Short Essay About Vandalism

In the story "Ordinary Use," by Alice Walker, the plot is extraordinarily impacted by Maggie and Dee, the two little girls of the storyteller. In spite of the fact that they are sisters and are brought up in a similar situation, Maggie and Dee are altogether different from each other; they think and act unmistakably. In addition, their clashing characters fill in as images to pass on the general subject of the story. From the earliest starting point, the storyteller uncovers the…

‘The Death of a Bachelor’: A visual synthesis in enjoying life. The visual text that it’s being analyzed is the album cover for ‘The Death of a Bachelor’ by Panic! at The Disco (See Appendix A). The image is a photo taken by Brendon Urie’s friend. A car is seen in the pool. However, the car is just a drawing. The car is the first thing that one focuses on since it’s a bit larger than everything else. In this cover one can see the lead singer Urie laying on the rooftop naked. Also, it…

Tania Amador Mr. Griffey AP Literature and Composition 7 August 2017 The Namesake A theme that the author, Jhumpa Lahiri, is communicating through text is identity the novel really revolves around the names that represent a person in the Bengali culture. The title is an choice that Lahiri automatically makes The Namesake the audiences understands the foreshadow that the book will be about names or identity before even reading the book. The author then chooses to reveal the importance of a “good…

Based on “The ABCs of Summer Reading”, The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti fit two of the author’s criteria for a good summer reading book.With The Good Thief, the peculiarity of the main character caught my attention, and I thought it was interesting he only had one hand. In The Good Thief, Ren, our protagonist, only has one hand, and he doesn’t know why. However, when Benjamin Nab adopts Ren from the orphanage, Ren is thrown into Benjamin’s dangerous life of thievery, trickery, and lies, and he…

What lasts is what is written. “Stories are for joining the past to the future… Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story,” according to Tim O’Brien who wrote the novel, The Things They Carried. People write for many different reasons; for enjoyment, for therapy, to share a story, etc. O’Brien writes as a way to process his memories of the war. He retains his experiences and keeps the dead alive through literature. Memories won’t last for…

"The Bazaar of Bad Dreams" is a collection of short horror stories. Before each story there's a little note from Stephen King, explaining why, how, and when he created the story. There are twenty short stories and two poems{I counted}, the first story is a highway rest stop where an abandoned car sits, good people, come to the cars aid, thinking something bad has happened to someone, only when they touch the car with anything touching them the car eats them. The next story is about a couple who…

In the article Simply, Chamorro: Telling Tales of Demise and Survival in Guam by Vicente M Diaz, he narrates the history of Guam through various tales. The tales describe the culture of Guam, narrates how Guam is before and after the war. Furthermore, they also recount how the war erased Guam’s culture. Specifically, the tales indicate that this drastic change in Guam’s culture was caused by American capitalistic and military oriented perspectives, and cultural assimilation. This is significant…

Blind to Reality Alan Strang. As soon as I heard his last name, I instantly thought of two words: strange and strangle. These two words hinted a lot about the main character and his journey. First off, the obvious. Yes, Alan was a pretty strange character; his disheveled outward appearance coupled with odd mannerisms like chanting gibberish made this vividly clear early on. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, he also worships horses. His struggle also figuratively and literally strangled him, driving…

Could you imagine reading about the taste of cheddar and sour cream ruffles for three full pages? Or discovering how a man legally exploits patients on their death beds for money? Authors Alex Halberstadt and Matt Levine are both capable of delivering amazing stories despite having vast differences in their writing styles. Alex Halberstadt reaches his audience through his description and comparison and contrast rhetorical modes. While Matt Levine shines when using cause and effect. However both…

The consequence of having Louise think of herself is death, by the appearance of the oppression that follows her in the figure of her husband. The future Louise envisioned is abruptly ceased off, the writers purposeful conclusion of irony through short lived liberation. “Free , Free, free mind” (SH) Showing how Louise accepts the joy of freedom that overtakes her with the absence of her husband in order to feel genuine happiness. The parallel between Louise and The Yellow Wallpaper shows how one…