The Great Blue Yonder Alex Shearer I. INTRODUCTION The Great Blue Yonder is written by Alex Shearer, a British novelist. The publication of the book is specifically done on Houghton Mufflin Harcourt, 2002. It was written in a narrative story of Harry, a young boy who was killed by truck and emerged himself into a land called The Great Blue Yonder. Alex demonstrates on what it is looks to be dead and what it is looks like on the “other side”. It is shown to this story how Harry surpassed the life of being dead and find what’s beyond to The Great Blue Yonder. II. SUMMARY An eleven-year old Harry found himself in a strange land where the sun is always setting but it never disappears. A place which have a tree, paths, long land, corner and faraway fields that seems like a paradise but they called it The Great Blue Yonder. Harry wandered what he’s doing there and what kind of place was this and suddenly a memory flash to his mind. He remembered that he was hit by a truck with his bike. He just can’t believe that he’s really dead, a soul without a body. To be exact, this place was for dead people, like him. He met a man in the desk who always grumpy all the time, Ug the caveman who only know to say was “Ug” and nothing else, Stan who remains in the earth waiting to …show more content…
Its proceeds all our curiosity in what is it like to be look dead that subconsciously we think all the times. Harry as the main character in this story, who was suddenly died and was not able to do things he wanted to in his life. And most of all, he did not have an opportunity to say goodbye to them and ask forgiveness to his sister after he died. Like in real life, it is true that regrets is always in the end and we cannot turn back the time to change our mistake. We can never tell what our feelings and emotions when we suddenly died at the
A Voyage Long and Strange Response In A Voyage Long and Strange, Horwitz attempts to rewrite history in a more captivating and personable way, steering away from the dryness of a textbook to better preserve and commemorate the founding of America. Horwitz, with little planning ahead of time, embarks on a journey to learn more about how America came to be what it is today. He indulges in the rich cultures of each place he visits, gaining more perspective on their ways of living and how that was impacted by the discovery of America. His overall goal was to rewrite history in a way that incorporates and finds a balance between both fact and myth.
This week we read and discussed The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. This book is an in depth novel about a human being experiencing grief. So far, we have read books about institutions and cultures of death. However, this is the first book we have read that is a personal experience. The discussion in class about this book was a different feeling than the rest of the books we have discussed.
The Great Land Rush and the making of the Modern world, 1690-1900, written by John C. Weaver, discusses the distribution of land, its changing process, and the introduction of property rights in a market economy throughout various parts of the world – North America, South Africa New Zealand, and Australia among others. This essay will discuss the definition of property right, how it was implemented by the settlers onto new territories and the development there after. Through the analysis of Weavers dissertations, the essay will also draw similarities and difference of the way various colonial government treated indigenous people and other settlers; along with how settlers treated aboriginals and one another. The book takes into consideration how the Neo-Europeans gained and distributed land that they discovered.5 The process of how a land comes into ownership and the legislation around it is called property rights.5 Property rights where developed after it was realized that Neo-Europeans where excessively violent with natives over their land.5 Europeans would discover new lands and would use their native beliefs, and legislation as a tactic to gain control of the niche.5 this would harm the native people of that land as these practices of land taking where violent between settlers and natives.5 The settlers used property rights within their own people but had aggressive beliefs with the natives that resulted in gruesome wars between the two parties for the land.
Magical thinking is the anthropological idea that if one performs the right actions, or hopes enough for something, their desired outcome will happen. The concept of “magical thinking” is one of the central ideas discussed in Joan Didion’s memoir The Year of Magical Thinking. This memoir explores the grief experienced by the author after losing her husband of nearly forty years. In no way does Didion try to approach death poetically, but rather honestly and practically. She bravely discusses the universal, yet rarely talked about, aspects of death, such as self pity, regret, isolation, secretly going crazy, and the phenomenon she describes as “magical thinking.”
“The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.” - A poem by Donika Kelly With a purpose and message being the goal for their work, poets are often found using many specific qualities in their writing. By making use of these devices the poem is a piece of composition that connects with its writer. Strategies like the ones used in this poem have been utilized since the beginning of writing.
When I was nine years old (2010), death touched my family through my older sister, Margot Kate Jackson Fowler, known by many as Katie Fowler. This affected me in tremendous ways which will stay with me for life. Whenever I see or hear of death regarding family members, I draw instant connections to the death of my sister. When guddu and Saroo were separated that night, not knowing that it would be their last moment together; they didn’t say goodbye. I can relate to this on a personal level as I never got to say goodbye to my sister.
The suspense of the story shows the uncertainty of death throughout
“Death is a distant rumor to the young” (Rooney). The idea of death is often an afterthought to individuals. One does not simply wake up every day of their life and contemplate their own passing or that of another. “The Road Out of Eden”, a short story written by Randall Grace, is about a group of children that face torment from a bully. The children make a rational decision to end their suffering by murdering the bully, their first encounter with death.
However, once the murder of the family occurs, everything changes. The author says, “Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won’t. Or will- depending. As long as you live there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it’s bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living.”
Miranda writes how her friend is too willing to die. She is greeting death too kindly in her mind. By the end, Miranda’s family is desperate for food and water. The family is slowly falling apart. When Miranda walks to the post office in the cold only to see that is is closed, she thinks about giving up.
Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng’en, a novelist in Ming Dynasty, originated from Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, folk legends and Yuan Zaju operas. As the first full-length romantic god-evil novel in ancient China, this novel portrays the social reality at that time in depth, and is the beginning of magic realism. In the original version of Wu Cheng’en, the main characters are Sun Wukong, Tang Seng, the pig and the sand monk. This novel tells a story that Tang Priest and his three disciples travel westward for Buddhist Scriptures. After eighty adventurous experiences, Tang Sanzang finally reach the west and got the real scripture.
It sets up a reader for thier future and what is to come: grief. The story shows how our relationships to others vary from person to person. People are caring and selfish, sympathetic and indifferent, hopeful and completely discouraged. Like any story, the readers gain their own lessons, but still explore the universal themes of loneliness, companionship, love, loss, and death. It shows us that grief can overtake us, as well as looking for an unapproachable
In the beginning of the story, a description of the setting is presented: “The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between
The way Harry faced death in the final book of the series, is very similar to the way Jesus died. After a long battle, Harry goes willingly to his death, his only wish is to stop Voldemort once and for all and, by his sacrifice, save everyone else. However, after he dies, he finds himself being in a sort of heaven, facing the deceased Albus Dumbledore, who told him that Harry could choose between staying or going back and defeating Voldemort once and for all. While he was in this limbo, everyone else believed him dead: his enemies celebrated their triumph, his friends and followers mourned Harry’s death. In the end, Harry chose to be “resurrected” and killed Voldemort, therefore saving the wizarding world.
The attitudes to grief over the loss of a loved one are presented in two thoroughly different ways in the two poems of ‘Funeral Blues’ and ‘Remember’. Some differences include the tone towards death as ‘Funeral Blues’ was written with a more mocking, sarcastic tone towards death and grieving the loss of a loved one, (even though it was later interpreted as a genuine expression of grief after the movie “Four Weddings and a Funeral” in 1994), whereas ‘Remember’ has a more sincere and heartfelt tone towards death. In addition, ‘Funeral Blues’ is entirely negative towards death not only forbidding themselves from moving on but also forbidding the world from moving on after the tragic passing of the loved one, whilst ‘Remember’ gives the griever