The time period of the story happens is at night. He investigates and goes to…
They set out through the cold and icy forest to seek help. They end up in an old town. They find themselves trapped in yet another but different kind of prison. This town is filled with familiar faces. Faces of friends from Maxfield whom he was afraid that he had killed.…
March,27,1999, a serial killer is on the loose in New York City, NY. The first victim they killed was 20 year old Tonald Drump, by being strangled to death. Detective Pepperoni was sent to find who made the crime. Tonald was targeted and harassed by many people for using testimonial evidence on people in the court for things they didn't do. Tonald did not help or be nice to any people besides his family, and he had a bad personality trait of being rude, selfish, and lying, so it makes sense why people would want to kill him. Detective Pepperoni found some evidence from Tomald, it wasn't much only carpet fibers and shoeprints leading to a small town in Time Square. 3 days later another victim, 25 year old Anita Pea was killed by being stabbed in the arm twice and bleeding out the Medical Examiner stated. Anita Pea was a very…
In this novel it talks about how one of the characters named Colin had dated nineteen girls named Katherine and that they all broke up with him. After the nineteenth one broke his heart he locked himself away in his room and didn’t want to come out. His parents came in to talk to him but he didn’t really feel like talking and then later his best friend came in and tried to cheer him up and get his out of the house.…
This story takes place in a small nameless village on 27th June when the villagers begin to gather for the drawing of yearly lottery. The children innocently playing around collecting stones, the women are talking among themselves and the men have their own conversation. Mr. Summer who is the man in charge of the lottery arrives while carrying a black box and the mood of the story suddenly changes. The old black box contains pieces of paper that will be used to determine the winner. After he makes sure everyone is already there, it begins. Every head of household comes to the front to take a piece of paper then followed by his entire family, but they cannot open it yet. After everyone has their paper, they open it at once, the silent atmosphere suddenly change and become tenser as everyone ask who wins the lottery. It turns out that Mr. Hutchinson wins the lottery, but suddenly his wife Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson against the result and states that it’s not fair because they didn’t give his husband enough time to take the paper and asks to re-draw, Mr. Summer agrees and everyone in Hutchinson family draws again and reveals it one by one; Mrs. Tessie is the last one to reveal her paper and everyone realizes that she wins the lottery. As she protests, the townspeople, even her family surrounds her and stones her to death.…
Background/ Info. The snowball incident initiates the theme of guilt as Dunstan blames himself for the result of his actions. Revenge is revealed through physical terms as well – Boy’s death. Dunstan allows guilt to control his mind and future actions/decisions.…
The novel begins with quote that states “My nightmare started like this. I was standing on deserted street in some little beach town. It was the middle of the night. A storm was blowing. Wind and rain ripped at the palm trees along the sidewalk. Pink and yellow stucco buildings lined the street, their windows boarded up.” The mere quote was quite intriguing and will truly draw you towards curiosity. The succeeding pages of the book will entice towards an interesting continuation of a 14-year old boy that is not so ordinary.…
It involves a humorous story about a boy named Laurie starting kindergarten and getting into trouble at school, then deceiving his parents by telling them of a bad boy called Charles getting up to mischief, which is really himself. Jackson uses the language style of first person, from the mother’s point of view to develop the story from a one sided, biast perspective. In the opening paragraph, the mother narrates the image of Laurie as a “sweet-voiced nursery-school tot” and the audience is lead to believe her. As the story continues, oblivious to real nature of Laurie the reader is engaged by the mischief and bad boy behavior that is expressed by Laurie to his parents of this mysterious boy named Charles. Similar to the “Loaded Dog” in that Humor is used to attract and entertain the reader. Jackson uses the dialogue of Laurie to reveal the character of Charles to the reader which creates humor and intrigues the audience. The dialogue of Laurie’s telling his parents of Charles “Today Charles hit the teacher” and “Charles was bad again today” and also the dialogue of the parents “this Charles boy sounds like a bad influence” is used for a humorous effect and attracts the…
"A young college student named Ben is hired to act as a seven-day guide for a “big wig” executive named Madec who is hunting for Bighorn sheep in a remote region of the desert. Ben knows the area well having grown up locally with his uncle learning to hunt and camp in the wilderness. On the third day out, a terrible accident occurs when Madec shoots at what he thinks is a ram but turns out to be an old hermit. Madec wants them both to lie to the authorities and leave the dead man in the desert. Ben insists on taking the body back to civilization, despite offers of hush money to remain silent. The desperate man will do anything to avoid the potential publicity and jail time that may result from the investigation, including forcing Ben to strip and wander in the brutal heat without food, water, or clothing. Ben tries to outwit Madec but the city slicker doesn't leave anything to chance, removing the clothing from the dead man as well as any provisions from his makeshift camp. Ben is lucky to find a slingshot and a dozen or so lead shot hidden in the camp…
