Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Comparative Essay “ Dear, it’s getting dark, come on in,” Mom called, her hair flowing in the frosty breeze. With rosy red cheeks, the 5 year old boy runs inside, the snow crunching beneath his wet boots. As he wipes them on the welcome mat, mom hands him a steaming cup of hot chocolate with three marshmallows smiling back up at the child with the puffy coat. He settles down next to the fire that was slowly dying, and noticed mom was searching for something. “Aha,”she…

affect a person. Abduction, kidnapping, and molestation, it all happens. You wouldn't want this to happen to you or your children. The citizens should be aware of this, and how it's a very serious matter, the damage it does to a family. These are scary nasty predators, not friends. Missing children is a horrifying concept. Will you ever get them back? Will they be alive? Abduction is a serious matter the world needs to be aware, that one missing child is someone's child. The world needs to…

In The Things They Carried, war is seen by Americans as a way for men to show their country’s pride and to prove their worthiness. In this time period war was unavoidable for men between the ages of 18 to 25, the draft forces men to partake in war even if they didn’t want to. Some men fled to Canada, emitted themselves into mental hospitals, and did anything possible to prevent their having to go. Tim O’Brien is saying throughout this novel is that the whole culture of war is patriotism,…

human. In CS Lewis’s words “We read to know that we are not alone.” Great Literature is also important because it brings us together. It makes a community by gathering us around big questions. Literature gives us the inspiration to pay attention. It tells us to stop, look, and…

almost every day, I never had time or energy to study or do much for fun, and I was working so much my body hurt everywhere. This all led to a decline in my mental health, and an eventual breakdown at the end of the year. My thoughts had started leading dark places, and I had to do something drastic to get my life back on track. In the end I decided to go to CMCC and to find an apartment in the area with my mom, seeing as she was having financial troubles as well and Lewiston/Auburn is much…

the animals were being worked too hard and not getting fed enough, Mr. Jones did the same. He seemed like he was unconcerned about the welfare of the animals, and eventually that led to his downfall. Orwell talks about how in the beginning of the story, Mr. Jones treats the animals with such disrespect and he does not care about them. In the start of the novel, Mr. Jones was closing up for the night and he “had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the…

religion based off your faith. It is a religion where there is no physical proof nor evidence to prove what happened. It is our society in which we choose to believe in God and everything else we are taught to believe in. The Garden of Eden is a biblical story in which God creates the earth in five days, and then creates a man and a woman, Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve only had one order they must follow, and that was God forbidding them to eat the fruit of knowledge which would teach them right…

The Darkness in Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Allen Poe was an extremely significant person in American Literature. Poe was, and still is one of the most famous horror writers in history and will be remembered for his dark stories, and poems. He greatly influenced America with his mysterious and miserable ways. Even though that Poe was an extremely important and significant person in American Literature he struggled through life. He had many different mental problems that were caused by some of the…

A character is coming of age when they show the ability to mature, change, or grow in their mentality and or personality to their corresponding age. In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Harper Lee incorporates many such coming of age themes. These include; it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird; life is unfair; it's polite to be ladylike; and never giving up. In the final chapters of the book, the theme: There is always more to a person when you see the world through their perspective, became more prevalent.…

in a flurry of extravaganza and fanfare all over the Western World. It was released on 15th June, 2015. The date of its release coincides with the date of birth of Christian Grey—the vanguard and protagonist of this novel. It is an erotic romance story by British writer E.L. James—the author of an erstwhile super block buster hit the Fifty Shades of Grey. The novel under review is the 4th instalment of the Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy. The main twist in the latest series of the book is that the…