The man remained motionless, his bald head glistening, his round stomach thrust forward. Hood was rocking back and forth on his knees. Night dissolved slowly into dawn; the Hudson River outside his window turned from black to gray, and a thick, heavy rain hammered on the glass. He held a James Dean, vulnerable tough-gay pose—three-quarter profile with a cigarette, slouched on a fire escape. I was jabbering about it for days.
He considers carrying things through the streets undignified, and refuses to do it himself. On Christmas morning, Malachy and Frank attend Mass with their father and go to collect leftover coal strewn over the Dock Road so that their mother can cook the pig’s head. Pa Keating meets the boys on the street and convinces the landlord of South’s pub to give them a bag of real coal. They drag the coal home through the rain, passing cozy houses. Children laugh at them from inside the houses, taunting them and calling them “Zulus” because they are smeared with black coal.
Then they awaited a night of pouring rain and driving wind. Perhaps because Kusunoki had found favor in the sight of Heaven, suddenly a harsh wind came raising the sand, accompanied by a rain violent enough to pierce bamboo. That night was exceedingly dark, and all the enemy in their camps were sheltered behind curtains. This indeed was the awaited night! Leaving a man in the castle to light a blaze when they had fled away safely 600 yards, the defenders cast off their armor, assumed the disguise of the enemy, and slipped away calmly by threes and fives, passing in front of enemy battle-offices and beside the enemy’s sleeping
In the poem “Oranges”, Gary Soto creates a literal image of a twelve year old boy and girl going out for a walk by themselves. The twelve year boy has intimate feelings towards the girl, creating an adolescent love type of image for Soto’s readers. As adolescents, taking a walk with a person you have a crush on is a very big deal, no matter where the setting is. In this poem, the boy takes the girl to walk a couple blocks to a nearby drugstore. Gary Soto cleverly wrote this poem using a mix of literal and figurative language.
Recruits It is after midnight on payday. Some of the recruits are beginning to dribble into the barracks bunk room after a night's carousal down the line. "Down the line" in Montreal is Cadieux Street, St. Elizabeth Street, La Gauchetière Street, Vitre Street, Craig Street--a square mile of dilapidated, squalid red brick houses with red lights shining through the transoms, flooding the sidewalks with an inviting, warm glow. The houses are known by their numbers, 169 or 72 or 184. Some of us are lying in our bunks, uncovered, showing our heavy grey woolen underwear--regulation Army issue.
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury's thought that fiction is "the reality, surrounding us which has been brought to the point of absurd”, perhaps is the main idea of the novel "451 ° Fahrenheit". If we will open our eyes and look around, we will notice the furious tempo of life and the people, programmed to work just like robots. Sleep-work-entertainments-sleep… Aren’t cars even today rushing at mad speeds, striving to bring down the pedestrian, going across the street? Aren’t numerous characters from TV series superseding the real people from the heads of their audiences? Aren’t modern parents settling down their children in front of the screens of TV, so kids will not disturb them?
“BAAANNNGGG” He’s here. He slowly stomps to the door, I can hear him unlocking the padlocks and letting them drop to the hard, cold ground. His lips hold no colour and are sowed shut, He’s pale and weak looking. His legs are swollen, and his eyes glow like the moon at night. He’s getting me, “HELP” He calmly walked in, his eyes haven’t been took of me since he came in.
He was so enchanted that he did not hesitate to follow her from the boulevard to the famous Love Street and waited until dusk hidden behind a bush. Right after dusk, he decided to do the impossible and climbed an apple tree and jumped on to Pamela’s deck. Jim found Pamela standing next to the door watching him risk his life just to introduce himself. Once Jim was facing Pamela, she calmly asked him “Do you have a problem with doors?” Jim answer was a short, but passionate “sometimes…” followed by a soft warm kiss. After that Jim vanished into the night saying “You are the one.” The Doors.
The Verdict Essay A man mundanely plays a game of pinball on a dreary and cold Boston morning in his favorite pub. The audience can see the doubt and self-pity weighing down on his shoulders as he takes a sip of his beer and then a drag of his cigarette. He pauses to evaluate his life, a theme that continues throughout the film. His somber facial expression during the pause depicts a man having nothing to live for any longer. This opening scene accurately describes the life of Frank Galvin, an attorney with a drinking problem who is haunted by his past, and has resorted to ambulance chasing to make a living.
A recluse who never steps foot outside his house, Arthur is an object of fascination for many Maycomb residents. Throughout the novel, Arthur implements specific acts that make him one of the mockingbirds of the novel. Arthur is described as someone who eats cats, hates children, stays at home and is a monster. There was no hope that he would come out of his house until one night he made his first appearance. During Miss Maudie’s house fire, Jem and Scout were standing in the cold weather watching the fire.