and very . . . Read more