Countess Elizabeth Bathory is an infamous serial killer from the seventeenth century, who has been accused of the murders from anywhere between 30-650 young girls, though only a minimum of 30 were witnessed, and 600 has been proved to be a high exaggeration. Elizabeth was born on August 7th, 1560 into one of the wealthiest families in Transylvania. She could speak and write four languages, and had a high education, proving she was a very intelligent woman. At fourteen she married Count Bathory,…
The thrilling novel City of Bones, the first book in The Mortal Instruments series, written by Cassandra Clare is about more than just killing demons and stopping the villain. It’s also about the relationships that the characters have with each other. This novel was exciting and mysterious which led many people at the edge of their seats at every turn of the page in the book. The author set the book in New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray, discovers she is the descendant…
her sick grandmother some food but she does the opposite which ended up for her grandmother to be killed too.There are many differences between these two stories. The Company of Wolves story doesn’t use an actually wolf in the story but they use a werewolf man unlike Little Red Riding Hood who just uses a plain wolf. On the contrary, in Little Red Riding Hood she using no weapon which causes her to be helpless out in the woods but in Company of Wolves she carries a knife to help her in the woods…
campground I’ve ever seen. It was completely overgrown and it looked like it hadn’t been mowed in 30 years. As we rolled down the overgrown dirt road the moon shone eerily on an old rusted jungle gym. This place look like it was straight out of a werewolf movie. We came to a fork in the road, to the left it looked pick black, but to the right there was an old trailer home with a pork light on. Turning right we rolled past it and park our camper in the first clear place we could find. The little…
Short Stories’ Summary Writing About Stories consists of two short stories. A Visit for Charity tells about a Campfire Girl Marian. She came to the Old Ladies’ House with a potted flower to earn some extra points for a visit to the institution’s patients. The girl was down because of the house’s inner look and patients’ appearance. The nurse took her to a room with two old ladies; one of them was older and laid on the bad during the whole visit. This woman was called Addie and she criticized…
To listen to a piece of music does not necessarily mean that you have understood the ideas and/or emotions musicians and composers are trying to convey. Through this class, you have not only taught me how to describe music, and Its effects but how our own individual experiences influence how we interpret, and react to music. When first I began taking music classes in high school, I was not taught how to listen to music correctly and how to describe how it affected me. I would often find myself…
Why do people have different interpretations of the word “monster”? Some individuals, envision them as old, Greek mythological creatures. Others believe humanity is bombarded with monstrosity, as if it is a characteristic that we all carry, and very few utilize the meaning of “monster” as a societal or mental fear. I recognize the term as something more standard that many also conceptualize; as ginormous, snarling, blood-thirsty beasts. Beasts are the perfect perception of a monster. To depict…
with a familiar old pain” (par. 1). This hyperbole amplifies what Jing-mei is feeling so that the audience can understand the ambiguous sense of “becoming Chinese” (par. 1). Furthermore, Jing-mei depicts her change similar to “transforming like a werewolf”. Such a metaphor displays how she feels like a completely different being from the one that dwelled in the San Francisco (par. 4). She illustrates that the rushing feeling is like “a mutant tag of DNA suddenly triggered”, which indicates that…
The first time a transformation truly scared me was in the fourth Harry Potter movie. In it, Lord Voldemort is resurrected in a grotesque scene where he rises out of a cauldron. One of his henchmen, Wormtail, slices open his arm, lets his blood fall into the cauldron, and Voldemort grows from infant to grown man in just a few seconds. The creepy computer-generated Voldemort fetus was utterly terrifying to a six-year-old (I got started on Harry Potter at a very young age). Because of this early…
James Potter is eleven when he gets his Hogwarts letter, and his mother gives him an extra piece of pie at dinner to celebrate while his father clamps him proudly on the back. Sirius Black is on the verge of twelve when he gets his, and his mother quips that “at least he’s not a Squib” while his father takes another long swig of his White Rat Whiskey. Both were born into privileged lives with ginormous mansions and important families, but neither one of them can wait to leave. When you’re a…