Seven of Nine Essays

“Cold and deadly as steel” were the words used to describe Kino at the climax of The Pearl by John Steinbeck (87). However, in the beginning of the story, Kino, the protagonist, is a regular man who is amazingly in touch with nature and his surroundings. John Steinbeck’s The Pearl is a fictional novella. The novella follows the family of a poor diver named Kino. The inciting action happens when Coyotito, the baby, is bitten in the shoulder by a scorpion (5). The family then needs medical attention

Reading Summary/Discussion Questions #6 During the week, we were to read chapters seven through nine of Patel’s Stuffed & Starved. These three chapters had quite a bit of information in them and were a lot to take in. However, these chapters have been some of my favorite chapters so far. I feel that I have learned more about different aspects to food I never would have thought about before. For example, chapter seven talked about soy and Brazil itself, which I had never learned about before. Chapter

I could never deny that I am a huge fan of Studio Ghibli movies. Their movies are simply magical—the elements that are put into the movies create a beautiful combination beyond comparison. From the surface, one could witness the stunning hand-drawn animation, the graceful voice acting—not to mention the impeccable soundtrack music that never fail to perfectly match the tone of the movies. But there’s another reason why my love for the movies runs really deep—the intrinsic values underlying those

“Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting” (Anne Lamott). Can you picture our world as a perfect society? For perfection to be achieved everything would have to change. Through the book, The Giver, Lois Lowry shows how a perfect society is not always ideal for everyone. The rules of the society portrayed include a discipline wand, chosen spouse, and release. While a dystopian society may seem perfect, the novel represents the limitations and expectations of an ideal community.

Paul Feig’s The Heat, starring Sandra Bullock as FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn and Melissa McCarthy as Detective Shannon Mullins, was released in 2013 as an action-comedy film. The movie incorporates humor filled with action as Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy team up to take down a drug lord in the streets of Boston. Within the first few minutes of the movie, the audience is captivated and wants to know what happens next. The audience follows the characters played by Sandra Bullock and Melissa

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl is about a lonely nine-year-old orphan who lives with his two greedy aunts. Their names were Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. What happened in the book is that an old man gave James a bag full of one thousand long slimy crocodile tongues that were boiled up in the skull of a dead witch for twenty days and nights with the eyeball of a lizard. When the tongues were released, they went in the ground and then into a peach tree. There was a peach that started growing

A Materialistic Day for Bananafish A Perfect Day for Bananafish, a short story by J.D Salinger, follows the juxtaposition between childhood and adulthood through the character Seymour Glass, who has an unfortunate fate when exposed to a world full of materialism, high standards, and judgement. The three-part story follows the vacation of a young couple, Seymour and Muriel Glass, in a resort in Florida. Seymour Glass, who subsequently fought in World War II, is slightly sensitive to certain instances

The began of the Feud An orangutan named Luna and a starfish named Clinton once met when going round a large hill. The orangutan had picked up a magic banana tree seed, and the starfish had a piece of toast. The orangutan seeing this, and wishing to have something that could feed him right then. Clinton, exchanged that piece of toast for this magic seed. The crab, without a doubt, traded his bread and took the magic seed and planted it. At once it grew up very tall, and became a banana

Unfortunately, I did not like this piece. It was very confusing and I had to read it numerous time, in order to get a full understanding. I am currently reading Franny and Zooey, and I realize that Salinger’s favorite transitional word is “incidentally”. Salinger also, uses this word a lot in A Perfect Day for Bananafish. I love the fact that it is a third person narrator, but it was not what I was expecting. While reading A Perfect Day for Bananafish, I became more interested in the characters than

Why The Reader Sympathizes with Seymour Glass After being released from the army without proper treatment, Seymour exhibits his trauma in a luxury resort set in the late 1950s. in A Perfect Day for Bannafish, by J.D. Salinger's, short story. Due to Seymour’s fight in WWII, he is left disoriented and without support in the real world and finds ways to comfort himself. Seymour Glass is a character that can be sympathized with because he is trying to reclaim what is lost through trauma but is unable

