The writer pointed out that the militias brought along with them items that are equally tangible and intangible, an example is that, Lieutenant Jimmy’s photograph of and emotions for Martha. The other gentlemen’s of the unit are introduced through explanations of the things they brought with them, as illustion, Henry Dobbins, who brings extra food, Ted Lavender who carries items such as tranquilizer pills, and Kiowa who brings a hunting hatchet. The author presents readers to the novel's main characters by explaining the items that the soldiers bring with them. The amount of detail the writer offers about the characters is expanded upon and illuminated in the chapters that follow, though O'Brien distills the essence of each character’s personality through the symbolic items each carries.…
At bedtime, Jennie agreed to let Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jenny, and Betty stay up and play with their toys as long as they locked the door and turned out the lights. Later that night, Jennie wakes up to a phone ringing. She gets up and answers the phone. The woman who had called asked for someone Jennie didn't know, laughed, and then hung up. She then looked and saw the doors unlocked and the lights on. She locked the door and turned out the lights, assuming her children had gone to bed. She went back to sleep only to be woken up again by a sound of something hitting the roof and rolling off. She dozed back to sleep. Only thirty minutes later, she woke up to the smell of…
On Christmas Eve, 1945, when Jennie Sodder was awoken by a phone call from a woman who asked to speak to someone Jennie didn't know. She told her that she had the wrong number, got up and started walking back to her room, before noticing that all of the lights in the house were on, despite the home being silent. She also saw that the curtains were open and the front door was unlocked. To Jennie, this seemed normal…
1.) In the article "Whispers from the Grave," and the poem "Haunted House" by Valerie Worth show reasons why many people are interested by ghosts. One reason people can be interested in ghosts is because they can use these stories to compensate their feelings for someone they lost that was close to them. In the beginning of the article, the author writes about who Sarah lost and how this affected her life after this tragedy. "…
Tired, with a headache, and not in capacity to maintain my eyes open, I remembered next day was Halloween, which was the last thing I remembered before falling sleep. I woke up and saw the watch, it was three o’clock a.m. I listened to a weird sound that came from my closet; it was soft, but I could hear it like a rat scratching the walls. Intrigued about what was happening, I woke up and walked towards the closet. The sound gave me the chills.…
detail separated the grandmother from the rest of her family who seemed to be living in a…
Aynne McAvoy never lived a picture perfect childhood. In "Haunting on the Hill", Aynne speaks about the paranormal experiences she had as a child. When she was four years old, her parents moved their three children to an older home in Watertown, New York. Her father traveled often on business, so the family moved closer to their grandparents. The family did not realize how this move would affect their lives for years to come. The 50-year-old house came with an unique history. A history that was patiently, and quietly, waiting for the right family to activate it. Many people who do not believe in the paranormal falsely accuse the witnesses of fabricating experiences. McAvoy's article is convincing to the audience, because as they read the stories told the combination of pathos, background credibility, and well-structured composition makes the readers want to dig further into the article.…
Once upon a time, not that long ago a little lady with the name of Edna sat in her large vacant home. She felt as if the home represented her because the house was full of many useless trinkets such as humidifiers, books, and old pink flamingos. Edna was a quirky young lady, many people didn't understand her or her ideas. Edna was a very pessimistic person, she tended to have negative thoughts about anything that came her way and she was never nice. Most people that saw her just assumed that she was some creaky old woman just based on the way she walked, looked, and spoke.…
In the story “ The Girl in the Lavender Dress” told by Maureen Scott, the grandmother is riding along with Herbert at Claremont. The grandmother and Herbert saw a girl about 18 or 20 years old walking on the other side of the road. They asked the girl if she wanted a ride and the girl hopped in the back seat of the car. The girl wanted to go to her parents house so they drove off. When they got there, they notice the girl is not in the back seat anymore and they think she got out.…
Finally, the late Julia Hetman tells her story through Medium Bayrolles. She laid alone in bed when she first heard the foot steps up the stairs. What she called a Thing came and left her room. Shortly after, Julia heard more foot steps, and she thought that the Thing had returned. Then her life ended as she knew it. From this point, she told her story from her perspective as a ghost. She loved to watch her husband and son, and one night, her husband caught site of her and went crazy.…
So many myths told, yet no proof of it being real. The story goes, There is a well-known abandoned house in Texas believed to be haunted. No one has actually been inside the house. They say that there is a mother in a black gown longing, crying for her children whom she drowned in her bathtub then hung herself afterwards. Why? No one knows.…
It was almost halloween, Just a few days away back in 2015, when we decided to go to the haunted railroad. Like any other person would do around halloween to pay a ridiculous amount for people to scare you when you can do it for free, buts that’s not the point. It was my mom, dad, two family friends; Ben, Joe, and of course I was there too. Well, my aunt Lucy and her partner Laura were supposed to go but they were too scared to go, so they just stood in the car and waited for us to come out.…
Once there was a house in Oklahoma that had been abandoned for too long by the Chester's, some people say it was haunted by their little girl named Susie who passed away on halloween night 13 years ago, nobody really knew what happened. There was a group of kids, Alex, Lilly, Jasmine, Roy, and Jonathan on Halloween night who were walking around the neighborhood. “I have a great idea, since ally lost the bet we should make her go into the Chester's house,” Alex said as he spun around, and all 5 of them stopped in their tracks and said, “Are you out of your mind, nobody goes in that house and nobody ever will.”…
One of the literary devices being used in the short story is forshadowing. In the begining of the story, the grandmother was reading a newspaper about the "Misfit" romaing around the cities and she wants her family to go somewhere at Tennesse instead. The forshadowing is that the family's death is in the graveyard when they "passed by a cotton field with five or six graves fenced" (383). This is a coincidence that there a full car of five or six people including the…
The Victorian Age, a time that is commonly known throughout history for its stoicism of dress for women and men. The women and men of the Victorian age all dressed in ways that covered their entire bodies. The men wore suits, while the women wore dresses that were extremely modest. However, in the movie The Young Victoria the director chose to have the men were dressing in what would be considered proper Victorian standards for men. However, Queen Victoria and the women of Royalty dresses in ball gowns that revealed a significant amount of skin, while the servants and lesser class also dressed in proper Victorian garb. This paper will look at the significance of the costume choices for women, and the possible reasons for why the director chose…