Short Essay About Vandalism

The story featured in this essay is “The Window” by Brian Evenson. The character is telling his friend about the obscure dream he had, or even possibly a real event that occurred that he is still trying to decipher. He is unsure if it even happened because the details are a little fuzzy and quite literally, out of this world. The character keeps distorting perspectives which does not seem to have a purpose until later, when he describes that at the point he feels an out of body experience. As in…

Love, status, and money In the two stories “The Necklace” and “The Gift of the Magi” both show a different view of love. In the stories they show the lack of money, status, and love for their partner. These appear between both Della and Madame Loisel are similar and diverse. But love plays a big role in the two books it shows their character and what will become of them in the end. In “The Necklace” Madame Loisel is miserable with her life. The lack of money, status and the love of her…

Personal Narrative As a person, I never choose a side. I am both introverted and extroverted, both confident and insecure, both positive and negative, both impulsive and cautious. I’m a mix of everything because although I love talking to people I hate talking to strangers. Although I like crop tops I feel insecure the whole time I wear them. Although I think there is good in everyone I believe the world is a terrible place. How people view me changes drastically from person to person because…

JcPenney: A Narrative Essay on Life’s Most Embarrassing Moments The waiting room at JcPenney filled up with sunshine and magic. Everything was now lit up in a new spectacular way. The bench in front of me gave off a spectacular light that made the world seem beautiful. Everything that seemed magical to a six-year-old me still has the same effect to this day. When I was six years old, I hated the idea of shopping. The very thought of looking at clothes and other appliances for over an hour did…

Many authors attempt the feat of creating a novel that blurs the lines of reality and fantasy but few achieve it. Writer Martel perfectly executes this feat in his novel The life of Pi. To convey this world to the readers along with its nature, Martel uses Dualism, realism, anthropomorphism, and Zoomorphism. By using these devises he is able to relay this fantastical world in a real light that leaves the reader questioning where does reality end and the fantasy begin. Martel uses the Dualism…

Paul, a young boy in “The Rocking Horse Winner” a short story by J.D. Lawrence, is constantly creating ways to satisfy his mother’s never-ending need for materialistic objects. Paul is coming from a well off family, where Hester, Paul’s mother describes their living situation as “poor”, she has an ideology of herself where she must present herself as a wealthy member of society. The family always lives in fear of running out of money due to Hester’s way of living expectations. She blams the…

Writer John Green, known for composing hit novels, explains why the young adult fiction genre is still very well needed; as well as how it will adapt in the future in his article “Does YA Mean Anything Anymore?: Genre in a Digitized World”. Throughout the text, he hits on multiple important topics such as worry, empathy, the inner darkness, meaninglessness, morality and genre; all setting up for or proving his point on YA’s purpose. Green discusses how a good book of the YA genre helps plenty…

Within James Joyce’s collection of short stories Dubliners, the final story is called “The Dead.” This story serves as a conclusion to all of the continual themes and plot devices found throughout the collection. With a modernist lens applied, the main protagonist, Gabriel Conroy is seen to replicate many themes found in modernist literature. Throughout this short story, James Joyce uses this main protagonist to portray modernist themes of alienation, stream of consciousness, and epiphany by…

Looking at Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” we will just see a couple arguing about abortion and whether the girl would go through with it. The couple believes that when Jig goes through with the abortion the relationship will automatically fall back to the blissful state it was before the obstruction of the baby come along. Hemingway said, “And if I do it you’ll be happy and things will be like they were and you’ll love me” (361). The girl is willing to go through with abortion,…

Have you ever felt like all odds were against you including your friends and family? Flik the main character in the movie A Bug's Life was striving to please his colony. However, no matter what he did the outcome was mostly negative. Until Flik made a trip to the city where he met some circus bugs who helped him and his colony gain freedom from the grasshoppers. Linda Seger the author of the essay “Creating the Myth” explains the Hero Myth. The Hero Myth is a basic story structure that many…