“Don’t think that I’ll sit around like a ditzy, bumbling idiot. I can do more than you think.” “I knew it…” he said in a mere whisper. “I wasn't hallucinating.” “Talk louder. No one will take you seriously with your pathetic incohesive mumbling.” She shook her disapprovingly, clicking her tongue. “I said,” the bar owner started slowly, “you’re one of them! The monster that’s been committing mass genocides!” Her eyes widened as an icy chill ran up her spine, it felt like it could crack at any…
The two excerpts from “The Fault In Our Stars” by John Green, and “ The Love Song” by J. Alfred Prufrock, The speaker in the poem intricately explains Augustus’s and Hazel's view about life. The meaning of life is a question asked by many and answered by few, scholars go there whole lives searching for the question of life, and they come back with various answers. Life cannot be summed up into one sentence or answered by one man, because not everyone wants the same out of life. The question…
look like Mrs. Creed murder of Chris and that Bo should be released for false accusations. That when I looked over to Ali and noticed that she had a gun to the back of my head and she said that if I didn't do what she said then she would kill me. I shook in fear I could feel the coldness of the rim of the gun on the back of my head. "Ali please don't do this how long we knew each other please don't" I cried in fear, but Ali's wasn't giving in she held the gun at my head with confidence and…
Desiree didn't even understand why. Should she trust him, or was it time to cut and run while she had the chance? Running seemed logical, but leaving him filled her with an emptiness Desiree didn't think she could endure. "Stop, just stop ok." she shook her head stepped closer as he took her hand. "I didn't say you were a monster. Ok maybe by mistake I did. And I wasn't made about being attached to you. Surprised yes, mad no not really. I was made because you walked away before I could even…
I touched the skeletons skull with my index finger. He grabbed my hand and shook his head. I giggled at his reaction and looked past him. The hallway behind him was pitch black and strange noises were coming from within the darkness. “Do you know the way to Henry’s office?” His eye sockets widened in excitement. Tiny as he was, he had enormous strength. He ever so gracefully lifted me off the ground and carried me through the maze of hallways. After his speed run through the bleakness, we…
There are some events that are so terrifying that you can remember everything about when it happened. For me, that event is when I came out to my mom. She had called me into her room so that I could listen to her read Bible verses condemning homosexuality, which is always a fun time. The room only had one dim light on and the curtains were closed, making the room almost as gloomy as me at the time. Downstairs, I could smell my sisters baking and wished more than anything I could be there instead…
Egyptian religion as it would lead to the birth of Seth's arch nemesis Horus, the battles the two fought, which included physical conflicts and boat races, and Seth leaving the Delta to go into exile in the vast and empty Egyptian desert. Seth's actions shook the roots of the divine family tree for the rest of ancient Egyptian history. Seth is characterized as a tan-skinned male who has the head of a perplexing and arcane animal.…
The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is an intriguing story that is told from the first person narrator point of view, describes the insanity of a depress women. Who was held in a nursery room of an old mansion due to her depression and mental illness. As the narrator portrays the story in the Victorian era, when women were no allowed to express their feelings, the women 's mind perceived horror fantasies and created a feeling of a gothic horror setting. The main character who…
Mixed emotions in “A White Heron” and “Story of an Hour” How do two completely different stories with contrasting plots use similar themes to bring out a similar feeling regarding characters? It happens in “Story of an Hour,” and “A White Heron,” and it’s interesting to see how in the two stories, there’s a similarity that can be seen once read between the lines. The first story, “A White Heron,” is about a young city girl, Sylvia, who moved to the country to live with her grandmother on a farm…
In the short story The yellow wallpaper (1892), Charlotte Perkins Gilman is writing a warning to the dangers of prolonged isolation. Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes this story from her past experience with postpartum depression and the long sense abolished rest cure of which she endured extreme solitude and very little human contact. After her experience in the rest cure she was sent home and told to only spend two hours a day of intellectual time and to never pick up a pen, pencil, brush or…