The Painted Door Essay

My family has two places where we live, each one on opposite sides of the Golden Gate Bridge. While I like to say that I love each of them equally, I find myself often having a favorite. They have been in my family since before I was born. Even though I spend the majority of my time in San Francisco, my house in Petaluma will always be my home. Somehow my family always gets more familiar with each other once we pass Novato. Our shoulders relax and we push the stress from the city off for a…

“Araby” by James Joyce and “The Management of Grief” by Bharati Mukherjee have two different unqiue plots in the text however both share a larger picture. The two stories have a similar falling action where both protagonist face reailty and learn to move on. The plot of both stories share the same main idea and concept. Tragedy exists in both plots where both protagonist are face to deal with and learn something from. In “Araby”, the unamed Dublin boy realizes that there is always the conflict…

The dining car was well appointed with lace curtains and crisp, white tablecloths. Silver utensils matched an ornate sliver teapot that complemented the painted china dishware. This car of the train was strictly reserved for only the most well-to-do of passengers. Miss Vanderholm and Mirella sat side by side at a small, rectangular table. The seat across from them was free for their visitor. Both ladies were dressed for supper in elegant silk more fitting for an East Coast garden party than for…

work and they wanted us to visit Iceland, where we are originally from. When we got to our grandparent´s house, grandma had fresh baked cookies and ready for us. When we had had a bite to eat she showed us our room. Our room was very cozy. It was painted a light blue color and there were two beds, 2 desks and a closet. That night we were very tired after our long trip and decided to go to bed early after a nice fish dinner. That night I woke up in the middle of the night when I heard a…

Baptist are located on the left hand side of the entrance. There were some church members standing at the entrance welcoming people and handing out the scripture booklets, they were very friendly. We had to pass through another door in order to go into the church. Above the door, there is an angel holding a book with the line “Henceforth time shall be no more” written on it. There were several Holy water stands provided there and Catholics are supposed to use the Holy water to draw the sign of…

hundred civilians; the bombing of the rural village had no military value (Manzanares). German fighters swarmed the village, gunning down citizens trying to escape from the burning city (“Bombing of Guernica”). Pablo Picasso, inspired by this tragedy, painted a large, eleven-foot-tall mural entitled Guernica. In the painting, Picasso represented the horror of being trapped and helpless, much as the citizens of Guernica must have felt in the bombing and gunning runs. The villagers were…

his friends, they immediately asked if he was rich. After the big move to Newport, Dumas talks about what it was like and how it was different. First, he talks about how it’s run by an association. “This meant that if you wanted to paint your front door fuchsia, you were out of luck” (Dumas 90). Every house had to be the same color, the association would have to get…

As they painted and read together listing, as if in a dream the story states, but in reality they were each overwhelmed by the effect leading to the narrator merely recalling the memory of his long lost childhood friend. “Do I not distinguish that heavy and horrible beating of her heart? MADMAN!" here he sprang furiously to his feet, and shrieked out his syllables, as if in the effort he were giving up his soul --"MADMAN! I TELL YOU THAT SHE NOW STANDS WITHOUT THE DOOR!" this entire story…

Johannes Vermeer’s “A Maid Asleep,” painted around 1657, is one of his earlier paintings, in which Vermeer experimented with “genre painting.” Although not particularly popular during his own time, he is now revered as one of the best Dutch artists. Perhaps his lack of recognition during the seventeenth century was due to the small amount of paintings he produced or the fact that only a small group of people bought his paintings in Delft, the city he lived in. The small group of people found…

expect this when choosing them as their dining option. However, upon entering the Erie Red Lobster, you are welcomed by a cliché atmosphere, compiled with service that lacks hospitality, and food that has poor quality. As soon as we walked through the door we were greeted and put on a wait. The host told us it would only be a short wait “10-15 minutes”. While we waited in the lobby, which is cramped area with only two wooden benches…