Staring

As the princess gestured to the right to show the man which door to choose, she was thinking about the lady that was in the door and about the tiger that was in the other. The princess didn’t like the lady in the door. she didn’t really want the man to go spend the rest of his life with her. So she did what she had to do.The door she told the man to choose was the one with the tiger. Obviously, the man didn’t know that so he went to the door and put his hand on the cold round knob. As he…

"Cause everybody's got a dark side, would you love mine?" I repeat these lines in my head as I think about how no one would ever love me for who I am if they found out what I had done. I, Percy Jackson, had murdered countless of people for all the wrong reasons. But it is my job to kill the people I have been assigned and never feel guilt afterwards. When I was 13, my mother died. I was alone in this cruel world. I had to provide for myself, so I joined an underground organization. One where I…

fear and this fear is what influences her to protest when her husband, Mr. Hutchinson, draws the paper with the black mark, signifying he has been chosen to be stoned. This can be seen in the following quote: “Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at the paper in his hand. Suddenly, Tessie…

In school today homework is a key tool of the learning process. Homework teaches students to gather information, solve problems, and learn material. My question is this. Are teachers abusing their right to give homework? Are the students getting to much homework? Being a student myself, I believe so. Teachers abuse the use of homework in several ways. One way in which this happens is that teachers use homework instead of actually teaching. In this case the teacher will do an example or two and…

What would it be like to be friends with someone everyone calls a freak? One day, we went to the park together and everyone was staring I never knew why until I moved and Auggie started going to school. Kids started making fun of Auggie and calling him a “freak.” I never realized how bad his facial deformities looked to other people. It kills me inside to say that. I believe that you have to look beyond what someone looks like and see the real them on the inside. I was really little when I…

Journal Entry 1: Chapter 1-2 As a reader the narrator of The Scarlet Letter, whom we can infer as Nathaniel Hawthorne, seemed to have created a very judgmental and opinionated attitude towards the Puritans and their society. In chapters one and two, the Puritans are displayed as these strict minded people who are very closed off in their world. They don’t seem to appreciate change and they have a very critical side to them as well, especially the Puritan women. Even while standing outside…

images, including her transformation into a human being. In a later scene, she performs for upper-class men in a nightclub, and as she performs a striptease that in 1920s Germany was apparently seen as very decadent, the screen is filled with wet staring eyeballs. A sign of Lang's visual lavishness, and the studio's, that he doesn't hesitate to throw in lavish dream and hallucination sequences to drive home a point or illustrate a character's state of mind. For instance, when the hero first…

difficult to define. In the painting you see Velázquez painted into the picture and he is portrayed painting a picture. Now due to my prior knowledge of the artist, I know that Velázquez painted many portraits of the royal family. He looks as if he is staring at you from the picture and the…

In The Landlady, Roald Dahl, the author, used five unusually words that consist of, brisk, congenial, conjured, rapacious, and compulsion. Brisk has an origin of French and English. The meaning of brisk is the same as, active, fast, and/or energetic. In the story Roald had said “He walked briskly down the street,” so he was saying that Billy was walking quickly or fast down the street. The next word that he used was congenial, which means, pleasant because of a personality, qualities, or…

Have you ever watched a movie that left you jumping at every little sound? What about a movie that didn’t necessarily scare you, but left you with an uncomfortable feeling? After watching F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, I wasn’t scared, but more creeped-out. When he directed the movie in 1922, he used many different variables to give Nosferatu an eerie feeling. Murnau broke the typical vampire stereotype when he directed Nosferatu. Instead of making the vampire handsome, charismatic, and…