My Big Question

Big Question

 The English language is so limited in a sense that words sometimes can't just simply describe things such as thoughts. If and only if someone was living in David Foster Wallace's world, else the following texts; Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, and  Montaigne's essays would be some sort of anomaly. Through the use of rhetorical strategies, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Montaigne are able to portray the innermost thoughts of themselves and their characters.      

USC or UA

            For years now people have been furthering their education by going to college right after high school. Nowadays there are hundreds of colleges each having something very unique and/or specializing in a certain department such as engineering, or agriculture. Take the University of Auburn and/or the University of Southern California for instance.  Both having many similarities and differences. Some how Auburn always comes at first as a choice.

Catch-22 Essay

While reading Catch-22 I found my self having feelings of compassion towards Yossarian, a bombardier who claims he is insane to get out of the bombing runs, but because he's insane the military thinks he is perfect for the job, because only crazy people would do bombing runs. It is though through symbols and a satirical tone that Joseph Heller incorporates in Catch-22 that creates a sense of compassion among the reader.   

            With the help of imagery feelings of compassion conflagrate throughout the audience/reader. A great example of a symbol that Heller uses is the soldier in white, a man wrapped in bandages who has fluids that recycle through him nonstop. The soldier in white symbolizes how ridiculous wars is and also shows the allows the readers to get a little inside Heller's mind and how he views war. Another example of symbol in Catch-22 is the death of Snowden briefly mentioned through out the book, it isn't until the explanation of his death that the climax is reached in Catch-22.

Canterbury Tales Essay

            The Father of English Poetry Strayed away from the epics of his time such as Beowulf, The Iliad, and Bede's A History of the English Church and People. Geoffrey Chaucer introduces a new technique in The Canterbury Tales. He does this through the use of purpose and tone.

            In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses a first person point of view to narrate the poem. This in fact causes the reader to question whether to accept his opinions or not.  This is due to Chaucer's tone. He satirizes the stereotype of each character making the narrator immensely naive, as he stated himself that he was naive. Although the narrator may be unreliable, the use of a first person point of view allows the reader

Comparison essay

J.D. Salinger and Sent by Ravens

            Holden Caulfield is a boy who struggles with the harsh changes of the world. Causing him to constantly point out the flaws in everybody, but himself. He will often refer to his past, when he was happy and compare them to current events that he is going through. In other words Holden isn't able to let go of the changes in his life. The song, "The Best in Me," by Sent by Ravens shares the same central theme, the painful changes of growing up.

            Holden Caulfield is desperate to be in a world with out change as he simply states  "Certain things

Is Ignorance Bliss?

Prompt #4

            In the Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan states that she wishes her daughter to be a "beautiful fool." This is because Daisy believes that "ignorance is bliss", but some will easily impugn with the counter phrase "knowledge is power." As a child growing up ignorance was a blessing. And having come to age that I am, I have begun to realize that knowledge is constantly poisoning us. Poisoning us with anguish and contempt thoughts.