Graveyard

In the early-modernist novella, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, a series of themes are displayed, one of such being that of intolerance. In the contemporary vernacular, the definition of intolerance is regularly associated with discrimination or prejudice. Ethan Frome, the namesake of the novella, has been facing a serious dilemma for over a year, whilst his wife, Zeena Frome is slowly dying of illness and his true love, Mattie Silver, is on the verge of leaving him forever. These three…

and he is informed of the same fate for Tiny Tim. Future is, as in the play, last to come. Scrooge sees again the people giving no respect to the dead man and asks Future whom they speak of. Future responds the same and Scrooge is whisked to the graveyard only to find his name upon a grave in the empty expanse. Once he is able to process what he has seen he knows if know change is present he will live eternity ALONE. At Scrooge's home Christmas morning he awakes and starts giving to charity,…

The last trip I went on with my middle school friends. The place where I and my friends were going to is Washington Dc. Everyone got to pick who was in there group which was me, Angelo and the teachers that look after us. Angelo has black hair, blue eyes and was wearing the field trip shirt that everyone had on it was a blue shirt with the white house on the front and names on the back he also wore a pair of blue jeans. The teacher’s names are Kyle Ms. Brogan and Ms. Davis. Everyone had to come…

was the worse day of my life. I went screaming, kicking and kicking. Loyce and my mother told me about the so-called reason my mother left me with Loyce. Supposedly, after my mother gave birth to me, she fell on hard times. My mother worked the graveyard shift. She did not have a car. So after work she had to walk to pick me up from Loyce house. Eventually, my mom said, Loyce told her to wait until the morning to pick me up. The morning turned into me staying the whole week and going home…

Frankenstein Marry Shelley’s Frankenstein is a dramatic novel revolving around despair, vanity, and revenge. Victor Frankenstein, a depressed scientist, created a grotesque new life form from his infatuation with the sciences. Using dead body parts from both humans and animals, Victor assembled a new human life form by passing electricity through the body he created. By combining bits and pieces of different humans and animals, Frankenstein created a being that was very conflicted about the…

The magnificent Garden: Staring down from the balcony, the captivating view of the garden left me in awe. The whole sight portrays the image of a fairytale. The color and the shades of the sky seemed to be a part of a beautiful painting stretched across. The clouds were as fluffy as cotton candy. The milky white light from the moon made them more prominent as they changed from one form to another as if trying to tell the story of their own. The smooth paved walkway leads to the glorious pond.…

In the story, a quote could be seen expressing how the main character Leonard Mead experiences a society revolving around technology shown on the quote “It was not unequal walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light flickers behind the windows” (Ray Bradbury Paragraph 2). The quote explains how society is silent and dead since society watches “the flickers of fireflies behind the window.” Another quote “The…

Wharton establishes patterns of imagery by using figurative language — language meant to be taken figuratively as well as literally. In Ethan Frome, Wharton's descriptive imagery is one of the most important features of her simple and efficient prose style. Her descriptions serve a definite stylistic and structural purpose. The figurative language used by Wharton includes metaphors and similes. Metaphors compare two unlike things without using words of comparison. For example, in the beginning…

the age of 20 and he has a brother that is also adopted. His name is Mason, he lives in Canada and I do not keep in touch with him anymore.” She grabbed the pictures and had me flip through them. The room filled with silence, as if you were in a graveyard. The feeling of flipping through those pictures, was like getting a sliver in your finger after rubbing your hand over a piece of wood. I felt like I needed to get a hold of him, somehow. But I was terrified that maybe he didn’t want to know…

After we prepared the house for the dinner party, I went for a walk in the woods, and my aunt stayed behind to survey her sister’s belongings. As I walked, I enjoyed the freshness of the woods and the odor of fresh water that the afternoon wind carried across the land. I found an old stump. The heart of the three had rotted away, and some pine needles had fallen into the bottom of the hole. It looked as if some animal had spread them evenly as if preparing a nest. Across the opening, a spider…