Sam Gambacorta 11-4-17 Writing Period 9 A Ghost Heart Reviewed By Sam Gambacorta: 12-6-17 If there is anybody who will do something stupid with you, it's your best friend. Just imagine having your BFF hanging out with group they said they'll never hang out with. Slowly drifting away from you because you turned silent and start talking about pee and then found out that your former best friend died. In this novel, A Thing About Jellyfish, by Ali Benjamin explains Suzys and her ‘best’ friend Frankie's relationship and how it changed with inquisitiveness.…
Doss got married three more times, and each husband wound up dying mysteriously. She even killed her third husband's mother, just after poisoning him and burning their house to the ground to keep it from going to his family. In between her fourth and fifth marriages, she moved in with her cancer-stricken sister and poisoned her, too, because why the hell not? " Might as well kill my own mother while I'm at it," she presumably thought, before doing exactly that. At this point, the authorities must have assumed that Nannie Doss was shrouded in some ancient mummy curse, because the only other explanation is that they were all terrible at their jobs.…
Clarkesville, Virginia. A beautiful place to vacation. The Richards family had bought a vacation house down there last month. They had decided to visit for the children's spring break. Dan, the father of the family, was really excited for this trip.…
Firstly, in the Odyssey the narrator is Homer and in the Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood the narrator is Penelope, Odysseus’s wife. Odysseus’s goal in the Odyssey is to tell the story of the hardships he experienced getting home after the Trojan War and the many challenges and obstacles he faced before he finally got back to Ithaca and reclaimed his family and kingdom. Penelope’s goal is to tell her story: her childhood, her marriage, her life in the Underworld, her relationship with her cousin Penelope, and Odysseus’s journey in her own words. The major difference in these two texts is the way Penelope is portrayed.…
Women always have kept the most important part in any societies. Naturally, women have been responsible for the perpetuation of the society, and they also can be seen as the focal point of worship in some ancient religions. However, societies of ancient Rome viewed women differently from some societies of past eras. By examining how men see women, and women see themselves in “Haunted house” by Plautus, we can see that women was only considered as the secondary gender in ancient Rome societies. Women characters in the haunted house include Philematium (a girl of joy), Scapha (her maid, an old hag), and Delphium (a girl of joy to Callidamates).…
It was a fucking wild goose-chase. The stalker had planted the email address, and buried it deep in his communications with his last victim, and whilst the Detective spent the entire night interrogating a wheelchair-bound retired schoolteacher, the incident with Lila was filed away at the back of his mind. Eventually, not long before the break of dawn, they'd departed Harold Greer's apartment complex, and he and Jarrod parted company. Only when Tom was alone again did the evening's events come back to prey in his thoughts causing queasy, sick sensation to return to his stomach, and for his throat to tighten tightened in fear.…
Romania has a lot of legends and miths and some people try really bad to keep them hidden. One of those legends is the legend of the Cursed Statue from the Cemetary, the legend talks of a statue from the Eternity Cemetary in Bucharest. The statue is from Black Marble and look like a woman with her arms wide open like she would invite the passers to sit in her arms. The statue was actually created in the memory of a young girl who commited suicide because her lover betrayed her. Years later, a teenager girl, who is supposed to have been the descendant of her lover, set in her arm in the middle of the night and found dead the next day.…
The readers have to listen carefully to be able to hear the greatness of Edgar Allan Poe. He puts words into life to really be able to understand how great each line is. The poem is acquainted with the choices of heaven or hell throughout each line and expresses how in depth Edgar must go to represent the decision. In the poem, Poe uses a decaying and haunted mansion as a chilling metaphor for the big decision. Reading this story can leave one confused or in chill bumps depending on how the imagery is perceived.…
This is a cute holiday story about Rylee Davis. Rylee has sad things in her life that she needed to overcome, she's put it off for too many years. Holding on to a past love and missing her Grandfather was making the holidays harder than she expected. The enchanted spirit of Christmas plays a part in helping her find what she needs to finally move on. From Saint Nick to reindeer and jingle bells, Rylee's story is one magical tale.…
It was late in the evening when Lane entered her flat. It was cold, rainy, October night full of mysteries. Lane was sitting near to the window looking in a distance. Her thoughts were dark, suppressed with anxiety while she was sipping her red wine into the glass. I was looking at her from the distance fearing this might be our end.…
“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” This quote, taken from Plato's, “The Allegory of the Cave”, poses an important rhetorical question, rooted within the short story, “Flowers for Algernon”. This short science fiction story, written by Daniel Keys, is told from the first-person daily entry logs of Charlie Gordon. A hollow man at first, Charlie is plagued with the burden of very low intelligence; he struggles with reading and writing. Eventually, Charlie is enrolled into a lab experiment, in which he will undergo an operation to triple his I.Q.…
Now that I’m one analyzing my journal I pressure myself to write atleast one segment of what I think could be something someone could find to touch their ghostly soul. I search my brain for inspiration or a spark of deep creativity soon to realize I’m too exhausted for this all I can think of is of how horribly heavy my eyelids are which reminds me of death and I try to stay away from death because of how intriguing it…
Chippy’s Christmas It was Christmas Eve and Mr. and Mrs. McBaster were getting ready to go see their parents in New Orleans. “Chippy! We will be gone for a while. Please look after baby Ashley. Okay.” said Mrs. McBaster.…
The Pumpkin Which Wanted to Become a Chariot It was close to midnight when Betty the pumpkin was deeply asleep when she was awoken by an intense light. She slowly opened her eyes and asked her fellow pumpkin who was right next to her. -What is that? -Shhhhhhhhh- her neighbor said-, I’ll tell you in a minute, I’m trying to listen.…
My first task for this course, studies in literature was to interview a grandparent or an elderly person and ask them to tell me of a folktale they would have been told. I was excited to complete this interview as I saw it as a great opportunity to learn a bit more about history especially considering growing up I was never exposed to much folktale. My search to find a suitable candidate to interview did not take long as a one of my neighbors, Albert said he has a story that will surely pique my interest and ensure I get a good grade as well. Albert’s grandmother told him this folktale at the age of eight, which was about the Soucouyant.…