The Idiot Boy

The Small Room As the handle was pulled, I breathed in deep, and exhaled just as hard. And that was the end, My whole life leading there. “Everyone off!!” The Guard shouted. I sat in the back of the bus, young and fearful of the things to come. All fifteen or so of us shuffled off the Bus in a straight line. As we all walked through the small court of the prison, I could hear the inmates who had gathered yelling at the top of their lungs…”Fresh Meat”, “Little Lambs”, things along those lines…

James Joyce’s “Araby” and Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” are considered to be two of literatures greatest examples of coming of age stories. Both stories give insight on what life is like for a child growing up and transitioning into the life of a young adult. In Joyce’s “Araby” the main character is a young boy whose coming of age transformation was brought on by his infatuation with a close friend’s oldest sister. While in “Boys and Girls” our main character is a young girl trying her hardest…

We are all subjected to advertisements daily in the form of radio, print and video. We see them on the internet, in social media, on YouTube , on television and in newspapers. Advertisements are there to sell a product or an idea. Most advertisements use sex and objectify women to sell their product. Brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch and Axe will use anything from nudity to sexual innuendos in their ads. Axe, a well known men’s body spray, has shown images of women tackling, chasing and even…

“A & P” is a telling story about a young man named Sammy who works as a cashier at the A & P. Three young woman enter the store, the leader called Queenie dressed in bathing suits, which were not proper attire for this establishment and are told so by Sammy manager, Lengel. Sammy gawking at the young woman the whole time they were in the store he held his own with his manager. Immediately Sammy quit once they checked out, in an immature and resentful way towards his manager, but in Sammy minds…

gender stereotypes. They emphasize that young men in our society should follow “boy code” and fit the media’s…

Paradise Lost (Olarreaga, 1999) deals with themes of love, innocence and death and treats these subjects with subtly in terms of visual storytelling. The plot and themes are conveyed through the production design, mise-en-scène and camera placement. Focusing in on the opening sequence, the choice of camera angles presents the story as a complex melding of different character 's points of view as well as how colour and lines within the frame suggest a sense of separation and of contrast. The…

heart. He is not played as the villain and his death actually inspires a sense of loss in the movie that was simply a momentary plot structure in the play. Polonius seems to get so wrapped up in the adventure of what is going on and the game of manipulation that when he ends up dead, it is as shocking to him as the viewer (Keahmann). Despite this positive on behalf of the movie version, it does more harm than good to the overall state of the work. The change in emotional dynamics leaves the…

feed my mind. Reading the story “Boys by Ricky Moody” and “Girls by Jamaica Kinkaid” really caught my attention, they are very short, but great pieces to cut right within to the heart of the primer. Nevertheless, what makes them similar is how they were created using similar literary techniques such as iconism, the stream of conscience and ambiguity. Both stories are very different in many ways from cultural, racial, and sexual boundaries. Rick Moody’s short story “Boys” is an innovative work…

“For that “Natural” Look Men Look for…Seventeen” Magazine advertisements fill space on pages with bright colors and metaphorical images declaring themselves as the creators of consumer preferences. Cosmetics advertisements were the most beautiful, chic and powerful ads catching American women’s attention in 1940-1950. The cosmetics advertisements conveyed that women were getting, not only a product of beauty but also youth and success with men. Success with men was the main idea of the…

want and they have fought for what they want as well; so it would only be right to give girls the opportunity to play on boy sports if they want. Playing on boy sports might benefit the boys more than the girls and may even better a team that girls may play on whether its football, rugby, hockey and so forth. Girls playing on boy sports team affects not only the girl but the boys, the team, and the parent of the girl trying to fight for the right to play on a certain team. Girls in the twenty…