The Spy Who Loved Me

“Ryan!!! Can I not wake up one morning without you playing a prank on me?” Ryan, in a hurry to get out, ran for the door. Emily thought she caught a sheepish smile on her brother’s face. The fourteen year-old girl stood up and started to get dressed, smiling. Her little brother was so annoying, but she still loved him a lot. It had been this way for around 8 years now. When Ryan was still a baby, terrorists assassinated his dad, who was a former prosecutor and had tons of criminals against…

said. “What are you talking about going back for we just got here,” replied my dad. “We've been out here fishing all day and we haven't even had a bite,” I said. I and my dad for the past five years have gone on a fishing trip to Hawaii. I always loved the trip, but this year it was different we were already halfway through the week-long trip and only been out fishing one day. To make things even worse we hadn't even had a bite all day. All I wanted to do was go back to the island and make up…

something my mother tried to make an important part of my upbringing, but to me it was nothing more than a word with an unknown meaning. In her attempts to draw us closer together, my mother planned a trip for us to drive 10 hours across states to stay at her older brother’s home in Atlanta. This vacation in particular stands out to me the most because it taught me more than how to have fun, it taught me things that stick with me to this day, such as the meaning of family and how important a…

“smarter” he is than girls in general. She confirms with him that girls do not dislike him because he is a nerd but they hate him for being an asshole. Mark and Macbeth both destroyed their reputations due to the fact that they are “tyrants” and “assholes” who cannot be trusted. This shows that they sacrificed their reputations for their own greed and to achieve their goals. Mark and Macbeth sacrificed their life for the well being of being able to reach their goals. Macbeth had sacrificed his…

opposite as the Commander hoards forbidden books, magazines, and more in his office. Not only is he in possession of this contraband, but he also lends his magazines and books to a woman who is banned from reading. “I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t have been doing, and that he found pleasure in seeing me do it” (Atwood 157). The Commander even suggests and enjoys Offred breaking the law, which contradicts his devotion to Gilead. The Commander also sheds his orthodoxy when he is around…

actually symbolizes Gatsby’s love for Daisy. He bought the house in hopes that she would stumble into one of his parties and find out that it was he who lived across the bay. It is said that people do stupid things for love, and Gatsby is a prime example. He invested his entire life into getting Daisy back after coming from the war and proving that he still loved her. This quote shows that he would have done anything for her. He came up with lies that kept him interesting to the people around…

do not truly consider until it is taken away. The totalitarian government 's need to control, manipulate, and subvert the rights of its citizens in 1984 mirrors the United States government operation today. Winston is the main character in, 1984, who is the first person known that wants to rebel and have the privilege to have privacy. Winston first step rebelling is when he decides to start a diary. Winston writes, "Down with Big Brother," four times even without having the knowledge of him…

Friar Lawrence was the one who married Romeo and Juliet even though he knew it wasn’t right. He never told their parents or made sure that they loved each other. Romeo went to talk to him about Juliet and Lawrence knew that their relationship started too soon “Oh, she knew well/Thy love did read by rote, that could not spell./But come, young waverer, come, go with me,/In one respect I’ll thy assistant be,/For this alliance may so happy prove/To…

divided upon the citizens. There also was a lot of wealth because came about when the bootleggers made profit on the illegal sale of alcohol. There was a lot of mysteriousness between Gatsby and who he had worked for, when he had run off to answer his secret phone calls he made a lot of people question who he really was. This later caused people to make false accusations. There were many relationships within the novel that in a way were intertwined together such as, Daisy…

Ophelia’s Suicide: A Case of a Stolen Life In Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, whether Ophelia killed herself, or died by accident, as Gertrude seemed to believe, remains unanswered in the play. Ophelia experiences many personal tragedies, troubles and, finally, “madness” before her untimely death. One can infer that Shakespeare intended her death to be suicide because Ophelia was not given a proper Christian burial and she was in despair. The other members of the court rationalize her death as an…