Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

versions of the story of Cinderella. There is only one story of Cinderella that I grew up with and that is the “Disney movie version of Cinderella.” This particular version of the story most people of today’s culture are familiar with and know that it is truly loved by many. However, it is always great to venture out of the norm, and to look for other versions of the story that is so loved by many people. This is such a popular story that different cultures all over the world wanted to tell it…

The theme is evident in many sections of this novel, but clearly shown in Ruth’s flashbacks, Sarah’s Story and in Jonathan’s story. First of all, Ruth’s flashbacks vividly describe some of the things that Ruth had experienced. Two of these flashbacks recounts a time where Ruth did not want to be alive. One was during the time she was in the hospital being comforted by American soldiers and she tells a soldier that better people than her have died. Another flashback described a time…

As Helen Keller states in her book Faith Fears Not, “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold,”. “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allen Poe tells an eerie story about a man by the name of Prince Prospero, and the lengths he has gone to escape the inevitable end to us all, death. A horrid disease referred to as ‘The Red Death’ has begun spreading wildly, taking the lives of nearly half of the town and killing everyone…

Cottage in Maine, a place where their mothers visited every summer when they were children. While in Maine, Ali and Emma meet an impudent individual who goes by the name of Sissy, who is determined to make the girls’ stay not one to forget. In Deep And Dark And Dangerous, the novel written by Mary Downing Hahn, the girls discover Sissy’s true past and unravel her secrets, while also uncovering the fact that Sissy is the spirit of Teresa, the young girl who drowned in the lake the year that…

Gene and Finny’s friendship has isolated them from a true companionship of each other. These are two characters from the brilliant mind of John Knowles; the author of A Separate Peace. Throughout this story he uses Finny and Gene as a conduit for his thoughts and feeling on friendship. He exposes the dark thoughts of jealousy and envy in everyone's inner self through Gene and Finny’s friendship.Gene, a quiet kid who starts school at a boys’ boarding school during the Second World War.Finny, a…

down the lights from the lighting booth and tell some scary stories?" We all just shrug and just go along with it and all sit around in a circle on stage. Nick, Meg's ex-boyfriend, dims down the lights to where I can barely see two feet in front of me. I'm not a big fan of the dark because we never know what could be lurking in the shadows, just beyond our sight of view. Zach sits down next to me, closer than I would have expected him to. Story after story, they become duller and duller.…

Rhetorical Analysis of Sleeping Beauty Almost everyone is familiar with the story of “Sleeping Beauty”, with a classic ending that prince saved the princess and got married. I would simply believe it’s a happy ending story if I didn’t read another version from Anne Sexton. Her version is so much different due to her unfortunate life, which expressed more on the dark side. Such a story is trying to tell people that a miserable childhood may influence a person a whole life, and it’s nearly…

commit their religion to the Greek gods. The movie and book The Lightning Thief written by Rick Riordan, Directed by Chris Columbus, brings back that faith of Greek gods and gives people a new insight on it. The Character vs. Character conflict in the story is that Zeus and the other olympian gods think that Percy stole his almighty weapon the Lightning Bolt and Percy needs to return it in time to stop a feud between the olympians. “The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel", written by Rick…

words give off a comforting sense to the room. When describing the club Bunker, he uses the words “dark”, “basement”, “vast”, which give off more of an unsettling feeling. His diction makes the reader understand the setting of the places in St. Petersberg. His word choice gives us the knowledge that LaSky is a happy carefree place, while the Bunker is more of a daring, somewhat dangerous…

If a story is in you, it has to come out When I was in first grade iI had a teacher named Mrs.Neff, she was a very nice teacher and I passed 1st grade so easily. My mother got a letter in the mail asking if we would like to loop with Mrs.neff and be with her again for second grade. My mother agreed to let me loop with her. I remember second grade like it was no tomorrow., everything was S bit odd. Every time we would go into the classroom , we were told to put up our things and sit on the…