Dead Man

dusty floorboards. He switched on his flashlight and was about to step inside when he spotted us. We froze. “I thought I told you to go home,” he said. “This place isn’t safe.” “I don’t like this,” Seth sighed. “We’re detectives, sir,” I reminded the man. “We here to help solve the case.” “Yeah sure.” Mustache laughed. “So how are you going to do that by holding our…

I can assure you we are Christian.” “Save it Jew, I don’t want to hear it, take them away!” The man yelled. My brothers hid behind Father, but I was alone as I was pushed out of the only home I had ever known. I didn’t know where I was going. I had heard the horror stories of the concentration camps, Auschwitz in particular, but I still had no clue…

facing the battles. Henry is an idealistic and completely self-absorbed teenager. As such he needed to drop that attitude in order to become the man he wanted to be. He wanted nothing more than a chance to show off and be thought of as a brave and daring male. Henry has to overcome the notions of what it means to be courageous and what it takes to become a man. His concepts of manliness are idealized as his feelings about bravery. He thinks that his culture has tamed men of their urge to…

who would take the initiative of knocking the chip off. ” (215) Kimmel explains how fighting had become an agent to prove one’s manliness to another man. By winning a fight and finding out who is brave enough to prove their strength, shows a man’s status in the scale of masculinity. Tim O’Brien narrates to his readers his first experience of killing a man during the war in his book The Things they…

A fifty year old man huddles in an old pickup truck, his ankles are wrapped in old socks and rags that can be seen scattered throughout the truck. There is a half used role of duct tape that he uses to attach a pen to his gnarled hand while he writes. Words and incoherent sentences are scrawled across pages and pages of a yellow legal pad. All of the letters that he writes are directed to the NFL about problems that they have ignored, pushed aside out of greed for money. A light flickers in the…

The poem ‘Marrysong’ is technically an extended metaphor comparing a woman to geography. The first line links the woman to the subject geography as if taught in school. The adjective ‘learned’ implies that the man is trying to study the woman and understand her. Almost like he has an academic interest and has a strong interest and curiosity to learn about this alien woman. The woman did not have regularity ‘without seasons’. This suggests that she was unpredictable…

From the opening scene fight scene, the screen displays Lara Croft calmly hanging upside down from a rope (Lara). She displays a don’t-mess-with-me face, and as the fight scene continues it is easy to see that she has earned it. However, looking at the rest of Lara, one cannot help but think that fighting in such tight clothes cannot be comfortable. For once it seemed like there was finally going to be a strong female lead in an action movie that would be a great role model for girls to look up…

hero and the girl a heroine. Pointing out the young couple was beautifully dressed just arriving from his father’s yacht. As always, Miss Brill prepares to listen but this times what she hears leaves her heartbroken. Referring to Miss Brill the young man says "Why does she come here at all-who wants her? Why doesn't she keep her silly old mug at home?" Joking the girl replied "Its her fu-fur thats so funny" (Mansfield 255). That moment Miss Brill whole aspects of life came crashing down on her.…

holiday, dressing up as the supernatural, carving Jack-o-Lanterns, and trick or treating. I have always wondered how Halloween became such became such a popular holiday. The origins of Halloween can be traced back to the pre-Christian festival of the dead, also known as Samhain. This ties to the theme of Religion since it was the Celtic’s largest and most important holiday. They believed that Samhain was the day where the ghosts of the deceased where able to communicate with the living. It was…

that can be funny, original, or even sexual in nature, but it seems shameful for men to even dress up at all? Perhaps it is the idea that dressing up makes a man seem womanly (which in our society is a bad thing for a man), or perhaps it has this underlying connotation that a man is gay (another concept that is considered inappropriate for a man in our society). Either way, our views of men as these unemotional figures seem to inhibit men from dressing up from the fear that they might be seen…