Fading

The world is not black and white, but as gray as the smoke from a gun ripping through races dividing them. In Toni Morrison’s short story, Recitatif, there is a constant division of races specifically between blacks and whites. Within this story you learn of two young ladies named Twyla and Roberta growing up whilst the civil rights movement is occurring; and as time goes by racism effects these young ladies more and more until they start to fuse into the racism. In Morrison’s Recitatif she…

the novel by Riggs. For example, when the monster kills Abe Riggs uses lots of graphic details to really intensify the slow painful death. “Then I saw the gashes in his midsection and nearly fainted” (Riggs 35). “With that he sank back, spent and fading” (Riggs 371). In The Masque of the Red Death Poe ties the element into help create the image of the red death coming in and killing the people who for so long tried to escape death. “ His vesture was dabbled in blood- and his broad brow, with…

Anybody who has the least interest in music has experienced the great effect of the piano in his favorite music. In the layman’s language, the piano is a musical instrument played through a keyboard. Apparently, this definition was wrong as I came to learn later in my first piano class. I remember the day as though it was yesterday. My piano teacher defined the piano as ‘the only musical instrument required creating magic in any rhythm’. When I recall it now that I am older, I tend to think that…

Maya Alexandra Robinson Mrs. Ditanna AP Language and Composition 15 December 2017 The Influence of the Pictorialist Movement on Modern Photography The release of the “snapshot” by Kodak in America lead photography to be more about the documentation of events and reality of the world. Many photographers began to realize that the photos they produced were very comparable to the beauty of painting or sculpting because they manipulated their negatives and prints in order for the photo to have the…

had been the daily condition for a long time, nothing could have prepared me for what happened the day of Sunday, April 14, 1935. Conditions had been getting really bad in Scherville, the town I lived in. Water and food were scarce and crops were fading away like our hope for any means of precipitation. Ma, Pop, my older brother Lewis, and I had packed up all of our stuff into our car, and had started to head a little ways west. My Aunt Sherry and Uncle Austin lived in Utah, and were impacted…

At first, the specs were a tool used for reuniting the boys to civilization, but in the end it was a symbol for how much their makeshift society turned against civilization completely. In William Golding’s Lord of The Flies, the schoolboys’ ability to maintain order is tested, with the option of resorting to savagery and turning against civil life and rescue. Piggy’s specs, a tool from civilization, became a tool for power, with the savages abusing its use. This shows that human nature corrupts…

“The Speech of Aristophanes” from Plato’s Symposium embodies how love and relationships are traditionally viewed in many, if not all, cultures around the world. Aristophanes’ story supports the conventional notion that the main purpose in every person’s life is to seek completion of him or herself by finding his or her significant other. Over time, however, people’s values have evolved--diverging from those outlined in Aristophanes’ speech and growing to focus primarily on individualism. “The…

Narrative Joey woke up with a sigh of content. The wind carried the smell of pine into his open window. The rough grain oak of his roof seemed to grin down at him as he sat up and stared at the interior of his cabin. On the stone floor lay his dusty jacket, a few granola bar wrappers that dominated the south west corner of his cabin, and a sleeping dog with graying fur and white whiskers. “Aye Jack get up” Joey whispered to the old beast, “wake up and lets go play oe he was outside.” This…

The narrative design of this scene in fragmentary is in the sound and shots that are taken. For a while, the microphone on Makhmalbaf is not working properly and the conversation between Makhmalbaf and Sabzian is unheard. In “Kiarostami and the Aesthetics of Ghazal” it says “It is not known if the sound was meant to be turned off,…but in any case it has a distracting effect on the audience, who are left to guess about the conversation between the two men” (Sheibani, 49). When both Makhmalbaf and…

not making any sense. Stopping, she looked me in the eye and uttered four words that brought my heart to a chilling stop, “I want an abortion.” Not knowing what else to do I began walking again, as did she. Our walk finished with the conversation fading from our mouths, but not from our minds. The sands of time steadily moved on and the memory of our talk faded from my mind. Several weeks had gone by when my friend and I took a walk again down the same worn sandy path, we hadn’t gone far when…