Guy made various discoveries during the first part of the story. He met this women named Clarisse McClellan. He discovered a couple of things about her which included the fact that she was "17 and crazy" or so that is what was said in the book so far. Before Clarisse left to her house she asked Guy if he was happy. A little later after stepping in his own home, he discovered he was not. After having a chat with Captain Beatty, he realizes what his job is and decides he won't do it anymore.…
The sound of police cars made noise at midnight on Thursday the 12th. Anna and Jim set out for the mission to find the Lost Tombstone of Jack Junglewood. A dark cloud passed over the crescent moon, making the rural graveyard dark and spooky. The light from the police station next door shined bright over the begging of the graveyard.…
Finally in paragraph 20 we find our first reference to the title of the story, "A black girl in a black dress was sitting on the trunk of a sedan parked next to Justin’s Ford, laughing into her cell phone. Her face was painted white, and Wayne took her to be a vampire or some…
I think that a plot twist that I would make for The Necromancer, is that when Leonie Barrow signed her name on the contract she signed Cabal's name instead of her. Yes, at the time I read this. I really wanted it to happen because I thought it would be super funny to see Cabal's careful plan foiled by this little act. But, in the way that it would change the story would be very strange. Seeing as how Cabal's soul was already one given to Satan it wouldn't change much. He would simply get damnation and that would be that. But, would it really effect Cabal? Well, he's already had his soul away from him for so long, and when he died he wouldn't have it in him, so in all reality it shouldn't do anything to him. And, of course Satan would either…
What a fantastic book, I am not sure where to start. This book is so much more than a biography about Mexican artist Posada and his day of the dead Calaveras. It is a book which educates about art, the day of the dead festival, Mexican culture and history, and contains poetry as well. This is a must for the classroom and would be a perfect read for any age really. The end of the book is filled with a two page author's note with even more detail about Posada and the Day of the Dead, an glossary with pronunciations, a bibliography for further readings, information where you can see Posada's work in the United States, as well as an index.…
Kevin Brockmeier is An American writer of fantasy and literary fiction. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on December 6, 1972 and is a graduate from Southwest Missouri state university. Brockmeier has won 3 O.Henry prizes, The Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award for short story fiction, several. And He also won the Booker Worthen Literary Prize and the Porter Fund Literary Prize. Kevin Brockmeier is a very successful author and is known for his short stories.…
The theme that I have chosen is death. I chose this theme because death plays a part in Andy's life and it plays a part in Henry's life. It affects us all in our lives because people die all the time and people go through hard a time when people die and that's what happens in the book. I will be explaining how death is used in the book from the First World War and during the present day.…
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.…
In the bestselling novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Death states, “To me, war is the new boss who expects the impossible.” Death uses this quote to emphasize how ruthless the war is, for he is caught up in a storm of souls that grows larger as the war progresses. Those souls remain in the storm, waiting for death to free them from the nightmare they are stuck in. As Death frees these lost souls, he “notices their ugly and their beauty, and wonders how the same thing can be both.” Overall, Death remains a major character and provides a unique point of view which connects the story…
Deciding if a work literature is fantasy proves to be a daunting task for any scholar. There are plenty of elements, themes, and motifs that furnish the fantasy genre as a whole, and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book without question encompasses a number of these. Through the lens of magic, the battle of good versus evil, and the presence of hope The Graveyard Book delivers a taste of fantasy literature, while also supporting the elements of the new mythology for global humanity by rediscovering harmony, bridging the past with the future.…
Author of the popular book series A Song of Ice and Fire once said, “I try to make readers feel they’ve lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just got more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it.” When a character dies in a story there is a sort of shock the reader receives when that death actually happens. Although Clarisse died very early in the book, most people would have some sort of reaction towards her death whether it be sadness or confusion or both Bradbury gets a response from the reader. Clarisse’s untimely death on page 29 not only affected Bradbury’s readers it also affected the characters of…
The nature of existence in the Kingdom of the Dead is dissimilar to the Christian ideal of heave; the Kingdom of the Dead is a dismal place to be. Odysseus describes them as “shambling, shiftless dead” (p. 251). Existing in the Kingdom of the Dead is not a pleasing affair. People exist in death exactly how they died; the “men of war” are still wearing the bloody armor they died in (p. 250). The dead seem to be able to remember who they are, but they are not able to speak until Odysseus allows them to touch or “approach” the blood Odysseus spilt from the sheep (p. 254). Once they do so, the dead can only speak the truth (p. 254). If Odysseus were to ignore them, they would fade away (p. 254). To reach the dead, Odysseus uses milk and honey,…
Imagine a life so different than the life you live now, where the things you value the most are forbidden and the punishment is so severe, it’s almost not worth living. In the book Fahrenheit 451, life and death are major topics throughout the story. There are also symbols that represent life and death, such as fire. In the story, the fire may not kill them but it is still a symbol of death. Life and death are two completely opposite concepts, yet they feed off of each other. There can’t be death without life. And nothing can be alive and dead at the same time, but ray Bradbury has creatively made it seem possible as he describes the world that farenheit 451 lives in. Many people in our society and in the book go to major extents for the things…
When I read Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez for the first time, I was initially not impressed by the book. I found the story to be uninteresting and predictable, like something that came from a Spanish soap opera. After reading the first few pages of the book, I already deduced that the man who was murdered in the story was the result of a marriage gone horribly wrong because the bride was not a virgin. That a bride who loses her virginity before marriage is a taboo that still persists in some parts of Latin America. By the time I finished reading the novel, I could not figure out the significance of this book. It was not until I learned more about the role of the characters and what they are supposed to represent, the event Marquez based on the story on, and how his cultural background is…
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