Clay We Are Created

“The gates,” she said, “They’re open! There’s a man in a tank out there, and he’s speaking through a loudspeaker.” With the news, Bella shook her brother telling him the information she had learned. They both stood up, running towards the gates. All Bella could make out were the words “liberated” and she couldn’t be more thankful. After months at a camp where she was hungry, tortured, and worked almost to death, she was free, and had made it out alive with no sickness or disease, which was a main cause of deaths at her camp. The two were able to travel back to Celle, returning to their home.

Nick’s father, Mr. Stratos has always been physically and verbally abusive to his son since he was able to walk. Nick’s explains his past by detailing how his father would abuse him often as a very young child: “I need to do something to make the hurt go away. You know, I can still hear the snap of his belt. Snap. I would beg him not to hit me, and you know what he would say? He would say, ‘This is gonna hurt me a lot more than it's gonna hurt you’”. Using words can construct powerful pictures, to illustrate what someone was going through. In this case, imagery was used to shot fear towards Mariana to get her to comprehend what’s going through is mind.

In the book ‘Night’, Elie’s mother and sister got burned alive during the cruel selection. Wiesel says, “I didn’t know… I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever” (Night, 29). Elie will no longer experience what a normal kid will, the love of a mother, the smile of a smile, and the care that a mother gives to her own kid. Elie’s family is forever broken, without his mother and sister, his family won’t be a whole anymore, this traumatic experience will change Elie’s life forever. These experiences can also change someone’s character, some changes are permanently, but some only at the moment. Elie was faithful to God before, but after all the tragedies that he’s been through, he questions himself, asking “why would I bless him” (Night, 67)? Elie’s religious belief and faith in God is going away as he experience these traumatic experiences, but for him, these were only temporary. Traumatic experience can change someone’s life and their character, in horrible

26. He took excessive risks as an exercise of courage, training by day to conquer the monsters that tormented him by night.” I love that quote because a lot of people, including (myself) have these internal demons that they try to suppress over and over again but eventually the demons will come out to play.

She sometimes sits out by the creek and remembers her father telling her “I am your father, I will never abandon you.” (Cisneros 1) She remembers this only after she is a mother and this is when she realizes “How when a man and a woman love each other, sometimes that love sours. But a parent’s love for a child, a child’s for its parents, is another thing entirely.” (Cisneros 1) Surely by now she feels her love souring. She can not understand why Juan must drink all time and why he continues to beat after he promises that he will never do it again.

This is the point where Bella and Benny’s relationship begins. Benny has trouble opening up to Bella. He clearly wants to tell her about the war, but he always jams when the images appear to him. Bella clearly wants to help him, unconsciously helping herself, but in her efforts to do so, she takes on a maternal role, in which she would rather have Benny forget everything about the war. So instead of encouraging him to dig deeper into his emotional issues, she regards him as a child, waiting for him to be reasonable whenever he awkwardly tries to share his experiences with her. This “ignorance” to Benny’s problems continues in their marriage, and eventually becomes the reason that Bella leaves Benny to himself while having one of his nervous seizures.

At times, the strong bond of family can shackle some people, emotionally crippling them. Isabel Allende’s And of Clay We are Created implies this concept through the painful memories of its protagonist’s significant other, which are brought into light as a result of a catastrophic event. Rolf Carle, a T.V news reporter, was first on scene to deliver live footage of the aftermath of a deadly volcanic eruption which swept a small village in 1985 Colombia. He, after discovering a thirteen-year-old girl named Azucena who is buried up to her neck in “clay, stones, and water,” quickly finds the story which he will broadcast to the world(). However, as he begins to form a connection with the young girl, memories of his past, which he had worked hard

“God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?” by Whitney Houston. Her abilities to become “the perfect athlete” has to come from both genetics and training in order to become the best there is according to Epstein’s view (Epstein 282). He demonstrates this through Eero Mantyranta’s story as a Finnish skier and multiple Olympic champion. He competed in four Winter Olympics winning seven medals at three of them becoming the most successful athlete that may strive from nurture, but has some genetical insights. He also had the rare talent of coming from “100 percent nurture and 100 percent nature”, which is unheard of (Epstein 282). However, genetics is very complicated because one altered nucleotide within a base pair, our genetics can be affected dramatically, but to end up in Mantyranta’s position of perfection is quite remarkable. When training for sports, Epstein focuses on an “average time to master a level in study was actually about 11,000 hours” to reach perfection, but there’s a small chance it could result from our genetically born abilities (Epstein 21). Whether their an athlete, singer, or a genius Epstein proves their abilities is an outcome from nature and nurture.

