The Trap Door

All animals hunt for survival, yet humans have developed a beastly way to make a game of it. In this sport, hunters thrive on the misfortune or weakness of others, while prey often forfeit the opportunity to avenge their attackers before it is too late. In rare occasions, the hunted will revolt and strike back, leaving the hunter astonished. This is best illustrated in Richard Connell’s, “The Most Dangerous Game,” when animal hunter Rainsford takes an unexpected journey to the house of General…

In this world, many immigrants who traveled from different parts of the world came to the United States to seek the American Dream. People may think this country is the land of opportunity, which is a misconception. In the book the American Dream by Larry R. Juchartz reveals the tremendous amount of unfairness immigrants dealt with. In “New York Fire Kills 148: Girl Victims Leap to Death from Factory”, by Chicago Sunday Tribune, reveals that America is the land of lost opportunities…

Still a bit drunk, he opens the door to the basement hesitantly. He takes the first step down the basement and the dull sound of the stairs echoed throughout the basement. To his surprise, the sound was exactly the same as he remembered. Dave was six years old the time he was moving to his new home. The family used to live in a boxed up and dark apartment. Now that his parents had earned enough, they decided to finally buy a home the family deserves. It was their very first home. The home was…

city that lives in a forest near mountains and has a great wall around it. The city traps a boy in a closet so the rest of the city can be happy, they think that making one person suffer, it would balance out the happiness and the bad. Le Guin wrote the short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.”. The story is about a city that lives in a forest near mountains and has a great wall around it. The city traps a boy in a closet so the rest of the city can be happy, they think that making one…

The night was cold. Not cold enough to send the squirrels fleeing for their burrows; but cold enough that a cloak, or coat, was needed to move from place to place. The moon was a shining silver orb hanging overhead. The stars shone like pearls, blinking in and out of existence in the darkened sky above. The icy northern wind blew around aimlessly, like a drunken sailor stumbling from the tavern. The breeze ruffled the dark-green leaves of the ancient, gnarled trees, creating a sound similar to…

now inside a long hallway with many doors and a dead end. McFierson motioned for them to enter the first room on the right. Together, they cleared the room and headed to the next. They did this for many rooms before they came to one that seemed different than the previous ones; it was large and open, with equipment in the middle and a large glass window on the side which they were on. McFierson motioned for his team to enter, but once they were inside, the door quickly sealed airtight before he…

After the down fall they are cable of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for once. They had purchased household necessities and had settled in, also they had managed to find job with wages they seem were reasonable. Everything seemed to be go right, well that is at least instill they had their veselija- a Lithuania traditional style wedding. In this wedding its customary to feed everybody no matter if invite or not. The wedding was a total of three hundred dollars, which normally the…

cars that piled into city traffic that moved so slow it was as if you may never escape, it trapped Blue. Escape became a dream, it became an organized plan drafted into pages and diagrams, and endless thoughts of what might be the reason for this trap and the escape. The papers always became yellow and brown with coffee stains and black ink that melted down the page from tears the color of ice. Nothing seemed to work, but that didn't mean Blue wouldn't quit, it felt grey, the way their…

landscape and the setting of the story serve as a metaphor for Ann’s sense of isolation. The location of John and Ann’s house is in an isolated setting, therefore miles away from any possible sign of life. The “snow” around the house, like an “impassable trap” encloses their house, confining them physically. The barren, unlively, “snowswept farmyard” further surrounds them every winter, leaving Ann and John to be each other’s only sense of human connection. Not only does the natural landscape…

Effects of the Dust Bowl Swoosh! Dust and wind rocks your house back and forth. You wake up and find that there is three feet of dust in every room your flimsy house. You pull up the covers and hope that when you peek out of them your house will still be standing. By the end of 1934, 38 dust storms had swept across the land of the south. By the end of the Dust Bowl over 250,000 were homeless. The Dust Bowl was a disastrous event caused by farmers over plowing the fields in the south, but there…