...Son of Satan an english essay by Malte Lindhard Nielsen 2.C Growing up, you might be insecure about where you belong in life. You are trying to find your place in this world, and sometimes you do things you wouldn't normally do, in the wish of acceptance. This issue is described in the short story “Son of Satan”, where three insecure boys try to find their limits. The boys push each other into bullying another boy, that only wants to be their friend. In the story we are confronted with peer pressure, neglecting parents and bullying. Things that probably everyone can link to their own upbringing. Son of Satan is a horror short story which follows three young boys at the age of eleven and twelve. The narrator, the youngest of them, represents a young boy, seeking acceptance from the elder boys, Hass and Morgan. In the fear of getting excluded from the gang, they push each other into harming another boy, Simpson, even though they do not want to. The narrator is the leader of the gang, and after horrifying Simpson, he wants to let him go, but refuses to do so. He is in a constant battle with himself, and he has to choose between listening to his common sense, telling him to let Simpson go, or his fear of getting pushed out of the group. "I felt like letting him go. Maybe he hadn't fucked anybody. Maybe he had just been day-dreaming. But I was the young leader. I couldn't show any sympathy. P. 2 L. Seventeen to eighteen". He lets his fear of looking weak in the other boys eyes...
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...Essay: Son of Satan The short story ”Son of Satan” is a story about an eleven years old boy, who is telling us his story through his eyes. The story takes place in the narrator’s neighbourhood during the summer holidays. The narrator and his two friends Hass and Morgan are all bored and in lack something interesting to do they decide to harass one of the other boys from their neighbourhood called Simpson. The narrator claims that Simpson is lying about having sex with a girl and therefore they start beating Simpson whereupon they try to hang him. Simpson survives and tells his parents what happened. Simpson’s parents call the narrator’s father. When the narrator returns from his walk his father confronts him with the hanging and hits him. The narrator is an ill-adjusted boy. He is the leader among his friends and wish to keep his statues. He may not show any weakness (l. 27. p. 42) and continues tormenting Simpson even though he thinks they got far enough he still continues (l. 25. p. 42). On page 41 where they’re holding a kangaroo court the narrator takes the position as the judge and Morgan and Hass is beneath him and taking orders from the narrator. The boys don’t question his authority. In the very beginning of page 42 where Simpson tries to run off and Hass tackles and punches Simpson so the narrator slams Hass across the face with the rope to stop him and Hass doesn’t do much about it. And in line 16 on page 42 the narrator command Morgan to give him at cigarette...
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...Jeres næste aflevering er jeres første engelske essay i gymnasiet. Frygt ej! – Det er en disciplin, der kan læres og ikke en, I forventes at mestre på nuværende tidspunkt. Som vi har talt om, er der forskel på definitionen af et essay, når det skrives i faget dansk, og når det skrives i faget engelsk i gymnasiet. Jeg vil bede jer om at se helt bort fra, hvad et essay skal indeholde i faget dansk. Her skal I KUN fokusere på det engelske essay. Hvis I skriver et essay efter den model, vi har talt om, er I på rette vej. Det papir I fik udleveret om det engelske essay i STX er godt at have ved hånden, når I skriver. Fokusér på essayets tredelte struktur med en introduktion, en analyse (hoveddel/’body’) og en konklusion. Introduktionen skal introducere læseren til dét, I har valgt at skrive om, og hvad I har tænkt dig at problematisere, f.eks. tesen (the thesis statement), at fortælleren, Hass og Morgan fra ”Son of Satan” opfører sig som de gør, fordi de er et produkt af deres opvækst i forstæderne. – Det er et tænkt eksempel, men hvis vi siger, at det er den tese vi vil skrive ud fra i vores essay, så er det op til os at finde eksempler på dette i selve teksten, så vi kan argumentere for denne tese. Husk der skal være en rød tråd i opgaven. Dvs. introduktion, analyse og konklusion skal passe sammen. Det I skriver i introduktionen, skal I argumentere for i analysen og resultatet opsummeres i konklusionen. Så har I et essay, der hænger sammen på den rigtige måde i faget engelsk...
