Coffin

October Country is the right pick for this book is this quote “All the hot-dog stands were boarded up with strips of golden planking, sealing in all the mustard, onion, meat odors of the long, joyful summer. It was like nailing summers into a series of coffins. One by one the places slammed their covers down, padlocked their doors, and the wind came and touched the sand, blowing away all of the million footprints of July and August. (pg 108-109) This is a wonderful example of the ending of…

In the gothic novel Dracula there are many gothic motifs. Gothic motifs are images that show up in other gothic stories. For example, in most gothic stories there are stormy nights, full moons, spooky castles, wolves, bats, horses and carriages, cobwebs, etc. From Dracula, the four things that show up most in other stories are the spooky castle, the stormy nights, blood, and carriage rides. The first motif noticed in Dracula is the carriage ride in the evening. This shows up in other gothic…

but it seemed that no matter what the United States did, Spain always found a way around the United States trying to stop them. Cuba had such little chance winning the war that “outside the door of every hospital there was a waiting pile of empty coffins.” This was a bad sign for Cuba because it shows that their own country is not planning on them winning this war. This is where we stepped in to take control. Both governments had worked hard to “avert a war over Cuba but American sympathy…

heart whole leaving the individual to face a second death. A harsh ending but a true death. One of my favorite artifacts associated with death in the Egyptian culture would have to be the beautifully crafted coffins made for the pharaohs, one in particular that stood out to me the most was the coffin that belonged to King Tutankhamen…

P 5 - IRONY ASSIGNMENT "The Ballad of Birmingham" The poem is based on an actual event in our history which you should look up before reading the poem. Identify the two types of irony in this poem, and explain you answers. To read more on the real accounts of this incident, follow this link: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/birmingham.htm If the link does not open, go to Web Links in the left column and open it there. 1. What are 2 types of irony in the poem; be…

girls’ brows shall be their pall’. The pallor means paleness of the girls which could either suggest their purity/innocence or the shock from hearing the dreadful news. ‘Pall is a heavy cloth draped over a coffin’ (5) so metaphorically, the paleness of the girls will be the drape of the coffin and this alludes to funerals and death. On the other hand, there is a contrasting view about death in The Dead-Beat where the doctor is happy that the soldier died ‘soon died. Hooray!’ An exclamation mark…

In response to an article written by Michael Burduck, author of “Another View of Faulkner’s Narrator in ‘A Rose for Emily’” he suggests that the narrator is a female. Throughout the short story the narrator relates to the females in the town through the use of the word “we”. The females in the story are concerned with Emily’s affair, and force the men to act to stop it. Similar to the ladies making the men stop the affair, the female narrator is making sure no one forgets Emily’s situation. Also…

he inevitably uses to hypnotize his wife’s soul. This gives the story that dark, mysterious element. “When I found them dead together in the vault, she had been buried five weeks. But the body that lay there in John Hurst’s arms, among mouldering coffins of the Hurst’s of Hurstcote was perfect & beautiful as when he clasped in his arms, a bride” (page 295). I expected the ending of this story to be quite harsh or depressing. But when I read that last quote, it didn't seem entirely gothic to me.…

conclusion when he heard what happened to Juliet. Instead of going to Friar and asking for the truth, he goes to the apothecary and asks for poison. This shows how he did not wait for more people to tell him but instead went to go join Juliet in her coffin. Furthermore, in “Pyramus and Thisbe,” Pyramus and Thisbe decided to meet in a spot so they could be together forever. Thisbe came first and waited for Pyramus to come, but during this time a lioness appeared. She ran for her life but one…

home a surprise attack takes place in the graveyard. Paul looks around his surroundings and describes it as, "A mass of wreckage. Coffins and corpses lie strewn around. They have been killed once again; but each of them that was flung up saved one of us."(Remarque, 70-71.) This is ironic because even if a soldier is dead he can’t escape the war. During the battle the coffins saved many lives of soldier. Hardships like these help define…