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‘Greasy Lake’ In the story, T.C Boyle introduces a group of high school boys in their adolescence. Adolescence is a stage in one’s life that marks the transition from childhood to adulthood. It is a point where one becomes rebellious and curious, with a desire to resist or go against authority and eager to discover new things. At this stage, teenagers mostly engage indecent behaviors such as; drinking alcohol, substance abuse, and sexual activities. This stage is the most crucial as it shapes up…

An image is something that brings the senses closer to trueness, trueness being the awareness of all senses. An image can invoke all senses at a moment, associating it to previous understanding to an individual. In James Joyce’s A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man, we see a firsthand account of how the ‘stream of consciousness’ was born in the literary world. There are sensations that occur when we tap into an already current sense that is being tested, be it a touch of paper then bringing…

Night Terrors I usually wake up screaming. They called night terrors. In the middle of the night you will wake up and bolt upright in bed, screaming as loud as you’re able. After a night terror the person will simply lie back down and fall asleep, just like that. They don’t remember anything the next morning. The real victims are the family. For a husband who hears his wife 's screams next to him. For a daughter to hear her mother scream through the walls as though she were being murdered in…

The second and more complex grammatical reading of the title “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” eschews the genitive possessivity of the apostrophe – i.e. the crime being possessed by Savile – in favor of the grammar that sees Savile himself becoming the crime and/or being possessed by it. In other words, instead of viewing this eponymous crime as being something effectuated by Savile, this interpretation has Savile the man assume the role of the crime itself. This conceptualization does, in the end,…

Imagine seeing yourself staring at the sky at a big black object. You know that it’s foreign. Is this what you were waiting for? Is this it? In The Invasion From Outer Space Steven Millhauser gives a remarkable story about a town that is invaded by ,what the people call, “inanimate dust”. The people of the town get extremely disappointed on what they get and slowly find out that soon their town will be buried alive never to see again. The people of the town knew that they were going to be…

That's the exact moment the whole world stopped. 11:38 am on the dot. I know because I was there and I'm still here. Everything except me is stuck because at 11:38 am the world decided to quit moving, possibly forever. I was in class when it happened, my science teacher was restlessly droning on and on about the parts of the cell. I, of course, decided my time would be more well spent doodling pointless little drawings in my binder. “The mitochondria as we all know is the powerhouse of the…

Devised by mythologist Joseph Campbell, a monomyth, also known as the hero’s journey, represents “a basic pattern that… is found in many narratives from around the world” (“Mythology” 1). The monomyth consists of several stages and archetypes. Fitting into “stories of Osiris, Prometheus, Moses, Gautama Buddha, and Jesus” (1), the hero’s journey closely follows a structure of the hero on a quest being put through many tests and trials before reaching victory. Homer’s epic, The Odyssey, is…

My pet ran away and I know she isn 't coming back this time. As I lay on the couch, I start to worry. She left a few hours ago and I can 't help but think about the events that occurred before she ran away. It first started when a continuous buzzing noise, followed by a repetitive beeping sound, wouldn’t stop. It bothered my sensitive ears so I rolled over, trying to ignore it. My pet also seemed like she was trying to ignore it as well, but neither of us could. She sat up and I curled up…

The gothic movement during the late 18th century fixated on horror and gore, turning away from the social norms; the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, a pivotal contributor to gothic literature, perfectly embodies the essence of the movement. Poe’s short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” is from the perspective of a crazed narrator that kills an old-man in order to rid himself the torment of looking at his eye. Poe’s “The Black Cat” is another short story where the narrator commits murder, killing his cat…

Throughout the 19th century, an array of new speculations and ideals about the world swept through the United States. Largely birthed by the forward-thinkingness of the Enlightenment movement in the 18th century, both romanticism and realism entered the American headspace radically and powerfully, bringing exciting changes to literature, philosophy, and artwork. Two timeless examples of both realism and romanticism stand with the works of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Walt…