A Man Lay Dead

longs for a world that she will not let herself be a part of. In “Eveline,” by James Joyce, though the character of Eveline wishes to escape the life she’s living, she is bound tightly by her abusive relationship with her father and a promise to her dead mother, as well as being overwhelmed by change and excitement, leaving her both metaphorically and somewhat literally paralyzed as she allows her future to drift away at sea. Eveline, like anybody who has fallen…

The first essay in Fulghum’s collection All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, which he titles “Credo”, plainly lays out his philosophy on life: people can live satisfying and meaningful lives if they only remember those basic lessons learned by all children. His proposed issue with humanity is that we often forget these simple lessons. Basic tenants of childhood like sharing, being nice, and cleaning up after one’s self are often neglected by adults. Fulghum believes that by…

Golding uses kids with their innocents and the struggle to survive to see which comes through, good or evil, civilization or savagery. The outcome may be drastic but it is realistic. I hope my picture helps bring to light the point he is trying to lay across. With symbolism he created a story that can be translated into the faults within our world and the communities within it. He shows how even the most innocent school boys can turn into savages, just by using the mandates and expectations of…

In “A Rose for Emily”, Emily sleeps next to the dead body of her father and her boyfriend. “The man himself lay in the bed”(Faulkner 1074) which in other words shows that she put their lifeless bodies in the bed and she was sleeping next to those corpses. In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, the narrator is in quite a…

John Steinbeck’s The Red Pony, a collection of stories revolving around a young boy coming of age, and The Grapes of Wrath, a novel written about a family's journey from the aftermath of the Dust Bowl to their life in California, illustrates that a person’s character changes when one goes through adversities and grows from those obstacles. People don’t just experience hardships and forget about what happened. There is something that provokes feeling in them to cause a change in the way they may…

Stories must be passed down because they retell history, connect bonds together, and lay as a basic foundation for beliefs. Stories must be passed down because they retell history. In the novel Beloved, there are many flashbacks across the book and this is done on purpose because Toni Morrison wanted her audience to feel like they were…

Arguably one of the most influential writers in American history is Edgar Allan Poe. Works such as Fall of the House of Usher, in which a man goes to assist an ill friend and his sister only to find them both beyond help, and The Raven, in which a man realizes he will never see his lover again, are texts that are highly reliant on the setting in which they take place. The dark and gloomy scene in both texts contributes to the plot significantly. The morbidity of each text is emphasized by the…

visions a reader perceives because his statements and actions would be considered unreasonable and immature. The monster elaborates to Frankenstein; the assault he committed to the man, “At that moment I heard the steps of my younger protectors. I had not a moment to lose; but, seizing the hand of the old man, I cried, 'Now is the time! - save and protect me! You and your family are the friends whom I seek. Do not you desert me in the hour of trial!’” Frankenstein, Mary Shelly (114) The…

When Emily’s father died she showed no grief over the situation; she met people at the door and informed them “her father was not dead” she did this for days before she finally broke down allowing his body to be removed. The text states “We did not call her crazy then.” The town was aware of the mental decline they just did not want to state it. The town wanted to protect Emily no…

People are used as food and kept trapped in human pantries: “Huddled against the back wall were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands. On the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt.”(Page___) The Man and Boy long for an encounter with someone who has yet to go insane, as they are isolated from trusting individuals like themselves. Meanwhile, in On the Beach, the society that the characters…