James Meredith

A monster, in my eyes, is a creature that lacks thought process, and lacks the ability to see right from wrong. Well - lacks the ability not to see it, but lacks the ability to control their impulses and resist from acting on the "wrong". A monster is someone who also lacks the ability to change - but that's a rather odd topic for me to talk about. Frankenstein, in my eyes, is not a monster. Frankenstein knew what he was doing, and knew he was doing the wrong thing, but he shows a capability to…

Did you ever read a story then watch the movie? One of these stories is called “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. “ The story and the movie have many similarities and differences. One of the similarities both the story have and the movie is Walter daydreams. Walter daydreams of being a pilot . Walter daydreams as he is fighting while he is the pilot of the ship. Another similarity that the story and the movie have in common is that their is a little black book. The little black book is where…

Have you ever heard of a person killing his brother? Have you ever been so embarrassed of somebody that you wanted to kill them? In the “Scarlet Ibis,” the brother, Doodle, was born with problems and just wasn’t a normal child. His brother, the Narrator, didn’t like having a brother who wasn’t normal. The narrator is to blame for Doodle’s death because at the beginning of the story he makes a plan to kill his brother. Another reason is that he is embarrassed of Doodle and criticized him because…

The central idea of the short story, “Araby,” by James Joyce, is a young Irish boy who has a crush on his friends sister, who is considerably older than him, he goes to the market to get her some but eventually realizes that it’s not worth it. The author demonstrates this by writing, “But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires” (Joyce 2, Paragraph 5). This quote illustrates how the young Irish boy has a crush on this woman. There are many…

In the book “The Scorch Trials” by James Dashner is the second book the Maze Runner series. This book takes place in the future, the world is a desert and the narrator is a sixteen-year-old boy name, Thomas. Thomas is not so specific about his location. He tells his story in the third person. Thomas and his friends he called The Gladers have this sickness called the flare. They all have two weeks to travel 1000 miles North. The book starts with action when Thomas’ good friend Teresa gets taken…

Batman Mortality Throughout The Dark Knight Returns, Batman faces not only the current batch of Gotham's criminals, but criminals from his past, the Gotham Police, and eventually Superman. On top of all of these outward enemies, time is certainly not on Batman's side. Batman has to consider and confront his own mortality while he tries to clean up Gotham City's unending criminal element. Frank Miller does this to show to the reader that while Batman has done and continues to do impressive feats…

All things truly wicked start from innocence- hemmingway(use this as conclusion) The obscurity of one’s character can prove to be an essential trait. In the novel, East of Eden, John Steinbeck dramatizes the ongoing conflict between good and evil in the society of the Salinas Valley through the individuals of the Hamilton and Trask families. Caleb, in particular, stands out to be the epitome of a morally ambiguous character. Having the versatile ability to express conflicting intentions; good…

James Joyce's "Araby" is about an unnamed narrator who remembers the days of his youth and tells the story of his first love. North Richmond Street is where the narrator would grow up and develop feelings for one of his friend's sister, who is also an unnamed character in the story. The narrator explains how he would spend much of his time thinking about his crush, thinking about her in the most unlikely of times and places. One day, the narrator presses himself to talk to his lost interest,…

In the 1997 film Titanic, the director James Cameron exerts to act the historic disaster of the damned ship. In the scenes of the ship's sinking, Cameron shoots the camera at a distance several times in order to show the mass scale of the disaster. He provides a viewpoint of the lifeboat survivors’ from their distance of the ship. He also thrives on capturing a visual in a bird's eye view of the incident during its occurrence. This view would provide the viewer with a sense of how isolated the…

What is Batman’s single most guilty pleasure? Hey baby, come back to my place and I’ll show you ____? What has been making life difficult at the nudist colony? Seemingly weird questions with not so obvious answers! No? Well, Cards Against Humanity may have the answer! We all have to have conversations. And sometimes indulge in outrageous ones – ranging from funny to outrightly dirty! We are horrifically imperfect people and the problems are so big and seemingly insurmountable that when placed…