...Land of the lost The short story “Land of the lost” by Stewart O’nan from 2009, is about a woman who becomes obsessed with a murder case she hears about in the news. She starts following the case about the murdered girl, whose body the murderer, James Wade, claims to have buried west of Kingsville. Soon she’s changing her work schedule so she can search for the girls’ body. She’s very naive, and even calls the FBI when she’s convinced she’s found the girl. She didn’t, and even though her sons ask her to stop, she keeps on searching long after that. Her only agenda is that she wants to help the family find the girl – or is it? We don’t know the name of the main character. She is a woman, living alone and working as a cashier at a supermarket, a job that doesn’t have a very high status. Her sons left shortly after her divorce, and she is left alone with her dog Ollie, a German shepherd. She has no social relations in her life. She feels that she isn’t really needed by anyone – until she discovers the case. So when she’s searching for the body, she is really searching for at purpose in life. “She could admit that at least part of the reason she was searching for a stranger’s daughter was that nobody else needed her. Just Ollie.” Her life is meaningless and she’s trying to fill the hole with the case. The woman is definitely not a quitter, long after everybody has stopped thinking about the case, and put it behind them, she continues. The odd thing is how her view on the case...
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...Land of the Lost Stewart O’Nan Everybody has tried to be lost, either in a physical place or in their own life and mind. This theme is the short story ‘’ Land of the Lost’’ about. Here experiences the reader the development of a woman, who gets more and more obsessed with a case about a missing girl. The short story never explains to the reader, if the woman finds the girl, and why she is so obsessed, which I will try to find out. I will analyse the main character, her obsession, the title and therefor will I analyse the ending of the story with the information, I discover. The events of the short story are being told as a 3rd limited person narrator, because we only see the events from the main character’s point of view, and how she feels. We see everything through her eyes. The short story is written chronologically and has no flashbacks or flash-forwards. So the reader doesn’t know, how the life of the main character has been in the past, except that she has two boys and is divorced. This makes the short story very mysterious, because the reader doesn’t see her thoughts very often and only see it from her perspective. Therefor the author holds some information back e.g. he doesn’t tell us, if she really finds the body, and why she is so obsessed, which I will try to find out. I can therefor conclude that the short story is written in 3rd limited person, chronologically and the author is holding back some information. The author never tells the reader, what the main...
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...Land of the lost by Steward O’ Nan B Steward O’ Nan has written the short story “Land of the lost” with a third-person limited narrator. The story is written in a third-person limited narrator because it can make the reader feel closer to the main character because only one persons’ thought and feelings are shared, thus allowing the chance to build a bund between the reader and the character. An example from the text where it can been seen that it is a third-person limited narrator stands on page 8 l. 11-12; “She didn’t tell anyone what she was doing- she wasn’t stupid. The first time was the hardest because she felt foolish.” In those lines, we are able to know how the main character is feeling and what she is thinking. Through the whole story we follow her closely. It has that effect on the reader that a jump into the character’s head shows her thought process but leave some distance between what is happening on the outside and what the main character is thinking. That distance is very important for the reader. The story is about a single character that is middle-aged and divorced. She works as a cashier and lives alone with her dog, named Ollie. The main character is a middle-aged woman living alone with her dog Ollie, because her grown boys have just moved out. She is a cashier at a BI-LO in Perry. At work, she isn’t alone, she has co-workers to talk with but at home, she has nobody beside her dog. One day she gets interested in a local case where a girl has been murdered...
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...Land of the lost This paper is an analysis and interpretation of Stewart O’ Nan’s “Land of the Lost”. A woman’s almost obsessive investigation of a young woman’s death is the center of this short story, where Stewart O’ Nan’s portrayal of the main character makes her more fascinating to the reader than the missing girl. The name of the main character is unknown to us, but despite the anonymity we are able to observe her feelings and behavior through a third person narrator. The point of view lies with her and that makes the narration personal and feels as if she told the story herself, but at the same time it gives the reader an opportunity to craft its own opinion about her. The death of a child unknown to you wouldn’t normally affect you as much as it does the main character. All she can think and talk about is this certain case and it becomes an immense part of her as she puts her normal life as well as her health under pressure to search for the dead girl. Her motives are to be found in her personal life. She works as a cashier, is divorced and lives alone with her German shepherd Ollie. I dare say that her goals in life aren’t achieved at this point and she has a gap in her life she needs to fulfill. All humans have a need to be recognized by others and by dedicating her time to the family of the young girl she finally has a purpose and meaning in her life. She is missing children to take care of, a husband to love, friends to talk to and a job to appreciate. All...
