The Haunted

The document that was most eye-opening and informing for me would be Document 25, Narrative of an Armenian Lady. Before reading her document, I had not previously heard of the Armenian Genocide so every detail provided was new information to me. I was struck by the matter-of-fact way she described the conditions of their forced journey: “…and that night we had to drink water polluted with blood” (91), “The third day after that they robbed us, and violated us near a place where there was water”…

"People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer." -Andrew Smith This quote is supported by the experiences of Bernard Cooper and Sherman Alexie. Both authors belong to historically marginalized groups, Cooper because of his sexuality, and Alexie because of his race. However, they each had different methods of handling this marginalization. Cooper hid his differences from the world. He is confronted by both his classmate and his mother about the his sexual identity. Both…

worked on a plantation with five other men. She married one of the men, Halle, who disappears years after they are married. Both of her boys leave her around the age of thirteen and she currently lives with her daughter Denver in a house that is haunted by her other unnamed daughter who dies at a very young age. Sethe is only allowed to place ten letters on her daughter’s tombstone, so instead of writing dearly Beloved she only writes Beloved. Recently, one of the men from the plantation, Paul…

During the Labor Day week of 1932, an imaginative boy in the small town of Waukegan, Illinois left his uncle’s funeral in an attempt to escape the disquiets and mystery of death. In search of life and meaning, the young boy discovered a carnival tent, and within it, a man who would change his life, and consequentially, the lives of thousands of others. The boy found just what he needed: an instruction to “live forever”, that would greatly affect his future and inspire him to become the…

The green and white colored scenery assisted by the recorders shows the sight and sound of an ethereal being, shocks those around in spite of a forceful faith into the spirit of the dead. Alabama is packed with corpselike and shadowing ghostly taunting’s and secrets that arise rarely in the media. Sloss Furnaces shows how the spirits are still there after numerous accounts of on the job deaths. In the southern portion of Alabama, Old Cahawba apparently presents reverberations of adolescents…

“Our similarities bring us to a common ground; our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.” This was once said by American novelist Tom Robbins and applies directly to The Book Thief and All the Light We Cannot See. Both of these books share a vast amount of similarities and differences in their characters. Readers are able to relate to the characters, and that is why it is truly important that readers understand and analyze the similarities and differences between two key players:…

praised the environmental consciousness, despite routine, pleased his wife, Aliénor (Christelle Prot), a dispirited psychoanalyst who still suffers in silence with the early death of their only child. The insomniac Alexander also lives embittered, haunted by the ghost of a former colleague and kind of a rival, who ended up shooting himself in the head. This story has a parallel with the rivalry between the renowned architects…

Custom Don't touch someone's head; Don't pass anything over someone's head; Don't point a finger at someone; Don't use your feet to point at someone; Don't wear shoes in the house; Don't eat directly from the serving dish; Don't waste food; Don't make promises that you cannot keep; Don't lose your temper in public; Don't touch anyone of the opposite sex; And never, never forget where you came from. Shrinklit Poem The Kite Runner The protagonist, Amir,…

witnessed many atrocities during his life, yet, nothing could have prepared him for the detailed murder of Jewish families. There were well over two hundred people, purposely packed into a house and set on fire by exploding hand grenades. Carl is haunted by the memory of a young father holding his son in his arms, followed by his wife, jumping out of a flaming window, ultimately, falling to their death. The soldiers are…

forgotten and would follow those involved with her past. Before Rebecca’s death she lived at Manderley with her husband Maxim, though she was not loving and was controlling over him. Now Maxim is remarried to the narrator, but him and his new wife are haunted by the memory of Rebecca and her scandals. As their marriage continues Maxim and the narrator face the undying personality of Rebecca as it continues to torment them in their new marriage. Rebecca was an antagonistic character;…