The House is Burning

“It’s okay,” Joe said. “I can't imagine not smelling cow shit every morning anyway. It’s soothing.” We started laughing until we were both standing there looking at the other, crying. It was the first time Joe and I had spoken that deeply about being an Albert— what it meant and what it felt like. We crumbled at the same time and sat by the wheelbarrow and wiped at our tears and sweat, the liquids hard to tell apart. I ran my palms over the dry grass in the field like it was water, inviting and…

change little by little. It went from big two-story houses with a big yard and a pool too small, destroyed dilapidated houses made from wood, and tin. Little kids were playing with water caps, people not wearing shoes, unpaved dirt roads, and teenage girls carrying a child on their arms. We stopped in this neighborhood. A family of a friend that live there were nice enough to let us see their home. The first thing you see when you walk in the house is the dirt floor. Their kitchen was a dark…

lose their grip on reality and in their insanity meld their mental illnesses to the environment around them. Within the world of horror novels such a break from reality could certainly be hastened by a malevolent antagonist. In The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson the protagonist, Eleanor, begins to form an attachment to the haunted mansion in the wake of her mother’s death. Between her mother that required constant care and her less that compassionate sister Eleanor is left less than…

by which that person will live their life by. The concept of private and open is created, and as the world expands outside of the confines of the routines of an adolescent, the person begins to categorize what is assigned to the interior of their house and what is acceptable for external presentation. As a child grows, they discover things that are now even more limited. As sexuality develops an interior within the human develops, and private is a bodily thing, limited to the intellect and…

handles and windows. Also, be sure to make a barrier that they can 't cross through without making noise. Each person should wear a whistle around their neck that they can blow in case they need help too. 4. Safe Room At night, all people in the house should sleep in the same room if possible. It is easier to guard one room than it is several different ones. The room should have a door with a deadbolt to it and no windows. A supply of food, water, and toiletry supplies should be kept in this…

going to look old.” he said in a joking tone but an underlying tone of hesitation. “ I 'm still excited to meet your parents, even though the house is not at all what I expected.” Trevor was quiet for a minute “Well what did you expect?” he asked quietly. “ I don 't know a big house what was kept up well and looked more… alive” When we got into the house it was big and grand, The walls were the better side of the same stone outside and there was a double staircase with a red runner rug down the…

Gender and poverty is a problem that still arises today. “Fences” by August Wilson provides explanations on gender and poverty in this play. He write how it affects people and the people around them. This play is based around the 1950’s. August Wilson shows the struggles of racial accusations, poverty and gender through a family and a fifty three year old man named Troy who struggles with how to show affection and support to his own family. Troy is unable to break down barriers in order to let…

In “Morning in the Burned House,” Margaret Atwood suggests that when recalling the past there is a tendency for a person to desire dwelling in the past instead of living in the present, therefore there must be a destructive force in order to reinforce reality and continue progress. The author of the poem carefully chose the title as it reveals a lot about the entire meaning of the poem. Atwood used words such as morning, burned, and house in the title. Morning might be a connotation of a new…

soon realize that this play is about trying to find a motive for the murder of John Wright. The men and women gather in the Wright’s house with the sole mission of trying to discover Mrs. Wright’s reason for killing her husband. Also in the beginning of the play, Mr. Hale says, “I guess you know about how much he talked himself, but I thought maybe if I went to the house and talked about it before his wife, though I said to Harry that I didn’t know as what his wife wanted made much difference to…

from labor in the weekday weather” (4), religiously took it upon himself to wake early, despite working a long rigorous week, to heat the house for his family. The speaker goes on to say that the father’s labors often went unrecognized as “No one ever thanked him.” (5). The second stanza the speaker explains that he was fearful of the “chronic angers of that house” (9), setting a somber dark tone. He then would speak “indifferently” (10) to his father who had done a lot for him. It is in the…