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...1) Essay: Son of Satan (Analysis) Charles Bukowski wrote the short story “Son of Satan” in 1987. The short story is about an 11-year old boy, who is telling the story from his point of view. The story is a 1st person narrator, because the pronoun “I” is used. The story takes place during summer vacation. The narrator and his two best friends Morgan and Hass are all bored, while smoking cigarettes behind his father´s garage. Suddenly out of nowhere they decide to bully one of the other boys from the neighborhood called Simpson, who claims that he had sex with a girl. The narrator claims that he is lying and they start beating him and threaten to hang him with a rope. Simpson survives and tells his parents about the episode. The parents call the boys father. It leads into a conversation between the father and his son that develops into a little fight. The narrator, Hass and Morgan have formed a group, and the main character is the leader of the group. He is the youngest of the group, but still he is trying to be tougher than he is. His reputation means a lot to him; even though he does not want to be mean. He always has to be the “big guy” in front of Hass and Morgan and doesn’t show any weakness. “I feel like letting him go. Maybe he hadn’t fucked anybody. Maybe he had just been daydreaming. But I was the young leader. I couldn’t show any sympathy” (page 40, line 71-73) It’s only in front of people that the main character is mean. In one of the scenes after hanging Simpson...
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...David Jones THEO_201_B09_201230 Short Essay #4 Short Essay on Angelology and Satanology Anna, thank you for your call regarding the documentary you watched on common dualism. By your description this is also known as religious or ethical dualism. Kuhn in defining ethical or religious dualism says “ Ethical or ethico-religious dualism asserts that there are two mutually hostile forces or beings in the world, the one being the source of all good, the other the source of all evil.”1 Kuhn further describes the universe as the battle ground for these equally opposing forces and identifies them as light and darkness. In this definition we see God being light and Satan being darkness as equal forces in eternal hostile battle. This form of dualism is in contradiction as to what Scripture teaches. Scripture starts with God creating not only the earth but the heavens as well. (Gen.1:1) In the book of Genesis we see God as the creator of all. In the ending of Scripture God claims victory over Satan and Satan is cast into the lake fire to suffer eternal torment.(Rev. 20:10). In Isaiah 14:12-14, the prophet addresses Satan as the one fallen from heaven and cast down to earth for his prideful sins against God. In Ezekiel 28: 12-17 God addresses Satan as the King of Tyre, through the prophet Ezekiel. He addresses him as having been an anointed guardian cherub. God says “for so I ordained you.” (vs 14). “You were the model of perfection,”(vs ________________________________...
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...Essay on Charles Bukowski’s ’Son Of Satan’ The main character is a very insecure boy with low-esteem, his father violent against him. The low-esteem is reflected in his behavior and the is a aggressive young man. It’s a first person narrator, because it says “I” all the time, which is this 11 year old boy. The narrator is some sort of a leader in the group. He thinks that he can’t back off from anything because that would make him a weak leader. I think that even though he is a year younger than Hass and Morgan, he sees himself as a role model for them. In the beginning of the story, the narrator and his friends is planning to go catch Simpson, a boy from the neighborhood. They find him as a disgrace to their neighborhood and accuse him for having sex with a girl under the main character’s house. The main character is taking the word when they arrive at Simpson’s garage, where Simpson is playing handball alone. The group surrounding Simpson and leads him back to the main character’s backyard. In the backyard they start bullying, verbally and being physical, and put him into ‘the kangaroo court’ where they declared Simpson guilty. The main sentences him to be hanging by neck until dead. After Simpson has been hanged, all three boys run of. But something makes the main character returning and releasing Simpson. Shocked the main character comes home in the evening, where his furious father is waiting. He beats the main character up, and tells him that he must be a son...
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...Short essay on Angelology and Satanology Well Anna, the problem with God and Satan being two eternal and equal forces is that it’s un-biblical. This theory implies that there are two substances that are irreducible in our universe. In other words when we are talking about ethics dualism we are talking about good (God) and evil (Satan). Many Christians lack a true knowledge of who God really is and therefore they equate God and Satan or demon as two opposing forces in an unquenchable struggle. Scripture teaches that God and Satan are not mutual forces. When the Bible begins in Genesis it assumes God the creator has already being there and He alone, being the only self existent one. Scripture teaches us that God is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. None of these are attributes about Satan. You need to understand that Dualism in its core is a misuse of the unity of God. It is important to understand that when sin was found in Lucifer, he became known as Satan, the adversary. Isaiah 14:13-17 and Ezekiel 28 reveal that Lucifer became prideful in his beauty and sinned against God by rebelling against Him. Lucifer was determined to overthrow God, but God’s judgment fell upon Lucifer, casting him out of heaven and one third of the angels in heaven decided to follow Lucifer in his upraise against God. There is a common argument opposing the stated interpretations of Isaiah 14:13-17 and Ezekiel 28. The argument made takes the prophetic (future) aspect of the verses out and only...
