Peace Breaks Out

to the ongoing conversation. Sometimes, experimentation with writing happens as writers feel the need to, maybe not say something completely new, but to say it in an innovative way. This is how new genres, such as American fabulism, are born, coming out of comparable stories like “The Man in the Woods” by Shirley Jackson and “The Summer People” by Kelly Link. There are many distinguishable features belonging to fabulist stories, so many that not all of them could be named, and Jackson and Link…

The Black Lives Matter organization(Armstrong & Crage, 2006). The Stonewall riots had this emergence of concepts to show to the world, even if it was not intended. The first one would be the sense of unity because when the riots first started to break out, crowds of people started to ban together and then other groups of people during the night or days after would come together with the others. As days of protesting and riots went on after Stonewall, the number of people increased and could be…

Charlotte Perkins story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” is set in the summer where John and his wife rent a colonial mansion out in the country side miles ways from the town. This mansion gives the appearance of a haunted house since it is isolated and is an older style home. John and his wife will face many issues while staying in the mansion such as, dealing with depression, seeing things, and being obsessed with the room. John’s wife is currently trying to recuperate and is forbidden to lift a finger…

By reason of which, when turning 18, being kicked out on one’s own without resources to push success. By the age of 24, only 6 percent of foster children have two or four year degrees. Children are leaving the foster system with no idea how to proceed on their own. Foster families have only taken them…

what exactly I wanted to be my future to be like. Part of the reasoning behind this is that to this very day, I still don’t know the answer to that question. But there did come a time when I realized that I should just examine my passions and figure out which one I could see myself spending my life centred…

yearbook quote was, “When’s this due ?” “Stefen, I love you.” Vampire Diaries, “The Turning Point.” As Sarah watches this show intensely, with the lights off, she hears a thunderous bang. Sarah is home alone, so most people would go and check it out, but she is not in any way intelligent, so she doesn’t. Then another bang, she ignores it,“Stefan, why do I look like her!” Vampire Diaries, “Bloodlines.” Sarah is now crying, because her favorite television couple are having a fight, Stefan…

He is dressed nicely for being upon a lot of strange people wearing masks. I let out a shuddered breath, mostly out of anger. “So, you drag me away from my family and friends…Just to join you, MURDERERS!?” I asked, wailing the last part. The man sat there, seeming unfazed by my bickering. “I assure you, that we only kill those who are out to kill us…there is no need for the name calling.” he said after a long moment of silence, then clasping his hands together…

better than the previous one. Expectations that will hopefully help to motivate someone and encourage them to be the best that they can be. Yet sometimes expectations can have the complete opposite effect on someone. Destroying them from the inside out and causing them to suddenly not care anymore. Expectations are fickle things that have the power to change a single person. Characterization helps readers to to see these gradual changes in a person when expectations come to clash. A personal…

Bugs love me. It is an unrequited love. In the forests of North Carolina where I have spent summers since I was seven years old, it was a constant battle not to be consumed by the never ending mass of insects who rated me five-star cuisine. Maybe it was my fair skin, the light hue that drew them like a lantern in the night. Or maybe it was my fresh mint shampoo that made them think I was a part of the nature they so adored. Nevertheless I learned to coexist. It was in those forests I learned to…

It originated as just a normal October Wednesday in Pillager, MN. Eli was awoken from his deep slumber by his Dad at 9:00 am, just like every other day of the week. Once he finishes climbing out of his deep slumber, Eli grabs some clothes and gingerly heads up the stairs. Now Eli isn’t like most kids his age, which at this time he is 15 and in 10th grade, he has chronic hip pain and sleeps close to 18 hours a day. He has visited many doctors, been diagnosed with Lyme disease and many other…