Ember

Sanctuary An eerie glow from the mountain range reflected in the deer’s fearful eyes as she darted frantically, leaves and limbs brittle beneath her feet due to months of drought. Sensing an avenue of escape from the smoke and embers dancing like fireflies, she headed straight toward the advancing human warriors undaunted by years of instinctive fear. The line opened, offering her safe passage and then closed quickly, charging forward towards the inferno. She ran until her lungs filled with…

Literary figures are able to transcend the pages of the stories they are written into, and shed new light on themes and ideas within the work. Mary Shelley’s use of imagery as a figure throughout the novel Frankenstein is symbolic of both human progress, as well as the dangers of human invention, which helps to give the novel its own source of life, energy and suspense. In using light as a literary figure, Shelley creates an analysis of the definition of life, concluding that life is not simply…

advantages. Odysseus is smart by being tactical when in distress. For example, when Odysseus had to find a way out of Polyphemus cave, he made a plan to blind the cyclops without him knowing. Their plan was to make a giant pointed stake, put it in the embers of a fire and stab him in the eye. So 5 of his men, including him, “lifted [the stake] and rammed it deep in his crater eye.” (Homer 291). Sherlock however, contains the ability to think about little details and piece them together, like…

” Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing” (Poe). ”The Raven” is a dark sad poem. The theme of the poem is death. The theme is death because the poem is about his wife that had died. The poem shows a grief that cannot disappear. The theme of the poem is conveyed through images and symbols, sound devices, the role of rhythm and rhythm, figures of speech and allusion. First, the theme of death is conveyed through images and symbols. The poem uses the raven as a…

The Mann Gulch fire on August 5 1949 in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness Area of the Helena National Forest in Montana. Thirteen young firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service’s elite Smokejumpers unit died in a sudden blow up of a fire on the north ridge of Mann Gulch, trapped by the fire that had outflanked them. After his retirement as a professor at the University of Chicago, Montana writer Norman Maclean spent the last…

understand why Reza loves listening to her read. “Wanted to watch them go. Better view from my window.” He shrugs, sitting down crossways in an arm chair. The old fabric of it still smells like cinnamon and flowery perfume. Distinctive smells of Ember. She must have been sitting there while she waited for the boys. “Not going to join them tonight?” She sounds like his brother. Finn will have to start telling Reza off for brainwashing her into bugging him…

Jonathan bell 2/27/14 Norse creation myth In the beginning nothing existed except the void, Ginnungagap. Then there was to the north a great place of eternal mist, darkness and cold, called Nifheim. Out of the icy land there flowed a spring that fed twelve other streams. South of the land of cold, there was the land of eternal fire, Muspellsheim. The land of flames was as everlasting as the land of ice and as the flames licked the icy world, some of the ice melted and formed the first frost…

The novel, In the Shadow of Blackbirds, by Cat Winters, takes place from October 16, 1918 to November 11, of that same year. This, is the year that World War I finally came to an end. During this time period the Spanish Influenza virus ran rampant across America, leaving a trail of death and fear in its wake. With the extreme numbers of Americans dying overseas in battle, as well as at home by the grips of the flu, people tried to get connected with their spiritualistic sides. This gave…

The Irish Republican Army started off not as a terrorist group but as a military organization and even took part in the Irish War of Independence. However, having lost the civil war they took part in, they stayed in existence with the plot to overthrow the Irish Free State and made their defiance against the British well know. They made its existence known to the world as a terrorist organization in the 1960s as the Clandestine “armed wing” of the Sinn Fein movement. They were devoted to…

Then suddenly we began to smell smoke creep down and all of us at once rushed up the old wooden stairs and sharply turned the corner and then there it was. The old fabric chair stood completely on fire. It illuminated the entire dark room as the embers twirled and danced off of what was once a chair, and there sat Sammy, with complete focus just shouting at the fire. My dad yelled, “Get water! Somebody get some water!” We all frantically dispersed throughout the house getting buckets, cups or…