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leave this place where the smoke blows black / And the dark street winds and bends / Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow” (Silverstein 553). Here Silverstein uses the phrases smoke blows black, the dark street winds and bends, and asphalt flowers grows this allows for the reader to visualize how city life has become dreary and dark without life. This detail also gives some hope because asphalt is what makes up the street, and the street is before the sidewalk. The last significant piece…

The Road Not Taken In life, we reach a climax where we have to make our own decisions and let our fate take the lead. We also learn the mistakes of our action and suffer the consequences.The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is a descriptive poem that summarizes a traveler who comes upon a crossroad in his life. The choices the persona makes can affect him by changing his lifestyle or destroying it. The traveler is forced to decide between the two paths and decides to take the road less taken.…

“Can’t we stop for a moment? Hide in a shop maybe?” Jack panted as three teenagers slowed to a quick walk down a Berlin street. David and Hannah hurried along behind Jack while scolding him for such and absurd idea. They couldn’t stop until they reached safety. Running from a gestapo was difficult work and it would be too long before they could find a safe house or forest to duck into. They were Jews which somehow made them criminals in their world of 1940 Germany. Another threat was the…

This is where the scum of the earth goes to die. Under the buzzing glow of electric street lamps, Scarlet women glide like snakes, ready to pounce on any unsuspecting mouse that finds he has wandered onto the wrong street. Locals have taken to calling it “two-bit” street, cheap and dirty. The only people who don’t mind being seen on two-bit are the types who can be bought of by some sweet words and free liquor; just the type I love to pump for information. The summer night is sweltering, with…

are packed, but main street only has a few cars. Due to it being a Sunday, many of the shops and restaurants are closed. The only opened shop on main street is the pizzeria. The sidewalks are all cleared of snow, and the roads are also plowed and salted. Many of the houses are larger and white, but all seem to be in good shape. It is clear that this is a farming based town, due to the feed store located near the end of main street. Once outside of the main street and onto route seven…

Problems With Anderson My problem with Anderson is the potholes and road conditions , many people dislike them . They mess up peoples tires and alignments . City of Anderson needs to raise taxes to fix them. They need to do right the first time so know one has anything negative to say. People complain about the roads , that should persuade the city fix it . The city worries about other things like new cop cars , new stop lights & water pipes. But not fixing the terrible roads . Poor…

“He has slept on the ground; in a sewage culvert, curled up with other migrants; on top of gravestones. Once, on top of a moving train, he grew so hungry that he jumped forward to the first car, leaped off, and raced to pick a pineapple. He was able to reboard one of the train’s last cars. Another time, he had gone two days without water. His throat felt as if it was swelling shut. There were no houses in sight. He found a small cattle trough. It was frothy with cow spit. Under the froth was…

Modern Day Tom Walker Growing up in the streets of Beverly Hills, California was a young man named Tom who always aspired to be rich like the rest of his friends and family. Tom was a married man with no children because he did not want to waste money he could spend on himself on children that he did not really even care to have.. Tom and his wife Amy, who were both known for being very greedy individuals, the couple even sometimes stole each other 's personal belongings and money from each…

Mrs Vadnie Marlene Sevlon Analytical essay of Mrs Vadnie Marlene Sevlon by Jackie Kay Today, living in the city can be a lonely affair for many people. To combat this, some use their imagination to envisage the life they could have had. But, what happens when you cannot separate fact from fancy? This is the problem Jakie Kay deals with in her short story “Mrs Vadnie Marlene Sevlon,” which deals with a middle-aged woman, whose quiet life is far from what she envisages. The short story takes…

“Last Night I Drove a Car” was written by Gregory Corso after his release from prison. He had been arrested three times and was finally beginning to turn his life around. He went through multiple jobs after getting out of prison the third time and eventually met Ginsberg who influenced his writing style. Many of his poems are about his time in jail or how that affected him and his outlook on life. The speaker of the poem is Gregory Corso. When he was a child Corso’s mom abandoned him after…