Stephen Covey

When Fear Takes Over In Nightfall, The Crystal Cave, and Left for Dead there is a reoccurring topic that each book has in common. The topic that keeps finding its place in the novels is fear. Fear can make you do all sorts of actions that you normally would not do. Sometimes fear can make you go completely insane. In these books the topic of fear is shown throughout by starvation, thirst, darkness, and death which leads these characters to make out of the ordinary decisions. In the novel…

Unusual or supernatural events are common elements in Southern Gothic literature. From the beginning of the story, the author utilizes a surreal undertone in a sequence of obscure events to highlight how a personal interest when pursued without regard for others can lead to disaster. The first of these events begins with a seemingly innocent decision by the grandmother to bring her cat along on the family vacation. “She didn’t intend for the cat to be left alone in the house for three days…

People tend to fear what they do not understand; this human trait has given rise to hysteria, myths, legends, superstitions, and a multitude of mystical creatures. One of the most common monsters that piques the interest of numerous people are vampires. Vampires are seen as fictitious due to all the attention they have received by the media and their transition from bloodthirsty creatures of the night to emotionally distant, teenage dreams. However, there almost always is a grain of truth behind…

Before leaving for school, I sit down and turn on my favorite show, Spongebob Squarepants. In this episode, Spongebob is being bullied, an incident that many students like me and my friends can relate to, at Boating School by a larger fish named Flatts. Annoyed and frustrated, Spongebob lets the bully have his way, and since he is a sponge, the bully’s physical abuse doesn’t affect him, the bully becoming tired and run-down. During the whole episode, Spongebob stays strong which teaches the…

It’s Jake and Lydia’s first time to go outside in the wilderness and see all of the beautiful nature out there. They don’t know what they're going to expect out there and there can be very dangerous plants or animals there. They have never ever seen any kind of animal in there whole life except the talking ape. Their parents let them go explore outside even though that might be the last time there going to see them. Jake and Lydia are very excited to go out and see different things. When they go…

The Pit and the Pendulum: A Gothic Analysis Gothic literature obviously must get its name from somewhere, and in most cases, the creepy, eerie elements of the story are what make Gothic stories, Gothic. Many stories include these vital Gothic elements, especially “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe. This story is about a man, the unnamed narrator, being trapped in a prison and sentenced to death by the Spanish Inquisition. Eventually, he is able to escape a swinging pendulum with an…

With a smile on his face and a twinkle in his eye, nothing can bring sixteen-year-old Beau Coats down. Despite having just moved from Twin Falls, Idaho, he is not worried one bit about being the new kid. Beau Coats, an eleventh grader, has high hopes for his future, and is not stressed about it. His dreams of becoming a hip hop artist and traveling with friends. He also aspires to have a strain of marijuana named after him. To achieve these dreams, Beau beatboxes, raps, and listens to a plethora…

Gothic literature is one of the most popular genres of reading that there is, and a lot of gothic literature stories are very similar, and others, very different. In And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, each of the character's fate all decided by that one person, the host. Whereas the character´s in ¨The Monkey's Paw¨ are given their fate by a ¨magical¨ item, a monkey's paw. Both tie into gothic literature, And Then There Were None is tied in by suspicion, murder, and a gloomy,…

Despite the fact that literature referred to as “gothic” is similar in its basic content, such as combining death and romanticism, the genre itself varies in what kind of elements the novels convey. Comparing and contrasting the male gothic with the female gothic, the differences between the novels The Monk by Matthew Lewis and The Italian by Ann Radcliffe, the sub-genres of gothic literature are blatantly expressed. Specifically, the authors contrast in the way each of them portrays: scenery,…

The selkie placed a gloved hand on the knight’s shoulder as he explained his plan. “The Western Kingdom is vulnerable to attacks currently due to this snowstorm, right? We should use the snow to our advantage and lay siege to some of their cities to claim them for the prince. Prince Serell talks of creating a new dynasty for Regno; we need to conquer the Western Kingdom to create a barrier between the Northern and Southern Kingdoms so they cannot aid each other. Once that is accomplished, I’m…