Essays on Train Station

Are most relationships nothing more than mere momentary impulses that fade with time? In everyday life, relationships are complex interactions that require nurturing, protection and consistency. In this respect, they are so much more than just about fiery first encounters. The literary work discussed for this paper was Katherine Mansfield’s short story entitled “Something Childish but Very Natural,” a literary piece published in 1914 about two characters, Henry and Edna, who meet each other randomly in a train station. In telling this story, Mansfield utilizes a lot figurative language and symbolism to tell the story of Henry and ...

A Literary Analysis

Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants” takes place at a train station in Spain on a very hot summer day. The two main characters, the American and Jig, the girl, are travelling by train because the girl is going to get an operation. They are waiting for the next train that will take them to Madrid, the location of the operation, and they have forty minutes waiting until it gets there. The operation is likely an abortion, and the American is pushing for it while Jig is concerned and hesitant to go through with it. During ...

Book Review on Arundhati Roy’s award-winning novel, God of Small Things

In the beginning, the family takes a drive to Cochin in order to pick Margaret Kochama and Sophie Mol from the airport and to watch The Sound of Magic. During the drive, we are able to learn about the political volatility in the area and how the Indian society is involved in the dictation of each person’s place in the society. Here, we are also able to know more about how the characters relate to each other and exactly how they interact with each other. The family drives in great anticipation of watching The Sound of Magic and of ...

Essay on “On Being Crazy” by W.E.B. DuBois African American authors of the twentieth century bring to us an era of discrimination, and transformation of United States, in a poignant and funny style. Their stories and novels are a reflection of the society that has seen deep racial prejudices and confusing principles that were in charge. Out of many authors of the kind, W.E.B.DuBois was prominent for being the first African American PhD holder from Harvard University, and the first to document black demography. His writings recall the duality of African Americans – one an American and the other a Negro. This ...

The artist

Christian Paul Kunsch was born in Hagen in the North German state of Westphalia. He is primarily a husband and father but is also a photographer and Taoist for good measure, also describing himself as ‘European’ on his website. His work which is chiefly in black and white is basically inspired by the work of Bernard Plossu, Francoise Nunez, Henri Cartier Bresson and Lucien Herve. However he claims other influences such as the music of Radiohead, Thom Yorke and Max Richter. Another source of inspiration is Wim Wenders, the film director whose movie, ‘Wings of Desire’ is an important part of ...

Susan B. Anthony was one of America’s greatest reformers, organizer for woman suffrage. One of her unique talents was her ability to unify women and motivate them to work relentlessly for a particular goal. She was able to develop strong teamwork which endured through numerous disappointments and downfalls. It has been suggested that she was gifted with an undaunted valor, fortitude and spirit of personal sacrifice which were essential in her singular work than in any other ever assumed (Harper 605). Susan B. Anthony will always be considered the commander-in-chief of the freedom of women because she dedicated her entire ...

The artist

Christian Paul Kunsch was born in Hagen in the North German state of Westphalia. He is primarily a husband and father but is also a photographer and Taoist for good measure, also describing himself as ‘European’ on his website. His work which is chiefly in black and white is basically inspired by the work of Bernard Plossu, Francoise Nunez, Henri Cartier Bresson and Lucien Herve. However he claims other influences such as the music of Radiohead, Thom Yorke and Max Richter. Another source of inspiration is Wim Wenders, the film director whose movie, ‘Wings of Desire’ is an important part of ...

Location: Home

Last month I acquired a pet puppy, small and lovely. Every night after dinner, I would clean the utensils, pick the puppy and sit on the couch with it as I watched a movie. For the one and a half hours that I watch, I would stroke him as he sat on my lap until he went to sleep. Today as I finished dinner and proceeded to wash the utensils, my puppy rushed off to the couch, on the exact position that I sit and intently looked at me as he waited for me on the couch.

Psychological application:

In the above situation, my ...

Both the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret and the Martin Scorsese film Hugo have their thematic roots in escapism - reality is represented through the dark, smoky 1930 Paris train station, and illusion is found in the films of Georges Melies. Hugo, in both works, finds wonder with his father in the movies; in the film, Hugo states that films were "our special placewhere we could go andwe didn't miss my mum so much." With this line, he reveals one of the fundamental purposes that film provides for audiences; it allows them to forget their problems. For both ...

The 2000 M. Night Shyamalan film Unbreakable tells the story of David Dunne (Bruce Willis), an ordinary man who begins a journey of self-discovery after he learns that he is the sole, unharmed survivor of a devastating train crash. According to Joseph Campbell, the hero's journey, or monomyth, tells the same fundamental story: "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man" (Campbell. 23). This essay will ...