Their clothes are tattered and their beards are ratted with blood and dirt. That west is Gettysburg and The Gettysburg Battlefield, when the fog is gone all you can see is graves.” In the story, The Hitch-Hiker, the characters are, Ronald Adams, Ronald’s mother, The Gray Man, A Mechanic, Henry, Henry’s wife, A Girl, A Phone Operator, Long Distance Operator, Albuquerque Operator, New York Operator, and Ms. Whitney. The Main Character is Ronald Adams. “ Death coming to claim what is rightfully his” is the theme for this story. A man leaves his mother to go on a road trip for a few weeks.
In the winters the cowboys would ride down to Texas then up to Canada for work and come back with their pay waiting for them. They would drive cattle all the way across the country, leaving dead cattle and nurturing the young calves back to health to have as many as possible to sell at the auction. The cowboys would have deep conversations to keep themselves occupied while they were gone for so many months. Subjects such as things they haven’t experienced yet, love, meaningful relationships, and children would be the main topics discussed while away. Once returning from a long journey and showing the audience the hard work of a cowboy, they discover that the pay that they should have received for working all winter was cut down to just one month’s pay.
He leaves his house one night after dark and as he goes into the woods he “beheld the figure of a man, in grave and decent attire sitting at the foot of an old tree” (391). The man is said to look a lot like Goodman Brown, which could suggest that every person has the capacity to do evil. Hawthorne also implies that the Devil is an embodiment of all of the worst qualities of a man. As they walk through the woods Goodman Brown starts to see people that he has known for his whole life and it makes him question how good these people are. Among them are his old Sunday school teacher, Goody Cloyse whom the Devil reveals is a witch.
Big Boy, Bobo, Buck and Lester skipped school and were wondering the woods singing songs and horse playing. One of the boys passed gas and they blaming one another. This shows the boys innocence and immaturity. Big Boy said “The hen whut cackles is the hen whut laid the egg” (page 20). Richard Wright uses animal imagery here by comparing the boys to a hen.
He refers to a buzzard as “a old baldheaded man,” and he describes a horse as “moaning and groaning like a natural man” (Faulkner 119, 155). Although one is inclined to take these metaphors as mere means of comparison, their incessancy gradually establishes a sense of humanity around the animals. At the same time, Faulkner’s characters frequently liken one another to animals. While watching his neighbors circle Addie’s body, Jewel likens them to buzzards; Tull describes Vardaman as an owl, a steer and a puppy, and Anse is compared to an owl as he leans over Addie’s body with “humped silhouette partaking of that owl-like quality of awry-feathered, disgruntled outrage” (Faulkner 15, 69, 70, 49). Not only do Faulkner’s comparisons serve to blur the lines between man and animal, but his invocation of animal imagery also helps to communicate states that are lost in translation between these two worlds (White 83).
Inequality Beyond Inequality Austin Webberley Dr. Mesle 2 Oct. 2011 Riding in the back of a decrepit pick-up truck in the thick jungles of Haiti, Paul Farmer waits impatiently, worrying that he won’t get to the sick man in time. Not too soon after passing a crashed car on the side of the road, the pick-up stutters, and then dies. With the destination only a couple more miles away, Farmer hops out of the truck with his medical equipment and slogs through the thick mud, devoted to make it there before it is too late. A typical day for Paul Farmer. Tracy Kidder goes over every detail of Farmer’s life in his book, Mountains Beyond Mountains.
Dill’s imagination is wild as well. He tells enormous lies and conducts unlikely stories; he often tries to be some thing he isn’t. “ Having been bound in chains and left to die in the basement by his new father, who disliked him, and secretly kept alive on raw field peas by a passing farmer who heard his cries for help, Dill worked himself free by pulling the chains from the wall. Still in wrist manacles, he wandered two miles out of Meridian where he discovered a small animal show and was immediately engaged to wash the camel. He traveled with the show all over Mississippi until his infallible sense of direction told him he was in Abbott County, Alabama, just across the river from Maycomb.
Name: Mennatallah Gamal Grade: 10 Wolf Man Samy pulled out of the gas station parking lot, turning sharply as the tires scraped the highway. Heavy hills rolled out endlessly ahead of him and his brother, Fady, who was fast asleep in the passenger seat. The two boys were on their way to visit their Uncle Sayd. His wife, Fayza, had just passed away and he needed help going through some of her stuff, and fixing up her old cottage in the Rocky Mountains. Slowly, Fady stirred.
English 11H 31 September 2012 Starkfield’s Stark Fields The image is subtly promising: an emotionally torn farmer curls upon his makeshift box-sofa in a gloomy study. As tears well in his eyes, the night sky beyond the lone window begins to brighten. Grey clouds diffuse, and a shy moon radiates warmth through the landscape. The young man lifts his head and realizes an old promise: he is supposed to sled in secret with his love. The rare beauty of the usually dead landscape reflects the passion in the man’s heart; his burning emotion survives the coldest of surroundings.
The black raven flew sullenly across the blue gray sky pondering the question that tickled the depths of not only his mind but his soul since the last time heather graced his feathered presence: why on earth have I not met the professor of love and learned the ways of his compassionatre trade? If only I knew, oh, if only I knew… Again and again the rain dripped on the old tin roof. Jack and fred had been sitting there since one and decided that now it was the time. They would buy that ticket and take that midnight train to Georgia to enlist and fight for the revolutionary’s ideals under the guidance of general bushman. The floppy hat bristled in the crisp autumn breeze and miss waverly eleganty srolled through the square.