Comparing Poems 'Thanatopsis And The Ambitious Guest'

He suffered pain that memory. One day, tornado suddenly strike area where he was surviving. He found broken the plane's tail in the lake because of the

He didn’t know how to speak or understand language and he had to get used to the feel of his own body and to figure out basic concepts like light and dark, heat and cold, and hunger and thirst. He wandered out into the forest where he could hide and look for berries and nuts. The first human he sees is an old man in a hut who runs away in terror because the monster is so hideous. He’s fascinated by the first village he walks into, but the residents are terrified and they drive him off by throwing things at him. He finally found shelter in this little shed built up against the side of a cottage.

At this point, the man is very concerned about accidently falling into one of these pools. "And to get his feet wet in such a temperature meant trouble and danger." (113) Getting wet would only delay him, "at the very least it meant delay, for he would be forced to stop and build a fire...." (113) Every time he thought he came across a frozen pool, he would force the dog to go first to see if it is safe or not. At this point and time, he begins to get more and more nervous about the

Another example of this appears when he writes, “Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance” (553). He again leaves out the masses. Alexie argues that his parents “never got the chance to be anything because nobody paid attention to their dreams” (551). The argument that being poor makes you a nobody is not well developed because Alexie’s only source is his own family. Other people in the reservation are not in the same situation, and can have the potential and mindset to come out of their

He made a lot of mistakes based on arrogance. I don’t admire him at all for his courage nor his noble ideas. Really, I think he was just plain crazy,” shows that Shaun believes Chris had no common sense in his doing for leaving society for the wild. I agree with Callarman’s position of thinking “ he had no common sense” and that he was “bright and Ignorant” because Chris thinks he did not have much to offer in his society, ditched all his possessions to take a trip into the Alaskan Wilderness and did not have much common sense or survival skills. Chris McCandless was very courageous for ditching all his possessions to take a trip in the wilderness.

The home is another theme which took place in the poem. The home is away from the battlefield but just because it's far away, doesn't mean it's not affected by war. The homes of the maiden, the babe, and the mother are broken into pieces. There is somebody missing in all of them which is a lover, a father, and a son. War doesn't just take lives nut it destroys homes and families as well.

To begin with, before dying the creature shares how depressed he was his entire life with no one to talk to and . don't want to understand him about how he feels. “ I shall die. I show no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feeling unsatisfied yet unquenched” (Shelley 166). It is clear, from the creature's point of view, that because of his appearance he was not accepted by others.

Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road, follows a boy, and a man struggling to survive in a dystopian world. After the apocalypse, many people panicked and did what they thought was the best thing to do for them to survive. This ultimately lead to a world filled with suicides, murders, crimes and even cannibalism. When this event took place, it ended up wiping out almost everything; there was no plants, no animals, and barley any food left for the remaining people left on the plant.

Do people appreciate nature as they should? The earth has many different things to give us and we should appreciate it because we might need it in the real world. The earth has many different things we should appreciate like light and night. There are two texts that the readers can look off on that appreciate different things. One text is " Ode to enchanted light" and the other text is " Sleeping in the forest".

He is “motionless” when he interacts with the other father as he is unable to physically stand up for both himself and his family. While he doesn’t technically “abandon” or “deserted” his family, Morton has figuratively abandoned and deserted his role as leader and protector of his family as seen by is inability to handle the

After being subjected to the many risky features, climbers continue to ascend Everest. Many question why clients would ever want to climb with such risks, but they say the need is too strong. They ignore their logical thoughts about turning back, and are adamant about reaching the top. Clients shouldn’t continue climbing Everest if there is a risk of death.

Facing each other when they only run into each other in the town. It was very hard for Collan to except his parents ignoring him after the death of Fergus. Things will never be the

“I’m a chump. So what?” says Doug Swieteck (pg. 123 Okay for Now, Gary D. Schmidt). Doug has no real friends, a criminal brother, a father who does not care, and receives the shocking news his family is moving to a little place no one has ever heard: Marysville, New York.

I think that the people responsible for the blueman’s death are his parents. The fact that the blueman’s parents were never there for him made a huge impact on his life and ultimately his death. Because never had his parents in his life to teach him responsibility, he irresponsibly drove on a rainy day and trusted a stranger to give him the right medicine, and kept taking more when he saw the side effects as said on page 24 paragraph 2. His father also pulled him out of school and that also prevented any chance of the blue man learning academically. Therefore, the jobs available were decreased and he was forced to join the freak show.

His father does not support Henry in anyway, and definitely does not approve of Keiko. He hates the fact that his son would even think about