She's Come Undone

Have you ever been on a road trip and then everything falls apart? I’m talking screaming siblings, hungry family, and most of all feeling uncomfortable the whole drive. Well, this is exactly what happened to my family on our 2016 road trip to California. Not to mention we had everything planned. Every place, cost, time, and snack. What could have possibly gone wrong? For as far back as I can remember, every other summer my family has taken a long journey to Southern California to visit…

A major part of life is pursuing dreams. Life would almost be pointless if people did not have ambitions. We wouldn’t have a reason to get out of bed if they did not have a dream that they want to achieve. Anne Laurel Cartier, the author of the short story “Leaving the iron lung,” specifically looks at how having a dream can affect one’s life. Carter uses conflicting characters, character transformation, and the setting to illustrate that to be content with life one needs to follow their dream,…

This person will never learn to be like the rest of us. He has no conscience, he only looks out for himself and is wholly incapable of feeling empathy. It is a sad tale. People like him exist and there is no treatment for it. Most people cannot protect themselves from people like Danny because so few people are like Danny. Conscience is so inherent, so automatic that even when we try to put ourselves first in life we will often look back. We can connect the dots to understand the world around us…

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury is a story about two boys who live in Greentown, Illinois. The two boys, Jim and Will grow up quickly in a few days when a carnival comes to town and they must try to help the lonely people of the town who long for something. The carnival feasts upon the town's people who long for something more and turns them into freaks that become part of the carnival. Disney also turned Bradbury's book into a movie that was released in 1983 and had Bradbury…

Douglas Spaulding, age 12, showcases his magical powers in a short excerpt from Ray Bradbury’s novel Dandelion Wine. Bradbury paints a wizard-like portrait of the young boy by employing mystical diction and equally important comparisons to establish a rampantly magical atmosphere throughout the passage. Bradbury lays the foundation for magic through copious use of magical diction, word choice that reinforces the atmosphere. Lines 35-39 are especially significant because they mention young…

Ray Bradbury brings us back to a time when we all were full of creative potential and explores how summer was an important aspect of childhood. In Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine, there is a significant assortment of literary terms used to emphasize an overall magical and mysterious atmosphere. Bradbury commences the passage with many rhetorical devices to characterize the beginnings of summer and describe how this day is so important to a young child, bright with creative vision. The author…

period in which this book is set is very important because of the view on machines at the time. In 1928, machines were a very new concept, and many people did not know whether or not to trust them. Bradbury had a very cautious view on machines, and it comes through a lot in the book. If the book had not been set in 1928, then I believe the theme "technology should not be used to replace everything" would not be so evident. The fact that it is set in a small town is also important. If Green Town…

In Ray Bradbury's novel, Dandelion Wine, the author uses a variety of rhetorical devices to point out on Douglas Spaulding's imagination. In the authors writing, he uses metaphors and personification to portray Douglas's vision of summer. He describes the main character's hometown as "swarming seas of elm and oak and maple" and "early-morning stream" these are metaphors, it allows readers to visualize the setting of his home and symbolizes how summer is slow and steady. In addition, the author…

as there is death. But to a twelve-year-old boy like Doug, who has just found out that he is alive, grappling with the idea of death is not so easy. Death will take away all of the magic that he has just found, and so he does not accept that it will come for him. But throughout the course of the book Bradbury shows us that death is not always a bad thing. Both Helen Loomis and Great-Grandma Spaulding die content. They were able to die happy because they lived their lives the way they wanted to.…

with Gatsby in the summer of 1922. Nick is also a nice choice to narrate this novel because of the nature of his behavior. He says in chapter one that he is “tolerant, open-minded, quiet, and a good listener”. Others come to him with trust to keep their secrets. Gatsby for example comes to trust Nick. Nick seems to keep to himself throughout the novel. He tends to comment on things more rather than taking over the entire thing. Nick functions more often as a voice for Fitzgerald.…