In This Moment

cancer is their cancer or the cancer of a loved one. What happens when the cancer the doctors said was gone comes back only a year later and this time worse than before? For Mary Williams, this just so happened to be her case. Her malignant melanoma is back and this time an unspoken terminal is present in the diagnosis. As a mother of two young girls, eight and eleven years old, Williams is given no choice but to fight. It does help that her team of doctors are from New York’s elite cancer treatment facility Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer center which is known to be working on a new drug on melanoma patients. So when she is offered to…

The story values dreaming and makes a huge point that they should never be ignored, even if someone’s pride tells them differently. Also, if one does have a dream, and something seems deceiving about it, do not be fooled, as it could lead to death. Field states, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale says that even those who do not like his tale can benefit from it.” Field says that everyone who reads this tale can learn the lessons, and the meanings of the story. People can use these lessons in everyday life…

is written with strong religious undertones. “The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled” (O’Connor 377). This description of "silver-white sunlight" is imagery associated with Heaven. However, when she uses the word “meanest” it is perplexing to understand how something heavenly would highlight the meanest one. O’Connor is warning the reader of something cruel to come. Another warning comes when “They passed a large cotton field with five or six graves,…

weave one of his long twisted stories. As always, the tale was mostly lies but I listened, half-stoned, with rapt attention. Well-crafted bullshit is worth 100 truths. The vodka, having circled around a couple of times, was nearly gone and I cracked the top of a warm beer well on my way to velvet oblivion. Pat, having concluded his story with typical flair, was now working his drunken charm on my ex, Cathy. It seemed like I was supposed to be angry or hurt or something. I couldn’t pull off…

Everyone has that moment in life where you either grow up or drown in the waters of life. Never did I think I would have to grow up so fast, but at the same time I don’t think anyone does. The biggest part of my life would start in South Beloit illinois, tho up to this point I think I moved about three or four times. There were many reasons why I moved weather it was for more money or just a better place to live. Moving was never fun, but I was very young, so it never really affected me…

puts reality into perspective. Violence shows us who we are, because we least expect it. Nobody knows how they will react when something happens. We either embrace the situation and fight it head on or we freeze and let it happen. Flannery O’Conner’s stories show us that our true defining moments happen when something like violence is presented to us. Her stories and characters truly define what it is like to be human and how everything can change in the blink of an eye.…

A Moment Like This Our mind will remember certain events throughout our lives. These events can either be good or bad moments. Your mind will remember these memories because it was either a very fun or relaxing point in time or a very sad part that changed it all. The reason we remember certain memories is because those certain events made us feel emotion. These emotions could be mad, sad, happy, and even a feeling of embarrassment. For example, everybody remembers a time when they were…

Years passed, and Edward and Ester grew very close. Ester was now eighteen, and she was an adult. Her father could no longer have authority over the woman. His abuse would end here. Edward planned to take Ester away. Very, very far away. Edward wanted to protect Ester, from any and all dangers; and the only danger in her life at the moment, was her father. William found the order's Edward provided Ester to aid her escape from her father. It involved William's vehicle; the two planned to steal…

"Adina, you are only asking me to come with you out of sympathy", but in that moment I realized my true motivations, and she was wrong. It was my freshman year and I had all the worries and uncertainties of most new students in a new school: doing well in my classes, making friends, finding my place in my grade and in my school. There happen to be many restaurants right down the street, and after spring break freshmen are allowed to leave the building to get lunch. Everyone, including myself,…

Foster, you scared me,” you gasp out, closing your eyes for a second to calm your racing heart. “Sorry sweetie, are you alright?” she questions, watching your face closely, you can tell she already knows that you aren't. "Not really," you mutter as you open your car door and climb out, "Are Noah and Audrey here?" you ask, looking up at her. "Noah is here, Audrey ran for snacks, she'll be back soon I imagine," she answers as the two of you head to the front door and inside. "I didn't know you…