Gone

pictures, buying the first car, and sending her child to college. The last thing on her mind is that the only certainty in her unborn child’s life is death. In using this wording, Hemingway shows that even an unborn child can already be considered “gone” with death. Another thing that often comes unexpectedly is weather. Whether or not one expects it, weather will always come as it wishes. Hemingway states that their “was not the feeling of a storm coming,” but it comes anyways and with it…

The movie Grace Is Gone by James Stokes, is a remarkable movie about a family who are going through the lost of loved one, and don’t know how to take the next necessary steps to move on. Grace is Gone, is a movie that I wouldn’t think would hit home with me from simply reading the title. Little to be told, at different moments in the movie I had to stop myself from shedding tears, because I am a daughter of a man who is in the military. For the twenty out of my twenty-four years of life my dad…

suddenly disappeared and kids are the only ones left on Perdido Beach. Michael Grant, writer of Gone, tells the story through the eyes of Sam, an average boy, or that is what he wants people to think. Sam was sitting in class when his teacher poofed. One minute there and the next minute gone, no explanation, no warning, and he’s not the only one. Parents have disappeared, older siblings, grandparents, adults are gone and so are the rules. Grant tells a story of kids without adults just as…

“My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?’ He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you. But he said, ‘Because I feel sorry for you.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.” – Amy and Nick Elliot Dunne, Gone Girl. The novel, ‘Gone Girl’, written by Gillian Flynn, is an excellent example of how written texts focus on troublesome behaviour so that we can be warned of issues in our own life. The novel focuses on the breakdown of the marriage of the main…

understand and live in reality. Life in a world designed every inch by inch, word for word,and Life for Life! Imagine - YOU CAN’T, dream-YOU WON'T, Live- YOU’LL DIE! Alex, an inspiration for matters of life and death was portrayed in The Dead And The Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer, similarly Jonas a twelve year old life changer was viewed in The Giver by Lois Lowry. In both books two young boys who although vary in age difference, come to life to save a life, one that has the potential to last. In…

Suddenly Gone Suddenly gone is a thrilling, true tale of how one man, with very little help, murdered three girls in their mid twenties. Richard Grissom was the maintenance man at the apartment complex of the murders. He had a master key to everyone’s room and just let himself in, thus, there were no signs of forced entry. The girls were Joan Butler (24), Christine Rusch (22), and Theresa Brown (22). There was a fourth and fifth attack, Michelle and Terri, but Michelle got away and Terri was…

Everyone was gone. That is the only way I can explain it. One day I woke up and no one one was there. I first thought that mom and dad went to work early, but I noticed more peculiar things as the day went by. I opened my car door, and for some reason it was filled with water. The water startled me as it came dripping towards my feet. Along with that, no one was at the bus stop as they usually were. No one was at school either. I came home with nothing to do. So I went into the kitchen and got…

In the novel A Long Way Gone written by Ishmael Beah, we are given a glimpse into the life of a child that is trying to make his way in life during a time of war. While Beah does lose his family, home and childhood, he also loses his sense of safety and belonging. During the war, people from different villages continue to flee from the rebels that are constantly conquering villages, slaughtering the villagers like cattle. As the villages are broken down and conquered, boys are taken from their…

not only the youngest Curtis brother but also the youngest greasers. This should make him the innocent, lovable, baby. Pony really proves that not all gang members are always JD’s (juvenile delinquents). Another thing was his love for literature. “Gone with the Wind” was one of the books he and johnny loved to read. With such an awareness of the characters, Ponyboy sees himself in the story. Over the course of the book pony really finds himself. One thing he pointed out was how the Socs are…

it can be hidden or shown, and it’s powerful and positive. The short story “User Friendly’ features a boy named Kevin who’s computer falls in love with him. In the song “Gone Gone Gone” by Phillip Phillips sings about how he will not move on to anyone but the person he’s singing about. The theme of user friendly and” Gone Gone Gone” is that love hurts.This essay will illustrate how the theme of love was created in these two different works. In the short story “User Friendly”, One of the themes…