Helping Others Essay

You never know what they can do to you!” The man walked faster. Imani was scared. They? She thought., Imani walked in sync with the thousands of others and quickly turned into an alley hoping no one would see. She sat down “This was a huge mistake!” She watched people walk in with their feet stepping with each others. They all looked like they were in a marching band or the navy. “I'm so stupid!” The footsteps began to become quieter and the sound of marching boots slowly faded…

In retrospect, what may have drawn the creature’s attention, was in the way I walked. Familiar to every eight-year-old prepubescent, was the act of not bothering to lift your leg one after the other. An often reprimanded undertaking, that created a great deal of sound, when hard plastic greeted with worn and cracked concreate. The sky had greyed, and it had an annoying indecisive attitude as to whether it wanted to rain or not. It was halfway down a “shortcut,” an alley that separated the…

Why did she agree to go on this trip with her friends? Instead they wanted to drink all night in the motel room while she wanted some sleep. Tori Devins flipped her hair over her shoulder and tapped her foot in front of the dingy motel. She knew it was wrong for her to leave but she could not stand to be in that room a second longer. All she needed to was to find a way to occupy her time until they fell asleep. There stood in front of her was a dimly light gas station across the street. A few…

greedy people want more than others. Like just about everyone, I have been a greedy person, and have had greed. My greed is ordinary though it is my motivator to go to college, get a better job, and truly succeed in life. I believe greed is good and bad because it can bring out the worst in people, but others it truly drives them to just be successful, happy people. I hope to describe how greed is something that just about everyone has and what effect it has on others. The…

Miss Brill has created a different world in which she does not feel so alone, until she faces the reality of others. Miss…

with different subjects such as partition, human life, social taboos, communal violence, so on and so forth. His stories revolving round the subject of partition of the subcontinent after independence in 1947 are more famous and more known than his other stories. Toba Tek Singh is one such story, a masterpiece, which is interwoven with the theme of partition and its emotional and psychological effects on the human psyche. Manto very realistically depicts the division of society into different…

There was never a rich baby left out on the streets, only those who came from an extremely poor mother. Most babies come from the East where their mothers were not married and had no name other than their own to bestow upon the baby. In most cases, mothers would only wrap the innocent babies in newspaper. In rare occasions, they were some found in a clean slip and a little message pinned onto their diaper. The messages would be a note for…

The setting in T. Coraghessan Boyle’s “Greasy Lake” shows powerful symbols that can help the reader understand certain aspects of story. Greasy lake is a story, where the narrator, who represents Boyle due to his rebellious childhood, goes out with his also “independent friends” to a hang out spot to party and maybe meet women. Little did they know that the lake itself is “fetid and murky” and the surrounding are “mud banks with glittering with broken glass and strewn with beer cans and the…

has throughout the story would not be clear to the reader. The reader gets to experience these as the reader does. All in all, the narration in “Greasy Lake” was a great choice by the author and provides so much more information and detail than any other narration would…

We are our surroundings. Our surroundings make us, us. Our environment gives us our character. For instance some people may adapt to their surroundings, or may become the exact opposite. People are easily victimized by their habitat. In T. Coraghessan Boyle’s short story, “Greasy Lake,” the setting of this foul lake plays a crucial role in developing the climax of the story and ultimately leads to the narrator’s realization that he is wasting his teenaged life. In a cross match twist; Boyle,…