Stranger in a Strange Land

The excruciating heat consumes the flat desert land while many buckets of clay lie shattered on the ground next to a solitary drinking well made of stone. The countless footprints erratically scattered throughout the area, and the fresh puddles of spilled water are evidence of an unexpected and immediate evacuation. Towering above the undulating mountains, a mysterious dark cloud is hovering. The throbbing temperature beats down on a sprawled body lying on the desolate road. His clothes are…

arrested in a market, and detained for 18 months by the government. When he was released, she was forced to flee her home with her sons and husband. There was no legal process, no tribunal, no defense for her or her family. They were to be strangers in a strange land for years to…

As they shivered, they looked around for the snowman holding the goddess. As they looked around, they heard a voice echo. “Who has came into this land?” “It’s Flake and Poinsettia. We need your help taking down your sister.” said Flake loudly, looking around for the mysterious voice. From the darkness, a snowman waddles in front of them. Poinsettia look at the snowman while Flake was digging through…

press on to Virginia, due to rough waters, the weary voyagers choose to settle in Cape Cod. Bradford recalls the relief and elation at arriving without harm in what is to become their new home, “being thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean”(133). The journey is finally over. They have arrived in the New…

Imaginary Nonsense An analysis of Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky The absurd has always piqued the interest of many, no matter when or where in time they are. Lewis Carroll seems to have mastered the art of the preposterous with his poem Jabberwocky featured in his book titled Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alive Found There. Published in 1871, Jabberwocky tells the tale of a son who fights the Jabberwock in an odd world. Carroll manages to captivate and make use of the reader’s imagination…

battle. No one fails to suffer the consequences of everything under the sun.’” Only the Alchemist knows the boundaries of the universe and Santiago has yet to learn. Another example of a negative character trait is that Santiago is stubborn towards strangers. While he was in the plaza of the city reading a book an old man tried to spark a conversation. A quote from the book is, “Meanwhile, the old man persisted in his attempt to strike up a conversation. He said that he was tired and thirsty,…

that it becomes a terrifying third character to the story. The wilderness is given characteristics of darkness and represents uncivilized land. As Marlow is travelling down the Thames River he says that “And this also…has been one of the dark places of the earth” (Conrad 5). Marlow is referring to before there were any humans in England and how primeval the land had been. The statement that Marlow makes is the first time darkness is mentioned, and his…

taken by the Taliban, this has a massive negative affect on her. (BS-2) the loss of Najamh’s mother greatly affects her both physically and emotionally.(BS-3) Najmah runs into a serious stop in her journey she is faced with the decision to trust a stranger or leave, which could mean risking her life. (TS) In the book under the persimmon tree Najmah experiences the worst downfall, she may ever feel, loss, she lost her mother, father, brother, and childhood this greatly affects her throughout…

and closer. It was time for me to leave my live behind in order to meet him. But how do you meet your father at eleven? What is he like? How is his character, I mean I had only heard him, and had never really shared time with him it all seemed so strange, but worth it… I remember my uncle Juan, who had been watching out for me for a few years. He dropped me off at the airport and told me listen to you father, obey him, and respect him. At this point I was even more skeptic about my father’s…

minerals, farming for cash-crop estates and subsistence. And also damaging environmental or landscape change by natural phenomena like hurricanes, volcanoes, floods etc) or by process of humans like deforestation construction, use of lands for farming, artificial land drainage etc. This is the only huge danger to the Earth’s biodiversity and the large extinction in the world. When an animal of plant becomes extinct When it does not have a habitat, and when cannot adjust to a distinct…