Cat in the Rain Essay

other lives in the world, where they believe that they can cut down all the trees and nothing will happen According to (Rainforest facts.com) More than 9,000 Plant and animal species are already going extinct each year with the reduction of the rain forests. The rainforests are described to…

history of the Valley, and I want to make it part of the Valley outside history” (James, Merickel). She then tells the version that, if we were able to re-write stories to be whatever we liked them to be, would have happened. In the second version, Rains End replaces Aunt May. She and the lion derived an understanding. May allows the lion to pass on in peace, while offering shade and comfort in the last dying minutes of its noble life. The storyteller offers the lion back to May. The second…

The Art of Racing in the Rain and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn both have unreliable narrators. From the beginning of both books, the narrators come off as unreliable. Huck starts The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by saying, “I never seen anybody but lied, one time or another” (Twain 1), showing the reader that he, too, has lied. Enzo, from The Art of Racing in the Rain, also starts off his narration with questionable reliance from the reader. Enzo calls himself “melodramatic” (Stein 1),…

way we went before. My dad wanted to take a different blue trail this time; the trail was more advanced than the other. This one had bulky rocks, jagged holes, and the turns were very sharp. By the time we found the green trail the sky had extensive rain clouds and was turning into a dark blue. We went right, and then I noticed that we were inclining, than I went ahead of the group. I glanced around the corner to survey the road leading up to the…

These past couple of months have been rough lately out here in the war, it is not as easy as I thought it would be out here. In fact, trench warfare is terrible, the conditions here are deadly, you can die without someone else killing you. I’m at the point where I am so scared and just want to be back home because of the constant fear. I can never sleep at night either, every time I do the constant heavy fire of enemy attacks wake me up from my sleep then I have to be hiding in fear that an…

The Hedgehog Erinaceous europaeus Hedgehogs are fascinating creatures! With such a small body length and only weighing a few ounces, it’s astonishing they are not categorized as rodents. What’s even weirder is that some hedgehogs eat dog food. Hedgehogs have a much shorter gestation period compared to other animals. Have you ever wondered what a hedgehog looks like? The head, body, and tail length is about 6-14 inches, and they only weigh about 14-39 ounces. The gender differences are very…

In 2003 hurricane Isabel hit North Carolina and impacted other banks. It costed $5.3 billion. Another was hurricane Floyd which was especially catastrophic because of the rain causing extreme flooding. It hit North Carolina and up the east coast as a Cat. 2 and travelled North. It’s damage was $6.9 billion. Hurricane Hugo was a Cat. 4 storm in South Carolina causing 21 deaths in the U.S. and costed $7.1 billion. Allison, which was not officially a hurricane, but a tropical storm, was at the time…

"Alexis! Wake up you have to take Sophie to the vet!" my mom yelled. As I got up Sophie, a Boston terrier, raced into my room barking like a maniac. After Sophie came my mom carrying my traveling dog crate and a leash. "Mom, you know she doesn't trust you anymore to put her in the crate. That is all your fault. The last time you put her in you grabbed her the legs and stuffed her in." I said. My mom rolled her eyes and plopped herself down on my bed. I grabbed Sophie and put the crate in front…

The plane sits down on a landing pad at Tampa international airport. I wake up and raise the shutter on the window and its pouring down rain, typical Florida morning. I’ve lived here since early 1995, I moved here after what happened to my parents, Israel just didn’t feel like home anymore so Dominic emails me assignments or he just comes and meets me, face to face. I stand up and pull my gym bag from the overhead compartment. I step into the aisle, joining the line of people who are…

Wednesday”, “The Waste Land”, and “The Hippopotamus” there are many references to religion or the Bible. Eliot uses these to show the reader his feelings about religion. Unlike these poems, “The Naming of Cats” has many different types of allusions in it; the poem starts with the following: The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter… (1-3) Many are familiar with the “Mad Hatter”, a quirky man from…