It’s a pathetic vision and I know it but it’s the best my debilitated mind can do. The food taunts me‚ impossibly flamboyant puddings and roasts dancing in front of me. I reach out‚ groaning. Why are they so far away? When I’m about to touch them I look down at my hand. It is attenuated‚ mottled twigs attached to my palm. And in that moment‚ my reality reaches me and I crash to the floor‚ alone in my
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Prologue I am Dave. I want to be a wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers. It was a dream that I have dreamed of for a very long time. I remember every touchdown that I’ve scored since I was five. That was when I scored my first touchdown. I was the starting wide receiver. Our coach called forth that we go do Slants. I ran forth as I watch fifteen linebackers blitz the quarterback. He threw the ball. It hit me and I caught it. It was a bright spotlight on me as I ran the ten yards for a
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Throughout Oedipus Rex‚ Oedipus demonstrates‚ through dramatic irony‚ hamartia‚ and catharsis‚ changes from an ignorant egomaniac to a humble wanderer after everything is taken away. Dramatic irony‚ where the reader knows something the characters don’t‚ is abundant in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex. For instance‚ when Tiresias‚ the profit‚ and Oedipus are exchanging words in an argument‚ Tiresias says‚ “I say that you are Laius’ murder”‚ is never accepted by most of the characters‚ yet it was made clear
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DRAMATIC IRONY IN A DOLL’S HOUSE Dramatic irony usually refers to a situation in a play wherein a character’s knowledge is limited‚ and he or she encounters something of greater significance than he or she knows. Throughout the play‚ most of the dramatic irony displayed is between Nora and Helmer‚ with Helmer being the character whose knowledge is limited. Dramatic irony is a device commonly and frequently used by playwrights. Irony arises from a contrast between appearance and reality between what
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the one punished. I looked for you‚ God‚ and felt like I could not find you! I felt like I couldn’t find you in my pain‚ hurt‚ abandonment‚ and depression. I kept looking‚ crying out‚ waiting for you to show up to rescue me! Rescue me from these enemies. They persecute me without cause. Psalm 32:8 psalm 70:1‚ I was hoping you would save me from the pain and tears I cried throughout my midnight hours! Sometimes‚ I felt I wouldn’t make it until the morning‚ yet the sun would come through‚ reminding
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Empowerment of the Grieving I was being rushed into the hospital. I will never sleep the same again. I can still hear the my brother’s screams for help. The face my mom had on when she saw me will stick with me forever. My own sobs of pain. I will never be the same again. I remember it like it was yesterday. I had just left for school‚ a smile on my face‚ my backpack on my back. My brother and I piled in the car‚ him in the back and me in the driver’s seat. I knew something was going to happen. I could
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Snowball Fight “Oscar watch out!” Said Billy as he threw a lightning speed cold snowball right at my face. That recently happened to me last year in December of 2015‚ here after school. Billie was so delighted that he had knocked me out with a snowball. He didn’t bother to wake me up. He just stood there waiting until I woke up. Before that‚ Billy and I decided we should have our own snowball fight here right after school. We also decided whoever won would earn money from the loser
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The Summer of 1863‚ my mother told me that I needed to watch my younger sister Hupa and my cousin Karuk for the day while she and my aunt went to go gather some new plants. Hupa was about four foot nine inches tall‚ slightly tanned with long brown hair that mother made her keep in two long braids. She also had sweet brown eyes that came from our fathers side‚ she wore a golden leather dress fabricated with beads and strings of leather attached to it‚ and moccasins. Hupa‚ could be very loving and
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Stars twinkle down between broken clouds‚ almost sickly smiling at me. I can see the stars again‚ I dreamily think‚ as my heavy eye start to count them. They disappear behind the clouds and it’s nothing but dark. Blinking repeatedly‚ I stir my head‚ my neck aching and my body sicker than before. My skin is hot and clammy‚ my head hurts and the numbing in my left arm is gone‚ instead‚ I feel nothing in that limb. Maybe the pain finally went away. I fainted‚ but I don’t understand why. This wasn’t
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The Last Leaf To be perfect short story neatness‚ brevity and a significant incident or an aspect of character or an experience of some psychological moment is essential. Within its short frame work‚ it must have a beginning‚ middle and an end. There must be completeness in its structure. All the elements plot‚ character‚ dialogue‚ descriptions and background must be organically connected with other. Generally a good story has a surprising end which bears a sense of endlessness. All these characteristics
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