Eaten Alive

juxtaposition between her thoughts and the dialogue is a façade to hide behind her true character and voice. The hyperbole and metaphor of the last line “They have eaten me alive” creates a powerful image of misery combined with emotional and physical exhaustion that children can have on adults. Essentially, the mother has been figuratively eaten by society’s extreme expectations. Comparably, the poem “Suburban Sonnet” demonstrates the familiarity, dullness and monotony of the women’s household.…

Price sisters’ Christian names and their Kikongo names (210, 225) reflect their personalities and behavior? Nommo is “the force that makes things live as what they are” (Kingsolver 209), or at least to what Adah describes. Nommo classifies everything alive by name, a rabbit is a rabbit, a man is a man, and a flower is a flower, and a flower cannot live as a man or rabbit, only as a flower. Rachel’s name involves jealous and exile, Leah’s name involves an eldest daughter, Adah’s name involves a…

lives, "then Scylla made her strike/ whisking six of [his] best men from the ship/" then "she ate them" as Odysseus "rowed on" leaving "the rocks [cave] behind" barely alive (Homer 810-14, 821-27). This tells us that Odysseus survived, but also overcame his fear of being eaten. This shows that Odysseus did not give up of getting eaten by the sea monsters and was trying to find a way out of the situation. While Elon Musk also proves that he does not give up when “SpaceX and Tesla are both…

During the stretches of the indentured servant and slave trade years, there were numerous sufferings that these two groups confronted. A journey that would take six to nine weeks seemed like an eternity, for the passengers of the densely packed sea-vessels. Not knowing where they were exactly headed, these poor souls boarded the ships with the promise of being free someday and took on a long, perilous voyage, which altered their lives forever, and marked a significant misfortune in our American…

would also need to try to not get eaten by the carnivorous animals on the boat making him need to survive in two dangerous conditions. At the beginning, he was scared to death on the boat because he had none of the requirements such as food and water and there were the dangerous animals on board. It would say how he had not had a drop to drink or a bite to eat or a minute of sleep in three days. This meant that he was exhausted and he was at a risk of getting eaten by a 450 pound Bengal tiger in…

In Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood”, two men, Dick and Perry, have just arrived home from brutally murdering a happy family in Holcomb, Kansas, the Clutters. It’s evident that these men know what they are doing, they’ve had plenty of experience in crimes like this. Once Dick and Perry get back from their eventful road trip, they both seem to know exactly how to handle anything that could get them into trouble. Upon arriving at a hotel room, Perry immediately took off his bloody boots in order…

readers at suspense as to what was going to happen to the four men. At first I thought these men were doomed that they would die of thirst, eat each other up, or be eaten by a shark or whale. When none of those things happen I began rooting for all four men to survive. At the end, right when I thought they all made it on shore alive I was shocked to read that the oiler, Billie,…

Burke has been known to snap, be rude, and attack JonBenet. According to the A&E video, when JonBenet was last seen alive, arguing with burke. Burke had an outburst and attacked JonBenet with the flashlight. While he didn’t mean to kill her, the blow was so fatal that she suffered internal bleeding and died. The defense may say that the parents stated the kids were sound…

The Veldt teaches readers that addictions can ruin all the good things in one’s life. When the Hadley family, in The Veldt, moved into their new happylife home; George and Lydia Hadley bought their children a mechanical nursery. The theme of the nursery could be easily changed by one’s thoughts. The children, Peter and Wendy, started to rely on the nursery more than their parents. Eventually, it became an addiction to them. Peter and Wendy’s addiction to the nursery became more than just an…

The best way on how I would survive a zombie apocalypse, I would first go to the cafeteria because there's food and they’re is a cage that you can pull down in the hallway so that the zombies don't come in. Also I would try to find an abandoned car or one of the buses so I can have transportation. There is a gas tank by the football field so I can gas up. I would be good for about a month because there’s food, water, and if I need some bedding I would just have to go to the dorms. If I need…