Dead Man

was now the one responsible for his family. Ezekiel was suddenly startled by a deep knock at the door. He pulled a light coat over his shoulders and silently pulled the door open. Three men holding lanterns stood outside in grey uniforms. The tallest man spoke first. “Are you Mr. Stevens?” he said. “Yes, sir,” answered Ezekiel. “You are to come with us. All male citizens of Richmond Virginia over 16 are commanded to fight for the confederate army.” Ezekiel stood confused. “Sir don’t I have the…

Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?” In support of this argument, Paul mentions that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is legitimate and unquestionable without any doubt because hundreds at the time also…

For as long as there have been humans, there have been two sexes whose role have been mercurial, and their places constantly challenged. In the second wave of Feminisms people fought for equal status. In the play “Trifles”, Susan Glaspell shows the social disparity between Men, and Women’s status in the American society through wide-ranging conflicts. In the initial conflict between Minnie Wright and John Wright, Minnie’s husband, Glaspell delineates the disparity through their presumed…

As a result, young men would frequently look up to their male predecessors in hopes of becoming a true man. Successful writers of the twentieth century, including Robert Frost and Richard Wright, utilized literary elements and ideologies, such as human behavior, to convey broader messages to readers. Furthermore, Robert Frost’s, “Out, Out—,” and Richard Wright’s, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man,” display an ultimate desire of conformity through various literary elements and symbols, such as death…

dominance, all the necessary elements to be a man. In the novel Things Fall Apart and the short story, The Man Who Would Be King the main characters must sacrifice their themselves in order to achieve what they want the most, which is respect and authority. My paper will analyze the concepts of masculinity in The Man Who Would Be King by Rudy Kipling and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. In the novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe there's a man named Okonkwo, he is known for his…

stories and make them come to life. He begins by writing tales as if they were real and later admits they were simply stories made up to keep the dead alive. A particular story that stood out was the piece surrounding Curt Lemon. Towards the beginning, there is a story of how Bob Kiley wrote a letter to Curt Lemon’s sister after his death and mentions how the man painted himself up and went trick-or-treating on Halloween in a village in “just boots and balls and an M-16”. By inserting this…

Edgar Frogfish Massacre An old man by the name of Edgar Frogfish is a murderer, and on halloween night, the man kills a lot of children. On halloween night, little Timmey Bodacious and his friends go to Edgar Frogfishes house for candy. Those children didn’t know that Edgar Frogfish was a psycho murderer. Edgar Frogfish told the children that he had a big bag of candy inside his house. But instead of giving candy, old man Frogfish pointed a rifle at the children and locked…

the front seat of an European car, barging through a side-alley in a destitute part of Las Vegas. As he was dreaming, a man named Leigh Cromwell was driving an European car, barging through a side-alley in a destitute part of Las Vegas. The perspective of the two men was different. Leigh Cromwell saw the alley with his mere physical eyes, seeing the brown-filtered street for the dead-end that it was. Adam saw and felt somewhere much greener. All his senses engaged in the scene. His senses were…

Most of the people are dead while a few remaining are starving and insanely compete for food. Extremely driven by their instinct for survival, a group of people becomes cannibals like animal. In this circumstance, there is a simple rule to preserve the principle of ethic. The bad guys eat people but the good guys don’t. Throughout the story, the protagonists consistently try to keep this moral principle to be “good guys” even though somehow they lose all faiths: “if he [the man] is not the word…

architecture, no art just a great empire left in rubble in ash. The iron age takes hold of man with a vengeance of false words and envy. Man is thus forsaken, and sorrows fall upon them and humanity is then defenseless like children who will never find help against the evils they themselves create. We are all trying to find the answer and there is no answer. War will go on forever till the end of time and no man or woman will go untouched by sorrow. Twombly’s blood red paints stretches upon…