Can't Help Falling in Love

“The Man I Killed” O’Brien explains a Viet Cong soldier whom of which he has killed. He felt stuck in time remembering what the man he just killed may have been like before the war. O’Brien is describing the history of the dead Vietnamese man while his American troops continue to move forward. He is in shock from killing the man, meanwhile the rest of the world is moving around him, all in speech and imagination. There is no way that O’Brien knows everything about the fallen soldier playing…

Come over here,” my mom shouted while I was looking out of the window. My mom was in her fifties, and she was the only one that had maintained her sanity throughout the war. I slowly walked towards my mom, with tears in my eyes. “Mom...I can’t do it anymore. I’m going crazy, I have to do something to get out of here. Do something to get out of this world, go somewhere with no wars. Somewhere where there is peace, somewhere where there is calm,” I stuttered with tears spurting out of my eyes…

family and community, which affected the everyday lives of the characters. Gone With the Wind has a main theme of land possession and love for the land as the book continues. As foreshadowed in Chapter 2, Gerald tells Scarlett that she doesn’t need love; land will be the only thing that has ever meant anything. He says, “But there, you’re young. ‘Twill come to you, this love of land. There’s…

fuck, we’re back to this now? Douchebag, heavy-smoking, slick rockstar Alex. That’s too bad, I quite liked rational, empathetic, charming Alex. Wow. Wow, Cloey. Why am I so foolish? A couple sentimental sentences doesn't make him a good man. Stop falling for his deceit so easy! However, which of the two personalities is the true deception? Ugh, stop with your vague, wannabe-poet talk because that doesn't matter now, does it? For at the moment, I'm stuck with Mr. Greaser…

they wanted. People cannot give up for the rest of life, right? No matter what happens, life must go on, said many people. You need to finish the job and do all the activities. To come up through the hard times, there must ways to get motivated. It helps you to be always in ready and on fire condition although you already tired. 10 Tips How to Get Motivated 1. Find what takes you down The very first thing to do is to find out what seems to bring you down. The reasons can…

The Great Gatsby, a novel written by, F. Scott Fitzgerald, interweaves characters from Fitzgerald personal life to intricate love relations that follow his actions of the six most pivotal stages. Throughout the novel, the protagonist Jay Gatsby, shows Fitzgerald’s active attributes. They both experience love and loss, for example, Fitzgerald and Gatsby would both do anything for their beloved. Some may argue that Gatsby is only a fictional character in the novel, however, I believe that that…

The author uses the symbol of the forest to help the reader understand the emotions felt in this story. He does this by making it one of the constitutional settings where mixed emotions roam. The children at first feel happy, but then realize what they’ve done to Margot and instantly regret it. One…

wrong person. She wrote the books to help herself understand why her daughter did it, then she realized that other people would relate to it and how many people had the same story. She continued the story with Glass and Fallout to show the long term effects of crystal meth. In the beginning of Crank it starts with this perfect daughter, Kristina, that is forced…

across the screen. “Every day in America thousands of animals suffer from cruelty and neglect… thousands were rescued last year, but for thousands of others help came too late…” through these words, the screen cuts to pictures of animals that have been rescued, animals that have been neglected and abused- by the people who were supposed to love them (Pattern 10a). Animals should be protected under the law, no matter what the circumstance is. Puppy mills need to be shut down, dog fighting needs…

to mind. Or maybe even a local firefighter, police officer, or actor. In this day and age, a hero is someone that is admired for great courage, someone who is selfless, a fighter of an outstanding cause, the list goes on. But heroes are human, they can’t be perfect, they make mistakes, they change, just like the qualifications of being a hero change over time. In ancient Greece, a hero was typically a great glorified warrior, like Achilles and Hector in the Iliad.…