Night of the Living Dead

struggled to connect and find those key moments within it. It took reading the poem to music to feel something click. The song was “I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire” by The Ink Spots, and I felt it belonged with the first section of “Burial Of the Dead”. It is lilting and full of desire and hope.…

Just being birds and simply living. Destroying their home, will lead to destroying the cranes. Thus not being able to enjoy their pretty sight. Mark is like the people who didn't appreciate nature. He doesn't acknowledge Karin. The cranes could be Karin, but they could be Mark too. Mark’s uncertainty about his current state whether he was alive or dead, that fine line between reality and fiction was a pivot playing with my own beliefs of what truly happened on the night of his accident. At one…

burning flame, the victim’s scars and radiation torn body features and the spirits of the dead soldiers. First, the scene of the Stone Wall comes in multiple times throughout…

Year on November 1 (“History of Halloween”). Samhain was a time where they moved their herds and harvested the crops. It was the most celebrated holiday among the Celts. During Samhain, it was rumored to be the night where the dead came to life as ghosts and would interact with the living on their way to the otherworld (Santino). The Celts believed the ghosts had the ability to destroy their crops and would make it easier for the Druids, Celtic priests, to give a prediction about their futures.…

your father through the thick and and thin of the Holocaust? This is something that people today will never have to worry about, however Elie Wiesel had to face this question every night for a year. He and his father’s relationship went through times of them loving each and times of them detesting each other, throughout Night, but managed to stay mostly together unlike other fathers and sons. Before the Holocaust, Elie and his father, Shlomo, were distant. Elie himself said that Shlomo was…

“The Man I Killed” O’Brien explains a Viet Cong soldier whom of which he has killed. He felt stuck in time remembering what the man he just killed may have been like before the war. O’Brien is describing the history of the dead Vietnamese man while his American troops continue to move forward. He is in shock from killing the man, meanwhile the rest of the world is moving around him, all in speech and imagination. There is no way that O’Brien knows everything about the fallen soldier playing…

Mary Rowlandson had no choice but to adapt to the conditions of her captivity and the hard conditions of living in the wilderness. She had no prior knowledge or experience of this type of living as she explains “I was not before acquainted with such kind of doings or dangers” (494). One of Rowlandson’s first adaptions to her captivity was her eating habits, her first three weeks of captivity she barely ate a thing. She referred to the Native Americans food as “filthy trash” at first, nonetheless…

from his father, and empty bottles from his mother. Each night he arrives on his door step, turning the knob staring at the knocker that seems to scream “run”. He knows tonight will be just like the others, filled with fear and evil. Elie Wiesel has a lot of similarities to this boy. They both are too young to be living through such terrible situations, and both are completely changed from the evil expressed by humans. In his memoir, Night, Wiesel uses significant details to show the evil in…

After seeing Juliet for the first time, he almost instantly decided that she was the one he was meant to marry. That night, once again acting solely on his impulses (otherwise known as hormones), he jumped over the wall surrounding the Capulet manor and went to Juliet’s balcony, where he called to her and conceded his eternal love for her. Just the fact that he chose to…

affect different people in various ways, some may choose to ignore it, some may get vigorously torn apart by it and others chose to fight it with the utmost of powers. This is shown in the key poems ‘War Photographer’, ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ and ‘A mother in a refugee camp’. All of these poems show particular differences in their attitudes towards death; which is also seen in the further poems ‘Out of the Blue’, ‘Funeral Blues’ and ‘Mid-Term Break’. In Carol Ann Duffy’s poem…