The book I am currently reading is titled “Ship Breaker”, by Paolo Bacigalupi. The novel is about a group of poor people who live in shacks and trying to survive until tomorrow. These people collect scraps off abandoned ships for their bosses. The main character is a teenage boy named Nailer who finds it hard to live like this. Nailer and his crew work really hard and sweat like dogs, and realized that they don’t have to work like they do, as they soon discover a “Lucky Strike”. After reading half
THE NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS,AN AMERICAN SLAVE INTRODUCTION: Frederick Douglass is one of the most celebrated writers in the African American literary tradition, and his first autobiography is the one of the most widely read North American slave narratives. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave was published in 1845, less than seven years after Douglass escaped from slavery. The book was an instant success, selling 4,500 copies in the first four months
Through its almost three millennia of existence, Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey , has been a source of insight into the principles of Ancient Greek civilization and culture. The poem’s themes reveal different traditional values that make up the foundation of Ancient Greek society. One of the motifs which The Odyssey examines is the nature of thumos , or heroic courage. In this essay, I will argue that the Iliadic goal of glory through thumos is slowly overcome by a newfound Odysseadic objective to
The first character we meet is Ralph. Ralph is described as the boy with “fair hair.” He comes in the story as wet, out of the water. The second character we meet is Piggy. His actual name is not Piggy. It is just a nickname. He is described as an overweight boy who is somewhat innocent and seems to talk about his auntie a lot. Some of the other kids called him fatty. “I don’t care what they call me, he said confidentially, so long as they don’t call me what they used to call me at school.”(11) This
The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of British boys who are stranded on an island “at the dawn of the next world war”. Throughout the book, two of the main characters named Ralph and Jack fight for power and control over the other boys on the island. The two boys have varying opinions on how to lead a group, Jack’s opinion being more violent than the other. Gradually, while the fight for power continues, the boys seem to forget their past lives and their sense of humanity
After overcoming great challenges, including escaping the cyclopes, resisting the sweet calls of the sirens, surviving an encounter with the monsters Scylla and Charybdis, and Journeying through Hell, Odysseus finally returns to his family. Odysseus’s epic journey home creates the main storyline in Homer’s epic, yet there is an underlying story of his son, Telemachos, accomplishing the journey into manhood. Telemachos is introduces as merely a boy, yet throughout the epic he is forced to overcome
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Dengue is an arbovirus disease complex which includes dengue fever (DF) and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) and its subsequent dengue shock syndrome (DSS). It is caused by four serotypes of dengue virus. A dengue virus infection may be asymptomatic or it may lead to undifferentiated viral fever syndrome, dengue fever, fever hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome. (World Health Organization 2003) The disease is often, though not exclusively