where I was. When she finally stop talking to catch her breath I told her I was coming home. I went down the slide and walked towards my car. As I drove home I passed by the same bridge and remembered about being in conflict with my emotion doing that short time. But just like before I forgot all about it once I passed under it. When I finally walked inside the house which was greeted by yelling from my mother‚ I had an
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desire to be the next winner of the lottery. The lottery is a tradition in our country‚ a tradition that has led to thousands of winners who are deemed “the lucky ones.” However‚ is following tradition always a good thing? Are the winners of this desirable lottery always so lucky? Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” employs a detached‚ unique tone and utilizes ambiguous symbolism to reveal the inhumanity of mindlessly following societal tradition. “The Lottery” commences on the morning of June 27th
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the drive-thru line moving too slow to no fault of my own. Yet‚ despite all this‚ I was happy at the change of pace. I think it must have been being poor that has made me love philosophy because I can more easily see how all of our lives are so short that it becomes absurd to care about many material things. I suppose that my love for thinking about living and how to act merited me to become a Telluride Association Summer Program finalist among the hundreds that have applied and had made me want
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The opportunity was an open door to human trafficking and a closed one to any reality she had before entering this world. Angela’s story may be as tragic as it gets‚ but it’s more than that. Her constitutional right was ripped away from her hands when she was forced to work for a family that neglected her basic needs for living. Many people couldn’t imagine a world that does not implement
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A little girl wandered through the child-filled streets in her fairy costume. Her short dirty blonde hair fell on either side of her rosy cheeks which showed the purest of innocence. Just like every other Halloween night her green eyes sparked with excitement. Her name was Bianca‚ Halloween is the one thing she looked forward to all year round‚ seeing the houses decorated‚ feeling the breeze of fall brushing against her body and the wondrous scent of candy‚ all these things brought joy to her. Every
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I’ve got to stop relating you to songs‚ And pictures that I see‚ graffiti on the wall. Although‚ you are a story and a scene that I fall into Headfirst‚ at the speed of light‚ even in the dark. There were no sirens or signs or warnings that my love would go unrequited‚ Just a lie on your tongue and a dance hidden in your eye. You wept on me and faded into the darkness And I was left to watch you go then cry. And all the while I was trying not to get stuck on you. With your cupid’s bow
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Everything began on that gloomy Sunday afternoon. I remember all the little details about that day like it was yesterday. I was late to my part-time job at The Alienator‚ a small‚ alien themed fast food joint on the corner of 2nd and Main Street. With coffee stains on my shirt‚ my hair a ruffled mess and my shoes on the wrong feet‚ I sprinted down the sidewalk‚ rushing to work. Breathing heavily‚ I was so focused on dodging and slipping past people‚ that I didn’t realize what was happening to my
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Scary Story “Come you have to see this!” screamed Doobie. “What is it?” asked Kavid. “I really don’t know. Never mind. Forget about it. Do you ever feel that something bad is about to happen to us?” “No not really.” The Island of Nesis had many mysterious things about it and on it. Nobody ever knew about it since it was far out in the ocean. On the island‚ a house stood. Some said that the doors had blood dripping off of it. Others told that the bathtub flowed with blood once. One person exclaimed
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Writing Assignment: The Lottery. 1. Were does you surprised by the ending of the story? If not‚ at what point did you know what was going to happen? How does Jackson start to foreshadow the ending in paragraphs 2 and 3? Conversely‚ how does Jackson lull us into thinking that this is just an ordinary story with an ordinary town? I was really surprised by the ending of the story‚ because I really doesn’t know what it was going to happen‚ I think that the story is like a little mysterious but I never
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Shirley Jackson’s‚ The Lottery‚ has raised questions in the back of every reader’s mind towards the destructive yet blind rituals of mankind. A reflection of ourselves is what we see when looking through the pond of Jackson’s mind. The Lottery clearly expressed Jackson’s feelings concerning traditional rituals through her story‚ opened the eyes of its readers to properly classify and question some of today’s traditions as cruel‚ and allowed room to foretell the outcome
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