The Watch By Frances Cornford

¨There was a law against luke. Not him personally everyone like him, kids who were born after their parents already had two babies (pg 6)¨. Would you like a law against you? Among the hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix clearly shows that dictatorship is horrible. In this novel Luke is not allowed to leave the house or be seen. Luke leaves the house in cover and meets a girl the same as him she can't go anywhere so she tries to convince luke to rebel to be like regular people with her but he is to nervous. Luke shows the character traits of brave, jealousy and adventurous as he hides in the shadows.

Janie Crawford from the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by the author Zora Neale Hurston, chases true love throughout her life. In her search for true love she marries thrice, once to Logan Killicks whom she was pressured to marry by her grandmother, once to Joe Starks who she married in part to escape her first marriage and partly because he was interesting and ambitious, and finally to Tea Cake when she had found actual true love. In these marriages Janie grew and developed as a woman and is is through them that Janie would eventually find out who she is. Janie’s first marriage was to Logan Killicks, an older man that her grandmother pressured her to marry so she would have safety after her death, “ ‘Tain’t Logan Killicks I wants you to have, baby, it’s protection” (Hurston 14). Janie hoped that through this marriage she might learn to love Logan, however as time goes on and she notices more and more flaws, Janie realizes she can’t learn to love Logan, “ ‘Cause you told me Ah mus gointer love him, and, and Ah don’t” (Hurston 22).

Mourning and mortality is a constant concern that transcends time. Slessor’s poetic treatment of these ideas continue to engage readers as it evokes a sense of awareness. This is evident in Kenneth Slessor 's poem Five Bells as the persona 's grief for his deceased friend, Joe Lynch causes him to realise the significance of time and the strength of spiritual attachments. This further leads him to question the purpose of human life.

There are many benefits to reading books. The benefits are that people can understand their own lives, empathize with other people, and illuminate issues of morality. Literature helps people understand their own lives. In the biography While the World Watched by Carolyn Maull McKinstry. It details the 16th street Baptist church bombing that occurred on September 15, 1963.

As people near the time of their deaths, they begin to reflect upon the history and events of their own lives. Both John Keats’ “When I have Fears” and Henry Longfellow’s “Mezzo Cammin” reflect upon the speakers’ fears and thoughts of death. However, the conclusions between these two poems end quite differently. Although both reflect upon Death’s grasp, Keats’ displays an appreciation and subtle satisfaction with the wonders of life, while Longfellow morbidly mourns his past inactions and fears what events the future may bring.

Marie Pinschmidt, the author of Life Interrupted does a beautiful job of writing a memoir of her husband. She chooses to divide the book into three different sections. She starts by explaining her daily routine with a feeling that something was wrong. Marie begins telling her ordeal of her husband being hospitalized and the thoughts that were invading her mind. The author swiftly transitions to the past and describes how she came to meet Norm, her husband. At least half of the book focuses on the life that they built together. Marie opens the doors of her heart and lets us see a glimpse of the struggles, victories and happiness that encompassed her marriage. The last part of the book focuses on the decline of Norm’s health and the struggle that the author faces after losing her beloved husband.

Many people, after reading “The Death of the Moth” by Virginia Woolf or “Once More to the Lake,” would get the general idea that both essays are about death. However, it is apparent to me that both works are really an illustration of the significance of life, but each essay accomplishes this in a different way. I aim to show how these two essays are alike by comparing their similar theme of “carpe diem” as well as some stylistic choices.

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) said this famous quote at his first inaugural address, when he took one of the most important jobs in the world, becoming the president of the United States. He then went on to do what no other president had done before―be elected for more than two terms. The people elected Franklin for four consecutive terms during one of the nation’s hardest times, and he and his wife helped pull the nation to its feet. This period of World War II is captured in the biography No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The author uses countless interviews to piece together the perspective of the home front from

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biographical novel delves deep into the personal lives of the Roosevelts. From their meetings with world leaders to problems in their marriage concerning infidelity, nothing is left unsaid. The historical novel starts with Roosevelt sitting in his bedroom, contemplating the end of the phony war that occurred before the official beginning of World War II. The novel continues with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s attempts to aid overseas Allies while trying to prepare his own country for war and Eleanor Roosevelt’s struggle for equal rights. The book finishes with the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s death in 1945 and the end of World War II. Analysis of the biography shows a theme of how far the Roosevelts would go to

In the passage "Are you being Watched?" by Jane Porter, the article describes and explains the main advantages and disadvantages of using social media. People use tracking technology to track your search history and use it against you. There are ways to be safe on the internet, what not to do, and how to prevent your information getting leaked out into the social world. There will always be ways to be safe on social media while you're online. In the Article, "Can you be a mean meme?"

The immense urgency that fuels the temporal themes resonates in lines from Dylan Thomas’s greatest poem, “Do not go gentle into that good night,” which, is cited a second time here (the first at his initial launch) as Cooper is on the verge of death from Mann’s betrayal, serve as both the narrative’s commentary and chorus. However, the poem’s exhortation to “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” is about fighting death and cherishing life, appearing in the narrative at crucial times when time/death is approaching, directed less at the film’s characters than at its present audience - urging all of us watching in our own dying light to do more than passively resign ourselves to imminent

In Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace,” readers experience Mathilde Loisel’s life-changing event. Coming from nobility, de Maupassant tells the story of luxurious desire through the eyes of the middle class woman Mathilde. Mathilde constantly dreams of living the life of the upper class, and this prohibits her from acting in reality. Mathilde’s internal struggle for a sense of social royalty shows readers how quickly selfish pride destroys a person’s life. Throughout the course of “The Necklace,” Mathilde changes from an arrogant and prideful housewife to a modest and humble companion.

Literature is defined as written works published on a particular subject. Literature can also be viewed as witness, because it can be a source of proof based on the events it was written on. Literature as witness allows readers to get a deeper understanding of the issues that have happened based off of what the books are about. Those who read literary texts such as historical novels, memoirs and novels are witness to historical events. These texts can be viewed as witness because the events mentioned are based off of true life events. Some may argue historical fiction is not real and therefore could not be viewed as a reliable source. Even though historical fiction is made up of fictional characters, the conflicts that are mentioned are based

The Time Macine is a science fiction written by H.G,Wells,first pblished in 1895.The novel tells us a man who travelled through time by a special vehicle and his special experience in the future society.

The Hours written by Michael Cunningham focuses on three different women, Clarissa Vaughan, Laura Brown, and Virginia Woolf to show how they react differently to different things of daily events. The three women change their perspectives as the story goes on. And through different events and obstacles in the book, we can see how they approach and solve the issues differently. Michael Cunningham, the author uses the characters of Virginia Woolf and Laura Brown to show how they try to create separation with different family members, but they both fail to understand how much their family needs them.