After realizing that Colin is dead, Carol eyes open in disbelief and a shriek discomforts viewers. Both silence and sound, like in this scene, is used throughout the film to create tension and emphasize terror. During the beginning of the film, music is lively and upbeat. At the salon, nondiegetic sounds of a flute and jazz paint a peaceful scenery. As Carol walks home, viewers hear traffic sounds and live band music. During the day birds are chirping, airplanes fly overhead, and the elevator door is heard frequently. At night, sounds which were once peaceful turn unpleasant. The church bell that strikes at midnight awakens Carol from her sleep, it becomes louder and louder as if taunting her when suddenly everything goes silent. The silence encourages viewers to listen closely. Helen’s moans and breaths are softly hear across the room but like the church bells, they intensify and mock…
The Paperweight : The “lump of glass with a storm cloud trapped inside” is a symbol ever presented through the story as an association amidst the characters in the book over time. In its journey from the hands of Clark, Miranda, Arthur and to Kristen who although doesn’t know the history of it still treasures it, the connection between these characters is shown. Luli : Luli is the name utilized for both the fictional Dr. Eleven’s dog ( based on Miranda’s real dog) as well as the dog of the central antagonist, the Prophet.…
The sounds of several arrows being released from the crossbows. I can also hear intense shouting and screams coming from everywhere.…
One significant reason for Mrs. Wright’s behavior was her relationship with Mr. Wright. Their relationship wasn’t good at all. Mr. Wright was seen as a good man, but he was known to neglect his wife. Mr. Wright showed no interest in anything that pleased Mrs. Wright, and he wouldn’t allow her to sing in the choir. Mr. Wright oppressed Mrs. Wright by not allowing her to leave the house or have any interaction with the outside world. The dead canary was also symbolic of how Mr. Wright wanted to kill anything that gave Mrs. Wright pleasure. The bird represented Mrs. Wright’s personality, and how sweet she was as an individual before she was married to Mr. Wright. The dead canary is the motive for why Mrs. Wright killed her husband. When Mr. Wright killed the bird, he killed her along with it. Mr. Wright’s cruel attitude and control over Minnie Foster caused her to change as a person. Her lively attitude had eventually decreased tremendously due to the ways she was treated by her husband. Clearly, Mrs. Wright’s relationship with Mr. Wright had caused her to behave abnormally.…
On her journey she encounters bullies but luckily, her dog is by her side. My dog, Snickers makes it hard to travel. There are bus drivers who don’t accept dogs as passengers, so we have to walk. But then there is a life-threatening tornado on our walk! Me and Snickers have to run for our lives!…
As the sound source moved past the observer the volume got loud, but it faded off and slurred just as it was almost all the way past him.…
You have slept for a long time. Wake.” It called. “I must teach you what you need to know.” I looked around, still trying to find the source of the noise.…
A depressing and sad event in this book was about PLT. PLT was Adeline's pet bird and it died. Adeline was the last to choose from the 7 birds. “By the time my turn had arrived, I was left with the tiniest, scrawniest baby bird” (Yen Mah pg. 73). This quote shows that PLT is tiny and weak. It also shows that Adeline had no choice of what bird to pick. Then Father wanted to test Jackie’s, the German shepherd, obedience training. “In one powerful leap, he broke away from Father’s restraint, and pounced on PLT who looked up at me…
I heard a lot of screaming. And lots of people talking about the ride. And creak noises…
What’s the one thing you should never do? Quit? Depends on who you talk to. Steal? Cheat? Eat food from a dented can? Myron Lufkin’s father, Abe, once told him never get your temperature taken at the hospital. Bring your own thermometer, he said; you should see how they wash theirs. He ought to have known; when he was at Yeshiva University he worked as an orderly in the hospital, slid patients around on gurneys, cleaned steelware. Myron knows all his father’s hospital stories and all his rules. On the other hand, there are things you should do. Always eat sitting down. Wear a hat in the rain. What else? Never let the other guy start the fight. Certain inviolable commandments. In thirty-two years Myron Lufkin had never seen his father without an answer. That is, until the day five years ago when Myron called home from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and told his father he had had enough, was quitting, leaving, kaput, he said. Now, Myron, living in Boston, sometime Jew, member of the public gym where he plays basketball and swims in the steamy pool after rounds, still calls home every other week. The phone calls, if he catches his father asleep, remind him of the day five years ago when he called to say that he was not, after all, going to be a doctor. It was not the kind of thing you told Abe Lufkin. Abe Lufkin, a man who once on Election Day put three twelve-pound chains across his chest and dove into San Francisco Bay at Aquatic Park, to swim most of the mile and threequarters across to Marin. As it turned out they had to pull him from the frothy cold water before he made the beach−but to give him credit, he was not on a young man. In the Chronicle the next day there was an inside page, sputtering and shaking on the sand, steam rising off his body. Rachel, Myron’s mother, is next to him in a sweater and baggy wool pants. Myron still has the newspaper clipping in one of his old butterfly display cases…
Candy’s dog’s life had been over long before the bullet went through his head. It no longer could function by itself and Candy was selfish to keep him alive for as long as he did. As old as that dog was though, he still made Candy happy. However, Carlson had…
Leaving my family was the hardest thing I could do. I knew it was for a good cause, but after the deaths and such I had to make a decision. Finally I decided not to reenlist due to the people dying all around me, the horrible conditions, and last of all the small huts. Though I thought it would be a fun journey, I had to realize what was actually going on. Hours and hours of deciding on to reenlist or not, I believe I made the right choice.…
Bam! Crash! Boom! I remember hearing those sounds on September 11, 2001 when I was aboard United Flight 93. That day has impacted the rest of my life and the way I live now. I can recall those events like it was yesterday.…
To begin with, the word aneurysm derives from the Latin word “aneurysma.” In Latin “aneurysma” means dilation and dilation means that act of expanding. From this, it is easier to figure out what an aneurysm really is. The definition of the English word aneurysm means, blood-filled dilation of a blood vessel. There are several different types of aneurysm, but this report will only cover a cerebral one.…
A man stands before a crowd of two million, as he looks out over a podium on the steps of the capitol building. American flags adorn his stage. This man is Barack Hussein Obama, and he is about to be the 44th president of the United States. The two cities, Chicago, and Honolulu, Obama lived in show how different kinds of racism can affect the lives of black Americans.…