Stephen Dorff

I don't fear the dark, I fear what's in it. The unknown. I fear monsters and ghosts I don't know exist or not. When I was younger, my mind would create and imagine horrible things out of fear that aren't even there, and things that don't exist. I always thought that was the reason myths and legends were formed. I may or may not be right. It may not even be real. But what I experienced working at Argento’s food store was not a trick, everything I saw and experienced was real, and I’m living…

Stephen Crane Stephen Crane’s novel The Red Badge of Courage was a revolutionary piece of art written in the late 1800s. Crane’s work on the novel brought about a completely new and versatile way of writing. He had never served in the war, nor did he ever have experience with the war but he recreated it with his imagination. Stephen Crane was an exceptionally great writer and has written many great poems, novels and short stories. Crane did not have the most respect at first from the United…

A Look into Royalty’s Life Life is luxurious for royalty. Rooms in medieval castles are filled with the finest furniture made of the most exquisite materials of the time. Servants use various methods to prepare feasts fit for a king. Lords and ladies wear exotic furs and jewelry displaying their wealth to the peasants below them. Perhaps one of the best ways to look into the life of royalty is to start where their day begins and ends. The bedroom. There are dark wooden doors in an arched…

Have you ever seen The Simpsons on TV and saw Stephen Hawking in one of the episodes in that show? Believe it or not, one of the most famous physicists of the 20th century was presented on one of the popular animated comedies in America, The Simpsons. His presence on the show was comical but Stephen Hawking was more than a made up animated character, he was an actual person with a brilliant mind. Although Stephen Hawking has a disability of motor neurone disease, he was able to continue his work…

Literature took a dark twist when gothic literature was introduced into the world of writing. Writers in the 1800s wrote about morbid topics, such as death, ghosts and torture. They found ways to incorporate terror over horror in their works and opened the doors to a new genre that is still found today in modern works. In Edgar Allan Poe’s Tell Tale Heart gothic elements are shown by the author’s use of repetition and voice, which displays the fact that this style of writing exceeds the…

For those seeking thrills, surprises and mind-bending twists, Gothic Literature is an excellent genre to fulfill that role. While these novels can vary from the average home in a futuristic world to an old and decaying mansion on a stormy night, or from several characters to just a few, Gothic stories mainly focus on horror themes that set the reader on edge. Death, supernatural activity, spooky settings and suspicions about who can be trusted are many common characteristics featured in Gothic…

The Open Boat by Stephen Crane is told from a third-person perspective. The only mind through out the book the narrator has insight to is the correspondent. The narrator suggests all four men are thinking and feeling the same things. Throughout the book the oiler is the only character given a name. The oiler (Billy) has not eaten or slept in days like the others, right before the ship sank he worked double-watch in the engine-room, still he continues rowing. Any time the correspondent tries to…

Published in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter is a piece of Gothic literature that has become a staple of high school learning and woven itself, quite ironically, into popular culture. Examples of this can be seen in movies (The plot of Easy A is loosely based on the novel) and music. (The lyrics of the Metallica song “Thorn Within” can be taken as a direct reflection of the novel.) But what defines Gothic literature? Gothic literature is typically defined as a work of…

Directed by Stephen Chbrosky, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is a phenominal movie set in the 90's era that accurately shows a realisic coming of age story and how it feels growing up as a teenager in high school in society. This film shows the perspective of central character, Charlie and his ups and downs in the beginning of high school in a fascinating, exciting and somewhat amusing way. In my opinion, an important and reoccuring theme in "Perks of being a wallflower" is love. Love is…

The Single Shard This book we read together in class was very fascinating. It was about a man named Crame-man and a boy named Tree-ear. Well Tree-ear was alone, basically an orphan. The reason why he was an orphan is because his parents had died of a fever. He has nowhere to go so he asked Crane-man if he could live with him. Crane-man he did not live any a house, he lived under a bridge. The reason why he did not have a house was because he had to sell it, so he could get money out of it and…