The Importance Of Eighth Day

Autumn has been a dance for her entire life, and planned to apply for Juilliard. Tyler always loved to watch her dance until Autumn started hanging out with Sylv. They started dancing together, and Tyler no longer loved to watch Autumn. Her love for dance is a symbol in this book, because when Tyler is almost ready to take his life he decided to take her happiness. Tyler knew she took his happiness, so he took her’s and shot her in the knee. That prevented her to ever dance again. Another object was the gun. For him it was like a microphone in the auditorium, when he was holding it all eyes were on him. He had all control. Lastly, I think the chalk on the front cover were used for symbolism. It shows a bullet going through them, and that could show the teachers in the auditorium trying to help, but only getting shot. They tried their hardest but only ended up not getting anywhere with Tyler. The objects used for symbolism in this book were pretty hard to find, but if you comprehended the book well you could probably find

Survivors guilt.... An emotion brought on by a traumatic experience. Thing like watching a fellow soldier or close friend die. In the story, “ The Seventh man” The narrator Goes through watching the death of his best friend K. This experience bring on survivor's guilt talked about in the story “The Moral logic of survivor's guilt.” Even though the narrator of the story had watched K die, he should have been able to forgive himself. Although there is a cost to surviving, no matter what he told himself it was not his fault that K had died so tragically.

The film is set in the year 1959 in a Vermont boarding school named Welton Academy. This academy is a very strict all boys school that demands the most out of every student so that they are completely ready for university. The term that this takes place in welcomes a new English teacher, Mr. John Keating who attended Welton himself, and follows the transfer student Todd Anderson whose brother was one of Welton’s finest students. Todd’s roommate is Neil Perry, who comes from a middle-class family that made multiple sacrifices to put him into Welton. Neil’s father is extremely strict with his son and dictates his schooling and extracurricular activities. Friends of Neil, and later Todd, include Charlie Dalton the rambunctious one, Knox Overstreet the romantic, the very smart ones Steven Meeks and Richard Cameron, and Gerald Pitts. The movie follows the seven friends through the school term starting with how strict and very stressful the courses and teachers are then showing the drastic difference of Mr. Keating. The movie remains on the lives of the boys, mainly focusing on Keating’s class and how he wishes for his students to become free thinkers which leads to many different issues with the friends.

The two rivers mentioned in ASP are symbolic of the experiences of the students at Devon. The Naguamsett is described as dirty, murky and forbidding, much like the war raging on in the world outside Devon. The strong currents and unpredictability of the river mirrors the war and its chaos. The Devon, on the other hand, is a river that the students are fond of. Fresh water, it is clear and uncomplicated, and is the scene of the golden summer days the boys spent in and around it. The fact that the Devon emptied into the Naguamsett is symbolic of the inevitable transition from the simplicity of childhood innocence to the complications and confusion of maturity. The cave in “DPS” represents freedom. Freedom from convention, freedom from the constrained ideology of the school, and the freedom to express themselves. In the cave the boys read prohibited poetry, drink, smoke cigarettes and discuss women, all things they cannot do within the rigid confines of Welton Academy behavior. As in the lore of old, this cave does indeed contain a treasure, the Dead Poets’ Society’s unrepressed intellectual exchange, combining both their coarser thoughts and their most elevated ambitions. The cave is not so much a barrier against the outside world, rather a cocoon for the ideas of the world within, where they are free and

The text is very descriptive and loaded with symbols. The author takes the opportunity to relate elements of setting with symbols with meanings beyond the first reading’s impressions. The house that the characters rent for the summer as well as the surrounding scenery are introduced right from the beginning. It is an isolated house, situated "quite three miles from the village"(947); this location suggests an isolated environment. Because of its "colonial mansion"(946) look, and its age and state of degradation, of the house, a supernatural hypothesis is implied: the place is haunted by ghosts. This description also suggests stability, strength, power and control. It symbolizes the patriarchal oriented society of the author’s time. The image of a haunted house is curiously superimposed with light color elements of setting: a "delicious garden"(947), "velvet meadows"(950), "old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees"(948) suggest bright green. The room has "air and sunshine galore"(947), the garden is "large and shady"(947) and has "deep-shaded arbors"(948). The unclean yellow of the wallpaper is

