Comparing the themes of “The Pedestrian” and “There Will Come Soft Rains” The theme of these two short stories was that as technology advances, and we rely on it more, humans will not be needed. An example of this from “The Pedestrian” is when the police car is arresting Leonard Mead. The passage says “He walked like a man suddenly drunk. As he passed the front window of the car he looked in. As he had expected, there was no one in the front seat, no one in the car at all.” Even though there was no body in the car, Leonard still obeyed what he was told to do.
This begins to frighten her so bad that her knees get weak; she does not know where to begin to look for the snake. Walking to her clothes, she hears the snake in her basket. Immediately she takes the lamp with the last match in it and runs to the kitchen in straight fear of the snake. After running, she finds out that the match blue out and she got frustrated because Sykes took the rest of the matches. Now the whole house is dark.
As he is walking around the house he suddenly runs into the snake and it bites him. Sykes screams out for Delia in so much pain. She hears the cries and debates on going in to help him but she was frozen in fear. Delia stays away, leaving him in pain. She slowly approaches him as he is on his hands and knees.
As the story continues the narrator constantly studies the wallpaper, and begins to believe that there is a woman trapped behind it. She thinks she sees the woman escape from the wallpaper at night, and tries to watch her from the window as the mysterious woman creeps around the yard outside. The narrator reveals that she begins to lurk like the woman, but only behind closed doors. In addition, one night the narrator believes she sees the woman shaking the yellow wallpaper trying to be set free; the narrator then attempts to release her by ripping the wallpaper off of all the walls. When doing this, the narrator determines she, herself, was also from behind the
The shelves lay empty and do nothing but collect dust. The file cabinets also stand bare and locked up away from daylight. The plain white walls, for the most part, have no décor what so ever (minus his college degrees). Its clear that Bobby’s love for comic books, popular culture, past success, and his family are the driving force that make him the man he is today. Superman seems to be a recurring theme for
They spend the night in the police cell when they got the message from god telling them to kill every bad man. The brothers agreed to get rid of every evil man in Boston togrther with their friend Rocco. Connor learns of a meeting of Russian syndicate bosses at a hotel. The brothers entered the room from the ceiling accidentally hanging on a rope. They managed to kill all the underbosses before they say a prayer and kill the The Fat Man.
Mr. Abe is alone and misses his homeland. The young man seems to be Mr. Abe’s only real friend as he does not mention anyone else during his visits to Mr. Abe’s house. The young man is very enthused with Mr. Abe’s abalone collection. Mr. Abe would spend hours sitting on his porch talking to the young man and polishing his collection of abalone shells throughout the year. Living on the west coast provided Mr. Abe an excellent opportunity to collect abalone shells.
The monsters soon slipped though the door and silently killed thirty men and ran with there bodies while the was dripping. When the sun rose, they saw how well the demons worked and broke into tears. A Prince was upset about the lost of his friends and companions knowing that same demon broke the followers apart. Grendel was so powerful when he fought he won against many.
He became absolutely obsessed with hunting and killing pigs. At first it really was just to feed all of the boys, but more towards the end of the story it was for the please of killing the pig to feel powerful and pure primeval. Allowing Jack to become this kind of monster was another mistake that the boys made. Because once he changed other boys started to follow until it was just Ralph and Piggy by themselves and all other boys were in Jack’s tribe. Of course then Piggy was killed.
The boys’ savage show that they are savages by how the pigs are killed. At first Jack wouldn’t even scratch the pig but now the boys brutally murder the pig they were hunting. “The sow gives a gasping squeal and staged with two spears striking in her fat flank. Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife. Roger found a lodgment for his point and began pushing until he was leaning with his whole weight”.