He is nervous yet scared and disgusted at the out come of his long toil. The author shows this with the quote “with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony”, again this really brings out the gothic image using pain and suffering to make sure the reader realises the full extent of the horror that Frankenstein has unleashed on the quite country around him. When the creature is finally brought to life Frankenstein’s
年轻媳妇伊利莎住在一家偏僻的农场，一手高超的种花技能令她自豪。一天，她突然有了与外界交流的愿望。有什么故事发生呢？请您往下看。 The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world. On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot. On the broad, level land floor the gang plows bit deep and left the black earth shining like metal where the shares had cut. On the foothill ranches across the Salinas River, the yellow stubble fields seemed to be bathed in pale cold sunshine, but there was no sunshine in the valley now in December. The thick willow scrub along the river flamed with sharp and positive yellow leaves.
Fear and anguish brought out some of the worst qualities in the villagers causing them to turn against one another creating anger, conflict and damage unto one another. In turn these actions fueled by superstition, hysteria and ignorance could become just as fatal as the plague itself. The bubonic plague attacks many individuals in the village as it delivers continuous grief and loss to the whole town. Brooks structures her novel as a non-linear timeline as it jumps backwards and forwards starting after the events of the plague giving hints of what has caused the change in the community. Undoubtedly, the plague causes the disintegration of families in the town.
Jane then fell back into the ocean. Panicking, Jane swam to another piece of the boat which was nearby and was able to get on it safely. Edna, still worried about the half asleep Daisy, grabbed her by her collar and tried to swim to the third piece of the boat. With the waves crashing around her, Edna lost her grip and Daisy was lost in the waves. Once Edna was safely on the piece of the boat, she began searching for Daisy.
How do you respond to the idea that the most terrifying aspect of the mariner’s experience is the game of dice played by Death and Life in Death? There is no doubt that the Rime of the Ancient Mariner is in parts a horrifying tale riddled with elements of the supernatural, Gothic themes and terror. However out of all the gothic and terrifying experiences that the Mariner takes us, as a reader, through in his tale it can be argued that many of them are the most terrifying and abject in the whole of the Rime. During their journey, the ship encounters the supernatural and the unnatural. Particularly in part two, the water becomes like “Witch’s oil” the reference to witchcraft could have been seen as predominantly terrifying at the time as the fashion of “Witch hunts” was still rife in the era of publishing; particularly in Eastern Europe and North America, and would have been a practice still in the memory of previous generations.
How would you like to see the most beautiful place in America destroyed just for a bit of oil? Last summer, I went to the most spectacular place and came to care deeply about its wildlife. I would hate for that place to be destroyed. I saw bears, moose, salmon, elk, humpback whales, otters and much more in Alaska. I also encountered a hideous, metal snake called the Alaskan Pipeline built in the 1980s to transport oil.
The mountain’s jagged, snow-capped peak glistens in the moonlight, looking like a distant beacon signifying the chill of the high altitude. In the upper left corner, the huge glowing moon – its face scarred and dimpled by time – shines out across the open plain, illuminating the entire landscape in a soft, eerie light. In the foreground and across the bottom, tall and slender dying grasses are waving gently in an unseen breeze; autumn’s touch has left its mark. Then you see them – standing proud and tall in the grass, side-by-side, are the two elegant creatures that almost immediately steal your attention away from the rest of the beautiful scene. A grey wolf stands slightly to
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.
The Road By Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy’s subject in his new novel is as big as it gets: the end of the civilized world, the dying of life on the planet and the spectacle of it all. He has written a visually stunning picture of how it looks at the end to two pilgrims on the road to nowhere. Color in the world — except for fire and blood — exists mainly in memory or dream. Fire and firestorms have consumed forests and cities, and from the fall of ashes and soot everything is gray, the river water black. Hydrangeas and wild orchids stand in the forest, sculptured by fire into “ashen effigies” of themselves, waiting for the wind to blow them over into dust.
Gunner is put into a separate zero gravity bay. He conducts experiments with cigarettes, alcohol, and greasy food. Reese tends to a beautiful garden. We get several glimpses of Lincoln and Reese. She clearly has a thing for him but he has no interest in her.