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...Land of the Lost The story is written by Stewart O’Nan, and is about a woman who in her search for a little girl’s body refuses to realize that her life is without purpose. The main character’s name is never revealed. She has been divorced for many years, and is currently living by herself and her dog Ollie. Towards the beginning of the story, the reader gets the impression that she is an ordinary middle-aged woman who’s living a normal life. However, this changes as the main character learns about the case of a missing girl. the main character quickly has both feet in and is more interested in the case than anything else, “At night when she couldn’t sleep she sat up in her bed and went over the transcripts and the mother’s map, convincing herself it was possible.” (P.8, l. 8-9). At this point, the main character is becoming obsessed with the case. Throughout the story, the main character’s obsession with the case steadily increases. She digs around campsites hoping to find the girl, documents everything she does and she even rearranged her shifts, working at nights so she could take advantage of the daylight. (P. 8, l. 26-27) At one point, the main character realizes why she is actually searching for the girl: “She could admit that at least part of the reason she was searching for a stranger’s daughter was that no one else needed her. Just Ollie.” (P. 9, l. 61-62). Nevertheless, this doesn’t make her stop searching. She continues and enrolls Ollie in an online...
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...Land of the lost - Analysis Land of the lost is written in 2009 by Stewart O’Nan. The story takes place in Perry and Kingsville - US. The themes in this story are: Loneliness, purpose of life, being useless. These themes are reflected in the entire story -even the title “land of the Lost” I will first start with at Characterization of the narrator and her life: She is a cashier at the local supermarket. She lives in her own world, both of her sons have moved out of the house, and her marriage is long gone – which leaves her dog Ollie, a German shepherd, as her only company. She is alone in the world. The narrator tells that when she started looking for the girl it was because she wanted to help the family. Because of her lonely life she gets obsessed with this case. The woman is trying to find a kidnapped and killed girl, who has been missing for about 2 years. First she followed the case in the newspaper and on TV, but when she finds out that the body is buried west of Kingsville, she looks for the body there. This women needs a purpose of life “She could admit that a part of the reason she was looking for a stranger’s daughter was that no one else needed her, just Ollie” l 61-62 and after a while she mostly searched because she wanted to be honored as a hero – Then everyone would know she wasn’t crazy, l. 141-142”. After a while of searching and a call for the police without finding any body, the women in the story doesn’t do it to help the family anymore, she does...
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...The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, is a good spin off from Alice in Wonderland. In this story Alyss gets separated from wonderland by her Aunt Redd and is forced to leave Wonderland and go to London, England. Eventually she returns to face Redd and reclaims her rightful throne. This book is unlike the original because it gives meaningful themes. I will focus on not lose hope and that was displayed by the Alyssian’s, Hatter Madigan, and Alyss. The Alyssian’s did not lose hope even though they basically lost the war. They were few on supplies, numbers and meaningful victories. “‘For the sake of White Imagination, let’s hope that Dodge has met with success’” (page 210).They sent Dodge to find Alyss, their only hope. If they gave up hope they...
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...limit myself. As soon as you commit to something, by default you cancel out other options for yourself. Most people’s response to this would probably be something along the lines of that saying found in way too many song lyrics, “If you stand for nothing you’ll fall for anything.” Or some may say that without something to live by or something to guide you, you'll just be lost. This is all probably true, but who's to say that being a little lost is such a bad thing? Being lost makes you search and quite frankly, I never want to stop searching in life. I think being lost could lead you to...
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...Determine the Style Manual which the authors used in preparing the article .What kind of format do the authors follow regarding citations and references: The authors used American Medical Association .Maximum of 5,000 words inclusive of all headings, titles, author information, keywords, abstract, text, references, and citations. What style Abstract do the authors use: Utilized single paragragraph without subheadings that was concise and factual. Rate the ease of reading the article, e.g. is it well organized and easy to follow the logic? Yes. Is it complicated and difficult to follow the thoughts? No. Does the article always clearly define the use of acronyms so that you do not have to keep searching for their meaning? Yes. Is the sentence structure so lengthy that you get lost trying to follow the thought? No. [Note that problems you identify in published articles are ones you will not wish to repeat in the writing of your paper(s)!] Article Two Worksheet #1 Analysis of Professional Articles 4. Select a minimum of three articles from different professional journals. 5. Examine the articles for writing...
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...My Lost Homework Assignment I completed my homework assignment and left it sitting on the table. I went to get my folder so I could put it away. It took me just seconds to return to the table. My homework was gone. What could have happened to it so quickly? I checked the dog, the children and even my wife. Nobody knew anything about my missing homework. So I started a search with the help of everyone in my family. While searching I saw paper hanging out the window. It was the cover page. Then I looked outside for the other pages. As I searched I found another page in the garage. How it got there I’ll never know. As I continued my search my next door neighbor stopped me and asked if I had I lost something. I said yes. He pulled a crumpled piece of paper out of his car. He went and explained that it had blown into his car a couple blocks back. The last paper of my homework was found when I had given up on searching for it. My phone rang, and it was my brother. He was almost a mile away at the gas station pumping his gas when a paper blew on to his foot. He said when he removed it he saw my name on it, and had to give me a call. I didn’t believe it so I told him to bring it with him. To my surprise it was my final page. Even up to this day the events of the missing homework assignment is still a mystery to...
