Runt

He saw the first tree shudder and fall, far off in the distance. Then he heard his mother call out the kitchen window: "Luke! Inside. Now." He had never disobeyed the order to hide. Even as a toddler, barely able to walk in the backyard's tall grass, he had somehow understood the fear in his mother's voice. But on this day, the day they began taking the woods away, he hesitated. He took one extra breath of the fresh air, scented with clover and honeysuckle and—coming from far away—pine smoke. He…

him. Another reason Macbeth is much more eviler is that he didn't kill Macduff’s family himself, he sent the same murderers who killed Banquo to go kill Macduff’s family. The first murderer killed Macduff’s son in Act 4 and said, “What's that, you runt? (stabbing him) Young son of a traitor!” (Pg. 155) After Macduff's son got stabbed, he told his mother to run away but before she can the murderers already killed her. There were a couple of reasons why Lady Macbeth was more eviler than Macbeth in…

through during their immigration experience. In his first job experience after arriving to America, Rizk had been called names and treated prejudicly by his boss. Rizk states “------ ------ you foreigner (to Rizk)! Who ever sent you here? You foreign runt”(Rizk, 131 ). Rizk was unwelcomed, and this incident made him “shrink and quiver inside” (Rizk, 132). The phrase “foreigner” used the boss indicates he is a third or fourth generation American that…

A hero is brave, has courage, and honest. A hero is someone that is willing to put his or her life at risk in order to help others. A Hero is also someone that is willing to go through hell in order for his or her loved ones to keep moving on. For example a police officer is someone that on a daily basis puts his or her life at risk. They risk leaving their family alone if they were to die. Its things like this that makes a hero. Another example is a mother that doesn't eat just so that her kids…

Butterflies are viewed as a symbol of change around the world. This is because they come out of their shell and become one of the most beautiful creatures of life out there in the world. In a novel characters can very much be like butterflies by getting guidance from others or encountering an event that makes them grow and develop as a character, especially in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Although many may argue that children like Scout never lose their innocence and act just like kids…

Holding on firmly to the straps of my backpack as I walked with my head lowered through a crowd of cruel teenagers. Whose joy in life was torturing and taunting people for the heck of it. While staring at me, they shouted things while laughing with their friends. "Why are you alive?" "You're so ugly. You should die." "Ew, your back. Nobody likes you." "Don't come near me! I don't want STD's!" The voices disappeared and, the bullies blurred as the back of my eyes pricked with tears,…

An Extraordinary Mentor in an Unexpected Creature What is a mentor? The word “mentor” can be defined as someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experience and often younger person. Most of the time, a mentor helps the person to achieve a goal, learn a lesson, or to believe in ones-self .E.B. White, the author of Charlotte’s Web perfectly In the story Charlotte’s Web, Charlotte is Wilbur’s mentor. She helps Wilbur to be the “Some Pig” that she tells him he is. She teaches him to…

At Battle School, Ender thrived in the environment that Colonel Graff threw him in. As soon as Ender was given his own army he saw that he had been given the collective runts of the litter. In a school where physical prowess and experience meant everything to the instructors and students, he had been given the youngest, smallest students in the school. Despite these apparent setbacks, Ender molded his army into one that…

The faintest star in the sky. In Greek Mythology, Merope made up one of the seven Pleiades sisters, who were the daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Merope was the runt of the family and was shunned away when marrying a commoner. She hid her face in shame, thus barely visible in the sky. When she came to learn about the origins of her name during a bedtime story at the age of 4, Merope Aquino bombarded her father with countless questions a second. She couldn’t help it, her curiosity killed her.…

Throughout this book, there are many examples of different kind of awakenings, starting off with Edna awakening herself as an artist when she begins her painting career, here realization that she appreciates the music up to the point until she wakens to kind herself unfulfilled. Edna is not only waking up to understand herself as a human beings, and a woman who is not happy in a mans world he also awakens herself as a sexual being. For this essay I am going to focus on the stages that Edna has…