Turn

“…Turn here.” He just keeps driving, completely ignoring me. “Uh, sir, you missed the turn.” Just keeps driving. Then it comes into view; the edge of the road. The cliff. He’s driving right toward the cliff, going faster by the second. The last thing I see before we crash over the cliff is the man in the driver’s seat turn around; those dead eyes staring right at me. “Hey Aaron,” says Sophia as I walk toward her and the tree she stands by. It’s our usual meeting spot, everyday for the past 4…

In Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, the reader is pulled in two directions as he or she must decide for himself or herself if the ghosts are simply projections of the governess’ unconscious or if they are truly haunting both Miles and Flora. These two differing viewpoints are a direct result of James’ use of ambiguity of the text. James’ story then changes from a simple ghost story about a governess, two ghosts, and two children to a story filled with ambiguity and questions, which contribute…

Arguments Turn into Life Lessons The world is a big, scary place. I feel like the more you're thrown out to see for yourself, the more you learn about it. Near the end of the school year, I got a taste of how hard the world really is and how to fend for myself. Sometimes, you have to learn to do for yourself when you just feel like no one’s listening. It was a pretty regular-irregular morning. It was a Tuesday in late May and where was I? Still wrapped up under the pink zebra-print wool covers…

The State of the Governess’ Mind The literary choices made by Henry James in The Turn of the Screw cultivates a numerous amount of theories to the stumping question: are the ghosts the governess sees real, or are they symptoms of her insanity? As the story goes, a sheltered young woman is hired on as a governess for a charming man’s niece and nephew, with the instructions to never contact him again. While staying at the estate of Bly, the governess sees two ghosts and claims that they are…

A Line of Corruption: Turn of the Screw 1898, England, a society of hardened social classes in which people were engrained into the class in which they were born. Henry James, a wealthy writer and philosopher moved to England from America…In his book Turn of the Screw, Henry James warns that an inattentive upper class is blinded by their own prejudice towards the lower class causes a chain of corruption. Quint is the person with the lowest status in the novel yet he succeeds in creating…

The narrator in the passage A Single Shard and the speaker in the poem “Turn, Turn, My Wheel” both respond to a potter in similar and different ways. The way they view the potter’s actions are the same overall, but are created in different ways. First of all, in the passage A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park, the narrator is in awe and impressed of the pottery made by Min, who is, of course, the potter. The narrator responds to the potter’s work similar to Tree-ear, who is actually in the story.…

In his novella The Turn of the Screw Henry James portrays the governess as a protector of innocence of Miles and Flora. As the governess learns about Peter Quint and Miss Jessel and their relationship with the children. Her views towards them change from the idea that the ghosts are demanding to get at the children and that she can protect them to doubting that the children are already under the devil’s influence instigating them to become tarnished and thus need to be even more strongly watched…

How easily can someone you love turn into someone you hate? In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, relationships and emotions are formed but later on teared down by the Party, from Julia and Winston’s love affair to Winstons sudden love for big brother. In this novel hate is easily turned into love and love is easily turned into hate under the influence of Big Brother and the Party. George Orwells message is that love and hate go hand and hand in a totalitarian society. Relationships are torn…

live or exist under adverse or unusual circumstances. When it comes to survival in the book there are two characters, Peter and Noa. They have to overcome different obstacles in the story in order to survive, and stay safe. Also, in the book,”Don’t turn around”, by Michelle Gagnon is a book that talks about Peter, a character who takes action by browsing through his parents personal information, and finds out that his parents aren’t really what they claim to be. They are criminals who work…

presidential election has been described as a great many things. but among the top are "crazy" and a "bad joke." In fact, there are only 2 words out of the top 20 that have a positive connotation (Fig. 1). Within the article titled "Can Donald Trump turn Texas blue?" which was originally published in one of The Economists online blogs, Democracy in America, a claim is made that, at first glance, seems as obscure as this election cycle: Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party may be able to…