Deliverance Theme

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson begins with an eight year old protagonist named David Charleston as he accompanies his father to the bank. The visit looks normal, until the Epics show up (pg 7). David then proceeds to watch his father die at the hands of Steelheart, a superhuman Epic with massive destructive powers and invincibility. However, David saw Steelheart bleed and he is set on revenge (pg 20).

Violence plays a big role, starting with the bank robbery. Ed will and did face a lot of violence from Edgar street, the rose brothers, the sledge match, Daryl and Keith, an as readers we are quite aware that all of these obstacles have shaped and changed Ed’s life mostly for the better. This is usually shown with Ed’s ease with violence, even when confronted by a

Ed feels guilty at the end of the game because he had knocked someone out and he

In the book, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, the characters in the book represent Biblical symbols of good and evil. Their interactions demonstrate the influence of good and evil on each other. Each character in the book has their own personality trait that plays onto the other characters when they come together. It is the comparison between good and evil that triggers events leading to violence.

The fiction “Recitatif” was written by Toni Morrison, which is a profound narrative and meant to invite and let the readers wondering to search for the buried connotation of the encountered experiences of the main characters, Twyla and Roberta faced as children and their reunion as an adults again. Some of the story’s meanings and values involving around friendship, race and abandonment began to emerge as the plot thickens, and also more additional messages got concealed and remain unrecognized until even the most last sentence of the story about Recitatif. From the very first paragraph of the story, there were few details that were not mentioned which required further deeper possibility and that produced the story extremely engaging for me.

Edwards’ domain has many different parts and ways to understand, some are religious, frightening, and directly written. The language Edward used is furiously ranting and concerned, the way Edwards delivered the sermon was very frustrating but blunt. An example of this would be “... nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing you have ever done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment.”(77-78). This quote gives evidence that the text was a rant and very furious too. It also gives evidence that the text is written very

In the book, Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini was majorly obsessed with vengeance throughout the end of the book that his life was consumed by the quest for it. Louie felt as if the Bird had stolen his dignity at the POW campsites, where he was beaten, humiliated, starved, and stripped of his powers of self-defense. Louie was overwhelmed with his anger that the only objective he sought was to get revenge on the Bird. In other words, Louie was angered about his loss of dignity at the POW campsite, he wanted to get revenge on the Bird by killing him, and how Louie eventually forgives the Bird for what he did to him. These three reasons show how Louie’s loss of self-dignity in the POW camp was pursued.

Out of the Dust is a book wrote by Karen Hesse. Karen Hesse has wrote many children books in her lifetime. The book is also a Newbery Medalist. A Newbery Medalist is an award for an outstanding children book. In this book the characters suffer loss and grief.

A Harsh Awakening for the Unconverted Fear is one of the most powerful motivators in the world. As humans we will say anything cruel in order to get what we want by instilling fear in others. In the sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Jonathan Edwards displays an array of suffocating metaphors, exaggerated repetition, and a harsh emotional appeal, in order to awake the unconverted and strive to save them from their “sudden, unexpected destruction”(1). Exaggerated repetition, such as Edward’s recurring statements on the “wrath of God,” instills fear into the souls of the congregation and was used to scare them into belief. In his sermon Edward says, “ ‘Tis a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you as against many of the damned in hell”(8).

James M. McPherson was born October 11, 1936. He is considered to be an American Civil War historian and he is a professor at Princeton University. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his book Battle Cry of Freedom and Wikipedia states this was his most famous book. He holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Ph. D. and teaches United States History at Princeton University.

This year, we read four great works of literature. Each piece is so different from each other, yet all writing demonstrates that everybody is human and experiences harsh circumstances. At the point when life gets difficult, people read books to realize that they are not the only one. In each great piece of writing, we see and feel the characters' battles and feelings of anguish that makes it so relatable for the readers. The characters show the genuine unpredictability of life. In the pieces we read we see death, tragedy, and courage portrayed magnificently.

However after witnessing a failed robbery he was faced with a number of playing cards each with different challenges. Each suit leaves a symbolic hint as to what challenges Ed may be faced with. After receiving the ace of clubs Ed is faced with the challenge of the Rose boys, in this challenge he is beaten up and put in quiet the state of which he learnt to ‘survive the clubs’. This is

Hillenbrand, L. (2010). Unbroken: A World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption. New York: Random House.

Ed has an explosive personality because he cannot handle his emotions. Whenever he is mad and tries to explain himself, he often can’t piece together his thoughts which makes him frustrated and lashes out on Christopher. For these reasons, Ed demonstrates the theme of order versus disorder. For example, when the name of the man Ed’s ex-wife had an affair with is mentioned, “Father banged the table with his fist really hard so that the plates and his knife and forked jumped around” (Haddon, 2003, 49). Additionally, Ed lied to Christopher for two years about his mother passing away when she actually moved to London to be with the man with whom she engaged in adulteries. Ed is a dog because he is loyal to Christopher, is guardian and protector and can be aggressive. Ed was trying to protect Christopher by lying because he believed the truth would hurt more. Ed is specifically a golden retriever because they have a yellow tint in their fur. Christopher hates the color yellow which is what ultimately happens to Ed. Once Christopher finds out his father killed the neighbor’s dog, he becomes frightened and hates his

The novella The Atonement by Ian McEwan produces a reoccurring theme of lost innocence. The children in the novella lose their childhood innocence after one wrongful accusation which tears the Tallis family apart. The setting in the novella develops the mood to be light and airy as the Tallis family resides in the English countryside. Nonetheless, the light and airy mood changes to one that is dark and full of mystery as the Second World War starts. Each character is tested by themselves and others to see if they can keep their innocence. But, each child grows further away from their childhood selves as their lies and misdeeds grow. With the use of literally devices McEwan shows how the loss of childhood innocence is harmful. The