elves came to me after I had been hauled away and used this magical plant that only grows here on the rock to heal me. Then my brother and I followed them back and stayed." The Kidd nodded. "Good for you. You weren 't about to let that unpleasant goblin keep you down." "It 's awful he 's so wicked," Emma said. "What was really awful," I whispered into her ear, "was when I overheard a bunch of trolls howling wildly as they described how Aragon had shrieked like a little girl." Xavier sprang…
It all ended on a Monday in Utah at exactly 7:15 pm. When I describe myself as a white haired, red eyed, and average weight and height 15 year old people think I'm albino. Its actually the opposite I'm a bit tanned in fact. Well after deciding to walk around the park for ten minutes I decided to go home. By then it was 7:10 pm and after walking for another five minutes I took a breather. When I was finished I started walking again then I heard a ''chink!'' And looked down. I dropped my wallet ,…
Marvel Worldwide Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American publisher of comic books. Marvel Comics created countless stories, universes, and heroes. They grow in numbers and quality as Marvel grows as a company. Martin Goodman founded Marvel Comics, which was original Timely Publications, in 1939. Goodman was a pulp magazine publisher who was expanding into a new medium of comic books. The post-war comic market saw…
From his introduction Heathcliff is presented as the antithesis of conventional Victorian British societal features and behavior. The initial description that is given of Heathcliff is one of a “… dirty, ragged, black-haired child…it only stared round, and repeated over and over again some gibberish that nobody could understand. I was frightened, and Mrs. Earnshaw…did fly up, asking how he did fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house… (Brontë pg. 57). Heathcliff’s presentation to the…
When October is ending and November is beginning thousands of Pagans from America, Europe, Canada and elsewhere in the northern hemisphere observe the sacred time of Samhain. Samhain is a celebration of the dead, meaning "Summer's End". Depending on your place of origin it's pronounced Shah-vin, Sow-een, saah-win, saa-ween, or sav-wen, and is a celebration of the end of the time for harvesting or the end of Summer, ant the start of the coldest half of the year, it is also considered by some to…
Hobbit is often foreshadowing of what is to come. For example, "Dwarves had not passed that way for many years but Gandalf had, and he knew how evil and danger had grown and thriven in the Wild, since the dragons had driven men from the lands, and the goblins had spread in secret after the battle of the Mines of Moria" (Tolkien,…
In Wuthering Heights, some of the characters speak exclusively in the local dialect (the case of Joseph), other use it only to a certain extent and in certain situations (Mr Earnshaw, Hindley, Nelly), while there are other characters whose speech develops from a West Yorkshire dialect to Standard English when their social status changes (the case of Heathcliff and Hareton). Emily Brontë “gives her characters distinctive ways of speaking, according to their station in life and according to…
plan in England. As Hamlet explained to his best friend Horatio that King Claudius wrote, “Horatio- Ah, royal knavery!—an exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reasons Importing Denmark’s health, and England’s too, With—ho!—such bugs and goblins in my life That, on the supervise (no leisure bated, No not to stay the grinding of the ax) My head should be struck off” (Act V-II. 18-24). When Claudius plan failed, he made a plan of fencing competition with Laertes and for that, he…
The Beasts Inside the Universe of Harry Potter Ahn Pruitt Keiser University Beasts Inside the Universe of Harry Potter Fifteen years ago, J.K. Rowling introduced the world to the wondrous and magical world of Harry Potter with the release of the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in 2001. The release of each of the movies there after were highly anticipated, all the way up until the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – part 2 which was released in July of 2011. The movies…
As discussed in class, gothic stories are a combination of horror and romanticism. In the novel Sleepy Hollow, several elements of the Gothic genre are displayed. These elements include supernatural events that are similar to the Salem Witch Trials. The lack of class structure, history, and continuity in America is Tim Burton’s Sleepy is a different aspects of Irving’s original story that offers the European contrast, the film fundamentally relies on isolation, cultural differences, and ghost…