Hearse

When I picture the Civil War, I picture people fighting in a field and Abraham Lincoln delivering triumphant speeches of freedom and emancipation. Not often do I think about the desperate human struggle for survival in POW camps, the brutal journey many took to escape slavery, or the hundreds of dead bodies that lay mutilated after brutal battles. In the graphic history Battle Lines, by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman, such realities and human experiences are visually portrayed. In order to…

William Blake’s ‘London’ and Charles Martin’s ‘Easter Sunday’ are two pieces of poetry that reflect opposing perspectives of power. ‘London’ is sharp and seminal text that has been written in order to draw the reader’s attention to the persona’s observations and encounters of the conditions of London and the communal experience of its residents. The poem is a damning condemnation of a very corrupted society dominated by the power of materialism and the hypocritical paradigm that legitimates such…

cultural rules, and realistic characteristics. While Harold and Maude is filled with many realistic elements, it does have quite a few far-fetched ideas, as well. Harold, 19, is obsessed with death. He attends the funerals of strangers, drives a hearse, and, most peculiarly, often stages elaborate fake suicides. Harold does not attend school and feels very lonely and depressed. He enjoys being “dead.” Maude, in contrast, is a bright and carefree 79-year-old woman. She drives recklessly, also…

scenes, and prefer to keep it that way. After finishing our work, we were driven to the cemetery and crematorium in a 1930’s vintage Austen V6 Hearse, most likely the only one in New Zealand. Being in the vehicle gave me a great appreciation of classic cars, and it was interesting to see all the cars in front of us on the road pull aside to let the hearse pass in respect. At the crematorium, the gardens were beautifully kept and the weather was stunning and uplifting. We were given a briefing on…

Wants upon a time: There was Water Salem,mn school there was a black cat ring to get out. Then there was a spell Witch trying to drown the cat but it was trying to save it live. The old witch Ran To the classroom and still a Parchment paper and a killer right a list of the cat and water and it had blood all over the Parchment paper In righting the man In the black suit the mask Was scary there was a kid how was just now getting out of lunch. All the Teachers and kids were all outside there…

startled the cat by “upsetting the valise in the corner,” (O’Connor 313) the black cat sprang out of it, which can be considered bad luck. The car that approached the family after the accident is described as “a big black battered hearse-like automobile” (O’Connor 314); the hearse-like car foreshadows the family’s death. In “Revelation,” the way that Mary Grace makes impolite gestures to Mrs. Turpin foreshadows a confrontation between…

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The protagonist in Cormac McCarthy's "The Crossing", is accompanied by a hearse and a dead wolf in order to convey that all creatures are united through death. The story has a 3rd person narration where the reader is looking into the story. The speaker looks upon the scene of a man in search of a place to bury the dead wolf. The man cradles the blood covered wolf with a gentleness that is parent like. Men and animal are alike in this novel and the man realizes this as he searches for a place to…

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor, states that “Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”(44) Simply put, the things we find to be condemning traits in others could very well be the same traits we possess. This same statement is a strong theme demonstrated throughout the entire story; the misfit and the grandmother played a vital role in…

Irony is a reoccurring literary device in "A Good Man is Hard to Find", in the beginning of the short story the text states, "She didn’t intend for the cat to be left alone in the house for three days... she was afraid he might brush against one of the gas burners and accidentally asphyxiate himself." (page 1) Ironically the grandmother brought the cat along with them against her son's wishes in fear that it would kill itself, yet the cat set off the series of events that led to the demise of…