The Virgin Suicides

Family can be the strongest relationship, bond or connection you can have, but it only takes one person to break the unity. In the novel, Lullabies For Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill and the memoir The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr they all show that one’s negative actions can severely impact the rest of the family, even if it is not deliberate. One’s bad behaviour can separate them and their family from society. Their uncontrollable actions can tear their families apart. In addition to that,…

Troy and Bono at the beginning of the play are the closest friends. However, when Bono realized that his friend was cheating on his wife he was disappointed and their friendship negatively impacted. They no longer hang out together and drink as they used to. The book Fences is symbolic of the gap which develops between the two. Also, after Troy was promoted to be a truck driver, Bono remained a garbage collector which reduced the chances of seeing each other while at work. Fences is also used…

“Because he could not see, and was mad with pain, he failed to keep under cover, and so was shot down before anyone could go and fetch him in” (12). During an attack, Behm got shot in the eye and was unconscious. Behm was left for dead by his fellow troops because they were confused. Later that day, he screamed for help from his troops but he got shot again and this time he died. This is chapter one and Remarque already establishes his imagery. Remarque uses many literary devices in All Quiet…

The first thing that comes to mind when trying to link William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet with the concept of metatheatre, is the play which is staged by young Hamlet to confront his uncle Claudius with the murder of the old king Hamlet. Nevertheless, even though nothing qualifies more as metatheatre than this particular scene, the play-within-a-play is not the only significant device of metatheatre in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. There are several more metatheatrical plots that can be detected in the…

“My father says that a fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.” – Anna Fitzgerald 1a. Title: My sister’s keeper 1b. Author: Jodi Picoult 1c. First date of publication: 2004 2a. The story takes place in the present, but there are also a lot of memories which go back in the past. If you count all these memories in, the story takes place from 1990 till 2010. The first and last year are mentioned in the book. If you don’t count these memories in, the story takes…

1.7.1. Five Stages of Dying by Elizabeth Klüber-Ross Klüber-Ross proposes five stages which will be experienced when facing the imminent death; denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. She argues that if the individuals repressed the stages, they have risk to get stuck with the unresolved emotion caused by the death (Konigsberg 3). Therefore, it is suggested that the individuals are better to embrace each stage to avoid the unresolved emotion in the future.…

When being asked what I would’ve done in Simon’s situation, I would’ve forgiven the SS man. If I endured the tragic events that Simon, as well as so many others did, I would want to move on and live the rest of my life to the fullest. I am a firm believer that the weak cannot forgive, this being said some of the strongest people are the ones who can release themselves from the imprisonment of past bitterness and anger. To forgive is to simplify your life and to let go of the poisonous aspects…

reported to be lit up without electricity connections. It is reported to be most haunted house in Australia. A Ryan family living there reported the existence of supernatural powers in the house. Tragic deaths by burning, accident of a young boy, suicides by maids and appearance of ghosts are worst incidents of…

it seems. Sylvia Plath, the award winning author of The Bell Jar, has been personally affected by mental illness, specifically suicidal depression. This illness has sadly caused Plath to take her own life on February 11th, 1963 when she committed suicide by turning on a gas stove before placing her head inside of it. Another renowned author, Ken Kesey, who has published his multiple award winning novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, also has had…

Cyberbully, a movie made in 2011, became a big hit when it helped advocate cyberbullying to become illegal in 34 states. Cyberbullying is an act in which one is to bully someone repeatedly over electronics. This act is most commonly found among young teenagers. These electronics such as phones, laptops, ipods and even social media like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, give teenagers a perfect environment to use vulgar language and distasteful words without punishment. Teenagers are more likely…