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Arthur off the ground and tied Shawna’s jacket by the arms around his back. Persy’s car rolled up on the grass as they gently lifted Arthur to his feet. “Please, let me help,” Vivien took a step towards them. Shawna glared at her, her eyes flashing crimson again. “Back the hell away,” she growled. “You’ve done enough already. The five of them piled into the car. Arthur was sprawled out in the backseat, his head resting on Shawna’s lap and his feet across Vivien’s. Mordred’s accomplice sat…

I miss my utopia. My beautiful home built from memories and laughter. I miss the feel of my car, packed to the brim with sleeping bags and footlockers, bumping down the winding gravel road, the anticipation coiling tight in my stomach. The air, eternally smelling of petrichor, heavy with the combined excitement of 200 children piling their way into one space, inadvertently becoming connected, becoming a family for the time we spend together. I miss my paradise, my escape. I miss my home. I miss…

Over the Bike 30232 Teawoo Lim Cars brushed past me as I rode on a gray bike. It was a bit awkward and scary to ride a bike right next to automobiles. However, having ridden a bike for a year in Boston alleviated my fright. Boston’s public bike rental system—Hubway—was well organized: bike lanes were lined on sideways so that cars and bikes could move right next to each other. Before I moved to Boston, I knew bikes were a popular means of transportation. Thus, the first thing I did after I…

David Detzer once said, “A city is simply a passel of people packed in a pot like pickles.” America, the largest urbanized country in the world, doesn’t necessarily mean that every city or town must have at the least a million people living in them. America has both a mix of large urbanized cities, and small rural towns. There are major differences in their location and lifestyle. However, with those differences, there are also similarities between their values and pace. The location is the most…

The “Birthmark”, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is an allegory, like many other short stories and novels Hawthorne has wrote. The short story’s allegorical meanings are acquired from Hawthorne’s use of symbolism. In the “Birthmark”, Hawthorne uses the characters, foreshadowing, and symbolism to display the message or theme of obsession with perfection and imperfection, confliction with science and nature, and dabbling with fate. According to the text, The Norton Introduction to Literature,…

The Montrose Precipice I It all went back to the summer of 1932 when tragedy struck; its affect was wide-spread in the community, most of it at least. Little occurred in Montrose, Colorado, but what it lacked excitement, it made up for in character. Stories arose, those about the precipice, the ancient precipice, home to a demon, or so they say. Often pondering what stood at the base of the precipice. My imagination ravenously consumed the mystery that shrouded the region. Venturing close,…

Symbolism/Motif Essay One may never fathom the concept of what unpretentious darkness is until one has encountered torment. Humanity needs to comprehend that authentic agony can only be acquired once sanity and clarity have been over casted by the monsters that flourish within our cravings. In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens vividly captures the blood-stained terror and upheaval of the tumultuous epoch of the French Revolution. The motif of darkness assists the context in A Tale…

The beauty and power of nature is awe-inspiring. As seasons switch, leaves change, wind blows, and temperature slowly drops. Mountain ranges that stretch for miles upon miles seem infinite in comparison to the cities and towns built around them. Oceans, which hold countless gallons of water, ebb and flow in the tide. Each element of nature is breathtakingly majestic in its own way, yet none is completely perfect. In his short story, “The Birthmark”, Nathaniel Hawthorne states the omnipotence of…

had just gotten back from school when my world began to crumble around me. It was a Friday, so like any other kid who had just suffered through an entire week of excruciating labor, I was very excited to kick back and relax. Eagerly I dropped my crimson backpack to the floor, letting it fall with a loud thud that must have echoed through the entire house. Still in my school uniform, I plop onto my bed and pull out my phone. Maybe I’ll watch another episode of Lost, I think to myself, unaware…

Amber LaCourt ENG 0235 Professor Jackson 3/25/18 Response Paper #2 Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun” invokes the idea of “anger” and early feminism by expressing the struggles of grasping the American dream during the late 1950s. Characters like Walter Lee and Beneatha Younger symbolize these themes throughout the play. Walter, a husband, and a businessman is struggling to grasp that idea of the American Dream by conveying his authority in the household. However,…