A Man Lay Dead

supplies were filled. The wind whistled as the sun broke through the sky and the cold soon scattered away. I searched for Ben all over the small little area of the forest were the guards weren’t currently roaming. I tried to look for a young strong man with long blonde hair and bright…

In Tim O’Brien’s book about the Vietnam War he tells many stories. He starts off by explaining what each man carried, going into the war itself where people are killing other people and soldiers are dying, then talking about a man O’Brien killed, ending with what types of emotion these soldiers brought home with them. Some feel grief, torn, lost, and others simply feel okay. War gives each man a different feeling towards it. I think that is why O’Brien chooses to tell his stories in a…

calling her every name that love could teach him. I began to fear for his brain. I brought him cup of coffee which I had mixed with an opiate. In about an hour I went back and found him fast asleep with his face on the pillow close by the face of his dead wife” (page 291). When I first read this it strangely caught my attention, the sadness in his actions and emotions made John’s pain very palpable. You feel the pain that John was enduring. The emotional distress and sadness is absolutely a…

where the sniper lay. An informer” (Page 17). This woman informed a man of the protagonist’s location, they both had the priority to kill the sniper but unfortunately for the 2 enemies, they both failed to accomplish their task. The incident was followed by “In the streets beneath all lay still” (Page 8). This line is similar to when the sniper has not encountered anyone which shows that there was no point of trying to kill the sniper because it did not advance anybody. The man and woman who…

In “Traveling Through the Dark,” William E. Stafford opens his poem by establishing the setting of a dead deer on the side of the road, while at the same time setting the tone of something much darker and deeper than the image portrayed. He uses simplicity to make the statement that the main character who is also the speaker, writes a story in which he is traveling in a car and comes across a dead deer, with this simple death, come decisions that he has to make, the biggest one taking a…

wondered off and saw her too far away from home. When she realize she was too far she began to walk back towards her house then she steps on a dead man face on a mistake. She later then realize that the man got hung by the tree she was around because his head was in one spot while his body was in another. The plow line that was in the soil was what made me think the man was hung. In paragraph 5 would be described as foreshadowing because the author gave a sign of what was coming next in the…

As I Lay Dying: One Eventful Family Trip Faulkner’s eventful truth telling story As I Lay Dying is a showing of many different characters points of view and teaching readers the truth about the people who surround a person may or may not take advantage of him or her while they are in need of them the most. F William Faulkner is what some may call a creative genius with the works he has produced. Some might even call him a great American author. He has created many amazing books that gained…

you go yellin’,” he said, and he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish.” ( “Of Mice an Men” pg.91). The result of his panic is the death of Curley’s wife, “He looked down at her, and carefully he removed his hand from over her mouth, and she lay still….When she didn’t answer nor move he bent closely over her. He lifted her arm and let it drop… he whispered in fright, “I done a bad thing. I done another bad thing.”’ ( “Of Mice and Men” pg.91) He was shaking her so hard that cause her neck…

saucy-lad, green-eyed and ruddy-checked and fair with no whit for the holy church” (97). While in Jerusalem, Godric visits the site where Jesus cruelly suffered. In addition, He compares Rome to Jerusalem stating, “Rome and her glory were of all things dead. While Jerusalem is still alive because he sees our lady and the holy sepulcher” (102). Godric weeps for all his sins he committed in Jerusalem. His baptized in the river Jordan and he describes his experience as, “The soul, is set free from…

out of fearing for their lives. Giles Corey refused to confess the name of a man that had wronged him, because he knew that the man would be hung for it. Elizabeth Proctor explains to John Proctor “Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay” (pg 135). The results of Giles Corey’s death display the Yin and the Yang of resistance. His protest cost him his life, but he also saves the life of another man and increased the drive of others to display the same resistance. There are…