Page: 818 Quote: “You don’t know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and do I didn’t write. But now I feel like a man who’s been trying to climb up out of some deep, real deep and funky hole and just saw the sun up there, outside.…
Friday, February 13, 2009. 1:05 a.m.: Mr. Jones couldn’t sleep. The streak of bright moonlight slashed on his blanket like a knife. He got up to close the curtains when he heard a sickening squawk downstairs.…
It was another day in Luster and the Hodgepodge was up early working in his lab. “At last! I can finally seek my revenge,” The Hodgepodge screamed with excitement. Six months from the present, the hodgepodge was just a human named Dramond. He was a scientist working on DNA potions in his underground lab.…
"FUCKING READY!" Dalla's phone went off. She was looking for her phone with her left hand, she found it and lazily put it in her left ear. "H-hello" She sluggishly spoke. "…
“Woah! There’s a lot. Maybe we should follow them? We should follow them because it could lead us to a clue,” responded Helen. Reggie nodded in agreement and they all followed the cockroaches together fearfully to an eerie, mysterious, dark forest.…
Cruisers are an eclectic lot. We're a strange mix of business owners, plumbers, homemakers, Vietnam vets, academics, nurses, computer geeks... and the list goes on. What's magical about our chemistry is the fusion of random knowledge, binding us together like a single central nervous system. In addition, we've got grit. And, we needed it all when the strongest cyclone to ever make landfall in the southern hemisphere headed towards Fiji.…
11. Chris planning to travel across the United States and eventually go to Alaska with little supplies is a prime example of what John Krakauer observed. Chris used hitchhiking and train jumping as a mode of transportation once he abandoned his car. Chris’ parents would not approve of these things. “Two years he walks the earth.…
The ending of the Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, has finally given the reader some much-needed information about Holden, as well as his family. As the book winds to an end, we see Holden completely hammered at a bar; at the bar, he decides to give Sally Hayes a ring. After being shut out and told to go to bed by Sally, the pianist at the bar, and finally coat check girl, Holden decides to visit the ducks he has been talking so much about throughout the novel. At the pond, in a fit of anxiety, Holden remembers Allie and his funeral, he then decides to go home to have a little chat with his little sister Phoebe. After lying to the doorman, Holden finally sneaks home without anyone realizing.…
Xayd Magana Period.2 Cat's Cradle Writing The novel Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut is driven on the topic of wonder. Wonder is used by everybody at some point in their life. Many people wonder to find information, or just to pass time. Mentioned several times throughout the novel is the Cat's Cradle.…
A recurring theme throughout the book was Elie’s belief in Judaism. He constantly questioned himself and if God was ever there to protect him and his people and why he would spectate the wretched things the Nazi’s would do. As we progress through the novel, Elie matured in a way nobody should ever have to face. 1.“I was twelve.…
First I would like to begin saying that Hitler was not a Cruel and terrifying person but yet he was a good person when he was born with no mistakes to be against him to start it’s not like he was born saying OH BOY I'M GOING TO TRY TO WIPE OUT AN ENTIRE RELIGION so you must start this being clear and not starting out to hate him because at the point of all life when you have just touched the surface of life A.K.A. the air,the ground and all man made objects he had no faults so let that be clear I will start saying no matter the person they all start with a clear conscience for all so let that be clear with all you must start to read this in this form. So as of now I am ¾ the way through Volume one - A Reckoning - Chapter 1 In The House of My…
Day One, I’m a bloody coward. We encountered a lion and I bolted. I’m really not sure what came over me, but they are a damn terrifying thing in person. I talked with Wilson about it and he assured me everything was fine.…
1) I liked how she starts her story with the emotional moment of the accident, that part made me feel dizzy and disorientated like her, at the beginning it was kind of hard to interpreted the text and what was happening at the time. The parts were the police were treating her like an animal really made me mad and I felt a little bit of impotence when hearing about how they waited so long to help her and they hurt her even more. I was actually disgusted but not surprised of the way the police treated her in the hospital, it was to be expected, besides she “killed” one of their own and on top of it she was a woman of color. I admire Assata greatly in this chapter, she is so brave and has a strong will of power, if I were in her place I would have cried and begged since the first punch to the stomach. I can connect the way they treated Assata during…
Prologue The stench of the trash was absolutely nauseating. Even though my brain was screaming at me to get rid of the repulsive gunk on my shirt, my legs couldn’t stop running. Winston was just a limp ball of fur in my shaking arms. I had to hold on to him, otherwise I would be lost in this cold world of darkness that was embedding itself with steel claws into my heart.…
Kimberly Tackno Scroggins Eng. II 6th 27 February 2015 Dialectical Journals Quotes Explanations “man could not rise beyond the destiny of his chi. ”(Achebe 131) o The literary term used in this direct quote is motif.…