Also before his three brothers return from the war. When the war ended the three brothers are traumatized and they were restless to become independant. The outside of his house is very dangerous and is very open. His brothers León and Eugene urge him to enter the brothel in his dreams about the outside world. At his uncle’s house, it is very calm and they urge his mother María to send him to them for the summer before he gets “lost.” All these worlds overlap to create the enviroment Antonio lives in. The environment can shape what a developing child would become. God and morality shaped Antonio through what he believed before and what he saw. From what’s he’s seen his morality changes rapidly and his belief in God as a divine being, that god does not forgive. Our sense of God and belief in right and wrong shapes us by our decisions in life. From our morality we can choose to do what we think is right or wrong. Its an ability we possess to create who we

My narrative was I admit composed of not all truths. My father did in fact die and I did infact go to the college park during his funeral. On the contrast, I never had a bestfriend named Jose. As the author of the piece I wanted to use the story truths to help me bring out my inner conscience in the form of an actual person. To accomplish such a goal, I based the character Jose off the optimistic view that I tried to gain because during the time of my father's death I felt very pessimistic, yet my inner conscience would always echo some attempt of optimism within me. Hence, in the process of writing the narrative, I made sure Jose was a friend that tried to help my character out. In addition I raised the question; Does grief ever entirely end?

A Mooc is a massive open online course, a common course would last around 6 to 10 weeks. You can take all types of college courses for free, the only downside is that It’s creditless. I have been researching three students named Gallagher, Mendoza, and Gregory. By examining Gallagher’s creativity, eagerness to learn, and his confidence, it is clear that he is the best candidate for a MOOC.

will never be the same again (94).” The story is to revived something lovely for Carlos despite

But where the story began to take a turn was when Marla, the woman that he met in the support groups, called and stated she was in the process of committing suicide. He pretty much blew her off when Tyler took the initiative to go to her apartment where he becomes her coping mechanism by using sex. But while the narrator (Edward) thinks that he is having some sort of nightmare not understanding it is actual reality. Then noticing the tension between the two the narrator states that they Marla and Tyler remind him of his parent because he never sees them in the same place at once. The only time that they spent in the same room was during sexual intercourse. He narrator was jealous because of the way he felt for Marla, but just too afraid to express it because she was already sleeping with Tyler. This is why the tension was so high.

As the second-day dawns, other reporters come to interview Azucena, taking pictures as Rolf did,“Reporters [and] … movie teams arrived with spools of cable, tapes, film, videos, precision lenses, recorders, sound cables, lights, reflecting screens, auxiliary motors, cartons of supplies, electricians, sound technicians, and cameramen”(3). Though all Rolf cares about is Azucenas well-being and comfort, “And all the while Rolf Carlé kept pleading for a pump”. The incoming reporters with their walls up are unaffected by the disaster, only wanting to do their jobs, they do not care about getting Rolf's desperate plea out to the public. All Rolf wants is for the reporters to bring down their wall as he did when he met the girl, and to help him help her. Even with Rolf’s work to try to get Azucena out of the rubble eventually, too weak to continue, she gives up. After one last conversation and hug from Rolf, Azucena sinks into the clay to join her siblings. Rolf devastated when he comes home he can think of nothing else. Rolf Carlé now spends his time in the news station re-watching and reviewing the videos of Azucenas last days. Trying desperately trying to find something that he could have done to save Azucenas innocent life, “We watch the videos of Azucena

People grow both mentally and physically in their lifetimes; however, the unique ways in which people grow and develop create the wonder of diverse human life. Paulo Coelho contradicts this idea in his novel The Alchemist when he states, “And my heart and soul is your heart and soul” (IX). This underlines Coelho’s whole idea all of humanity’s stories are the same. Coelho shares this idea as he attempts to describe what he believes this shared story is through a boy named Santiago. However, while the humanity and Santiago may share the same goals, the way that Santiago achieves them is unrealistic compared to most of society. Santiago begins innocent and unknowledgeable of the world, and goes out on a mission to find his Personal Legend.