Grave accent

Besnik stood at the door of the tent in which he had been a guest for the past few days. He had decided to leave as the sun was peeking over the horizon, because he would have hated to say goodbye to the gracious family that had taken him in, and wanted to wake before the dog. He slung his brown sack over his shoulder, and started his long trek down the dusty snaking path that made its way laboriously from the suburbs and rural areas to the cosmopolitan urban areas through the unrelenting brown,…

the great secretarial din" ("Royal Aristocrat" 26), and showing the transition of writing as an art form from handwritten work to typed pieces. This trio takes on the responsibility of describing the maturing journey of an author, even beyond the grave. "Royal Aristocrat," the first poem in the writing trio, describes writing as a way to keep busy, adding to the noise of life. Collins shows that futility of silence can be overcome, even when one can only randomly strike keys on a typewriter.…

police. They later realized that it was a fraud. They identified Peter as a suspect but let him go because the one mimicking him sent fraud letters and tapes that proved that Peter not the murderer. The reason they let Peter go was because of the accent in the videos.…

Wes Anderson and Tim Burton are both complex and unique characters in the filmmaking industry, with their own unmistakeable signatures. Although both of their technical approaches to filmmaking differ greatly, on a theoretical level they appear to agree on a number of aspects. One aspect of filmmaking that both directors seem to concur on is that films are composed in almost equal parts by all of the characters and creators involved in the production process, a process that includes the film's…

William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” captures the horror of loneliness and isolation in the heart of a community. Emily Grierson is an out-worldly and unwanted presence in the town of Jefferson, encompassing all the opposite values of the place and time she was living in. She represents the old, aristocratic world, forever in conflict with the modern values and fast-paced new generations, from which she retreated under an impenetrable shell. What is interesting about Emily Grierson is that she…

Mrs. Dalloway, written by Virginia Wolf, focuses on the lives of a group of people in the early 20th century, a post war era in which problems such as class divide, physical and mental illness after the war and the decision of choosing between love and marriage ran rampant. The characters in this novel are all deep and complex, and very few of them, if any, actually seem to be genuinely happy with the lives that they lead. Interestingly, the novel mirrors various different aspects of Virginia’s…

Everyday, people come up to me and ask my story. Everyday, I tell them the same thing. “I am an old man,” I say, “I have no story that will interest you.” In the years since the event, not once have I uttered words about the shoes. Not once have I thought about the misery I had to go through. Not once have I looked through any pictures of them. Not once. But here, now, today, that will all change. Today, I shall tell you my story. My story begins in the blistering hot sun of Peru. I had come…

Sarah McClanahan blinked her eyes in the dappled sunlight of a cool Kentucky morning. The covered wagon heaved and swayed through the Red River Gorge as a wilderness unlike anything words could draw stretched out ahead. Forest niches me-andered here and there; the untamed river ambled in and out of sight as they passed through the valley of Big Turtle. "Ma, why couldn't I bring my doll?" Her daughter Cassie's question jolted Sarah back to reality. "We had no room for her in the wagon, honey.…

For the rest of the semester we would sit in those same red cushioned lecture seats for every anthropology class. To be quite honest, although that anthropology class was horribly boring, it easily became my favorite class of the semester due to the fact that I got to see Amanda every Tuesday and Thursday. On those days, I would make sure to remember to shave and try to dress up a bit nicer than usual- no basketball shorts and no loose t-shirts. I would always arrive to class a few minutes early…

The first scaffold scene is preluded in the opening paragraph of Ch. ii which describes the grim visaged Boston multitude. "all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron clamped oaken door" (39) of the prison, from which Hester is shortly to emerge. The moral spotlight is on Hester all this while, all but one of the group of female spectators expressing the view that the sentence going to be imposed on her is far too lenient. Later the spotlight is on Hester's mark of shame, the…