Northern Lights Essays

A Northern Light Everyone has dealt with hope. They’ve either had it, or they didn’t. Whether they had hoped to get a job they wanted, hoped to get into a good college, or as simple as hoping to get good grades. Hope is something that is available for everyone, it's just a matter if they believe in it. Hope is sometimes a last resort for people. They have already lost so much that the only thing they can do is hope. They hope for a better future, and for everything to get better. Mattie Gokey’s

I just finished the novel “ The Northern Light” by Jennifer Donnelly. The sad story of 16 years old Mattie Gokey working very hard with her father on a farm moved my heart badly. Her mother died because of poverty and cancer, her brother left home afterwards and she had to take care of her three younger sisters while also struggling with money just to make her mom’s wish. She cleaned the house of her Aunt and worked as a waitress too in Glenmore Hotel to save money. It reminded me of my past when

I have found the idea that our lives can be written for us, for others to watch, living multiple lives through each book. I can be a writer who works valiantly but can’t find a way to reach it, like Mattie Gokey in Jennifer Donnelly's novel, A Northern Light. I can be a patient in a mental hospital connecting with realistically fictional characters like Craig Gilner in Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind Of A Funny Story. But wasn’t

borealis, also more popularly known as the Northern Lights. Described by many as beautiful bright lights dancing in the sky, the Northern Lights has been listed as one of the seven wonders of the world. In ancient times, the Northern Lights were an unexplainable phenomenon, leading to the creation of myths, legends, and folklore revolving around this phenomenon. But what is the real cause of the Northern Lights, and does it have any significant meaning? Northern Lights in Canada Retrieved from The Huffington

The church in the Northern Light book hates the acts of pleasure more than anything else. The priests, monks, nuns and other religious leaders live simple lives and hate those people leading flashy lifestyles. Lyra and Will engage in pleasuring activities to make themselves happy

definition, they are the willingness or ability to persevere through difficulties or the unknown. More important than one's actions, however, is their intention and the changes a character undertakes to act courageously. In Phillip Pullman’s Northern Lights, the protagonist, Lyra Belaqua, is constantly faced with difficult decisions. She faces each challenge with strengths reflective of a courageous character and for noble or selfless reasons. The main characters of Craig Silvey’s Jasper Jones all

A person may believe they are free, while others recognize they are not. In the novel Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson, the main character Lyddie Worthen is not free because of the long work hours. Lyddie is a 13-year-old girl who needs to pay her father's debt. She works at the mill where it is dangerous because the air is polluted and the machine can hear the workers. They work six days a week 12 hours each day, and get one day off that they have to go to church. So, this is why Lyddie is not free

The "grand building" (Pullman, 1997 : 78) which provides the titular quote is the Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford. The visit to the museum occurs in the second novel of Pullman's trilogy, The Subtle Knife (1997), which sees Lyra leave her world to enter the parallel world of Will; a universe that is distinctly recognisable to that of the readers own. Whilst in this world, Lyra visits the Pitt-Rivers Museum and finds there: "an old glass case with a black-painted wooden frame [within which] there were

“Betrayal is the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals. Both “The Golden Compass” and “Diamond as Big as the Ritz” deal with the theme of betrayal in contrasting ways. On one hand Lyra tries the whole book to save Roger and in the end is his downfall, but Percy betrays John from the start and ends up dead instead. In the the novel “The Golden Compass” by Philip Pullman and the

to a Canadian College named Northern Lights College located in the Province British Columbia. This College is serving a vast community of Northern British Columbia with its seven campuses. Northern Lights College is having a large variety of courses to offer to domestic as well as International Students. Because of a Public Post-Secondary institution, the College is catering to a large number of International students from different parts of the world. In fact, Northern College is one of the most

The Hero of Paradise Lost Who is the hero ? The reader of Paradise Lost always wondering about this issue . The author , John Milton did not represent the hero directly . For this reason , it appeared that Paradise Lost does not have a specific hero . There is more than one important character who may be the hero of this epic poem such as Satan , Adam and Eve . Satan is a Head of the rebellious angels who have fallen from Heaven . Adam is the first human , the father of our race , he

development of Milton’s Paradise Lost as he is the driving force of action that is happening. He is the character who commits to go on an epic journey and, knowing that it will be difficult states, “Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light” (Milton 432-433). He commits himself to the long journey that it will take to travel back to Heaven and hopefully gain revenge against God, who outcast him down to the depths of Hell. Many critics downplay the simple fact that Satan decided to set

Believe it or not, Lyra has a very important relationship with the Gyptians and the Golden Compass. That relationship is similar and different with the Jordan College students and the Gyptians like John Faa. It depends on the situation when both groups are similar and different in terms of Lyra’s relationship. Lyra spends a different amount of time with both groups for a few reasons. The Jordan college people, especially the scholars, doesn’t spend adequate time with Lyra unlike the Gyptians do

Purple Hibiscus depicts an exploration of the connections between differing forms of violence in Nigeria after colonialism. Violence of the military government and the church towards Nigeria is juxtaposed with the violence experienced by the Achike family at the hands of Papa Eugene. This juxtaposition causes the reader to draw a parallel between the private world of the family with that of the public world of the church and state, emphasising the violence which in turn impacts the reader drastically

One of the largest themes in The Golden Compass is the constant battle between fate and freewill. This creates a paradox through the book because Lyra is destined to play a huge role in the fate of humankind, yet she has to find her own path to get there. A quotation from chapter 2 says, “Lyra has a part to play in all this, and a major one. The irony is that she must do it all without realizing what she's doing.” This quotation shows the interaction between freewill and the overarching fate that

Novelist, Sigurd Olson, in his narrative essay, “Northern Lights” depicts the time he had been ice skating at night in Minnesota while watching the Aurora lights occur right before his very eyes. Olson’s desire is to convey the idea that, the lights of the aurora are meant to be enjoyed by the masses but are also something more and merit more than just an in depth scientific analysis. He adopts a sincere tone in order to appeal to a casual reader on an emotional level. The implication of simple

Have you ever lived with someone your whole life, but suddenly go live with entirely new people? Lyra from the Golden compass went through the exact situation. The gyptians the people Lyra is staying with now, treat her very different than when she lived in Jordan college.Throughout the book the gyptians have treated Lyra like family, by feeding her, giving her a place to sleep, and caring for her. The gyptians also are very authentic and genuine with Lyra. Also, the gyptians consider her feelings

The daemon at The Golden Compass is the animal that lives with a person from when he or she born to the death. Also, the daemon has to be close together with his or her master, a person who will spend their whole life with his or her daemon, all the time. Every people have the daemons; however, bears, and witches have different kind of daemons or do not have it. For the witches, they can make their daemons far away from them. Also, for the Bears they do not have the daemons.  The special settings

natural phenomenon visible even in Australia, the Aurora Borealis or Australis. So what is an Aurora? It is a light display visible in the northern and southern parts of the world. These lights appear in many forms, from patches or scattered clouds of light, to streamers, arcs, rippling curtains or shooting rays that light up the sky with an eerie glow. For thousands of years people in the northern part of the world have both marvelled and feared these displays in the sky. The Indians and Eskimos of North

Light of the Valkyries is a production of both sight and sound, exploring the phenomena of the Northern Lights, presented in the Griffith Park Observatory, Samuel Oschin Planetarium. The show reveals folklore, legend, as well as scientific explanation for the beautiful light display that can seen above the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres of our planet. The Northern lights, also known as the Aurora borealis in the north and Aurora australis in the south, are a very colorful