We Gotta Get out of This Place

We pulled up to AA early. AJ and I spent the day shopping, wondering around town and wasting time. It was good to have such a great distraction, and I was really beginning to like AJ. He was funny, and I hadn’t laughed that hard in a long time. “Let’s smoke a cigarette before we go in” I said, pulling out my pack. We lit up simultaneously. “Thanks for showing me around town, I had a good time. Who knew a smaller town like this had such wonderful shopping? So many cool boutiques, I’m in love.…

Climbing out of your existing plummet happens only after you’re already tired and bruised, have already had the wind knocked out of you. You are well into questioning the value of going on and struggling to find good reasons. Coming back is not a short or easy process. The landscape can be strange and unrecognizable,…

your last, I'm gonna make sure you never forget me. We have all the time in the world until we have to go. So please me, pet." The redhead silently nodded…

as cruel. This of course is the materialistic manifestation of the human nature to seek comfort and stability; The American Dream. In Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", we are given a portrayal of the…

lawyer who also made her famous. In "The Great Gatsby" money showed where people were ranked from richest to poorest with Tom being in East Egg (been really rich) whereas Gatsby was from West Egg (newly rich). Power is something a lot of people in this planet crave with power comes so many privilege. In the 1920’s the most powerful were the wealthy, which meant that if you were wealthy, you could literally do whatever you want. In The Great Gatsby by F.Scott…

literary characters who create illusions to have a sense of acknowledgement to reinforce that their choice was the correct one. They show the characteristics of a person who is living a life to just consume the materialistic things. Once they fall into this perpetual motion of relying on the illusion there is no way to…

riding them back and forth. He would stay at the library during the day because that was the only free place available. He would play video games on the computer, chatting, and Facebooking Annabelle. Although he couldn’t live with her at the time, she helped get him a cell phone, food stamps, and most importantly, stay out of trouble. She would talk on the phone with him all night until his battery ran out as he rode those cold buses. Jamereo heard about a program at the YMCA while taking a free…

Barry started remembering his dark past, how he uses to hide in the basement when the law began snooping around. After hiding out for weeks, he decided to give up running moonshine for a more lucrative business. One he became so good at the law didn’t have a clue as to who committed the crimes. “Maybe they’ve finally figured it out after all. Well, I’m too old and too tired to run from the cops now,” he thinks, glancing towards his guest. “I better make sure the boy’s safe just in case there…

created to be a Alpha or a Epsilon. This is a stark difference, as in Gattaca it shows that the wealthy still hold all the power, and that the rich vs. poor stigma still exists. The poor would not be able to afford eugenics, and thus would have a lower life expectancy, and lesser physical and mental capabilities. Whereas the rich would be able to afford having a child born with eugenics, who are essentially an improved version of themselves. Thus only the poor would get discriminated against,…

Identity in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Humans have always encountered the idea of the ‘flawed man’ because we see it in ourselves, and in the people around us. The flawed man is never finished and continuously pushes and strives to improve himself or compensate for faults. Diaz’s fascination with the ‘flawed man’ is apparent in all three of his major novels, Drown, This is How You Lose Her, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The majority of his characters all have severe…