One Man's Journey

Rite of Passage "Greasy Lake" by T.C. Boyle is a tale of one young man's quest for the "rich scent of possibility on the breeze." It was a time in a man's life when there was an almost palpable sense of destiny, as if something was about to happen, like a rite of passage that will thrust him into adulthood or cement his "badness" forever. The story opens with our narrator on a night of debauchery with his friends drinking, eating, and cruising the streets as he had done so many times in the past

One Man's Journey to Heaven The story “Leaf by Niggle” by J.R.R. Tolkien is a story of allegory, and with good use of metaphors shows what our religious journey on earth to heaven could be. The story used allegory which is metaphors for the characters and places used in the story. It start with a man named Niggle, who is going on a trip, but wants to finish his painting before he goes. Once we read the entire story it becomes clear that it is an allegorical story. The main character in the

Journey of Truth The short story “The Swimmer” by John Cheever, is about a man’s swimming journey home after a long night of drinking. Cheever uses the man’s journey home as a metaphor for the journey of alcohol. Cheever shows the parallels between the man’s journey home and the journey alcohol takes a person in many ways. The main two are the way he feels after each new pool, and the time that lapses on his journey. The first way Cheever uses to show the parallels, is the way the main character

of relying on faith. This unique quality of man’s faith is expressed both in the film Children of Men, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, and The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The Road opens with a man and his son in the midst of an unexplained post-apocalyptic world. The man and his son are never named. They have a strong bond, and it is clear that all they have is each other. The boy is the source of the man’s will to go on. Countless times on their journey, their fate seems hopeless. They encounter

In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”, London describes a man’s tragic journey with his dog through the bitter Yukon. This journey ends in the death of the man as his careless decisions finally results in his downfall, however; his companion, the dog, is able to survive. London uses the dog in this story as to embody the natural survival instincts that the protagonist lacks. The dog portrays the role of the companion throughout the man’s journey. The man does not travel across the Yukon with a human

words to complete a good sound. He also uses nature as metaphors to represent life's journey. The Road Not Taken, After Apple Picking, and An Old Man's Winter Night displays his best work of using nature as a metaphoric figure of life's journey. The Road Not Taken, simulates the beginning of a journey. In After Apple Picking, Robert Frost simulates looking back on how a journey went. In the last work, An Old Man's Winter Night, Robert Frost simulates the end of life. The Road Not Taken begins with

Patel COMP-111.B12 02/28/2017 The language of “the Road” By McCarthy is scant yet poetic and morally inspiring. The text is composed not of chapters but of discrete, punctuated paragraphs that mirror the movements of the father and son on their journey. McCarthy's writing style reflects sparseness in that he chooses to write in fragments and he keeps the father's and son's dialogue very choppy. Authors style of narrating this story is very scrappy and sparse, which describes the infertile and miserable

treat her with respect. Alaska’s unpredictable environment in particular is one of the most dangerous to compete with. With temperatures reaching as low as -80 °F, frostbite is very common amongst those who hike in Alaska. In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”, he uses description, characterization, and foreshadowing to prove Mother Nature is not a force to be reckoned with. Jack London uses description to illustrate a man’s foolish determination that ultimately leads to his death. The story begins

with his dog. The man's journey will ultimately end poorly for him, and the ignorance in his decisions will cost him his life. London conveys in his writing that facing severe conditions in nature, one must swallow their own pride and oblige to the warnings of nature in order to ensure their own survival. This man's arrogance and his disregard towards

sense of ones’ own importance or abilities (dictionary.com). In “To Build a Fire’ Jack London uses foreshadowing, repetition, and conflict to represent the extent the main character went to in order to satisfy his greed. The main character, referred to as “the man,” and his dog go on an expedition to a mining camp in the Alaskan Klondike in search of gold. He is told by an elder Alaskan native to never travel alone, but instead of listening to these wise words he decides he can make the journey on his