Why Are You Looking Grave?

notice signposts 1.tough questions-"why, but why would I bless him (Wiesel 67)? " 2. Contrast and contradict- stops talking about the Holocaust and talks about the future which is happy. ( Wiesel 53) 3. Again and again- they give warnings about what's going to happen ( Wiesel 27)". 4. Tough questions – "blessed by God? Ellie has lost all his sense and starts to question God ( Wiesel 67)". 5.tough question– "He caused thousands of kids to burn and his mass graves ( Wiesel 67)?" 6. Tough…

spirituality names the return of religion and theology as non-object (Davis, 2009: 3). How did prefixes such as “post” and “re” invade our comfortable country club? When did the seam of our credal hems loosen which left us tripping over formless inklings? Why would we throw out the religious tonic and keep the persuasive gin? Such questions are arduous if answerable at all. In fact, each thinker considered in this study offer different answers to one or more of the above questions. Let us wait…

towards another person, thing, or situation, it is something that “excites dread” (Freud). Throughout our course, we have seen the uncanny used to drive a number of literary devices and themes. The stories explored in this essay will be: “The Wrong Grave” by Kelly Link, “The Heart of Another” by Marcus Sedgwick, “Kissing Dead Boys” by Annette Curtis Klause, and “Sunbleached” by Nathan Ballingrud. Through these stories we observe how a revenant named Gloria, a mysterious heart transplant patient,…

probably the skinniest kid I’ve ever seen. Then I realized I smelled just like them. The chubby one woke up startled just as I had. He was confused. He saw me and stared. After a while of his staring my attitude kicked in and I asked “ Can I help you?” He kept staring then soon whispered “Jack. “ I was confused. I looked down and saw that I had a school I.D. It read Mulberry HIgh School, Jack Gulsky. I was surprised and I started to have vague memories. I looked at the twins and remembered…

But no matter. I have read this story a legion of times. I have travelled near and far, spreading the book thief’s words. I have told the book so many times that I could never forget. Now, you may have been wondering throughout all my narrations how I, Death, found out about her story to begin with. I will tell you now. I stared at the beginning of Himmel Street, squinting to make out the houses in the dark night. Not a single star was in the sky, the moon covered by an ominous dark cloud. But…

He walks out the front door and sees her, looking up at the sky and standing in the middle the road, with the rain pouring down over her. Her wet hair hugs her body like a long lost friend, the ice-cold crystal droplets clinging to her frosty skin and dampening her clothes, as she stares above. Its hard for him to tell why she ran out and it is even more difficult to discern between her tears and the rain on her face. "Melinda what are you doing?" He yells out to her as lightning lights up the…

presented in the novel reveals itself as the stark disapproval of sacrificing one's self to another to the point of destruction, or the loss of one's soul. Wilde deftly delivers this recurrent theme to sway readers by using potent diction and implying grave repercussions. Throughout the first chapter, Wilde utilizes deliberate and…

The person who can make the visions come true is the one person or few people who is all looking for the same thing. The vision I would like to see happen most is less teens getting killed within the world. Sure it is extreme for a vision, but is not that what a vision supposed to be. I was always told to go big or go home. Have you ever wondered if you are going straight home or straight to a grave? There are so many teens losing their lives today and it’s our fault. That’s right our…

the open grave where my brother was slowly being lowered into. “You know baby girl,” she said “it’s okay to…

Teenagers lie just because they can and want too. If a loved one was going to an important ceremony you would want to compliment them instead of saying they look fat in a dress. Even though they might end up looking bad at least the person knows you meant then best for them. Teens will eventually grow out of Lying it's another phase that everyone goes through life.…