ANFO Charlie: A Short Story

After having the smoke lit for only seconds “a bullet flattened itself against the parapet of the roof.” This demonstrates a careless and risky act.

In the short story “Anishinaabemowin” by Shaelyn Johnston one realizes that humans all need other people to help one to grow and change. Initially, Mae is ignorant about her language and her culture, but with the help of her mother, she grows to become knowledgeable on her roots. With her mother’s wisdom and guidance she does not flounder and struggle and was able to communicate with her grandma, an event that helped her grow into a more worldly person. Specifically, on the plane to Ontario Mae is trying to learn her native language to surprise her grandmother she attempts to learn the language on her own, but soon realizes she needs her mother's help. Mae recounts a memory of asking her mother for help while trying to learn her native language.

The book Anansi Boys, written by Neil Gaiman, is centered around a character named Charles Nancy. His father dubbed with the nickname Fat Charlie and much to his chagrin it stuck. He is engaged and living in London aspiring to have the normal life he never had growing up with his father. Throughout the first few chapters the audience learns of Fat Charlie’s father and their unstable relationship. It appears they are both exact opposites, Fat Charlie logical and awkward, and his father passionate and supernaturally charismatic. After his mother’s death Fat Charlie completely cut ties with his father, until he receives a phone call letting him know his father had passed away. Upon reluctantly returning home for the funeral he learns some shocking

“Yeah, yeah,” Charlie’s mom said quietly. She didn’t even realizing what her son just said. Of course, Charlie

With a combination of fertilizers gasoline and other flammable chemicals, he lit a timed fuse to explode at 9:02 am before getting into a getaway car and driving away from the worst homegrown terrorist act in American history.Timothy plan was to topple the government because of what they had done at Waco.

Plato, one of the most well-known philosophers in the ancient Greece, wrote an ultimate allegory known as “The Allegory of the Cave”. It is about a man coming out of a cave after being chained as a prisoner for his entire life and what he goes through upon reaching surface. The ideas presented in “The Allegory of the Cave” are very similar to the ideas presented in Daniel Keyes’s novel, Flowers for Algernon. He used an excerpt from the metaphor to start his novel. In Keyes’s novel, a 32 year old intellectually delayed man name Charlie Gordon undergoes an operation that makes him a genius. Charlie learns many life lessons such as a person’s right to live and the development of social skills. The three main time periods Charlie experiences throughout the novel: before intelligence, during intelligence, and after intelligence connects to Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”

5. “Suddenly the tank exploded with a noise like the sound of a thousand machine guns,” said to the newspaper.

She watches her family led off through the woods that “gaped like an

Victoria ran as fast as she could, knowing they were close behind her. She knew it was a bad idea to have stolen it in the first place, but she did what needed to be done. Crouched behind the dumpster she watched as he ran past, still searching. She would be safe here for now.

His shoulders hunched and his cheeks sagged like they were too tired to cling to the bone

When he regresses back to his pristine state with incipient understandings of the involutions of human nature. As he loses did recollections he still recollects some edifications that he learned when he was perspicacious one of them was. “It’s because I'm so dumb and I didn't know when I'm doing something dumb. People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do it the same way they can,” page 67. Another situation was when Charlie wanted to return back to work and when he went back his former colleagues that were trepidacious of him afore auricularly discerned what transpired and felt sympathy for him. “Mr. Donnegan was very nice when I came back and asked him for my old job of janitor. First he was very suspicious but I told him what happened

The event took place on 26 February 1993 about noon when two men in two separate vehicles entered the WTC parking basement in one Yellow Ford Econline Van and a red Chevy Corsica, the Chevy served as a getaway car. One man parked the Van (Ramzi Yusuf) while the other (Eyad Ismoil) waited for him in the red Corsica. Yusuf exited the Econline van and took out 4 bottles of nitroglycerine. The bottles were placed between boxes containing 1,500-pounds of an explosive mixture of urea nitrate, nitric and sulfuric acids. Among the boxes that crammed the cargo space were three tanks of compressed hydrogen meant to be an explosive booster, a Atlas rock master blasting cap was used ignite each nitro bottle, and each cap had a twenty-foot fuse. At 12:05 Yusuf then lit all four fuses and closed the van’s rear doors he and Ismoil drove off in the red Corsica. He had calculated that they had about 12 minutes to get away from the building.

After the Italian restraint Charlie could only feel embarrassed by his father. When Charlie says, “That’s all right Daddy.” (339) you can sense that Charlie wants nothing to do with his father anymore. At the end of the story Charlie also states that at the newspaper stand was the last time he saw his father. This is quite similar to the embarrassment I felt after the realization of my idol.

A long time ago there was an old legend of an ice cream cone named Fluffy. He was relaxing in his small cold home (the fridge) Until he heard talking outside of his house. After a minute the conversation stopped and he was grabbed by someone he didn’t know at all, who’s been with him since when he was first moved into his house. When he was given to the stranger, it kept licking his soft and creamy texture until he was melted by the hot sun,and the stranger's hot tongue. And then his head dropped to the ground.

Once he got to the subway he knew he was looking for something or someone suspicious. When, as he turned his head to the right he spotted a man dressed in a suit and tie with an oddly shaped briefcase. He watched as the man dropped the briefcase on the floor and started hurrying away. Ian knew that that must be the explosive. As he quickly ran over to the briefcase it started to smoke, at which point in time he knew he didn’t have much time. Ian opened it up and saw a red, blue, and green wire. Not knowing which one to cut he took the chance for the peoples lives inside that station. Closed his eyes, held his breath, and cut the red wire. Thankfully it was the correct wire, people all around the station started clapping and thanking Ian.