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...THEO 201-B21 Short Essay #4 Angelology and Satanology When you look throughout culture there is no longer a longing to know about eternal life or what God wants for our lives. People are happy to live their life how they want to without much thought to how there choices impact the world around them. When you think of religious dualism not many things come to mind. Most people would not understand it or have a good guess to how to define it. Religious dualism designates “two parts” and is the position that the universe consists of two opposing principles. These two opposing principles are God and Satan. They both exist in our world today and have an impact on the way we live our lives. They are the two forces battle for the souls of men. These forces are not equal in strength though. God, according to Scripture, is infinitely greater than Satan and will eventually cast Satan into hell. This could not be done if they were equal and opposing forces. Revelation 20:10 “and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.” It clearly states here the God will have victory and has the ultimate power over Satan. Many disagree on the origin of Satan. They say that God wouldn’t have created such an evil presence in this world if it was up to him. Others say that it is all part of Gods plan for His kingdom and for saving the lost. There are two views...
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...Paradise Lost -John Milton- John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse. Milton's poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day. Writing in English, Latin, Greek, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated Areopagitica (1644)—written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship—is among history's most influential and impassioned defenses of free speech and freedom of the press. William Hayley's 1796 biography called him the "greatest English author," and he remains generally regarded "as one of the preeminent writers in the English language," though critical reception has oscillated in the centuries since his death (often on account of his republicanism). Samuel Johnson praised Paradise Lost as "a poem which...with respect to design may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind," though he described Milton's politics as those of an "acrimonious and surly republican". Because of his republicanism, Milton has been the subject of centuries of British partisanship. The phases...
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...BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW ESSAY CHARLIE MITCHELL THEO 104-D59 “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14). When one speak of, “foundational to the Christian faith is the belief that mankind is created in the image of God” (Biblical Worldview Essay instructions).It goes without saying, we cannot overlook the passage that indoctrinate our thoughts of this phenomena event. Very early in the writing of the bible, God set the stage for what his intentions were to be. The writing of Genesis sets that stage in the creation, from the first verse, “In the beginning God created the heaven and earth” (Genesis 1:1). Through the final creation, “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Genesis 2:7). Thesis: There is no argument, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us” (Etzel, Gutierrez, 2012). The question lies in, is he (man) living out that creed? Has man’s perspective of God’s commandments gone off the beaten path? Where did man sway? In my profession, there are no less than 10,000 personnel that makeup our company structure. All with varying demographic makeup, yet all are considered as one from our CEO perspective. We have a product to market to the general public, each employee are...
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...Bobbs Lyonga Elive Solomon Polytheism in Christianity, true or false? 11th September 2015 Word Count: 4104 Polytheistic Overtones In The Bible Man was created a worshipper. It is a proven fact that there is a universal belief in God, god or gods in every nation on the face of the earth including the most primitive societies. The reason being that after the fall of man in the Garden of Eden as the bible describes in the book of Genesis, man was separated from His creator and became spiritually dead. With a fallen spirit and a blinded mind, man who was created with an intuitive belief and knowledge of the existence of God was drawn by the religious instinct within him to worship something or someone. Unable to find his creator, man produced deities out of his own imagination to worship. Deities of stone, wood, water, fire, air, sun, moon, stars, mountains, birds, kings, emperors etc. giving birth to several religions, the majority being polytheistic and some are still today. Man missed the object of his worship, worshipping the creation rather than the creator. The bible says “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever.”(Romans 1:25). God none the less had an elaborate and well-designed plan for the restoration of fallen man. A plan which existed from the very beginning even before man transgressed, to show the fallibility of proponents of Deism that...
