Amazing Stories

siècle” (McCollum 39). Since the governess was seeing ghosts and described them almost in exact detail to Mrs. Grose, it would be assumed that Mrs. Grose believed the ghosts were there and could see them just as well as the governess. However, as the story progresses it becomes more obvious that she could not see them and had a hard time believing they were actually there. Something Mrs. Grose was always worried about when Peter Quint still worked for the family was how close he and Miles were.…

tell your story, ask for other’s past, talk tentatively, and encourage testing. Facts are the foundation of our belief, because they are less confrontational then conclusions (Patterson, 2012). Facts are effective, because you are not using them through the process of persuasion, rather than we just want a fair chance to be heard. Another way to make the person feel safe is to share a story with them. Sharing a story with them helps the person feel as though you can relate. Telling a story may…

In his book author Shane Burcaw tells his story in a unique way of facing the challenges of having Spinal Muscular Dystrophy. Burcaw is a witty and hilarious with no type of filter 22 year old boy who lives every day to the fullest and stays true to his motto you only live once. This is not your typical story of a how a teen overcomes all obstacles and beats the odds. Burcaw tells it how it is and doesn’t sugar coat anything about how his life has been, in fact he has a camera crew following him…

A Raisin in the Sun Title Controversy; Emotion v. Plot Titles are not to be taken lightly as they are what a reader keeps in mind throughout a piece. “Mother to Son” and “Harlem” are both written by Langston Hughes and portray the struggles of maintaining a dream during difficult times. “Mother to Son” uses the extended metaphor of a staircase that parallels the struggles and overall actions in the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, while “Harlem” uses graphic images in order to…

Introduction Many of us experience heartache and pain. Many of us experience the loss of someone we hold dear to us. The Semmes is a humble family, devoted to one another and always stood for what they believed in and what was right. This is their story of hope through many years of suffering they endured as a family over a loss that no family chooses to experience. Its times like these that love of a family has to dig down deep inside and somehow find the strength to go on, though you leave…

that it can be seen as being lustful or lacking tenderness. While, in “Cherrylog Road” there is imagery and symbolism which makes it harder to decipher the story. For example, James Dickey writes about a kingsnake that is slithering on the floor as the narrator enters the junkyard. This is supposed to symbolize temptation because in the story of Adam & Eve, Eve got tempted to eat from the forbidden tree by the snake. Both writers use similar and different approaches but achieve intriguing the…

Rye by J.D. Salinger is about a boy named Holden Caufield who’s 16 years old (Salinger 21), getting over the fact that he’s just been expelled for his fourth school in the past couple of years. The story takes place in the late 1940’s. The plot is the events that take place in a novel/story. The story begins with Holden just getting his bad news. He doesn’t waste anytime packing his stuff and getting off the campus since he flunked out cause he hated the school and everyone in it. After yelling…

Can you recall a poem that use collision sounds Answer- jingle bells Write your own story using the letter bank of onomatopoeia sounds below. Draw a cartoon strip using the sounds to depict your story Ouch, click, pitter patter, thump, whisper, whizz, cheep, chortle, arf, neigh, purr, chug chug, honk, tick tock, zoom, snip, rat a tat tat, cuckoo Invent your own onomatopoeia words of the following Trees swaying in the wind Children playing in the ground Piano playing Different Jungle sounds…

Max is More Than Just a Story of a Boy and His Dog The 2015 film Max is an entertaining family film because of its story about a family overcoming loss, its outstanding acting, and its kid-friendly action scenes. The film Max follows a teenage boy, Justin Wincott, and the military-trained dog he is left in charge of after his brother is killed in combat in Afghanistan. The dog, a Belgian Malinois named Max suffers from post-traumatic-stress-disorder, putting additional strain on the Wincott…

Have you ever read a story blindly and just couldn’t understand it so you made assumptions about it? That is what happened to me. I recently read Tartuffe by Moliere, after my first read of the story, I thought it was not relatable, virtually impossible to ever happen, and just not funny. However, after understanding the cultural background, the life experiences of the author, and the author’s purpose for writing these stories, I now see this literary work as a strong satire that is relatable…