friends‚ and watching her papaya tree grow. But the Vietnam War and the Fall of Saigon forces Hà and her family to flee Saigon and endure a long‚ crowded boat ride to America. In America‚ the family spends time in a refugee camp until finally‚ they find a sponsor. Their new home is in Alabama. Although initially excited‚ Alabama is a strange
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Fear When I think back to a time that I let fear prevent me from doing something‚ I thought of the moment I went to an amusement park. My friends asked me to ride a roller coaster with them and I did not because of fear. I know fear held me back at that time‚ since I did not enjoy spending time with my friends‚ I had to be the one holding everyone’s bag‚ as well as wasting my money on a place that had nothing else to offer but roller coasters. Sometimes as a child‚ people can have sad or frightful
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looking below me‚ constantly mocking me. I kept glancing back at that one ride throughout the whole time I was at the carnival. I read the name of it. “The Zipper.” I whispered to myself with some sort of shakiness in my voice. A gust of wind ran through my back‚ goosebumps all over. Everything that surrounded me was just incomprehensible meaningless sounds; all I could hear was the ugly screech come from the ride followed by a number of ear piercing irritable sounds. Trembling‚ I could
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In the book Shane by Jack Schaefer‚ a strange man enters the lives of a family and changes them forever. The book was written in the mid 1900’s and gives readers an outlook on early American culture as the west was settled. Throughout the book‚ different confrontations take place as the characters develop more fully as individuals. In Shane‚ the conflict between Shane and Fletcher influence Bob Starret’s perception on good and evil‚ as well as what it means to be a man. The story takes place
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Nathaniel Hawthorn’s “Young Goodman brown‚” a story about a man being tempted to go on an errand to find the devil in the woods‚ and Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” a story about a girl resisting being hurt or abducted by a strange man‚ are similar stories. They had characters that played an innocent role‚ had seducers‚ and had mysterious ending that were left untold. In “Young Goodman Brown‚” Brown had good intentions. He thought twice about going deeper into the forest
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You get pushed down the path; shoved‚ kicked‚ and punched to get to an unknown destination. You look back at your family but they’re at the bottom of the high incline‚ they leave you to fend for yourself. You feel every blow as you board a strange abandoned looking rollercoaster‚ you board and suddenly a blind fold covers your eyes and your off before you can get buckled down. You go fast and can’t slow down the rapid travelling cart as you fly up and down‚ hitting your head and body on each turn
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Summary: Dysart and Alan are in the office of Dysart‚ however they are pretending to be at the stables. Dysart asks questions to Alan and Alan answers all of them. Alan tells about his ritual in the stable. He does this ritual every time before he rides a horse. In this ritual he gives the horse sandals and the ‘’Chinkle-chankle’’. Later they go to the place of Ha Ha‚ which is a big field Alan describes to be full of mist and covered with nettles. Setting: The place is actually in Dysart’s office
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understand or that they just don’t like. According to Stephen King‚ we are all mentally ill‚ I think we watch horror movies because we are looking for the adrenaline rush and shock of surprise that we get while watching. We go to scary movies‚ we ride roller coasters‚ or we go to haunted houses. Why is it we feel the need to do these scary activities? As Stephen King explains‚ for most of us‚ we want to prove that we are not scared. For others‚ it is to re-establish their feelings of normalcy‚
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Movies are fun and enjoyable. Movies can teleport you to strange planets‚ new cities‚ and new time periods. Books are like movies in the same way. Instead of watching the imagination in front of you‚ you can make it up by yourself. Plays are like a mixture of both. Plays are like watching a movie but instead of watching a rehearsed action the actor gets to express themselves in what is most enjoyable to them. Because of technology in the fourteenth and the fifteenth century‚ plays where the movies
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Stevenson shows a sense of humour throughout his novel “strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” by exploring such elements as the dark isolated atmosphere‚ a strong sense of fear and a presence of evil. He exploits each individual gothic convention by using several devices and techniques to put the reader into a state of chaos. In Stevenson’s book “Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” he explores the convention of a dark isolated atmosphere really well by inviting us into his fantasy world filled
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