The graveyard was silent; suddenly the Earth gave way to colossal bouts of ectoplasmic entities. Earlier that night, four friends were welcomed by a series of torment and sudden doom, the unsuspecting quad were whispering prayers as they passed through the rustling gates of this barren, chilly and shallow place. Here and there, the gravestones leaned together like old friends. The tombstones of cold withering cement witnessed the tears of laughter and the tears of guilt awaiting every shadow’s lament. As the four remorsefully glared at a stone that read “Son, Brother and Friend”, the deafening silence was pierced suddenly by the deathly shriek of a darkened crow.
3.05 Fascination with Fear Part A The theme I developed from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Premature Burial” is Man must ignore the darker possibilities in life in order to survive. Examples from the text include the narrators experience he told about in the story. He awoke to the smell of dirt, nothing but darkness, the feeling of wood all around him, and silence of a sea that overwhelms. Since he cannot open the coffin he thinks he is in, he realizes that he must have fallen under an attack catalepsy in the presence of people who knew not of his condition. He screams, then to be shaken by four people, making him realize he is really in the tiny sleeping berths of a ship.
He never locked the door before this very night so I knew immediately that something terrible must have happened to my master. I beat on the door repetitively and begin to call him “Dr. Jekyll,” I cried, “Dr. Jekyll are you in there sir?” After a good length of time had pasted I began to think I may have to resort to more desperate measures. The door swings open with a great force and Dr. Jekyll is standing before me drenched in sweat, with a puzzled look on his face.
Seeing he did not have enough time to save the drowning girl, Duncan is discomforted through a series of nightmares; re-runs of the moment she died. Duncan wakes up from his nightmare: I wake up, gasping, my heart like a machine gun. The dark of my room is a soft gray, nothing like the dead black of the water. It takes me a few minutes to convince myself I’ve really escaped the nightmare. 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.
I didn’t go into too much detail about service arrangements with her, but I did tell her my reason for wanting to be cremated and she understood. One person I knew I didn’t want to speak to about this was my mom. She hasn’t been a great role model for my siblings and I. Because of this, I definitely want to make sure I model something different for my kids. I don’t feel like she would be able to give good direction or opinions on a subject like this.
Joining the USCG has many benefits that will basically benefit me in the future. But unfortunately there is a road block in the path way to obtaining my goal and that road block is called a GED. The military does not accept anyone with a GED, if you do not
I can see both Holden’s view, and D.B’s. But when it comes down to it, I agree with Holden. 20 years from now I don’t want to look back at this point in my life and regret when I ended up doing. I don’t want to be a “prostitute”, to put it the way Holden would. “I don’t even know what I was running for- I guess I just felt like it.” In this quote Holden is referring to the fact that he is literally running, however, I think it has a deeper meaning than that.
However, Gregor continues “locking the doors at night, even at home” (Kafka 9). This habit of securing the doors at home reveals his psychological state of shutting other people of his life. Gregor appreciates the serenity and peacefulness that his isolation provides. Alienation allows him to create his own essence because he is not looking for meaning through the “three”. “It was obvious that the parents and the sister had stayed awake until
In the Sassoon’s poem “Aftermath,” he explains war as something that can never be forgotten. The distasteful thought haunts everyone to the point where war completely takes over the human mind. He documented the war environment as something that was unbearable to live at. Waking up next to a fellow member and seeing their body decay was worrisome. The rats crawling everywhere because the environment was not clean and unsanitary was frightening to see.
Life is only starting for me, I know I’ll face more challenges in my life, but if I don’t have the diploma I will not have a future, I’ve lost friends that I thought would be there for me, you have to lose something to gain something even better. I wanted to personally attend Fresh Start for graduating purposes, the school is right down the road from my old school. The people who I thought were my friends told me, “not to leave, and that if I was really your friend you wouldn’t leave me”. No, actually if I WAS your friend you wouldn’t be stopping me, you should be pushing me to do better for myself, and that spoke volume to me. I used to think I’ve had real friends, until a small inconvenience shown me otherwise.