I march down the creepy stairs and take a quick, second look at the dust rising from the floorboard. I look behind me thinking that I will see a hand, but, instead, I see the whole body! I run down the rest of the stairs and wipe the smile off my face. I'm almost to the door. I inhale a big breath of stale air and, with all my might, run to the door and open it.
In “The Painted Door” this feeling is excessively repeated from the beginning to the end, stressing vividly on the frosty weather and complete seclusion, “for so fierce now, so insane and dominant did the blizzard seem”. The setting makes the atmosphere and the mood of the reader mixed heavily with different feelings. It makes the reader extremely cold, heavy-hearted, saddened, detached, full of emotions, and sympathetic towards Ann, while being impatient to know what happens in the end – whether the husband returns home successfully the same day or waits till the
The house of Wuthering Heights is introduced into the novel in a storm. This pathetic fallacy gives an insight into the main feel of the Wuthering heights manor and also the darkness it will bring later on in the novel. The house itself is an old stone building that seems daunting to the reader and very uneasy, the words that are used to describe the house are of a cruel and conficting nature, “kitchen was forced to retreat altogether into another quarter”. Furthermore, Wuthering heights could be seen as having an effect on the people that live there, for example its depressing nature and desolate location could have effected that characters behaviour, making them more cruel, maybe due to their isolation. This could also be suggested through Heathcliff and Catherine as it was only when they were away from the house and roaming the moors together that they truly are able to be themselves together.
december, 1914 I am sorry if those words are scrawled. My hands are shaking with the adrenaline. Those dark, tench walls seem to be closing in on me, suffocating me. All i can smell the think, dank smoke. Splatters of crimson blood drip here and there i cannot bear to look.
Secondly, Christopher faced his supreme ordeal despite the fact he had a mental disorder. On page 168, Christopher goes to the London Station and he was so terrified that he had to kneel down. However, he made a coping strategy, which was walking the imaginary red line. His fear was so overwhelming that he felt like there was a balloon in his chest. His worst ordeal was the subway.
Numbers where you can't write them as a fraction, and thus can't write them as a decimal which repeats are irrational. Like magic, the doors creak open with a burst of dust, musty air, and shrieking bats. You lead McMerlock down the first corridor. It is so dark that you can barely see your own outstretched hand. The darkness consumes you as you continue to trek deeper and deeper in the hallway.
They killed us with land mines and booby traps; they disappeared in the night, or into the tunnels, or into the elephant grass and bamboo” (199n21). At the time the Vietnam war seemed unforgiving and mysterious, in ways that it made most soldiers naturally evil who in which portrayed enormous grief upon the enemy. It was a time where in every soldier's head they carried a motto, “kill or be killed.” In the novel, In The Lake Of The Woods, small and simple footnotes are attached at the end of important chapters and they give the reader clues concerning the story or they expresses symbolic twists that make the novel somewhat unpredictable. The Footnote I have chosen runs on the back of chapter 20. The small passage explains related truth on the Vietnam War, symbolizes what John Wade, the protagonists, has witnessed, and finally how it portrays the rest of the novel.
We walked up the steps and began the tour. We walked the dark frigid halls of the ancient fortress and were struck by gusts of cold air that apparently came from nowhere. We then were given a few hours to explore in small groups, but we were given strict orders to STICK TOGETHER! Being an arrogant child I disregarded these warnings and wondered off with Vladamir and my girlfriend Tanya. We just wondered the halls and finally we found ourselves in front of a heavy ancient wooden door.
The night had been unruly; th’wind strong. I heard i’th’air, strange screams of death and prophesying with accents terrible of dire combustion and confused events; th’king’s death. By whom you may ask? Well, actually by the king’s own guard, as it seemed. Their hands and faces were all covered with blood, so were their daggers which, unwiped, was found upon their pillows.
The trenches were cold and damp in the winter and often flooded by heavy rain. Oversized rats lingered around the trenches causing the spread of diseases as they were inflated by the food and waste of armies. Lack of hygiene also caused the spread of diseases. Soldiers caught lice which was later known to be the cause of trench fever which caused headaches, fevers etc. Many soldiers developed trench foot, a frostbite like infection that led to extreme pain and caused the feet to swell and turn black.