The Dead Girl

The book I chose to read for the second quarter is called “One Came Home”. This book was written by Amy Timberlake. I was excited to read this book because it is a mystery book and I love reading mysteries. This book is about a girl named Georgie Burkhardt whose sister recently ran away with a group of pigeoneers. A couple days later, her sister’s body is returned by the sheriff, but Georgie refuses to believe that she is dead. Georgie feels that it is her fault that her sister, Agatha, disappeared and she goes to find her with the help of Agatha’s secret lover, Billy McCabe. They experience counterfeiters, wild animals, and danger on their journey to bring Agatha back home. “One Came Home” takes place in Placid, Wisconsin in 1871. Placid…

It is a pleasure to scrutinize the work of both Philip Levine “what work is” and Kim Addonizio “Dead Girl.” In both articles, the theme of youth and despair are explored by the writers as they analyze aspects of the lives of young girls and a young man. They spoke of the struggles that they go through as well as their feelings towards this life and how they handle it. They look into how the authors’ view on relationships or lack of it, and how it affects a young man and young girls in the…

painting, Ellie, depicts a young Day of the Dead girl. Stock uses acrylic paint on a canvas that is approximately 20x20” as her medium. At first glance, the painting may just appear to be nothing more than another Day of the Dead painting; however, upon closer examination the details turn it into something entirely different. Stock uses techniques such as: implied depth, color, and focal point to emphasize the innocence being lost in the young girl. Without these elements, Stock’s concept that…

Manybooks Questions Batch 25 (1014 Words) Question: What Books Unsettled You The Most Due To Their Content? Answer 1: The most unsettling book that I have ever read is Living Dead Girl from Elizabeth Scott. The reason why it unsettled me so much is because I basically went into the story blind and had no idea what really to expect. The blurb sounded a bit interesting, but nothing about it really prepared me for what I was about to read. To explain why I think everyone will find this book…

3 Dead Girls Chris Broadstone recently edited together a collection of some of his short films, 3 Dead Girls. Overall, these three short films are some of the best micro budgeted shorts I have seen, and that opinion holds strong after screening many short film festivals over the years. One of the limitation of short films is trying squeeze an entire story within a very short period of time. With the 2000 short film, Scream For Me, it is readily apparent. We’re given much of the backstory…

case because the detective who has the mystery case, where a person was murdered would use fingerprinting. You would use fingerprinting to track down the murder and the bystander. How you can see fingerprinting is not with the naked eye but with a special light. Fluorescent dye light. You can also use cyanoacrylate (superglue) processing. This process show the fingerprint. This fingerprint method could be helpful in the story that I'm reading. The dead girls of Hysteria Hall. The detective,…

Chapter 1- Motivations for the Protagonist** Character’s all need some type of motivation explaining why they keep going. Motivations are important because they drive the character to do more, and with no motivations, what would keep them going? In “The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall,” Delia, the protagonist, has clear motivations the author put in to further develop the character. From her aunt, family and the evil behind the house, this drives her to keep going. “The task I’ve…

like effect whenever they moved, or maybe I was just too dizzy to focus on what was infront of me. They were everywhere, dancing around with cups on their hands, talking to each other, doing what you normally do on a party. But one of them caught my attention. There was a girl on the other side of the room that looked normal.…

Friendship is a relationship between two people based on many different factors. A true friendship is built on accountability and trust. Sometimes, children grow up together and know each other for a long time, while other relationships are relatively newer and have only been around for a short period of time. In the novel Dead Girls Don’t Lie, Jennifer Shaw Wolf creates an accurate illustration of both friendships based on how long they’ve been around. The longer one has been acquainted, the…

stories “Araby” and “The Dead”, both main characters fight deep inner battles that drive them to feel alienated. Alienation is depicted through the stories in different forms, spanning from the depiction of weather to the description of a neighborhood. Both characters have different manners in handling their inner battle. In Araby, the unnamed character is filled with anguish and retreats into the darkness of his thoughts. On the other hand, Gabriel feels himself becoming one of the deceased…