Tell Me

Imagine you see one of your favorite people in the world. you want to tell them how you feel, but you can not. Instead of doing something about it, you just tell them something else and pretend your feelings do not matter. now imagine you are like this with everyone you meet. this is the life of Holden Caulfield in J.D. salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. he is a sixteen year old New Yorker who has been to numerous boarding schools for numerous reasons, all tracing back to one. Holden avoids…

chores and things that the mother tells the child to do. Her mother tells her ‘this is how you sweep a corner; ….. this is how you set the table for breakfast;’ The mother tells Kincaid how…

been spreading the wrong teachings to its followers. The Gods tell Socrates that King is doing the right thing by trying to get the church to end the injustice against Negros. They tell Socrates that King is being accused just like him and that Socrates must help King in order to open the eyes of white churchgoers. The Gods tell Socrates that in order to escape the jail cell, he must do three things in order to get to King. The Gods tell Socrates that he must 1) eat the fruit that will be given…

New Criticism Analysis of O’Connor’s “Good Country People” Deception is most successful when there is a grain of truth blended into the lie. If a large portion of the facts of a lie is perceived as true (or thought to be valid), individuals are more likely to explain away any inconsistencies as they emerge. In a way, individuals are blinded by the deception and actually talk themselves into believing the lie. Con artists use this strategy to mislead and cheat individuals to gain what they want;…

Braydon There are many conflicts throughout the film 'Remember the Titans', which is set in 1971 in West Virginia, Alexandra, and directed by Boaz Yakin. One important conflict is between Gerry and Julius, this conflict deepens the understanding of Gerry and Julius' relationship. Another important conflict is between Gerry and Ray, revealing how their relationship wasn’t the strongest. These conflicts also help to convey Boaz Yakin's messages. Gerry and Julius run into conflict when they do…

“If you scream, I’m gonna kill you, And if you tell, I’m gonna kill Bailey. Maya still didn’t understand why he’d want to kill either of us, they have never done anything wrong to him. She still did not understand that he was threatening her, to save his own life from what he was about to do to her. Mr.Freeman then raped Maya, she was in such extreme amounts of pain. Maya then woke up to Mr.Freeman bathing her off, and telling her yet again not to tell a single soul about what just happened.…

In A Monster Calls, a thirteen-year-old boy named Conor O' Malley has a mother who is dying of cancer. Conor tries believing it is getting better but deep down, he knows it isn't. Conor starts to have dreams and wakes up exactly seven minutes after midnight. One time Conor wakes up one night and there is an actual monster outside of his bedroom window. We make the assumption that Conor would be terrified however, it is not the monster Conor has been expecting which results in him being…

The book Sigfried’s Smelly Socks! is a charming tale of a boy with stinky, unwashed socks. He compares the stench of his socks to all the messy, smelly things that has happened to the book. Ranging from food droppings to dirty diapers, nothing from the stench of the book quite compares to the distinct, disgusting smell of his dirty socks. Despite not being as odorous as the things in the book, Sigfried still decides to clean his stinky socks in the strangest way possible. I rate Sigfried’s…

they can tell their deepest secrets to. In my case, my notebook in my phone holds my life. I write all-important things to me down, from my prayers to my finances. I like to type these things in my phone notebook for two main reasons. First, because I am a teenager and everyone knows all teens guard our phones with our life. It is rare that a teenager will ever lose their cell phone. Secondly, because in my phone note it will email them to me therefore they are never lost. Writing for me is my…

My Grandmother Told Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrick Backman is a fictional story that is told in only 372 pages. Elsa’s granny has wronged many people and suddenly dies with very short notice, leaving Elsa the difficult job to deliver the apologetic letters her granny had wrote. The story takes place in many different places. There’s the Land of Almost Awake which has many kingdoms throughout the land, such as the Land of Miamas, Elsa and Granny’s favorite. The story also takes places in…