Maze

Explanatory Essay Till this day I Natalie Penaloza hate all scary movies, mazes, and scary stories. It all started when I was little my Tia Yolie and my brother Julian would always pop out and scare me, but this one time I started crying. I came home in a happy mood and as soon I walked in the gate my Tia popped out. I screamed and cried ran inside to my Tia Letty. As soon ran through the door my brother popped out the door with a mask and I fell to the floor and started crying. The day…

to resurrect himself and his own involvement in getting Harry to the graveyard. After the whole interrogation, Dumbledore took Harry to his office, where Sirius was already waiting. “I need to know what happened after you touched the Portkey in the maze, Harry,” said Dumbledore. “We can leave that till morning, can’t we, Dumbledore?” said Sirius…

The Chavín de Huántar is a religious site in the Northern highlands of Peru. It is named after Chavín, a religious culture in the Andes Mountains. The temple that resides there was built out of stone between 900–200 B.C.E. The Chavín de Huántar became a pilgrimage destination for worshipers of all places. Worshipers brought offerings and left with objects like ceramics and textiles, spreading the Chavín faith and culture. The temple built at Chavín de Huántar became an important pilgrimage site…

“A Worn Path” is about a grandmother, named Phoenix, who needs to go into town, called Natchez, to get medicine for her grandson. The path that she has to take has many obstacles to overcome. Even with the obstacles that lie ahead of the journey, she still goes. Phoenix age is emphasized with the descriptive details that are given by the narrator. Some of the obstacles that she had to overcome are dense forest, walking over hills, wild animals, thorny bushes, barbed wire fences, and winter…

why wasn’t that the right choice? I was never a dancing girl anyway” (335). Rewriting the end of her novel and allowing Felicia to escape the clutches of her villainous husband, enables Joan to rewrite herself, together they are able to escape the maze. The metaphorical drowning that enables Joan’s recreation makes Atwood’s novel a Künstlerroman. Through the various modes of writing and dual personalities, Joan writes her way to a new beginning. Her inability to complete her novel or “contain”…

and seemed to reach down to your bones, chilling them and making them ache. There was a smell that stunk of something long dead and rotting. They were in a small room set aside from a larger room filled with junk and scrap metal that made a makeshift maze, the larger room was like the inside of a department store. The only light available was a deep orange red glow that emanated from the old light fixtures that swung gently on rusted chains overhead. The only noticeable sound other than their…

Young Adult fiction has always been enriched with ancient myths, folklore and legends. This can be seen from The Chronicles of Narnia to Harry Potter. By using myths and alluding to ancient sources in Young Adult fiction this has normally guaranteed these books to be a success. The main books which will be focused on in this dissertation are the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. All of these books, according to the…

It has been well established that personal stress can affect our bodies and behavior, but what about the stress experienced by our parents or even our grandparents? It is not too much of a stretch to connect a mother’s stress during pregnancy to changes in the fetus. It makes sense that what the mother’s body goes through during pregnancy could also affect the child, however, in the New York Times article by Inna Gaisler-Salomon, “Inheriting Stress” (March 7, 2014), the author discussed her…

“A Boy and His Kite” “Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight. For the greatest tragedy of them all, is never to feel the burning light.” This is a quote from Oscar Wilde, talking about the Greek myth of Icarus. “A Boy and his Kite” parallels the Greek myth of Icarus, revealing the characters lack of healthy-mindedness and child-like desires, while showing their need for an escape and accomplishing their goals by “flying to the sun.” “A Boy and His Kite” is a short story that…

He looked at the left side of him and saw a shadowy hand. That looks familiar. No!! It was the man that was behind that that tree stalking him. Anthony started running through the maze in a panicked way. “Help, Help!!!!” he yelled as loud as he can. It seemed like nobody was around, that’s strange. He stopped. He looked both ways. He went to the left, then right. Then there was a “stop” . He turned around slowly. He saw people…