Cryptonomicon: A Comparative Analysis Of Bobby Shaftoe And Lawrence Waterhouse

He clearly depicts how the government easily manipulates its citizens and how gullible they are. The quote “The people sleepwalking in their hallways… The doorknobs turned on five thousand doors… The doors opened,” on page 132 of the novel is a perfect example of how the government easily controls people. They say something and without hesitation the citizens do it.

The Salem witch trials was one of the most absurd and tragic events in history of pre-colonial America. A fine example of how believing in accusations and hearsay could affect a lot of people in a short span of time. the justice system is flawed and prejudice was allowed to reign over the people. I found this topic very interesting even though it is one of the most regretted in history. I’ve always been the type of person who likes reading all those weird and peculiar things on the internet.

Henry Wadworth Longfellow, and American poet from the 1800s, said, “Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.” This concept I explained by, Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers. He devotes chapters three and four to discussing “The Trouble with Geniuses.” The theory he outlines in this section of the book discusses how much of a factor high intelligent quotient is in determining success, versus how important upbringing is. He examines geniuses, who are commonly considered “the true outliers,” and their successes.

Foreshadowing in this book is very common and could even be considered one of Ursula LeGuin’s main techniques when employing her writing style. An example of her foreshadowing is when the speaker is forewarning something that happens in the future of Ged’s life. “But the truth of this guess he did not learn until, years later, the quest of the Ring of Erreth-Akbe… and to the Tombs of Atuan”(168). What’s happening is Ged had a quick encounter with a couple of people, but doesn’t get to learn much about them until future books, namely, the one called The Tombs of Atuan. This example of foreshadowing is very obvious because the speaker blatantly tells us something will happen in the future, we just don’t know what that is.

As for Breakfast of Champions, The New York Times describes it as Vonnegut preforming magic, “…he wheels out all the latest fashionable complaints about America--her racism, her gift for destroying language, her technological greed and selfishness--and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful, and lovable, all at the same time” (The New York Times, “Breakfast of Champions, Or Goodbye Blue Monday”). The plot is based on a science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout, who has “doodley-squat”, and a Pontiac dealer, Dwayne Hoover, who is “fabulously well-to-do”. We know that, in the future, the American Academy of Arts and Science will recognize Trout as a prodigious man for his writing. However, in the time period that the book is set in,

Basically, it was like that one giant puzzle that is only missing one piece before it can be completed and you have no idea where that piece is. It is certainly a very unique book. Also, I loved how each story

Whereas a vast majority of humanity - fiction and nonfiction alike - strive for recognition and outstanding identities, Archie is content to go wherever the coin may flip him. Archie manages the feat of almost anonymous mediocrity with the ease of a man who has spent his entire adult life carefully navigating borders between skill and ineptitude, achievement and failure, and intelligence and stupidity. He does not choose his path of ordinariness through careful thought and consideration, though. Archie primarily allows chance to govern his choices, and chance is manifested through a ten-pence coin that he flips and whose guidance he follows with an almost religious conviction. But Archie retains a small sense of autonomy due to the fact that he occasionally makes decisions without consulting chance.

His receding hairline suggested he was around mid 40’s-50’s. His breath reeked of his onions and taco’s which by the way was still extremely visible on his front teeth. His words were delayed and very specific, as if he really put thought into his words like he was talking to a detective trying to bust his balls, especially once I told him I was studying psychology. I honestly don 't know why people jump to this assumptions. As though their lives are so intriguing, I have to be the one to analyse them to in order to dig up secrets from their past.

In many ways, the novel explores various Indian elements. Ram Mohammad Thomas, the name itself is enough to raise many eyebrows in the hard-hearted traditionalist India. A country where religion is given utmost importance, the name has been handled very crucially. The Novel depicts the rise and fall of a person but it is beyond an ordinary lay-man’s imagination. This shows how a young man living in a slum becomes a billionaire just by winning a TV quiz show.

My messed up methodical mind miraculously manages to write wonderfully, pairing nouns and adjectives that surely are soulmates, stringing sentence after sentence after sentence together symphonically. If writing is like a dirty dog, then I got bit by it. If writing is like a dangerous dodgeball, then I got hit by it.

Tim O 'Brien has written numerous amounts of great well critiqued stories that make your mind think, ‘The Things They Carried," was another one of these stories. At first seemed to be just another war story. As I started reading I thought, “hmmm, maybe this won’t be too confusing”, boy was I mistaking. I started this story and was having troubles wrapping my mind around what was going on with all the jumping around, however after I got into the story further I started actually finding some interest in what was going on.

While in The Children of Men, Theodore and his group of revolutionaries have to find a way to save Julian’s baby to have a chance to repopulate the world from male infertility. The both relate to saving society. Another connection I made is through the characters in the texts. Alan Turing in The Imitation Game’s is a lonely arrogant mathematician who has said a quote that best shows his intelligence and personality, “Sometimes it’s the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine“. For Theodore Faron, he is also a loner who appears cocky with reasoning and unemotional to other’s feelings.

This novel was an attempted read and I wish I could 've finished it, but I got distracted with the absence of a plot near the middle of the novel.

Daisy Pham Language Arts Honor February 2nd, 2017 1st hour Anthem The book Anthem was written by Ayn Rand is a Science Fiction Book. This Science Fiction book would be unknown since the Author didn’t exactly give the time in the book. In the book Anthem there wasn’t any clues or hints that it took place in 1900’s or the 2000’s. Ayn Rand is a Russian-American novelist and she is known for writing books.

Barbara Kingsolver does a wonderful job with incorporating literary devices into her novel. These literary devices help the reader to experience the words written on the page and it allows the reader to think that they are actually living the story. One major literary device that Kingsolver uses throughout the book to show her ideas to the reader is imagery. “Her dark hair is tied in a ragged lace handkerchief, and her curved jawbone is lit with large, false-pearl earrings, as if these headlamps from another world might show the way.” (pg 5) When I hear these words, I am able to paint a picture inside of my head of Orleana Price.