appearances. However, while they may appear as direct reflections of their parents, many children are the antithesis of their guardians, and have conflicting opinions and aspirations. This can create tension between parents and their children, especially during adolescence, when teenagers are trying to develop a sense of identity, and the risk of disagreement between adults and children is highest. In the Bildungsroman novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and the coming-of-age memoir Rocket
dystopian setting features two different races, the Noughts and the Crosses (who are referred to epitheticaly as blankers and daggers respectively). The Crosses can be characterised by their dark skin colour, whereas the Noughts by being pale. This is a reflection of the familiar distinction between Black and White people a good example being that the period of the Civil Rights Movement. However, in this civilization it is the Crosses who are of a higher social class and who maintain monopoly over the government
The description of the shield of Achilles is an integral part in The Iliad, and becomes even more so when one notices that both the shield and The Iliad itself are representations of all of human life. Each major scene on the surface of the shield is reflected in the content of The Iliad. A step-by-step look at each image on the shield will be helpful here, followed by a description of the parallel scenes in the text of The Iliad. It can be seen that the essential qualities of humanity are all
LIFE IS BLESS AND LOVE IS BLISS Of the many that has come and gone, of the many that exists and survives, humans are the ones that are complex. They are simple yet vividly complex. Each one is a mystery within. Yet everyone has commonness within; the commonness that keeps humans surviving and that commonness is called ‘Love’. We, as humans forge to act and tend to forget, that existence is merely to love and continue survival. We forget our purpose; instead, we pursue and seek a purpose