Cullen uses visual imagery many different times throughout the book to give the reader a feeling and a picture of students that attend the high school. In the first chapter "Female down", Dave Cullen uses visual imagery by describing the assembly, "he passed the marching band, the cheerleaders, and the rebels logo.... he faced two thousand hyped-up students" (Cullen, 3) to show that Columbine is just like a typical high school. This shows that Cullen wants the reader to be aware the

Global Warming is a familiar topic that shows up frequently news headlines, is taught in science classes and explored in depth in science magazines.

On Dan's first day at the summer program, he finds a vintage photo with a man's eyes scribbled out in pen. His roommate, Felix, tells him about the old office on the first floor and this opens up Dan's mind to the asylum's

Moving on to the second panel, one can see a typical family scene depicted. The kids are sitting around watching T.V., and from the balloon you also get the sense they are annoying each other. As in panel one, one can see details that bring the scene to life. Lines are used to depict the backboard of the T.V. armoire. There is a detailed globe to right atop of what seems to be a stand holding books. The father isn't in the same room as the children, but the purpose of this will be elaborated on later. Again there is an interdependent relationship between the words and pictures because one wouldn't be able to tell what's going on by looking at the just the picture or just reading the words.

Once safely inside his hideout, Wade logs into the OASIS under the name Parzival, or according to his school on planet Ludus, Wade3. Once on Ludus, Wade goes to class and proceeds to use the rest of passing period in his friend Aech’s chatroom, a scene in which the reader learns that Wade has no money whatsoever, and is a solo gunter who accepts help from no one. The story then fasts forward to Latin class, where Wade remembers that the meaning of Ludus, the name of his school’s planet, means game as well as school, then thinking back to Anorak’s Almanac, Wade remembers a secret in the almanac, a series of special letters that when put together, spell out Tomb Of Horrors, a Dungeons and Dragons module. Frantically, Wade finds a map of the planet Ludus, and upon viewing it, finds a cluster of rocks arranged in a skull, the entrance to the Tomb Of Horrors. After discovering the Tomb Of Horrors, Wade realizes he needs a mode of transportation, so he hitches a ride with his school’s football team to shrink the distance between him and the Tomb Of

During the day time, the wallpaper appears to be "hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing” (Page 16). The above description paints a rebarbative mood for the readers. In contrast, during the night time it seems like there is "a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern"(page 13) and the “woman behind it is as plain as can be” (Page 16). A mysterious and unknown figurine vividly portrays an eerie and gloomy mood for the readers. Through the altering appearance of the wallpaper through day and night, the mood of the story is able to change greatly according to

I said that number eight was developed global relations and is the least important due to the fact that everything else was way more important. I said number seven was make sure that people get educations because it's still not as important as the health of people around the world. I said Number six was combating HIV/AIDS. Number five was reduced the number of children dying before the age of five only because if we do other, more important things this won't be an issue anymore. I said number four was improve the health of mothers, as i was saying for number four, if we improve other subjects they will improve the lives and health of children, and in the end letting them live longer. I said number three was improve the rights of women, not

The first panel is targeted to explain the first line and intro of the poem “The Summer Day”. I chose to incorporate the select items and animals that Mary Oliver mentions in the beginning of the poem, using the sky as the background to show to endless possibilities and answers. Secondly I chose to focus on the giant eyes of the grasshopper that are emphasized in the poem. The grasshopper was also a major focus of the poem and needed to be included into my comic strip.

By switching up the different settings to gloomier places like prisons and graveyards, Watterson illustrates the suffocating environment felt at school. When one thinks of prison, they envision prisoners tied to ball and chains in black and white jumpers,

The train station where the characters are in rests in between two distinct landscapes. One of lush fields of grains, and trees, the other of barren, dry land and white hills. The landscape with the white hills is shown to have imagery of death and