It’s the kind of dream that wakes you try and stay awake after, because you know it’s waiting there for you behind your closed eyelids. (McNamee 11) This quote illustrates that Duncan is uncomfortable with what happened. The nightmares of the drowning girl keeps coming back to him because he did not save her. Just like Duncan, in The Penance, Octavia feels uncomfortable because of what he has done. He killed the three children’s cat because Octavia thought the cat was eating the chickens.
With every turn of the story’s progression, a new mystery is presented such as her argument with the store clerk when she is buying rat poison. Though the evidence might support the townspeople’s
Many witnesses on the documentary complained of the smell that enveloped the facility, stating that the residents were uncared for, and thus unhygienic. One resident at Willowbrook was misdiagnosed with mental retardation when he had cerebral palsy. He remembers his time there well and says he was abused, beaten with sticks, had his head kicked into a wall, and was forgotten by his family. He states it was his own personal hell. This was such a devastating situation and I can't help but wonder how many others were misdiagnosed as well.
They are all, in turn, escaping from their problem and they all end up in the barn. The barn is like their home and it is in fact Crooks’ home. As Crooks has faced so much discrimination and racism in his life he has turned aggressive and impolite. He was forced to live and work alone – isolation – and because of this when anyone does try to talk to him he snaps at them. ‘Crooks said sharply, “You got no right to come in my room.
This can be seen through the lighting of Norman’s face, half-light, half dark, and the dialogue. “It's not like my mother is a maniac... We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?” These techniques have been cleverly assembled by Hitchcock to subtly hint at the idea of madness and help us to get to know Norman, but is not yet prepared to reveal the extent of Norman’s madness due to Psycho being a horror film. The complex relationship helps us understand Norman as a character and the idea of madness in the fruit cellar scene. The director reveals the situation when Lila, Marion’s sister, goes down to the fruit cellar to hide from the murderer and finds Mother’s corpse.
Finds Roderick in house, super sick and pale, not himself. Roderick is sick with problem with nerves. Nerves are raw and sense of fear is greater than usual and is afraid of his own house. Roderick tells narrator that his sister Madeline is also sick. Narrator spends a few days at the house trying to comfort Roderick but can’t make him happy.
The rooms where the meat would stay had leaky roofs where water dripped onto the meat. The rooms would be dark, rats would be all around the meat, and when the workers would grab the meat they sometimes would sweep rat dung off the meat. The workmen would deal with this by putting poisoned bread neat the meat so the rats would eat it and die. But either way, these rooms wouldn’t become any cleaner by putting meat, dead rats, and poisoned bread together. Within only one year of the book being published, tons of copies were sold.
The house in which she lives in was once upon the select street of the town, but eventually it becomes constantly neglected and unappreciated. The “stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pump” (542) is a visible reminder of Miss Emily’s unrelenting attitude to submit herself to change, such as denying father’s death and not paying taxes. The house also symbolizes her physical and emotional disintegration, as well as becoming alienated from the town for a decade. When the Board of Aldermen confronts Miss Emily about her taxes, it is noticed that there is a thin gold chain buried in the folds of her clothing. There is a silence among the room and that is when “they could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the gold chain” (544).
Throughout the poem Rosenberg reveals his perspective on the uselessness of war using symbolic images of a rat “A queer sardonic rat” to a creature that benefits and a poppy as a flower that can grow form dead corpses. The poet has used vibrant imagery, symbolism, phonetic techniques, along with other techniques to achieve & express the anger & sarcasm he felt towards the war. During this poem, Rosenberg’s usage of the relationship between animals and humans helps the readers to see the irony of the war. In the first verse the poet introduces the two symbolic images used in this poem, the rat & the poppy. As the poem continues, the soldier talks to the rat, as he says that the rat will we safe from the disturbance that is going on between the two fronts.
Soon after her fathers death Emily starts to date a much younger man who is in town to work on the sidewalks. His name is Homer Barron, and he is known to enjoy the company of men, but is not the marrying kind. The town is totally against the affair and tries to bring in Emily’s cousins to put an end to their relationship. Next, the story tells how Emily is finally seen outside her home buying rat poison. The town’s people think she is going to kill herself because Homer had put an end to their relationship.