Coffin

Often in literature, characters embark on a physical journey from one place to another and along the way, they are usually presented with obstacles that they must overcome to reach their final destination. These obstacles along the journey give insight into who the characters truly are as well as offering unique bonding experiences for those taking the journey. In the end, they will usually reveal their true personality, grow as characters or grow closer to those accompanying them on the journey…

The graveyards flowers bloom as they take their last sights of summer, while the oriole sings a dying song up in the bleeding tree. A grindstone turns and crumbles away at the time that was spent between the protagonist, Brother, and his younger sibling, Doodle. It is then that Brother remembers all the time they spent working through his condition. Brother also recalls what happened to Doodle, and how much he is to be held accountable for. In James Hurst’s short story “The Scarlet Ibis,”…

Margaret was lying on the ground... (sniff) sorry, she was lying on the ground, on the ground…dead. By the time I ordered a coffin for her, Little Red Riding Hood was at the door with wine and cake for her ill grandma. She saw me in Margaret's house and then she saw the coffin and her grandma on the ground. She assumed that I killed her. But if I did kill her,why would I order a coffin? So that is how it all happened…

wrong in their actions. He uses his strength of subliminally proving his point to capitalize on Brutus’ blind trust. .He also excels in applying the emotional appeals that Brutus neglected. He finishes his eulogy with the line “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me. (weeps)”…

Now that we knew what the colonists were planning William compelled the soldier to forget everything from the last three minutes and sent him off with a bucket full of water. As we watched the soldier walk away from us William pulled his pocket watch out of his coat pocket to see what time it was. The Sun would creep over the horizon in about an hour and a half so I was forced to return to Boston where I found Jeffrey standing outside a lodging house waiting for me. Jeffrey lead me to the room I…

Antony is the more sympathetic character in Shakespeare’s, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. He is not afraid to express his emotions. In his speech, about the loss of his friend, Caesar, he opened up his feelings. He went into detail about Caesar, and how he was a faithful man to him. “Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man”(III,ii,950). When Antony is speaking at the funeral oration, he…

William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is an absurdist comedy that follows the Bundren family on their journey to the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi to bury the deceased matriarch of the family, Addie. Addie’s husband, Anse, and their five children of varying ages traverse the countryside to Jefferson to fulfill Addie’s dying wish of being buried alongside her family in town; however, each character has his or her own personal motive for going on the trip. Fifteen individual characters…

During an individual’s childhood, everyone must have heard of numerous fairy tales such as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Peter Pan and etc. A number of fairy tales have a particular message to the audience, such as Hansel and Gretel taught children not wander around, yet we listened to the stories we were told and never questioned them. As we got older and read the stories again, we can perceive that certain fairy tales can illustrate negative messages. One of the pessimistic influences of…

were so many people there that the church ran out of the extra metal folding chairs and people were left standing. The only non-crowded spot in the church was the altar, where the cold, lifeless body of Marilyn Jean Beddow rested in her dark colored coffin. “Marilyn and her husband Bill have lived next door to my family since before I was even thought of. She was like a grandmother to me. I spent days playing in her lush green yard and running through the sky-high pine trees with her actual…

Direct and impactful experiences are the only way to completely uncover the truth of situations. In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul Bäumer, a young German schoolboy-turned-soldier, exposes the reality of fighting in WWI. Like many others, Paul’s teacher, Mr. Kantorek, coerced Paul and his classmates into enlisting by fixating on the heroism of soldiers and the honor of serving one’s country. On the frontlines, Paul experiences firsthand the truth of the damage…