A Short Story : The Story Of The City

The birth of a child is a truly magical occurrence. Once a baby’s gender is determined, either through ultrasound, or from the brief examination of a doctor, this small branch of a family’s inheritance, has already been designated with countless burdensome requirements to follow within their limited world. In regards to historical stereotypes, timid, little girls wear pink skirts and hair bows. These girls grow up to become housewives, who cook, clean and babysit the children. Meanwhile, boisterous young boys have the whole world to conquer and rule. The multiple responsibilities of a man are deemed as very important since he is the person who earns the family income. In contrast, Teddy, the main character of “The Fall of a City” by Canadian author Alden Nowlan, is a very inventive and quiet child, who uses his imagination to build himself a utopian escape in his dark, gloomy attic. He uses scrap paper to create the citizens of Upalia and cardboard to fabricate the radiant city of Theodoresburg. Eventually, Teddy’s aunt worries about what Teddy is constantly doing, hidden away from his family. His uncle heads to the attic only to discover the shocking revelation that Teddy has been playing with paper dolls and a doll house. Teddy’s uncle laughs and teases Teddy mercilessly, culminating in Teddy to go against his accomplishments and lose an important part of his individuality. Furthermore, the conflict between Teddy and his uncle is a manifestation of how many adults, such as

Jonas opened his eyes and he noticed that he was sitting in a room on a bed. How did I get here, he thought and where is Gabriel? The room that he was in did not look like anything from his other room in his community. There was a table with a chair, a couch. And a weird hole in the wall with pieces of wood in it late were lit on fire. He walked towards it and he got a burst of heat.

Everyone knew that when one stayed in the water too long, one drowned. However, that was not the case. In Alden Nowlan’s, “The Fall of the City,” Teddy was a young boy who had a very vivid imagination. Although at times it went to the dark side, it was ultimately the mistreatment from his aunt and uncle which cause Teddy to destroy his city. For example, his uncle’s threats of physical abuse leaded Teddy drowned in his imagination, the only place where he can feel safer. Although Teddy hardly spoke back to his uncle, he was still threatened that he will not “be able to sit down the rest of the week.” The threat isolated Teddy from his uncle and Teddy felt as if he has no one to turn to. Without someone who truly understands his feelings,

Throughout the story, Lost in the City by Edwards P. Jones there are many different ways the city influences the different characters. Lost in the City takes the reader through some difficult times of many African Americans in Washington. The different characters form bond that cannot be broken in order to handle what life throws at them. In the stories "The Girl Who Raised Pigeons" and "The First Day" the city influences the different main characters in different ways, to help them come of age.

The collection of articles, “The Shame of the Cities” written by Lincoln Steffens, evidently reveals the history of corruption in many American cities during the 18th and 19th century. The chapter, “Pittsburg: A City Ashamed” focuses wholly on the effect Christopher Magee had on the city of Pittsburg during the time of his ruling. With the help of William Flinn, Thomas Bigelow, and E.M. Bigelow, Chris was in complete control over the city. While some of what he was doing was very helpful toward, it is undeniable that he was the cause of Pittsburgh’s extensive corruption.

The Good and Evil of a City: Erick Larson’s The Devil in the White City

I finish carving the tally into the leather strips wrapped around my forearm, the wind attempting to whip my braided hair into my face. I lean back against the brick building, staring at each tally.

Jonathan Earl Franzen is a current American novelist and essayist. He was born on August 17, 1959. His well popular novels include "The Corrections", "Freedom" and "Purity" not only drew him widespread critical acclaim but also earned him National Book Award, which titled Franzen a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist.

Edward Glaeser, an economics professor at Harvard, is a scholar of the economy of cities and their various problems and regularly writes about this in his famous blog of The New York Times Economix . In The Triumph of cities , it offers a valuable insight into the advantages of large cities and makes a thorough and rigorous analysis of the strategies of some successful cities that can serve as an example for the development of its strategic plan outlining.

900 years ago two Witches, during the time of the witch era, which was real, placed a curse of two cities giving the people in them the Gifts. One witch, Elizabeth, thought that people didn't need powers, and wanted only a protection over the city and granted the people the ability to leave. Well, the other witch, Meredith, wanted these humans to be special beyond compare with Gifts like none other, but this was so powerful that with the gift the people would be forced to forever live in the city. The gifts would stay dormant until needed. So, when the Witch’s placed the two spells, the strongest, most powerful spells ever cast, on the cities some of the magic switched between the cities, causing the gifted city to have humans and the ungifted city to have gifted humans.

The island of Satus was unlike any other. The island was a once a place of happiness and joy, until the people on Satus became greedy. The Dark Mountain contained the most gold anyone had ever seen in an island, but the soil inside the mountain contained the evilest particles known to man. When the miner from the Village of the Lost, a city near the mountain, found out about the gold, they mined the entire mountain on the inside making the mountain one giant cave.

Last night at 8 p.m. there was a tremendous, drenching thunderstorm. It swept down from the west and it struck Toronto, the city on the shore of the lake, with unrelenting fury. The storm raged for more than an hour, damaging trees, flooding basements and driving pedestrians into doorways like small animals into burrows. As suddenly as it arrived, it was gone and a strange peace descended on the dripping, streaming streets. The full moon rose over the ragged clouds and the city

Kid ended the protection ritual satisfied that no man, woman, child, or Shinigami-sama himself, would be passing through the grounds tonight.

*Our protagonists alongside Ciro are in a canyon with a sharp turn ahead, which will lead to the city of sound*

In the story, The Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, the quote “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” relates to the six chapters in many ways among the three points: family and love, Hope and despair, and fate. To begin with, family and love explains how the father and daughter meet, also how they interact with each other after realizing who each other is, "A strange thrill struck him when she did so, and visibly pass over his frame; he laid the knife down’ softly, as he sat staring at her". (Page 43) Furthermore, Hope and Despair,