Basement

cooking at all. She would be downstairs in the basement or in the living room. She used to run a daycare so I…

heading towards the town I was in. After about twenty minutes had passed, we were still on the phone, since I was worried grandma was not taking the storm seriously. It was close now and there was heavy rain and lightning. Grandma did not have a basement and mom wanted to know what we were going to do. After asking grandma, she said we would use her friend’s abandoned cellar across the street, as she was now in a nursing home. Mom suggested we drive over to my aunt’s, but grandma said it was…

The Night This story is about a girl named Laury. She is eleven years old. She lives in a mansion with her mother, father, and her sister. Her sister’s name is Claudine, and she is fourteen years old. Laury’s favourite colour is purple, her favourite food is French fries, and she likes playing soccer. One day, Laury woke up, and she was so excited because it was Halloween. Claudine was awake, but she was working on her computer. Claudine did not like Halloween, she thought she was too old for…

I remember one year her basement flooded and all of her Christmas decorations got ruined. This is an issue because people like my grandmother cannot afford to buy flood insurance with good coverage. She was forced to remove everything from her basement out of fear that her belongings will get ruined again. This issue however isn’t just something she faces, some of the surrounding houses…

The author, Ursula Le Guin, presents a utopian society in this story, but it ends up not being everything that it seems. To be the utopian society that it is, the town must sacrifice the happiness of a child by locking them away with no light and very little food. The story is set during the summer festival. All the people of the town are happy and we are led to believe the town is perfect. Then Le Guin tells us about the child. The child is kept naked in filth and given only a half a bowl of…

The door flung open, my dad picked me up running towards the basement door. “What’s happening?” I screamed as tears rolled down my eyes. “There’s a hurricane that has hit us. Your mother and I are gathering food supplies and a radio we will have to stay in the basement today.” Says Bill. “Oh okay, is everything going to be alright?” “We will hope for the best.” As I enter the basement mom is making a bed for all three of us. I start to feel bad because my parents just…

Guin in first-person and published in 1973. Le Guin used the allegorical writing technique to reflect the American culture at that moment (Wyman 228). With her pen, there is a world of difference between the environment of Omelas and the scapegoat’s basement. It is extremely irony that the “utopian” city suddenly turns into dystopian (228). The description of the imprisoned child and the free citizens’ reaction are trying to make people think about the selfish side of human nature, their…

Joey Curran Ms. Ruka American Literature 5 October 2015 The Role of Slavery in Modern Economy In the world there are an estimated 215 million child laborers aged between 5 and 17 years old. Around 115 million children work in the worst forms of child labor. Some types of work make useful, positive contributions to a child’s development, however there are other forms of slavery too. Of the children in child labor, some 115 million are engaged in dangerous work, otherwise known as the works forms…

The clip I have to comment is about the film “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” and I am going to analyze it in order to prove the importance of the light in the highlight point in a film and how it reveals information to the spectator. In the clip exists some scenes about two characters; Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) and Martin Vanger (Stellan Skarsgård). The first scene takes place at Martin’s Kitchen. On it is possible to see an open space with straight lines and white colours, with an…

though, they knew the reason they lived in such a perfect world. Occasionally people will leave. We know that there is no such thing as perfection and all things come at a price. In Omelas the price is a child. Deep beneath one of the building in the basement lies a child that is alone and hurting. Everyone in town has seen the child and is told why he/she is there the cost of releasing them. This brings a psychological aspect to the story. It raises the question “should one person suffer for…