Barn Burning

People seem to believe that time passes by either quickly or slowly. The truth is that during certain points in life, it appears to pass by more swiftly or more gradually than other times. Brother, the narrator and protagonist of James Hurst’s short story “The Scarlet Ibis,” is now reflecting back on his youth, as if peering through a window where he can see the past. Now fully grown, he recognizes how he has treated Doodle, his younger brother, and how he impacts Doodle’s life. Hence, Brother…

different from theirs. This extreme difference led to hatred, bitterness, and resentment. With growing colonization the hatred for the settlers drove natives to war. “Indian war parties attacked frontier settlements, killing their inhabitants, burning homes and barns, and taking away as many captives as possible. ” In…

murder his brother since he will be unable to do much physical movement then let him live. However, he does not end up killing Doodle, but when Doodle is older, Brother lets him in on a secret. Brother reminisces, “One day I took him [Doodle] up to the barn loft and showed him his casket, telling how we all had believed he would die”(486). This is exceedingly cruel of Brother to do. The secret that Doodle is let in on is that almost everyone in his family thought he was going to die, which is…

Then she sees him chopping up and burning the stakes. Beret realizes that the stakes belong to the Irish and that Per Hansa had shoes them away. Then he proceeds to tell everyone what he had found and that he had destroyed the stakes. Everyone proceeded to praise him for what he had done…

For as long as I can remember my great-grandparents have owned a wood burning stove to heat their house. My great-grandpa, my mother, my brother, and I had always been the ones to retrieve and split the wood for their stove. Since my great-grandpa and mother have gotten older, the responsibility of this laborious task has been handed down to my brother, Griffin, and myself. Retrieving and splitting wood is a long, tiring, and cold process. First, as with most things we must start at the source,…

waiting for him.” (171). These facts are something Okonkwo knows, but wished so desperately not to be true. Okonkwo spent his seven years of exile in his motherland preparing himself for an impactful return into his fatherland: “He would build a bigger barn than he had before and he would build huts for two new wives.” (171). Sadly, all that Okonkwo prepares for his return is pointless. Nobody in the clan of Okonkwo’s fatherland, Umuofia, is interested in the once amazing Okonkwo when he…

Just a few lots to the west of the two Jennings’ farm was the Pelham branch of the Quaker’s the oldest such branch in Canada. The Friends, as they call their members settled in the Niagara region in 1786 many from New Jersey in Sussex County, the same county in which Hannah was born. As Quaker’s they disavowed anything to do with violence and hence took no active part in the Revolutionary War. This stance of neutrality had members suffer double taxation and the loss of some civil rights – and…

huge flames!’” (Wiesel 25). Everyone thought she was hallucinating and even took a couple blows to the head because she wouldn’t quiet down. Eliezer Wiesel experiences the theme of fire once again while viewing the horrific scene of the ditch with burning babies. Wiesel says he would never forget this scene (34). While Night is more stern with a significant symbol, Life is Beautiful has its symbol based off of the tank, which is cheerful because it means they’ve been liberated. Guido…

The films The Fall of Berlin (film 1) and Downfall (film 2) both present different depictions of Adolf Hitler in his final days during the Battle of Berlin. The first film provides a contrast between Hitler and Stalin throughout Germanys’ war with the Soviet Union. The Fall of Berlin was truly a propaganda film to promote Stalin as a leader and celebrate the Soviet Union’s victory against Germany. The film portrays Hitler as an explosive, demanding and unreasonable dictator who acts more as a…

New to rural life, my family and I were adjusting to the quiet of the country. We lived in a new home my father built with a barn out back. I had my own room with heart printed wallpaper. I had a long bus ride to school on dirt roads instead of walking on a sidewalk through a cookie cutter neighborhood. This was my parents idea of the American dream, but it was my idea of going back in time. My parents wanted to enroll me in a 4-H club, but I had no idea what 4-H was. I reluctantly looked…