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...SHORT STORY ESSAY Comparison and Contrast between “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Lottery” “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the two writers uses symbolism, characterization, and conflict to illustrate the hidden dark side of mankind in normal people. The characters in the stories struggle with the conflict between good and evil. To stress the theme of both stories, symbols are applied as a tool for the development of the story. Hawthorne applies objects and names to intensify the theme and Jackson uses names to bring out his theme. Young Goodman Brown sees the conflict with evil and society. The protagonists of this story deals with Satan on a personal level. He lets the evil take over his faith and beliefs, and also realizes some important people in his life can portrait evil. As he says, “My faith is gone!” cried he, after one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name (Hawthorne, 1835). He loses faith in the many people he once looked up to, after witnessing his wife and townspeople perform a sacrifice in the dead of night. The experience distorts his view of good in people, and leaves him feeling uneasy and abandoned. In the Lottery, they also had the conflict of good and evil in society. In an annual lottery, together, friends...
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...revealed and she is only known as Grendel's mother, signifying that the male defines the female. Additionally, Grendel's mother is the only female character that poses a threat to Beowulf and his men. Unfortunately, she is portrayed as a "mighty water witch", insinuating that any woman who defied an man was evil and wicked (Raffel, 41). These two female characters demonstrate the Anglo-Saxon ideas that women should be figures rather than hold any real power. Notes how women have become stronger forces in the world, yet are still held back by men. In the movie, Grendel's mother is shown to be little more than a sex object in the eyes of men, which actual allows her to hold power over them. She is able to seduce Hrothgar and Beowulf, creating sons for her evil to live on through. These monsters eventually attack the men as the repercussions of the "sins of the fathers" (Zemeckis). Grendel's mother demonstrates everything the Anglo-Saxon's thought women should not be: a woman who held power of the men. Grendel's mother shows the weaknesses of men, while simultaneously saying that strong, beautiful women are to be feared by men. Grendel’s mother is in the opposite situation of Hildeburh; she is a bereaved woman with no men to take action for her and so she...
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...Studieplan over engelsk eksamens materiale Forløb og tekster fra 1.G 1. Literature/fiction and film analysis * http://so1.cphwest.dk/kulturelle_materialer/Engelsk_kulturelle.pdf * Working with Fiction (dokumenter): Read "The New Girl" * Litterature: 'My Son the Fanatic * Film analysis (oral): 'Crash' * Literary analysis of short stories relating to racial diversity, immigration and general social issues etc. * Texts: Aline's journey, The New Girl; The First Day (US society; Racism; Social class in the US); 'Little Things' by Raymond Carver; 'My Son the Fanatic' by Hanif Kureishi (UK Area Study); First Confession by Frank O'Connor (Ireland: an introduction-Religion). Film analysis. * Subjects related to sporting, social, political and economic themes. Films: Green Street Hooligans (Sport+UK society); Crash (US society); Bloody Sunday by Paul Greengrass (UK - Nothern Ireland); Bowling for Columbine (Guns in America). 2. UK: Area study * “Two Speed Britain” (s.54-s.63) fra bogen;” What’s up, Britain” * Tekster fra Current magazien "Margaret Thatcher", "The Rise of UKIP", "The Weird Foods Brits Love", "Jack the Ripper Stalks London" og "London's East End" * “My Son the fantastic” * Waterboys sang ”Old England” 3. USA: Political, Society and culture * "Mapping where English is not the language at home" By Dan Keating and Darla Cameron: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/us-language-map/ * Cadillac advert analysis:...
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...Son of Satan 1. The main character in the story is a young boy who is 11 years old. The boy and 2 other boys have formed a group, and the main character is the leader of this group. He is younger than the two other boys, and is trying to be tougher than he really is. Peer pressure is a big part of his life; he is being pressured by his father as well as the other two boys. He has a reputation and he has to be tough even though he does not want to be mean. This can be seen through the whole story, because he has second thoughts about bullying Simpson, he knows it is wrong, but he does not do anything about it. The main character is a very insecure boy with low self-confidence and his father is violent against him. The low self-esteem is reflected in his behaviour and he is a mad and aggressive young man. 2. People often associate peer pressure with something bad, but it does not always have to be like that. I will in this essay discuss the pros and cons of peer pressure. Peer pressure can be a bad thing in cases where children bully on other kids. Children can be really mean to each other and they would sometimes do anything to be a part of a group. This can later on traumatize the victim and give them a hard life. On the other hand peer pressure can be a really good thing for instance when people are trying to quit smoking. It is easier to achieve something when you stick together and do it as a group. But although it can be a...
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