parents multiple times and still had the compassion to go into a burning church and rescue a whole bunch of kids the only downside was that Johnny lost his life at the age of 16yrs old. Johnny died in the hospital , when he died he gave the book “Gone With The Wind” to pony so that pony could read it to him as he passed away. The Greasers, The Greasers are a group of young teens who like to grease their hair back and wear black leather jackets. The greasers live in the east side of oklahoma.…
He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided. As he awoke, he looked out the window and admired the beautiful sunshine and flowing wind. Rainsford wanders down to the kitchen in search of something to eat. He pours a precise cup of refreshing milk and makes some eggs and toast. He had never had a better breakfast, it gave him so much vitality. He spent the rest of his morning wandering around the house, enjoying the whole place to himself. As he explored the house, he found the…
Key to the Cornerstone Gusty winds snaked across the sandy African landscape, bursting drafts of gritty heat upon the cracked ground below. Draughts weaved through the clay houses barren and lifeless with not a soul to be seen. The village had been deserted. Piling in small heaps against the rugged walls of the shacks, the sandstorm collected its silt within crooks and nicks wherever it could find them. Tousled door flaps snapped and wagged in the perturbation. Death rented the air. Although…
Nick feeling lost and feeling like he won’t be able to get back on the right path, and because of these helpless thoughts he doesn’t try. His despair from losing Marjorie makes him think there is nothing left that’s important: “It was all gone … [Marjorie] was gone and he had sent her away. That was all that mattered” (Hemingway 47). Nick describes his ending relationship like it’s “when the three day blows come ... and rip all the leaves off the trees” (Hemingway 47). Nick thought breaking…
A Literary Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" would not be complete without a thorough examination into the life of Dexter Green. Carpe Diem in “Winter Dreams” is, in the long run, an unfulfilled concept. I expose Dexter’s botching his many opportunities to “seize the day.” The setting written during a period of time in and around the Roaring 20’s when Dexter is between fourteen to thirty-two years old. F. Scott Fitzgerald divides “Winter Dreams” among specific time periods…
war. Finally, the narrator states, “And they dreamed of freedom birds…they were carried away by jumbo jets. They felt the rush of takeoff. Gone! They were flying. The weights fell off; there was nothing to bear. They laughed and held on tight, feeling the cold slap of wind and altitude, soaring, thinking It's over, I'm gone! they screamed. I'm sorry but I'm gone! (O’Brien 10). The soldiers dreamed that finally the war is over, and they are heading back home carrying noting, and apologizing for…
Young Goodman Brown, specifically how he feels he is losing it throughout the story. It is written here in the story: “‘My Faith is gone!’ Cried he, after one stupefied moment. ‘There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! for to thee is this world given.’” Here, the main character is broken down knowing that his wife and literal faith is now gone, asking the devil to take this impure world as his own. Additionally, the traveller that accompanies Young Goodman Brown on his…
The night, cold and young, was motionless. Nothing, not a single mouse scurried down the street, the wind stood still, the moon covered by clouds, only poking out from behind the clouds for a split second. Suddenly, something scuttled down a shadowy alley, cold pushing its warm skin back. Lamps flickered as it ran by, climbing walls and jumping from ledge to ledge from above. A woman changing in her room with the window opened screamed when she saw it for a split second, before being torn to…
introduced. I was at my parents’ house watching television with my family. It then began to rain for about four days straight. The rain was none stop and we had to stay inside the house for most of the time. The wind started to blow extremely hard and the rain began to fall even harder. The wind blew so hard, it almost seemed as if it would have blown me away. We watched the news and listened to the broadcaster say, “Hurricane Katrina is now in a category two going into three and evacuation…
Dark Swan is a mental thriller offering a figurant called Nina Sayers. She is a youthful lover of the dance floor working for a prestigious NYC balance choreography organization. She has longs for some time or another getting to be diva. Very capable, yet she is exceptionally held. As the dance organization opens for another season, her executive picks her to assume the lead part as Swan ruler in an aspiring adjustment of a renowned story called "Swan Lake.” The part obliges that Nina play both…