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...In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes, Robert Cohn and Lady Brett Ashley’s lives have been impacted by the outbreak of World War One. However, Cohn still lives by the pre-war values, mainly due to the fact that the war had little impact on him, unlike Jake who was injured in combat, or Brett, who lost her true love during the war. They all have characteristics that are similar with many people who were a part of what Gertrude Stein called “the lost generation”, a generation of people whose previous values were figuratively destroyed by the outbreak of World War I, and they wandered the post-war world without guidance, without a purpose. (Britannia 1 ) This is because Hemingway created these characters to symbolize a large portion of people in the 1920’s, through the characters attitudes, lifestyle and personalities. In doing so, Hemingway uses these three characters to represent different groups of people within the lost generation. Robert Cohn represents the people of the lost generation whose lives had been unaffected directly by the war, and those who still continued to live by failed the pre-war values of romance, morality and honor. Many of these people were outcasts; they were different, just like Cohn, and Cohn knew what it was like to be different. He spent a good portion of his life feeling like an outcast due to the fact that he was Jewish and Cohn never served in World War I, and was therefore typically scorned by people who had seen combat, like...
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...National Geographic’s “Searching for the Real Cleopatra” by Chip Brown, claims that Cleopatra's tomb is still out there hidden. Though no ruins have been found for a very long time, Dominican archaeologist Kathleen Martinez has been excavating, and believes that she is going to be found. I know source is credible because National Geographic is a non-profit organization that publish factual information about science, nature andexpiditions. This source is also credible because the information presented is within a 15 min recentness limit, being published in 2011. Information about Martinez’s quest to find Cleopatra is also pbs.org. ¨Searching for the Real Cleopatra is ocjective,¨ the articles isint biased, it simply tells the story in...
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...Miguel A. Rodriguez Instructor Advanced Composition ENG 300 June 19, 2013 Music and Lyrics: Ruben Blades (Looking For America) I’m searching for you, America and fear that I will not find you your footprint has been lost in the dark. (Line 4) I’m calling you America but you are not answering me. You have been made to vanish by those who deny truth.(Line 8) Surrounded by shadows we deny all that’s true until there is justice we will never have peace.(Line 12) Living under Dictatorships I search for you and I cannot find you. Your body tortured is nowhere to be found. (Line 16) If one’s dream is everybody’s dream to break the chains and begin our journey Let’s be confident Let’s go ahead, my race, Let’s preserve time for those to come.(Line 24) You’ve been abducted, America Your mouth has been gagged and today it’s our turn to bring you freedom. I’m calling you America our future awaits us and before it dies on us we will find you.(Line 33) I’m searching for you America. I’m calling you America Oh, Oh Fighting for our race and our freedom And we will find you among the darkness, You’ve been vanished by those who’re afraid of your truth. While we search for the truth Searching for our America Mama and papa’s dream And it’s our turn today to set you free. (Line 43)“Looking for America” 2013. Ruben Blades website. June 19, 2013, 05:05 http://www.rubenblades.com/lyrics/?currentPage=5. When listening to the lyrics of...
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...D.R. most definitely changes in the novel. Early on D.R. is not able to find anywhere he is willing to stay and he is constantly searching for the meaning of life. “And yet he craved other people's words about ‘truth’ and ‘life’ like some poor junkie craving dope” (71). At the end though when D.R. is back home in Kentucky he is completely different. “That evening the sense of ceremony come more naturally to him than it ever had before” (287). “No candles or bells or incense, none of that” (287). Divine Right's Trip is a bildungsroman in that D.R. changes from a lost soul to a person who finds ritual in just sitting on the front porch of his late Uncle Emmit’s house. D.R. starts growing as soon as he enters Trace Fork. David emerges and eventually...
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...Having examined the various models of grief and loss, it became evident that many look at it in the context of loss to death. The loss of a person through death is momentous to us as the most recognised source of grief but it is not the only source. “Loss as majestic as death or as mundane as taxes, is the sure thing in every life, the experience that is as common as April rain in almost everyday in some form or other, in our lives.” (Kennedy, E. & Charles, S.,C. 2001.pg372). After conducting my research, I realise that people grieve to secondary losses as well as primary losses. Grief can result from any loss: end of a relationship, leaving home to go to university or a family member with some sort of illness. In addition, one may experience grief as the result of the loss of something as well as someone. Taking all this into account, I decided to focus on Colin Murray Parkes. Parkes (1988) brought together psychological and social aspects of grief which is termed psychosocial transitions. Throughout this essay I will examine Parke's model and explain how this particular model can be applied to my own personal life. I will also demonstrate how this model can be applied to the social care field. My loss was losing my grandmother to Alzheimer's disease. It is not that she has physically died, but her identity and true self was gone. She was warm, loving and one of the most caring people I have ever met. I stayed with my grandmother every night since I was seven years of age...
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