A Hanging

Jinsen is my favorite character right now because he doesn’t care how other people think of him and loves his life either way. I predict that Jinsen and Justin will hang out again and later become friends. I also think that Justin will be bullied for hanging out with Jinsen. I am hoping Justin will ignore the rumors going around the school and just try to be himself more. I really like the writing style of this book and how it sounds like this stuff might actually be going through a teenager’s…

The Crucible: Greed and Realization A chance. A chance is all that one needs to prove themselves to others. A chance is all that one needs to express themselves to the world, and a chance is all that one needs to take their revenge on others. In Arthur Miller’s book The Crucible, a proposal of witchcraft in a village leads to hysteria and neighbours accusing neighbours of witchcraft for greed. Firstly, When Abigail abuses her influence to achieve a selfish goal, John Proctor begins to…

Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce focuses on the theme about the perception of time. The story is about a man, Peyton Farquhar, who is a young plantation owner that is found guilty for trying to burn down the Owl Creek bridge during the Civil War. They are hanging him for his act of rebellion he had planned while trying to help the Confederacy to defeat the Union. As the man realizes how little time he has left, time emerges as a predominate theme in the story. Bierce supports his theme of time with…

get to school,” says eighth grader Gracie Vallejos. Although snow days can be fun and dangerous, the winter weather can be a great time for you and some friends to hang out, work on projects or homework. Like eighth grader Merry Nebiyu, “I enjoy hanging out with my friends and drinking hot…

second question; “What are the less noticeable details of the photo?”. There is a man smiling in the picture, a middle-aged man pointing at the corpse and many other people of varying ages, the two corpses which are bloodied and the ropes used for the hanging. The main details which I will be detailing about are the two corpses, the smiling man and the pointing…

Bad Code Switching Code switching is to tweak the style of discourse to the gathering of people or gathering being tended to. I had problems code switching when I met these friends that were Mexican and a bad influence my freshmen year of high school. Their names are Gabbie and Morelia yet we called her Moe I had history class with Gabbie and I had science class with Moe and the three of us had foods class together. I was spending so much time with them in school. Well I knew Gabbie and…

"The Black Cat" is a short horror story, written by Edgar Allan Poe. In this story, a narrator is in prison waiting for his punisment, as like hanging. The narrator, who is the main character ,tells us about the story of his own’s life that has gone bad… As a little child, he is decribed as a mild and kind boy who loves all kinds of animals. His favorite thing to do is taking care of his pets and spendig lots of time with them . His favorite animal is a dog. He gets married in his early…

I've been hanging there at "Jo's" since I was ten. And when mom decided she couldn't deal with the arguing anymore and finalized the divorce, I begged to stay, Why would I want to leave my sunny island, friends and my daddy? So she agreed that maybe it was for the best. I was a daddy's girl after all. Growing up and hanging out at the bar wasn't bad. I mean it was in the center of town, so I always saw people and made…

the things that make up who you are and how others view you plays a key role in the novel Night. Throughout the novel, the main character, Eliezer, faces many problems that affect his identity. Many of the things that he witnessed, such as death, hangings, and the dehumanization of Jews at the camps changed the way Eliezer thought about and viewed certain things. Throughout the course of the book, Eliezer’s identity changes negatively greatly due to the situations that he experienced at the…

Night: The transgressional dehumanization of the soul “In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die” (Elie Wiesel). This alternate universe is nothing but one of destruction: the death of the soul. When one is constantly being beaten down, one no longer desires to live. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the Jewish people lose their desire to live as a consequence of enduring extreme dehumanization at the…