Campfire

sea witches. By morning I was worn out. My limbs felt sore and stiff as wood, my head groggy. I might have felt better if I hadn’t slept at all. Isabel woke me at the crack of dawn. “Rise and shine, Mr. Greene,” she chirped, pitching a log into the campfire. “The gang took Emma into the woods to gather some twigs. Would you like some breakfast? I made french toast, and there’s tea.” “Sure,” I said, suddenly hungry. She handed me a plate while a gremlin splashed some tea in my cup. “Ahoy there,…

There are many things I remember from my long 17 years of being alive, playing football, shooting guns, passing time with loved ones, my first girlfriend, but on thing that will always stand above the crowd is the smell of beer. Not the sweet smell of Bourbon, or the harsh smell of Whiskey, or the savory smell of Wine, but the rotten smell of cheap beer. It was a smell that followed me everywhere in the early years of my adolescence, so much so that I began to believe that it was the social norm…

each of the four goals are subsets that detail exactly how they are going to be carried out. The TPWD moves itself steadily forward in the direction of “every child (having) the opportunity to climb a tree, catch a fish or roast marshmallows over a campfire.” (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department,…

For Buck, this recovery involves repeated visions of his primitive past, which usually occur late at night when he is lying alongside a campfire. He sees the men around him as primitive men, draped in furs and wary of the prehistoric dark around them, and then he has visions of himself as a primitive, wild creature, hunting his prey in the primeval forests. Each of these visions brings him…

The poems "Nighttime Fires" and "Seniors" both deal directly with memories of their authors' experiences as youths. In "Nighttime Fires", Regina Barreca tells the reader that after her father lost his job he developed an unhealthy obsession with watching houses burn. She then discusses how he involved his family in this somewhat insalubrious fixation. Similarly, in "Seniors", Alberto Rios discusses several events that had an impact on him and the word choices he uses relay that he still allows…

In both Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Paul Horgan’s Mountain Standard Time there is a scene of violence. Both scenes feature hate crimes against individuals, where a group of people exert all their anger and frustration on a person. In Atonement, the scene features a soldier from the British Royal Air Force (RAF) being beaten to death by angered soldiers who experienced Dunkirk, they use the man as a punching bag, blaming him for their loss. In Mountain Standard Time, a little boy is riding his…

They gave them a hearty meal, and entertained them around a campfire lit in the village center with stories, poems, and riddles. During the course of the evening, one fellow caught the attention of the ministers. He was very quick with his answers and clever in his ways. His name was Vonik. They approached him, suggested…

Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Kansas. Earhart was an American famous pilot. She was also the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic alone. Earhart had to undergo a lot of challenges such as a transatlantic solo flight, other flights, and the challenge of her last flight. After Charles Lindbergh's solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927, his interest grew for having a woman fly across the Atlantic. Lindbergh had this interest because he was not sure is a woman could do…

and others. Fire - his destructive way - is compared to Abner’s personality, since Sarty uses it to show who is father is. After the night of the court, Abner and his family camped near a spring. Since the night is a cold, Abner builds his family a campfire, to give them warmth.. However, the fire constructed by Abner is "a small fire, neat, niggard almost, a shrewd fire" (158). The diction used to describe the fire portrays that this fire is quite useless to the family. Since the fire is small,…

THE HISTORY OF THE ALCAN HIGHWAY The idea of laying a roadway to connect the United States with the North American continent’s ‘far north’ can be traced all the way back to the Yukon gold rushes of the 1890’s. It wasn’t till about the 1930’s that they started putting the idea into effect. The Alaska territorial legislature commission worked out different possibilities and routes. It took the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to finally get the work started which is kind of unfortunate. When…