Hobo

him. That what the people say. They found him in his well and all the people say it must the Ghost of the Yellow Dog. Just like all them other men” (15, act 1). The Ghost of the Yellow Dog are the spirits of Boy Willie 's father, along with multiple hobos, who were killed in a boxcar fire. While the Ghost may be real to Boy Willie and Lymon, The Ghost of the Yellow is simply a tale of folklore. Although folklore is prevalent, it is ironically mixed with religion. For instance, Boy Willie shares…

OUR NEARFUTURE Ray Bradbury is one of the greatest dystopian authors. His every novel in its own way is a unique masterpiece. Amongst number of novels that Ray Bradbury has written he is best known for ‘Fahrenheit 451’. He is regarded as one of the best authors that 21st century has seen. “Martian Chronicles” and “Something wicked this way” are few of his creations. Ray Bradbury has a strong belief that if we want to live forever you need to do certain things that will be remembered forever,…

It had all started at about three AM. Lace had been one of the main streets of the slums at this time of night the street was alive with the homeless, the drunk and drugged and the all around bad and as usual Lace seemed slightly out of place. Perhaps not as badly though. She had found a jacket a week earlier with a hood and it had kept her mostly safe from both the cold and any watchful eyes. Her reason for being here though was not at all out of place. Hands stuffed in her pockets she quickly…

This is true for both Morrie Schwartz and King Lear. In Tuesdays with Morrie firstly we see that Morrie gains wisdom through his physical suffering of ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, which slowly takes over his body, eventually not allowing doing anything except blink or clucking his tongue. Slowly as the disease takes over his body we see that he begins to come to terms that he is becoming more and more dependent on people. “I’m an independent person, so my inclination was to fight all of this -…

The Roaring 1920’s Much like the month of March, the 1920’s roared in like a lion, and went out like a lamb… well, maybe more like lamb chops, as the economy and morale of the country were utterly slaughtered by the end of the decade. America’s short official involvement in World War I had fortified the economy with wartime industry and increasingly productive technologies supporting manufacturing. Business was soaring and the stock markets followed suit, with an unprecedented surge that…

Welding has been for many year from the middle ages. In the middle ages welding was known as blacksmithing. Blacksmithing is the technique of forging wrought iron and steel. Blacksmiths made horseshoes, weapons, and repair armor. Blacksmith get there name because they were smith and worked with black metals like tin, silver, and gold. With the work they do they need shatterproof hammers and handles because most of their work is forging metals with these hammers. In the middle ages blacksmiths…

Although released from the hospital a week ago, Freddie has not eaten for two days and needs to find a place for continued existence. Depressed and hungry, he searches for a rare telephone booth, that he hopes will be in working order. After a search that has taken him the majority of the day, he spies one on the corner of a Seven Eleven. Walking to the booth Freddie drops in his very last seventy-five cents and dials the digits beginning on the advertisement he had circled in the paper…

everything I wanted and now I was realizing that I wouldn’t be getting that anymore. My aunt helped my mother get a room in a cheap motel in Kissimmee, my mother and I were terrified. There were bugs all over the place, the beds were dirty, and there were hobos and drug dealers in the hallway. Every time my mother, brother, and I would walk to get to the first floor, drug dealers would come up to my mother and ask if she wanted a “good” time?. It was just scary, I wouldn’t be able to sleep…

When word got out about Skookum Jim Mason, Dawson Charlie, and George Washington Carmack finding gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in August 1896, their discovery sparked one of the greatest gold rushes in history: the Klondike Gold Rush (“What Was the Klondike Gold Rush?”). Jack London, famous for his novel The Call of the Wild, was one of thousands of stampeders that made their way north in hopes of getting rich. Through the theme of the indifference of nature in his short stories,…

Chasing the Wind Remember that wonderful feeling when you wake up from a bad dream, but soon feel the sudden relief of reality? When I woke up the next morning, it was the exact opposite of that feeling. I recall having a vivid dream that Riley was still with us on the trail. The three of us played out an uncanny reenactment of Without a Paddle as we came across our first bear encounter. In the dream, we all came out unscathed, prancing to feel-good music and hindered by nothing but a good…