Midnight

by making a slight change to his routine. He started to take a short walk in a nearby park every evening at around midnight. This decision proved most wise; it was too tempting for Iago to let pass. After observing for three days, Iago decided that the following night he would come to the park and kill Cassio plunging his sword into his enemy’s back. The next evening at around midnight Cassio returned to the park. Iago was waiting for him, but little did he know that Cassio was waiting for him…

For a visual text to be effective characters must be hurt or destroyed. Would you ever get married to someone who you don’t love to get back at someone you do love? Could you watch the love of you life go through dangerous inner torture? Should you be able to get through life where everything is calm and there is no drama, pain or darkness? These are some of the questions in which the director, Coky Giedroyc, wanted the audience to ask themselves when they were watching the film adaption of…

people on the porches put up their hands as if to beat the fire out. They waited. By midnight the fire was extinguished. Earth was still there”(144). The phrase, “At nine o’clock Earth seemed to explode, catch fire, and burn,” shows that the people of Earth had begun their war using bombs. It was a very powerful bomb because it could be seen from Mars. The flames lasted hours before it disappeared, “By midnight the fire was extinguished,”…

They would say that they were afraid of getting arrested by the authorities for trespassing but I knew they were truly afraid of midnight man himself. So upon a dare my friend had tasked me with sneaking into the hotel itself and staying the night just to see if the myth was real. I set out the ritual ingredients needed to contact the midnight man a teaspoon of salt, the dirt from the earth, a single candle light, a knife, and the carcass of a dead animal. I set out the animal carcass…

but before we got there, we stopped in Pittsburgh and that’s 5 hours away. We stayed with our grandparents, cousins, aunt, and uncle. The next day my family left and I left with my aunt and uncle with their two kids. We got in New Jersey at about midnight and my parents and my siblings got there around 10:00 pm. We stayed at our friends house, and the next day my two step-sisters Hannah and Haley had a 1-day soccer camp and they got to meet Carly Lloyd! After that was over, we left and headed to…

What if you were a serial killer? You hunt down your prey and suck the life out of your victims, while eradicating all evidence leading to your discovery. But what if you handed in the evidence and let yourself be discovered? Well, it’s your choice, so it’s up to you. Choose wisely. In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” shows us such a character. The narrator is known to be a madman, yet he does not think so. He meets an old man that he dearly loves, but because he has a…

There’s something I must to show you.” “I must go,” Ashley began but Xavier’s grip on her arm tightened. “This way, Miss Travinski.” The Grandfather clock struck midnight as they descended the stairs to the cellar. The air grew cold and shadows deepened until finally they reached the bottom. Suddenly Ashley heard a muffled growl and she began to tremble violently. There before her in the cell was a pile of straw…

iPhone 7 commercial titled “Midnight”, really takes hold on these ideas by touring the audience through the night with the newest and strongest camera on their cellphones yet. It starts by portraying the man in the commercial as lying in bed looking very bored, then the screen pans to the new iPhone 7, hinting to the audience that this is the answer to his boredom. In order to cure this boredom, he travels the town with his newfound “friend”, the iPhone 7. In their midnight adventure, the…

Jekyll and Hyde story is considered as a Gothic novel because of its strange and mysterious theme that evidently presented by the sign of supernatural along the story. The definition of gothic is pertaining to a style of literature characterized by a gloomy setting, grotesque, mysterious, or violent events, and an atmosphere of degeneration and decay (Oxford Dictionary, 2009). In this story, it discusses about the oddities investigation of Hyde’s strange incident since the first chapter. It…

Saleem Sinai, the storyteller of Midnight's Children, opens the novel by clarifying that he was conceived on midnight, August 15, 1947, at the precise minute India picked up its independence from British standard. Presently nearing his thirty-first birthday, Saleem trusts that his body is starting to break and fall apart. Expecting that his demise is impending, he becomes on edge to recount his biography. Padma, his dependable and cherishing buddy, serves as his patient, frequently distrustful…