The food is horrific, the sleeping conditions are terrible, and the place is very unsanitary. The nuns don’t show any respect for the children. For example, when Jennings wasn’t in the correct spot in line, Sister Frances took him and dragged him to his chair. “She grabbed me by the hair and dragged me to chair twenty-seven. (…)” Even though all these circumstances can make Jennings think negatively, he has held strong and maintained a positive attitude to the children and some nuns.
Then, as time is passed, gradually they can forget the excessively sorrowful memories one by one. By this representation, I wished that whatever pain it was, there could be some ways to escape from the nightmare someday. "Now Halle's face between the butter press and the churn swelled larger and larger, crowding her eyes and making her head hurt." (Beloved, p 101) This quotation represents that Halle, one of the slaves went crazy with sorrow and pain after he saw his wife Sethe was stolen her milk and was bitten to harshly from her owner. He may had extreme remorse and regreat that he could not
From the very beginning, the views were bombarded with horrible and tragic animations of Meryl dying, the animations were thoughts Meryl had been the result of her, constantly being exposed to deaths. When Meryl comes back from her father’s funeral, she begins to imagine how she would die, where it is a train derailing and crushing her, getting run over by a car while crossing the road or just being strangled by a stranger she just saw. These animations tell the viewer how Meryl is obsessed with imagining extremely pessimistic situations, the animations don’t always occur when Meryl experience something tragic but it’s constantly swimming through her thoughts. For example when Nick and Meryl make love, Meryl imagines she gets AIDS or end up with multiple sick and deformed babies. Meryl’s animations always revolve around her getting killed or end up in a horrible situation, which illustrates the fears and anxieties she is experiencing.
He doesn’t wan to see the vacuum working.] And the woolen mice, and begin to howl [Woolen mice: Large dust balls. When the vacuum works it makes this loud noise like howling] Because there is old filth everywhere [The place is consumed with dirt] She used to crawl in the corner and under the stairs [Crawl: walking on hands, knees and toes In other words, she cleaned everything!] I know now how life is cheap as dirt [Is a simile for: life has no meaning now he lost his wife] And still the hungry, angry heart [Hungry cause he miss and long for her, and he’s angry at the loss. When you loose something often you are angry] Hangs on and howls, biting at air [His heart howling and biting, is a metaphor.
In the current day and age, people rarely pick up a book before they fall asleep, and most people probably could not explain what Aldous Huxley wrote. The way of life in Bradbury’s dystopia was to employ firemen to burn intelligence and promote mass ignorance in an act to create an equilibrium of knowledge. Montag’s wife, who was hospitalized after their house was bombed, was scrutinized by robots and robot-like humans to extract every bit of knowledge (human blood) inside of Mildred and replace it with mechanically administered blood. (Bradbury 17). This act showed society’s need for ignorance and a “don’t ask questions, that’s just the way it is” type of system.
Every demon is fast asleep” (285), “I wait for the bell to ring, picking at a scab or two…It’s like milking venom from my veins. Wonder how long it would take to bleed out completely” (402), “It’s frightening how much I just want to drown in this undertow of booze and pills. I drank a lot tonight, ingested an incomprehensible amount of painkillers” (481). Through the actions of Raeanne and Kaeleigh’s own behavior, Hopkins is able to create and build upon Kaeleigh’s
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness Kay Redfield Jamison 1. Dr. Jamison experienced a multitude of symptoms that started when she was about 17 years of age. She was plagued with bouts of crippling depression to intense highs. She also suffered from insomnia, lack of concentration, and extravagant spending. Once she was buying numerous snakebite kits in preparation for an infestation of rattlesnakes about which she had been warned by God.
Neville always relied solely on science but his mind was so hopeful for companionship he overlooked his reasoning and let her inside his house. Ruth ended up being a new kind of mutated “vampire” which he knew could happen. The new kinds of vampires were able to walk in the sun. His overlooking of science cost him his life in the end. All of these situations are the result of his isolation and loneliness.
The almighty kept the demons out, but soon split into different forms of evil. The evil opposed the Lora’s will and Defeated again and again. Later, Grendel and Herot had a conversation about what the warrior’s next move was going to be. He found them sound asleep and suspected nothing. The monsters soon slipped though the door and silently killed thirty men and ran with there bodies while the was dripping.
She and Victor plan to marry. When Victor refuses to create a mate for the monster, the creature promises to visit Victor on his wedding night. Victor is unable to protect Elizabeth—she becomes another of the monster's victims. Victor's creature—like the scarlet fever that took Victor's mother—is a force of nature that cannot be stopped. Nothing Victor can do once he denies the creature a wife, will protect Elizabeth: ...suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream.