Hearse

For instance, she wears a “blue straw sailor hat” (O’Connor 91) to signify her lady-like demeanor. The grandmother is only concerned with her own physical appearance and disregards the safety and well being of her family. The hearse-like vehicle that approaches the family after the car crash and the grandmother’s elegant attire similar to the wardrobe worn at a funeral foreshadows her and her family’s death. Her only concern is standing as a lady and “anyone seeing her dead…

Thunder strikes. A lonesome hearse rolls along a dirt road at dusk, Jacob Marley quietly laying inside. This is one of the many dramatic scenes describing the tale of, "A Christmas Carol," in the Patrick Stewart version. The Patrick Stewart version of the story "A Christmas Carol" was clearly the most effective out of the Muppet, the Novella, the play, and the Patrick Stewart versions because in the Patrick Stewart version, Ebenezer Scrooge, a heartless man of business who thrives of the despair…

Satan’s Hearse) where the two boys go on a road trip together. Also, Gutshot, TN is a town where the boys go to see the grave of Archduke and ends up meeting a girl named Lindsey Wells and her mom Hollis. The Gutshot was their final destination of their road trip…

Bailey's shoulder. This causes the car to slide all over the road and ultimately overturning in a ditch. After the accident, the family takes inventory of themselves. They fear no one will ever come by to help them when a big black "battered hearse-like automobile" (O'Connor 716) appears on the top of the hill. The car pulls up and three men get out with what the family thinks is to help them. One of the men looks familiar to the grandmother and when she realizes who the driver is…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been adapted and reworked numerous times across many traditional mediums such books, films and television. BBC’s Sherlock is a recent modernized TV adaptation which was critically acclaimed for its writing and direction and nominated for many highly-regarded awards such as BAFTAs and Golden Globes. Like many shows with prominent fandoms (E.g. Supernatural, Doctor Who), Sherlock was subject to a high production of fan activity based on the show and its…

funeral: Nick is immensely satisfied that "the sight of Gatsby 's splendid car was included in the somber holiday" (69). The reader soon draws attention to this funeral when Fitzgerald uses an odd but creative phrase exclaiming "a dead man passed us in a hearse heaped with blooms" (69). Soon the reader realizes that Fitzgerald has placed everything in order for Myrtle 's death. Whenever a car peers into the view the accident itself seems to become inevitable. Evidently Myrtles death takes place…

My saddest day to date was the day my mother told me that my great grandmother was put in the hospital. The day was Tuesday, the 19th of January, 2016. It was after school and I was headed towards a club meeting when I received the text message from my mother. She simply told me that she was coming to pick me up from school and that Gross Oma was in the hospital. The whole drive there everyone was silent. All that could be heard was the soft singing of the Christian singers on the radio. When…

death, Faulkner 's work has been broadly studied, and is now more fully respected. However, even his funeral was a scene praiseworthy of Faulkner’s pen. In truth, his 1942 novel Go Down, Moses ends with a amazingly similar funeral procession, as a hearse bears the body of another native son through the streets of a small north Mississippi town on a “bright scorching” July afternoon, passing before an interracial crowd of spectators “into the square, crossing it, circling the Confederate monument…

life. Although, my heart began to sink as I could not see the familiar face of Biggie anywhere in the church. As we begin to stroll her coffin out of the church, rain begins to ferociously fall upon the roof and as slowly slide into the back of the hearse. Tears streaming down my face heavier than the rain. I gaze over towards the entrance of the church and I see Biggie and Meg standing together under one umbrella like a…

The Miserable Ones In the poem “London” by William Blake, (1794), the author demonstrates the vile history of for those living in poverty without blatantly stating this to the public and those in power. Blake focuses on the condition of London during the 18th century as well as its culture. Within each stanza of Blake’s classic poem, the character describes in detail what he is seeing as he continues to walk down the destitute and barren streets of London. This man surreptitiously explains the…