A seemingly insignificant young boy wakes up on a frosty winter morning in a small, poor household in Cleveland, Ohio in the midst of this time period. He is forced to help provide for his family at a very young age, and he knows today will be another…
The novel is about a young girl, Susie Salmon, who is brutally raped and murdered by her neighbor, George Harvey, a serial killer of women and girls. She was 14 years old. After her death, she goes to a kind of heaven, and start watching her friends and family trying to move on with their lives and her murder still free. One year after Susie’s death her sister and father begin to suspect of the neighbor and look for evidences to incriminate him. Susie fights to get justice and to see her family moving on after their lost.…
The story opens with Theo, watching the news in a café and then leaves with his coffee in his hand. As he stops to pour some brandy into his coffee a bomb destroys the café with everyone in it. The way that its shot gives the vibe that it’s not to unusual that a bomb goes off in a café. Britain, as the last functioning nation, has closed its borders and is engaged in a war between the establishment and a band of rebels who support immigrant rights. This group then kidnaps Theo, lead by Julian Taylor, who was once Theo’s lover and mother to a child they lost many years ago. Julian’s group, The Fishes, wants Theo’s influence to get transit papers for a refugee, Kee, so the young woman can be smuggled out of the country and to get to a rumored safe haven. Kee is the key to the future of the continual existence of the human race because she is the first woman to be pregnant in the past 18 years.…
This teenage boy who calls himself Charlie, writes an anonymous person about his life and what is going on with it, sort of like a journal. Charlie is starting high school, and realizing all of the new pressures that come with being a teenager. Charlie goes through many topics found with being a teenager, such as sexuality, masturbation, drugs, alcohol, friends,…
The process of social peer pressure brought about by the narrator slowly manipulates the signalman to distort his own vision and belief as he starts to believe the way mainstream do. When the signalman tells his story about his first encounter with a ghost, the narrator, considering the signalman’s story a nonsense one, tells the signalman that “the figure must be a deception of his sense of sight”. He also points out that such figures often trouble “patients”. His statement not only indicates the way he groups the kind of men like the signalman as patients but also indirectly leads the signalman to raise question whether his experience is real. As the signalman continues his story by explaining that the accident does take place only a few hours after his confrontation with a ghost, the narrator emphasizes his standpoint by suggesting the signalman that “men of common sense did not allow much of coincidences in making the ordinary calculations of life.” This suggestion distinguishes the line between “a man of common sense” like the narrator himself with “a troubled man” like the signalman very crucially. As the signalman finishes his story, the narrator departs his box by leaving his kind offer to take the signalman to “the wisest medical practitioner” which highlights the distinct line between the narrator and the signalman. The signalman eventually gets killed instantaneously by the train because he decides to ignore the reoccurrence of the warning voice of Tom, the driver in that it resembles the ghost’s voice for he starts to believe that such voices are not real.…
The story split up into two stories. The one half of the story is about a girl called Kim, and the other side of the story is about a man called Payton. The story is following both persons, Kim and Payton, at the same time. But in the end of the story they meet each other and the two stories becomes one. Kim is a fifteen years old teenager. She wants to have the control over her own life, without her parents interfering. Kim is sitting in an Interstate rest stop. It is cold and its starts raining. She is hungry and wishes a little bit that she is back home. At the same time Payton is driving very fast as if he is trying to escape from something on the interstate highway, he is listening to very loud music with high drums. He has just made a confession to a priest, He thinks on what the priest told him to do, turn himself in to the police. The priest was not as nice as he thought he would be. It’s nearly dark and the rain is starting. Kim goes outside from the rest stop, looking at the pay phone but she thinks it is too early to contact her parents. She is also thinking about the good story she can tell to her friends. She decides to have a ride before it is get night Kim watches the car pull off the road fifty yards past and she begins to run. She wishes that she could see the driver, but it is very dark and raining. As she opens the door, she hears the drums.…