The Red Room: A Narrative Fiction

Improved Essays
Panic reigned all through the camp. All three men scrambled for their rifles, and began taking aim at the trees. The howls were slow-paced, and mournful. They sent a shiver up Nick’s spine.

Alan wasted two bullets by shooting them into the trunk of a large pine tree.

“Hey, save your bullets man!” Danny shouted.

“Sorry, I’m nervous,” Alan replied.

Nick shushed both of them, and listened. The howls still raged on from somewhere beyond the clearing. There were what sounded like thousands of the noisemakers, and the howls they were making were the weirdest noise either of the men had ever heard.

A howl went up just a few feet away from the clearing. Nick gulped, and spun toward the noise. Danny began banging away. Bullets flew past Nick’s

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Rainsford Island

    • 533 Words
    • 3 Pages

    However at that moment he heard a very outlandish noise. Rainsford went to investigate that piccular noise. As he approached the noise he realized they are voices. He then heard a very weird noise….A…

    • 533 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    “The Red Scare and McCarthy Trials” In 1950, Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible on the Salem Witch trials to show the similarity between what was happening currently in the United States and what had happened prior. The “witch-hunt” that was currently happening were people associated with Communism. The “Red Scare” was paranoia across the U.S. after World War I.…

    • 249 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    "Code Blue in room 12", is called over the intercom. I drop the yogurt I was preparing for another patient as I sprint down the hall to room where a 70 year old heart attack patient is beginning to turn blue. As the first nurse to arrive, I begin CPR without hesitation. 30 compressions to 2 breaths, is all that runs through my mind as I try to save the patient from cyanosis. Subconsciously I drown out my co-workers rushing into the room to join me.…

    • 239 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Taking one look into The Crucible by Arthur Miller will let you in on just how brutal and cruel the Red Scare was in the MCcarthy era. An example of this would be when Danforth was discussing the hangings. In today’s age, hanging is considered barbaric. “You misunderstand, sir, I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just” (Miller 119).…

    • 1093 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There was low-toned talk among the troops. The officers were impatient and snappy, their countenances clouded with the tales of misfortune. The troops, sifting through the forest, were sullen. In the youth's company once a man's laugh rang out. A dozen soldiers turned their faces quickly toward him and frowned with vague displeasure.…

    • 172 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “It was like a blade cutting grain. He heard the bullets hitting the men-- little thunk-slaps-- and saw the men falling. Some of them screamed as they fell. Most were silent. Many were dead before they hit the ground.…

    • 621 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Piggy's Alternate Ending

    • 524 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The smoke from the forest continued to climb, creating a dark shroud over the island. It was quiet, the birds and animals had ceased to cry, the silence reminded Ralph of his time before the island, before he and everyone else lost their innocence. Ralph was still on the ground where he had collapsed before. He never thought, after Piggy’s death that he would ever make it home. Ralph didn’t believe he had achieved victory, there was no returning fro what had happened.…

    • 524 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The smell of smoke and the falling of ashes was a sign of defeat that would not be tolerated. It’s December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor and Roger Protankscy and his squadron had just been ordered to be transported onto the USS Missouri. Roger was a strong and robust man fit for a soldier, but it wasn’t just his physical outlook that made him a commander of twenty of the best soldiers in the world it was his ways of leadership that stood out. Roger had a right-hand man and his name was George. He had spent his whole life in the military and a military family.…

    • 1250 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    ALRIGHT! Enough! [I pop out from the forest, tapping my foot the sound of wind and thunder rasping the land] (Jack: Who are you?) The one who’ll get you to stop behaving like uneducated fools.…

    • 823 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Prologue “Come on, it’s leaving!” “You know, maybe I’m having second thoughts on this whole ‘Jamestown’ ordeal…” “Aw you’re just scared, what do think will happen? Us get stranded or something? As if!”…

    • 857 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    (Michelle Reads) It was a normal quiet day in the mundane town of Sioux Falls South Dakota. The streets were empty and the lights were turned out. But all of a sudden you could hear a loud cry coming from the Gonzalez’s house. “What was that noise?” asked Sierra.” “It sounds like Jennifer” implied Diego.” ( Noah) ( Michelle Reads) Jennifer was upstairs by herself so the family all rushed up the stairs to see what was wrong.…

    • 745 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Martin trembled with fear as the fat lady grinned her toothy smile. There wasn’t a way to get out. Martin was trapped. “I’m your mother,” the fat lady said. “Yo-You’re my mom?”…

    • 243 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Another reason the men were interlopers in the forest was because they were not supposed to be in the forest. Signs in the story that indicate this was the storm and also the roebucks or the…

    • 1804 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In “Lord of The Flies,” Golding conceives a dystopian society post World War II. The story tells of young boys stranded on an island following a plane crash. Some persist, while others perished. The theme Golding conveys is how people modify themselves for the benefit of survival.…

    • 542 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Is The Crucible an allegory for the Red Scare during the McCarthy era in the 1950s? The play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is one of the best modern American drama. In his play Miller touches on many issues of the contemporary American society: family relationships, personal responsibility, and morality. Miller wrote this play in the mid 50s when many Americans were concerned about the spread of communism in America.…

    • 885 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays