9/11 Creature Diary

Roughly 2,753 people were killed on September 11, 2001, by terrorists who overtook commercial airplanes (Jones). The cause of these thousands of deaths were a series of attacks in New York City by an Islamic terrorist group, Al-Qaeda. However, there are still many questions about what actually happened the morning of September 11, 2001. As there are many different conspiracy theories about what happened that day, 9/11 was an attack which began with Al- Qaeda hi-jacking airplanes, but ended with more questions than answers. Many questions still remain about the authenticity of cell phone calls from inside the planes, why air defense was told to “stand down,” and how three buildings imploded as the result of two buildings being struck by airplanes.

My mom drove me to school, filling the car with an awkward and unbearable silence. The only noise was her thumb tapping the steering wheel and the annoying clicking of the signals. Since I am on punishment, I'm not allowed to have the luxury of Megan driving me. To make this car ride a little bit less awkward, I turned on the radio and blasted up the volume to the highest notch.

Nothing I did worked. His skin, so close, so warm against my own, did it distract me? Was that it? I had done my best to free myself from the darkness he had encompassed around me, but my efforts did next to nothing in getting him away. He evaded it all. I was floundering amidst my own failure, but he was still there, still overshadowing me.

I walk downstairs in light blue high waisted shorts and a white tank top with cowgirl boots.

As kids, we were all warned about the basics. Call 911 for emergencies, tell an adult if someone touches you or even tell the teacher when someone says a bad word. But what happens when something happens to the last person you’d think it would happen to.. Yourself. Who could you actually turn to, and when the time struck, how would the words flow out to confess the crime done to you. Or even worse, would the words come out at all? “Can you tell me what happened exactly?” “It's okay to talk to us, we’re here to help you, not hurt you.” The words kept ringing in my head. But was it okay to talk to them? Speak of the unspeakable with people... people I didn't know, nor trust? Being so young I had no idea what was going on. As my heart was racing,

All I wanted was moments with my mom when I was nine; I did not get it. What about age ten, eleven, and twelve? My whole childhood was snatched out from under me, and I had to grow up way to fast. Don’t worry, I did not blame you. I blamed myself until I was fifteen. It was my fault my mother tried to drown my sisters and me. I saw signs and clues. I could tell she was not acting herself, but I said nothing. I didn’t go and ask another grownup for help. I put my sisters’ lives in danger, because I didn’t protect them.

As you may remember, my topic is about the impact of 9/11 on the American society. My last book, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foer mainly talked about a family and the struggles they encountered when they lost someone who meant a lot to each of them. For my next book, I chose The Zero by Jess Walter for two main reasons; neither was because it just simply “matched my topic”. One reason is because the title itself has a deep meaning behind it. The title refers to the ground zero of the twin towers. The other reason is because the main character is a police officer who was a first responder to the attack, and my father is a police officer as well. I wanted to understand how officers cope with events that will give a scare to

I turned my head to see the night sky. The ocean was so calm that it appeared as though a mural of stars were in front of me, as though I could leap forward into the black blanket of white sparkles. A star that shined yellow grew bigger as time went on. I imagined it was a firefly floating over the ocean just a short distance away. Oddly enough the firefly was moving closer to me somehow. The firefly started to appear as a small cat walking down from the sky.

The eclipse, something that only happened once every hundred years. For a few minutes, the eclipse will totally block out the sun. The day would suddenly turn into the night, in a blink of an eye. The world is literally in darkness, the void in which reality begins. Some found it symbolic creating hidden meanings behind phenomena. Some crazies were even making apocalyptic predictions. Brennan only cared about it, because he got to miss school today.

The rain got harder as Tina walked alone in tears. She missed her daughter Iris. Tina thought about all the good times they had together. She wondered why Iris had done that to herself. Iris was a skinny young girl who killed herself. Iris wa bullied at school for how far she was, so Iris decided to stop eating. Tina was walking in the rain. It had been a year since Iris was gone. She thought back to that day. Tina woke up and made herself some coffee. She nibbled on a muffin that she bought from the store yesterday. She took Iris to school and then went to work. Tina went throughout her day as usual, but what she didn’t know was that soon her daughter would take her own life. Iris got home and went up into her bedroom. Tina wouldn’t get home

Waking up to see nothing, feel nothing, nothing at all. How would you feel about that when you woke up in the morning? For Carl it was a bit shocking, an 18-year-old teen. He didn’t know what was going on around him, but what he did know was that color was gone of the world, as if it never existed. For Carl, went about to ask what is going on today? Why nothing had color at all? No one ever responded to him as if he was a ghost; it literally drove him mad and his head exploded with rage. No one even noticing him yelling with frustration, so he walks out of the school to go home. Again he notices everything around him is so doll and boring as if people are walking around like zombies.

Firstly Neil uses the reflexive pronoun “We” this implies that no matter how small these creatures are there are a lot of them, it’s almost as if they have an army. He also uses the modal verb “will” and this creates suspense as they are guaranteeing that Coraline will fall and that they will witness, this makes us ask if these creatures have supernatural abilities. The word “here” implies that these creatures could know where she will fall and they aren’t telling her so that she will follow them. Could they be spies from the other mother? Another interpretation is for the pronoun “you.” You might be thinking that this doesn’t mean anything, however this could specify to Coraline, meaning that they have been watching her and they know everything about her… And lastly mystery is caused using the dynamic verb “fall” this is mysterious as these creatures are telling her when she will die, and in a way they are threatening her. This is mysterious as we want to know why all of this is happening to Coraline and not any other

Ian watched the teacher walk out the door, eyes flicking to the analog clock across the room, making eye contact with a certain pretty blonde at the table horizontal to his.

It was summertime. The refreshing breeze that blows and the heat of the sun gives me a pleasing pleasure. I heard people singing, dancing and drinking. It was my Mom 50th birthday. All our relatives and friends are here to celebrate. Everyone is boisterous and relish. I was startled when heed 10 missed calls on my phone. My phone rang again, and I didn't delay picking it up. It was my Sister-in-law. She told me that my Fiance is seriously infirm. I was distressed, petrified, and bewildered about what I heard. My body abruptly, shivering, and I felt contrite regarding what happened to him. I planned to go back home, but He insists not to. I moan every night and restless during the daytime. My mind is devastated, I can't envisage, and I can't

The work of has a lot of vagueness, not only in the story but in the character design itself. Image #8 introduces the viewer with a character with a worried expression in their face and then staring at his hands. I wanted the audience to know he was distressed and then in image #9 it's shown that a house on fire and the viewers start making assumptions. They continue to do so in image #10 where he enters the home and something that is not revealed to the audience yet distresses the protagonist, then in image #11 a dead bird is revealed. The audience is filling up the gaps in the story, like why the home is on fire, why the text is spray painted in the home, or why the bird is dead as shown in images # 9 and 11 respectively. I have always loved