Errol Morris

I came home to unpack the night before the first day of 8th grade started. I had just spent a week with my dad before summer vacation came to an end. My mom called me downstairs to have a discussion with her and Ron, my step dad. I assumed it had something to do with Ron’s kids, Vanessa and Trey, moving in with us. But to my great surprise, they told me that they were getting a divorce and Ron would be moving out that night. Those next couple weeks were kind of a blur. My mom was calling our…

Along Jonathan Harker's journey to Dracula's castle, he stumbles upon many people with various warnings. The most significant, the landlady at Bistritz who asks him if he knows “what day it is?” When he says that he doesn't, she then replies, “It is the eve of St George’s Day. Tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all evil things in the world will have full sway.” She is very persistent in warning him and places a crucifix necklace around his neck, which shows to be useful later on in the…

Bram Stoker’s, Dracula (1897), details the myth of the legendary vampire who wreaked havoc on the lives of Mr. & Mrs. Harker as well as many others along the way. At first glance, it seems as though Dracula fills the role of any malicious occult figure that would grace the literature world at the time this was published, however, I like to believe that Dracula is not necessarily evil. He is rather an organism that is trying to fulfill its biological requirements to reproduce and continue its…

“Dracula 2000” is a movie that unfolds with, a London antiques dealer travels to New Orleans to save his estranged daughter form his nemesis, Count Dracula. Count Dracula is concealed is a metal coffin in a high tech safe owned by Van Hesling, who has taking Dracula’s blood; to live internal until he figures out a way to kill the immortal beast who is after his daughter Mary Hesling. Thieves break into the safe in a Carfax Abbey in search for paintings to cash – out, but finds a coffins which…

1.) Renfield is characterized as a mental patient in Seward’s mental asylum who has a desire to gain the "life-force" of flies, birds, and cats by consuming them. While the character of Renfield may be considered seemingly irrelevant and extraneous to the central plot of Dracula, he functions as a rather important role, providing insight to multiple central motifs in the novel, such as invasion and blood. Firstly, through Renfield’s inner struggle we learn that he is “not his own master” (Stoker…

‘Chocolat’, written by Joanne Harris, is a novel that talks about the way of both the protagonist and antagonist got to where they are now. They are in a small town in France called Lansquenet-sous-tanner where the protagonist Vianne runs a chocolate shop. Things are hard for Vianne facing tradition and the black man. Joanne Harris is trying to use symbols to describe two major meanings in the book with the wind and the black man. These are all looks on the effect that the church has on the…

History gives us an understanding of who we are, so we need to learn about it. Film can help give us an understanding of the events, and can bring it alive. The course of which "Heavenly Creatures" was directed by Peter Jackson, became very important, in the way Jackson was portraying real people and their raw feelings. This was always going to be hard. The challenge was to make the viewer sympathise with two murderers. "Heavenly Creatures" is a sensitive retelling of the historic events, as…

not believe that Dracula is meant to be the father figure, but rather Van Helsing as the father figure of Stoker, whom I am relating to Dracula. Not only is Van Helsing seen as a father figure to the men in the novel; Dr. Seward, Arthur, and Quincey Morris, but I also believe that he represents the actual version of Stokers abusive…

1934, to hold the most dangerous and clever prisoners. Many tried to get away from this life sucking prison, but none succeeded. They were either caught, drowned, or shot. It closed in 1963. One of the great mysteries of Alcatraz is whether Frank Morris, and his accomplices, ingenious escape plan. They thought of everything, the men just hoped their homemade raft stayed together. The night came and they left the prison as planned. There is evidence found that say that they didn't make it where…

In death of the woods, the old woman was a symbolic vampire. Before we discuss vampires, it might be helpful to know what vampires are. Foster talks about vampires in chapter 3 when he says, “It’s also about things other than literal vampirism: selfishness, exploitation, a refusal to respect the autonomy of other people, just for starters.” In this paragraph, I will show that the old woman did all three. First, the woman refused to respect the autonomy of another organism. When Jake went to get…