Inklings

Throughout the novel, Phineas creates moments of illusory placidity to conceal the truth about the impending war, by equating games to war. Phineas yearns to avoid the war, and in order to do so he constantly forms games for Gene and the other students, as an escape. Rather than admitting to the illusion of tranquility, Phineas views games as self-accomplishment and pure entertainment, where there was always victors, never losers. In contrast, war always has a loser. During the summer session…

However, as the story progresses, he starts to become mentally unstable. The beginning of Macbeth's madness all starts when he kills King Duncan, and his mental health gets progressively worse as he fights to keep his spot as king. The first inkling that Macbeth could be going crazy is when the witches tell him his future. The witches appear to Macbeth and Banquo and tell them…

Oyediran, Abdulmateen .O. Period 3 10.11.15 The Stranger The Stranger, by Albert Camus, is the “story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder” (Back of book). Albert Camus carefully and artfully weaves numerous strange events and occurrences into a masterpiece. Each chapter of the book is composed and set up to make readers read deeply into the meaning of each and every sentence, and also to make Meursault a much more intriguing character. In Chapter 6, Meursault…

prefaced with the fact that she did not want anything to “hurt” her. Pauline willing accommodates this wish by acquiring Lita a place at a “Twilight Sleep” establishment, which allowed Lita to experience childbirth with absolutely no pain. The first inkling that this affects the relationship between her and her child is the closing line of the paragraph about the birth that states “…Lita really hadn’t minded in the least.” This, in contrast to Jim’s unbound joy in his son, shows a strong…

The True Nature of Humans It is a beautiful and bright summer day. Though a small village, all of the village people are out and about. They are all waiting for the lottery to officially begin. It seems like an exciting event; people might win money or other prizes. However, it is not a lottery to win something, it is a lottery to decide who will be stoned to death. Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” takes place on June 27 in a small village. Children are seen collecting stones and…

A better business model often will beat a better idea or technology”---- Says Aletha Ling, COO, Fundamo. The year 2000, the founder Hannes had an inkling of the problems and solutions. Based on past experience, he also understood a better business model often will beat a better idea or technology. Regularly he had brainstorming sessions with the founding team. The company’s strategy was (a) To think in the present, even though the cogent vision was to become world’s No.1 mobile payment…

Due to the overwhelming poverty that the absorption of resources by the sponge of constant warfare induces on the underprivileged masses, the Party is able to diminish the standard of living enough to stupefy the citizens so that they lack any semblance of recalcitrant vigor.“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea,…

“The Lottery” Review Nothing feels worse than being stoned to death by family members and friends when one does absolutely nothing wrong. Such is the fate of Tessie Hutchinson, the protagonist of Shirley Jackson’s renowned short story, “The Lottery”. Known for its twisted and macabre conclusion, “The Lottery” contains perfectly executed writing techniques by Ms. Jackson-specifically the narrator’s mysterious, apathetic tone; the story’s transformation from realism to symbolism, and the sudden…

and didn’t have real success. Once one aspects started to spiral, everything after that became complete chaos. It was a snowball effect that should have been seen from the very beginning. Once the Brigade had little success, everyone had that inkling in the bad of their mind that this mission wasn’t going to be too successful. The Brigade 2506 were poorly trained and not trained for guerrilla warfare. During this time, the information of the struggling operation was leaked to the Soviets,…

In Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Cask of Amontillado," Poe narrates the story through the character Montresor, a seemingly wealthy socialite in the 1800's Italy. The story begins with Montresor describing how he had tolerated a tremendous deal of insults and injuries from a man called Fortunado. Montresor had finally had enough and would be avenged. He plans to take revenge on Fortunado by luring him into a false sense of security and trust in order to kill him in secret without anyone suspecting him.…