The Day After

invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.” shelley This is how I feel as I attempt to pinpoint the crucial events that have made up my present day psych. I suppose I am made up differently than most students at Poughkeepsie Day School. To begin my mind floats to age three, where the mess began. I can still see the sun peaking in; it lightly brushing the creamy yellow walls. The stained white rug that had been lived in, and…

Even in today 's generation, men often forget the previous achievements women have made and continue to take them for granted. Many males have refused to assign a better position to the opposite gender, dreading the idea of females out maneuvering them. This is the 21st century, and mankind still lingers on the idea of male superiority. Due to this, some women have drafted an illusion that induces lower standards for themselves. Now not only men, but even women are doubtful of their potential…

is very hostile towards Elizabeth. Abby is going to do anything she can to oust Elizabeth not only from Salem, but Johns life; because Abby wants to be with John. Elizabeth begins to feel solicitous about what is going to happen in the next few days. After Elizabeth found out that people were being accused of witchcraft on unreliable proof she knew Abby would be coming for her. Elizabeth confesses her concern to John by saying: “She wants me dead. I knew all week it would come to this” (Miller…

times a week if I can, just to be nice. I signed up to do it every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Usually Fridays are the days that I can’t make it, but most of the time I do. When I’m not in the library,…

keep on talking about the same old gossip that they always do. I love learning about all of my past, my skin colour feels like the only connection to it I have left. I wish that I could remember my aboriginal name but it was taken away from me the day after I was taken. Just recently I have felt lost, I have been taught to act like a ‘white’ person, but that isn’t me. Everyone around me tries so hard to make be ‘normal’, but I don’t think that I will be able to change, I don’t really want to…

society. In the short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” Seymour struggles in a life of alienation from society; a corrupt world with the lack of innocence. He tries to find innocence in this life and he holds on dearly to what little innocence he finds. In the end, he cannot live anymore and decides to end his search for innocence. Seymour Glass’ life was depicted as a life full of opportunity after war, what the other characters of the short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” do not…

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It was a gray day. The sun did not shine; it could not sever the layers of powdery black skies and the fog. The thick mist that was not really rain and not really fog covered the southeastern corner of New Jersey. It was depressing, just like most days in the area surrounding the Overbrook Asylum. On the outside, Overbrook was a welcoming place where patients were treated with care and respect; the inside was very different. I entered the asylum as a nurse in May of 1910 and was excited to be…

Bananafish represent many things in J.D. Salinger’s story “A Perfect Day For Bananafish”. Bananafish are fictional animals whom live in the ocean. They go into holes full of bananas, and eat until they are full, but cannot get back out of the hole again and eventually die. Seymour, the character who came up with the idea of bananafish, went to war, and suffers from PTSD or depression because he commits suicide at the end of the story. Seymour communicates better with children than adults; for…

which would take him home. He walked the ____ until he finally found it. He spent three days on the ship until they landed in Britain but still had quite the distance to go. The crew hiked for about a month, finishing rations faster than expected and becoming very restless. Patrick confused the men for he was finding rest in God. The captain was utterly bewildered and angered by both Patrick and…