Closer

was heading home after a hard day at work. As he arrived at his house he saw the door open and it felt very sketchy. Maybe it was Trevon, who forgot to close the door as he left. He walked slowly to his bedroom, tiptoeing in fear. As he came closer and closer to the door he started getting creepy vibes. He turned a corner in his duplex and was alarmed with a bloody body smeared on his kitchen floor. He ran posthaste towards Bob to check his pulse. Frightening thoughts filled his mind and he…

a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well ”(syme 51). It is very difficult to escape the impression that Orwell’s future is closer to the reality that we are facing than most people would like to believe. In today 's society we see connections made from the way our society speaks and to Orwell 's newspeak language. Newspeak is being used for achieving various purposes, and…

taking a break and visiting Galveston excited me. Completely overlooking the five hour drive, getting there wasn’t so bad. I actually found it quite charming. I was able to visit towns and, see new things that were fascinating. As I got closer and closer to Galveston I could feel my body filling up with excitement. It was a feeling that could barely keep me in my seat. I had a smile on my face that…

The following quote really reminds me of my eighth grade year. “blood is running, heart is pumping, as the battle gets closer.” Why you ask? during the summer before my eighth grade year, I went to Iowa for four days with the high school wrestling team for a wrestling camp. At the end of the camp on the way back in the van, the head coach, Josh Frie asked me if I wanted to wrestle for the high school. I said yes. When the wrestling season came, I got my but kicked by a bunch of high schoolers…

lifetime. In the book The Odyssey, Odysseus struggles for ten years to come home to his family after the Trojan War. At home, in Ithaca, he has a wife, Penelope, and a son, Telemachus that he loves dearly. He is always eager to find some way to get closer and closer to his home. Odysseus’s courage about coming home reveals that he has a strong relationship with his family. First of all, Odysseus trusts the gods that hopefully will lead him home. “Zeus tell Hermes to go to Calypso's Island to…

Melinda Sordino, a 14 year old teenager at a high school, gets raped by a senior during the summer before her freshman year. Throughout the novel, Melinda keeps on remembering what Andy Evans, the senior who raped Melinda, had done to her during the summer. In the novel speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the motif “mirror” presents Melinda’s journey to self-acceptance by displaying her first as a girl who refuses to look at herself, then as a girl that tries to seek herself, and lastly as a girl…

In “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote, friendship causes people to become closer because it causes Buddy and his friend to go out of their way to give each other a gift and it also causes them to be inseparable. First, Buddy and his best friend become close because friendship causes them to go out of their way to make each other happy. For example, Buddy’s friend really wants to get Buddy a bike (she even tries to sell a cameo to her Papa to get money) but because she had very little money,…

After fighting in Belleau Wood for twenty six days we have finally pushed the Germans back! It is honestly a surprise that I survived the whole ordeal for we suffered heavy losses. Before coming to France I thought the war would be an adventure but it is anything but an adventure. Belleau Wood is a horrific place. We basically fought from tree to tree, going from one stronghold to the next. While we waited for the machine fire to die down I was preparing for the next charge. With each charge…

Big Buck Ranch Dean's first Deer Dean has just turned 12 and his dad had promised him that once he turned twelve years old he could go hunting for his first deer. So that day they went out on their property and scouted for deer. When they went scouting they spotted a big buck and his dad said, “That’s the one we’re going to get tomorrow.” The next morning Dean and his dad woke up early in the morning and got all their hunting gear around and made their way into the woods. When they finally…

I am currently reading Found by Margaret Peterson, I have just started this book but a lot of events have already happened. In the start of the book there is a girl named Angela DuPre and she works at Sky Trails Air. It is her first day on the job and she is very nervous, because her supervisor (Monique) doesn’t like her that much. On Angela’s first day on the job, a mysterious plane pulls into the wrong terminal. There is no one there to unboard everyone so Angela goes to Monique to ask for…