Beast Boy

You lean back, stretching your arms out wide before settling them down behind your head and neck. With one last sigh, you relax into the crackling of the fire and cool breeze sweeping past, looking around, gazing upon the sullen trees with branches draping about. This is it, you think. Alone, free, nothing but my thoughts and the beauty around me here. Until you hear a snap. One of the swaying branches you had just been admiring alerts you back into awakeness. You slide back until you’re fully…

these three entities that guide us through our entire lives. However, throughout human history these entities have been portrayed in vastly different spectacles. From the age-old tale “Faxelange” by Marquis de Sade, to the much more recent short story “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro, the body is depicted in a profound and distinctive way. These stories show a trend in how society has viewed genders over the past few hundred years, as well as the evolution in the role that each gender “should”…

you end up with a rope around your throat. This was what John Wayne Gacy did to his many victims. John Wayne Gacy seemed to be a respected business man with many friends in high places, but his life would be an open book after his last murder of a boy by the name of Robert Piest. Wounded by his childhood, Gacy was taught to hide unusual yearning for the opposite sex because of his ruthless father. Gacy was pushed to focus on pleasing his father rather than figuring out his sexuality. Satisfying…

Who Are Hero’s? Gunfire rings out through the quiet community at dusk; bullets riddle the air, flying towards an innocent boy perched on his mother’s porch. As a result, the serene atmosphere the boy enjoyed had been interrupted by discomfort as a bullet pierced his meager body. Of course, this young man needs some heroes, not ones who flutter through the sky, or ones with super strength, but everyday heroes who help us each day. His heroes show up. His mother rushes to the side of her precious…

The amount and type of light present in the story is directly related to the perceived potential for happiness. As a young boy, before seeing death for the first time, Carson found the most comfort during “afternoons in the barn … when the light was at it’s apex” (Rash 15). This light bathes the barn in gold and symbolizes pure contentment. Nothing was blocking the light, or…

sentence of the first paragraph sets the theme for the story. “An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground” (Joyce). The house was set apart from the other houses. This house symbolizes the boy set apart from his friends who were not yet experiencing feelings like he was toward Mangan’s sister. He was also being raised…

would see little boys wearing jeans and t-shirts with colors like blue, red and green. The little girls were many times soft spoken, gentle and kind. The little boys many times were rough and loud. Starting at a young age, these children learned what they were supposed to be like. Little girls are dressed in pink dresses and bows, while boys are dressed in blue jeans and a t-shirt. Baby girls are talked to in calm soft voices and told how precious and beautiful they look, while baby boys are…

Joyce’s also uses foreshadowing to predict the disappointment the boy will eventually feel about love. The boy illustrate that, “North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street [...] An uninhabited house of two stories stood at the blind end…” (Joyce). In this quote, Joyce is hinting about blindness and the inability to see, which foreshadows the epiphany, the boy experiences at the end of the story. The epiphany the boy experiences, is the realization of self clarity. Both stories are…

The father-son relationship has flourished from the ancient times of cave fathers who taught their sons how to hunt, to the modern day dads who teach their sons how to play golf. A good father is one who can teach his son how to grow into a mature young man. Some fathers do this in unconditional ways; however, if the father is able to teach his son how to be a man, he has done his job. One writer who dives deep into this father son relationship is Scott Russell Sanders. In his essay “Under…

regarding “easy girls” in the school that would be available to have sex with the team after they had chosen one. The team continued to joke about how “all girls are easy.” They describe how all girls want sex just as bad as “guys want sex.” Some of the boys on the team even go so far as to say that girls have described fantasies of being raped as a way of making them feel special and that “being raped” would be very “cool.” The team then takes a chilling turn when one of the teammates…