1932, it  was the Lindbergh flight. (Webb et al. 35.) After Earhart's Newfoundland flight to Ireland,  she wrote a book named "The Fun of It" in 1932. (Amelia Earhart. Web.)  In 1932, Amelia Earhart was elected as president of the Ninety Nines. The Ninety Nines was an organization of woman pilots. (Kansas. Web.)  In 1937, Earhart and Noonan had planned to set out to fly around the world. On July 2nd, 1937, Earhart and Noonan left New Guinea for an island near the Pacific Ocean. (Smarsh 58.) Their

JJ Moussa Ms. Brockway English 12 23 December 2022 Every human has their own struggles. Different events in one’s life can alter the way one perceives the world. This is evident in J.D. Salinger’s short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”, which follows Seymour Glass and his struggle to regain feelings that he once had. Through symbolism in J.D. Salinger's short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," the reader is shown how important innocence is and how people who have lost it would stop at nothing

Seymour’s Bananafish and an Impossible Pursuit of Innocence In Salinger’s short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” Second World War veteran Seymour struggles to navigate through his dissatisfaction towards the materialism of the modern world and his impossible desire to return to the pure and uncorrupted state of innocence. Seymour’s wife, Muriel and mother-in-law both typify the vapidity that he so despises, all the while revealing through their conversation the external circumstances that have

The short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J.D Salinger is about Seymour Glass, who has come back from World War II, and tries to associate with people in society. Still, he finds that interacting with a young child is easier as she is the only person that go along well due to mental illness from the war. So, Seymour makes a conversation with Sybil, an innocent young girl that knows nothing about the war. In the passage, J.D Salinger uses a symbolism of bananafish to indicate how Seymour expresses

The banana represents Jordan’s deep appreciation for her time adventuring and escaping from the world with Dog Women. While they were on their search to find the banana, this new idea of adventure and freedom is introduced to Jordan. The banana marked the first time Jordan ever set sail, and more importantly, she shared this memory with Dog Women. The relationship ship between Dog Women and Jordan is bound together by their passions for adventuring. After Dog Women and Jordan saw the banana, Jordan

Diganta,1 Dipta Sarothi Diganta ENG3U Teacher: Miss Amellia January 18, 2023 War’s Trauma in “A Perfect Day For Bananafish” and “The Sniper” The trauma of war is a prevalent theme in literature, and J.D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and Liam O'Flaherty's "The Sniper" are two stories that effectively depict this theme through their use of symbolism and characterization. By using symbolism to illustrate the destructive nature of war and characterization to convey

Summit out of Sight, written by Jordan Romero and Linda Le Blanc, describes the experiences Jordan Romero had while on his journey to climb the Seven Summits. Realizing his dream at age nine, Jordan decided to climb the highest peak on each continent, and with the support of his family, set a world record as the youngest person (age fifteen) to climb the Seven Summits, even climbing both Mount Kosciuszko and the Carstensz Pyramid, which are topics of debate as to which mountain should be the official

Japanese legendary eighteenth (18th) century tale about the forty-seven (47) samurai warriors during the era of Tokugawa and the ruling of the shogun, who strived to stay alive in order to seek revenge for the death of their leader. In brief the movie 47 Ronin, displays its adequate share of fantasies, mystical/mythical and magical characters that shifts from its’ historic concept. The movie “47 Ronin” runs for one hundred and fifty-nine (159) minutes directed by Carl Rinsch, tells the story from an

to all. Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was the first of many schools to integrate races after the verdict of Brown V. Board of Education. In 1957, along with learning English and Math, nine students were learning how to protect themselves in the halls from cruel harassment. These nine students desegregated the school and received horrible treatment from both staff and students, but the sacrifice of their teenage years did not go to waste. In turn, the integration of Central High School

David Fincher does not shy away from depicting grotesque and horrifying scenes to present a message; furthermore, Fincher’s portrayal of “planned” violence, use of lighting, and choice of music, and close attention to sound evokes a sense of fear and disgust towards each of the individually portrayed “sins”. In Se7en, Fincher conceptualizes John Doe, a sadistic and self-glorified serial killer; moreover, he presents Doe as a deeply evil character that truly believes that he is “opening the world’s