Annie John

Preface A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. Some people might find a deep and mysterious meaning in this fact and try their hardest to give themselves an answer. Every single person spends hours, days, years, even lifetimes to seek a reason to even the simplest things. Our hard work and dedication to what we believe in strengthens our pride and brightens our attitude. No matter how foolish a goal may be, the important part is the realization and discoveries made through the process. Although filled…

One day, while Dillard was working in her office, she was distracted by the sound of an airplane cutting through the air. She uses imagery of sound to describe what she witnessed in the fortieth paragraph. Dillard heard the “buzz of an airplane...it rose and fell musically, and it never quit.” This imagery is included in order to bring back the tone of awed appreciation, and to display to the audience that Dillard thinking about Rahm’s performance months after her last encounter with him. In the…

Annie Desmond and her friends Talisha and Margie are inner-city teens struggling with the many implications of living in a lower-income community. Annie’s mother, Myrna Desmond, had Annie when she was in junior high school and still dreams of being a writer. Myrna is a cleaning lady for an office and she repeatedly has gotten in trouble for messing with the computers in the office.Annie and her mother have a strained relationship due in part to the fact that Myrna resents Annie for being born…

Dillard In-Class Write Annie Dillard includes two major analogies in her text, “The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” including the penny game she used to play as a child and the gaps that house the spirits. Dillard uses the penny game not to disappoint strangers with a mere penny but rather to “cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity,” showing the importance of little things that can make your day. (Dillard 22) Dillard also uses the gaps as well to emphasize the importance of little things,…

“Oh, be a fine girl/guy kiss me,” or maybe not. Learning this phrase has helped multiple astronomers to educate themselves on the spectral classification of stars and continues to do so in today’s time. Annie Jump Cannon’s legacy will carry on lasting a lifetime! The first letters of each word in the phrase represents the seven main types of stars. Starting with ”‘O,” these stars are very young, blue, hot, massive and extremely bright star. This type of star is very uncommon similar to the “B”…

For many years, Little Orphan Annie has been a source of entertainment for Americans, both during the Great Depression and after. The Great Depression was a hard time for everybody and caused a national crisis due to the stock market crash within the United States. During the Great depression, more often than not, families would have to be separated in order to find work. During this time of struggle, the protagonist on the radio show Little Orphan Annie, Annie, became a figure of courage and…

“The Night Face Up” The third-person narrator had just been in a motorcycling accident and was rushed to the hospital thereafter to treat his injuries, but is kept in a ward with the other patients and develops a hospital phobia based on the description and interpretations of the smells and the treatment itself. He eventually dreams himself in a different time period of himself as part of the Motecas fighting against the Aztecs. It is implied where he may have died of a fever while being…

of love that any logic or reason can be found” (A Beautiful Mind). Without Alicia, it would be impossible for John to win the Nobel Prize. John expresses his great gratitude for his wife who serves as a silent support behind him. John’s mental condition also improves under Alicia’s care. When one of his hallucinated characters, Parcher, asks John “Who’s to say that we are not real?” John says “I am. You are the one who is not real” (A Beautiful Mind). John’s reactions illustrate that he is now…

In Annie Dillard’s essay, Living Like Weasels, Dillard uses stylistic writing to make her story more universally understandable, starting from her initial encounter the with a weasel and the life lesson she took out of the encounter. The essay gives its readers an unusual comparison between the life of human beings and the life of weasels. There is also a physical description of how Ernest Thompson shot an eagle and found the skull of a weasel clinging to its throat which was a perfect symbol of…

Dreams one of the best heartfelt story of a personal redemption takes you through one of the most important stages of a hero’s journey, the call to adventure. Ray Kinsley, your, non-typical farmer in Iowa lives with his two mentors. One being his wife Annie and the other his daughter Karin. When he was only three his mother, died and his father’s relationship wasn’t the best as he left to attend Berkeley College, a school far away from home. This hero wasn’t your typical risk taker until one day…