In the story “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street'' the characters all act the same. By being scared and worried being around the other people because they will start to accuse them about something. Like in the text when “He stops suddenly as behind him, the car engine starts up all by itself. Les whirls around to stare at the car.” Then Charlie says”He always was an oddball”.…
The following is a summary on the short essay The Dark Night of the Soul by Richard E Miller. This short essay is an essay that has been written with a main point always in mind, that reading and writing has very powerful influences people and their imagination but, the act of reading and writing is not being utilized as much in the modern world. Richard has created an essay that proves his point by taking five very different short stories and giving each a twist that helps the reader see the power of reading. As the reader is chronologically going through the essay he or she is given many possible meanings of the essay. The meaning and the relationships that the stories share are not revealed until the last page of the essay.…
Walter Cunningham can be considered to be one of the others within the novel as he is living in complete poverty. It is mentioned within the book that Walter’s father has no money to pay Atticus back—instead he repays him with materialistic items. Walter is unable to scramble up enough money to buy himself his own meals let alone shoes. Poverty rips through and tares apart Walters’s life like a tornado coming through and wrecking all hopes of strength and growth, as he is unable to have a normal childhood like the rest of the children within school. Unlike Scout or Jem, Walter’s family does not make a substantial amount of money to help them survive which means Walter has to skip school most days in order to help his family out. Due to being at an economic disadvantage, Walter has to suffer which will ultimately set him up for failure at a young age as he is unable to earn an education. Another set of characters within the novel that can be considered the others would be the Ewell family. The Ewell family is looked down upon within the community and have gained the reputation of being a disgrace and yet appear to be impregnable to the viewpoints of those living in Maycomb. The Ewells live in poverty as their house is run down and they have garbage within the yard, the kids run around unrestricted and stay out of…
Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, is about a young boy and his experience in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. This young boy, Elie Wiesel, starts of as a religiously devout Jew that lives in a small community of Sighet, Hungarian Transylvania. In the spring of 1944, his close knit family of his parents and three sisters are deported to Birkenau. Elie is separated from his mother and his sisters at the arrival of the concentration camps. After a short stay, Elie and his father are transported to Auschwitz, Buna, and eventually Birkenau. They meet many others in the concentration camps. Idek, a Kapo, was very violent to the Jews although he was also a victim in the Holocaust; Elie feels his wrath at one point in the book. Throughout the course of Chlomo (Elie's father) and Elie's journey, they are dehumanized by being branded, beaten, starved, and forced to work past their limit. They watch many others die through the work of Germans, Kapos, and even other Jews. Ultimately, they were stripped of all their pride. Elie managed to survive it all, however, and was liberated on April 11, 1945.…
Dark Night of the Soul written by Richard E. Miller is a compilation of essays written about people that express themselves through writings of their own or by others.…
“For the dead and the living we must bear witness.”- Elie Wiesel The holocaust impacted Elie Wiesel by changing his faith, strength, and love for his family. Elie wiesel and the other people involved in the holocaust went through hard times. These people if they made it through most likely lost their faith in god, their strength, but they most likely grew a stronger connection with their family that was still alive.…
Through his narrator in East of Eden, John Steinbeck says that there is only "one story in the world", that of good and evil (Steinbeck 412). The original story of good and evil can be traced back to the biblical tale of Cain and Abel, from which Steinbeck picked his title and formed many central characters around. In his novel East of Eden, John Steinbeck explores the constant collision between good and evil and forms a parallel between his story and that of Cain and Abel.…
Devil in the White City, a monograph written by Erik Larson, detailing the lives of two men during the years of construction and preparation for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (alternately, The World’s Columbian Exposition)— Daniel Burnham, the lead architect of the fair; and Herman Mudgett (alias: H.H. Holmes, among others), a serial killer taking advantage of young women flocking to the city in search of the chance to lead their own lives.…
Since the fair was introduced, the reader could predict the immensity and great work of this attraction. Not only were many new inventions created, but also many ideas were inspired by this fair. Because of the great success and its original ideas, I believe that the World’s Fair “had a powerful and lasting impact on [Chicago’s, the world’s and] the nation’s psyche.”…
Characters: How can you identify with the characters you have met? How did the characters’ decisions surprise you? Did you agree with these decisions? Why or why not?…
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is about the narrator, John as he visits Savannah and how he interacts with the other characters in the book. While in Savannah, the narrator tells the readers of his travels as the story progress with the information he uses for his writing. However, the same time he is there, his visit coincidentally occurs the same time a murder of one of the characters, a gay man, who was supposedly murdered by his partner. Before reading the story, the title of this book gives a dark mood because it talks of the balance between good and evil. Also, with evil there will probably serious times during this story due to the results of the evil occurrences.…
and in men. However, Steinbeck uses third person objective point of view to develop his…
This movie is unique because it takes place with the same setting throughout and yet the characters are so well developed. The character development and perceptions have a vital role in the underlying message and theme of the movie. Claire is the “princess.” She is the rich, well-to-do, pretty and popular girl. Andrew is the “athlete.” He is the state wrestler and jock that appears to be tough and strong. Then, Brian Johnson, “the brain” is the peaceful smart guy who fears making poor grades. The “basket case” is Allison Reynolds. She speaks seldom and has a bizarre style. Lastly, the rebel is John Bender. He is “the criminal” who seeks opposition. He is a bully with an insubordinate attitude towards the principal, Richard Vernon.…
Evil Angels Cry in the Dark was based on true story during August 17th 1980, of Lindy Chamberlain, who claimed that the dingo carried her baby in the middle of the night . The Chamberlain is on camping trip at Ayer’s rock (now called ULURU). Azaria was 9 weeks old and four days old. Evening-Lindy has just put Azaria and Reagan to bed at that night, where her oldest son Aidan ask for some food .Lindy went to the car and forgot to zip the tent back up. When she returns, she told her husband Michael “bubby cried”. Lindy returns to the tent to check the baby .When the tent came into view. Lindy saw the dingo leaving the tent with its head up and down her first thought its Michaels shoes. Lindy ran into the tent, desperately making sure that her son Reagan were still breathing in his cocoon of a sleeping bag .Blankets were scattered all over the tent and Lindy searched them quickly and hoping that her instincts are wrong.…
The characters in this story are the people the author creates. In “A Jury of Her Peers” the characters consist of Mr. and Mrs. Wright, Mr.…