Analyzing Natasha Preston's 'The Cellar'

An analysis of the key literary elements in “Amaryllis” by Carrie Vaughn and “Jordon’s Water hammer” by Joe Mastroianni clearly illustrates the main characteristics and classification of the dystopian genre.

Gabrielle Roy's "The Move", highlights a young girl's longing for adventure and travel toward unknown destinations. However, as she realizes what is truly present outside her imagination, a surge of disillusionment comes over her. The child's description of horses, spearheading an adventure, but then falling ill and tired, illustrates the girl's realization that excitement and joy in the world cannot amount to her vivid imagination. In the short story, the image of weary moving horses parallels the child's sudden grasp of reality, illustrating the naive character's loss of innocence.

The above text is the hook to the poem “Mystery of Iniquity” Before going in depth with the first piece of the poem; something stands out in the first two stanzas: “iniquity” and “inequity”. According to Webster’s dictionary, inquity is defined as “gross injustice; a wicked act or thing” and inequity is defined as “injustice, unfairness; an instance of injustice or unfairness” (Merriam-Webster) Here Ms. Hill sets the tone for the rest of the poem. She explains that the unfairness of iniquity and inequity is a miserable feeling. She is talking directly to those that share her unfortunate circumstances of being treated unfairly in a state of misery. The pre verse that follows the hook brings the topic of religion into view. The first four lines in the pre-verse symbolize Biblical meaning and give way to religious pretext. The verse says

Corrie Ten Boom’s book, The Hiding Place, is an inspirational story that explores the issues of needing and wanting freedom, and maintaining strength throughout life’s difficulties. This book illustrates how important freedom is, and how, without it many people are lost or lack hope. Freedom coveys the feeling of strength and worth. Corrie explains this throughout her book.

Lauryn Hill once said, “Truth comes, but we can’t not hear it when we’ve been programmed to fear it? Lauryn Hill, a songwriter, singer and rapper from New Jersey expresses her strong emotion on the justice and legal system in her song, Mystery of Iniquity. The Mystery of Iniquity is a verse taken from the bible; 2 Thessalonians 2:7. The word iniquity means immoral or grossly unfair behavior. In her song, she exposes her truth and views of the legal system. She touches on multiple topics such as religion, policing, court systems and orders, the president, and the amount of African Americans incarcerated. This song was released in the early 2000s, when

As the title of the paper suggests, I chose Kendrick Lamar’s song “Blacker the Berry” off the To Pimp A Butterfly album. When selecting a song, I actually took to Twitter to ask my followers what song I should write about. I personally do not listen to Kendrick Lamar so I decided to ask people who enjoy his music to recommend songs that an analysis should be written over. Several people mentioned “Blacker The Berry”. Although I did not hear the many rhymes and metaphors at first, after reading the lyrics along with listening to the song I was quick to realize how creative, witty and almost unintentional the rapping’s of Kendrick Lamar are. Another reason I decided on this song is because he raps about current violence of high profile crimes

The burst of a door, the gritty scream signaling the end of a family. Cheating. One spouse sneaking around behind the other’s back. What started off as cordial conversation turned into so much more than either could have ever imagined. A literal snowball rolling down a hill, if you will. In The Cellar by Natasha Preston, Clover’s whole world fell apart after the previously

In in the novel “The Cellar” by Natasha Preston, Summer survives a terribly, horrific kidnapping. Summer has to face many challenges during the 7 months she is held captive, like being apart from her boyfriend, her friends and family. This takes a toll on Summer while she is locked away in the cellar.

For this essay I will discuss and analyze the “Five Themes and Two Streams” of popular music, in regards to the song “Little Boxes,” by Malvina Reynolds. This song comes from her album Ear to the Ground, and was released in 1962, around the era of summer of love, where conformity was becoming a easy target for folk singers and musicians. Malvina Reynolds a native of San Francisco, and daughter of Jewish immigrants, was a folk singer and political activist in the 1960’s and 1970’s,where her music put a great deal of emphasis on her text, rather than the formality of the music.

The book The Cellar, is about a young girl named Summer fighting and struggling to survive.

The Cellar Book Analysis Imagine your friend leaving to go to a party and suddenly disappearing for several months with no sign of where she went. This was a situation that Lewis, a character in the story and Summer, the girl who disappeared. For seven months, Summer was stuck in a cellar with three other girls who had disappeared, with no chance of escaping. The book The Cellar by Natasha Preston, published in 2014 is a new action packed, fiction book. The Cellar is a book filled with mystery and energy.

26 Kisses Essay There are two sides to every story, each character can view the story differently from the other. In the book, "26 Kisses" by Anna Michels, two characters, Killian and Veda, both see the events throughout the book in very different ways. To begin, Killian, a boy who works a summer job with Veda, is seen in parts of the book as a jealous but likeable guy that has much in common with Veda. As Veda progresses through her list of guys to kiss over the summer while she also has gone on a date with Killian, Killian becomes upset at the thought of Veda's kissing challenge.

Sometimes people hold on to our past which could cause us to lose understanding of others and in the world. For an example, the poem “To a dark Girl” by Gwendolyn Bennett is about how young black girls carry pain on the shoulders and they should let it go. This essay is about how the author’s use of tone , word choice , and imagery helps the following theme emerge in “To a Dark Girl”: that black girls should never hold on to their past.

The book Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout is based around the life of a young female named Katy who just moved to a small desolate town near West Virginia. The story begins with Katy's mom encouraging her to speak to the twins living next door. Daemon has a mysterious and arrogant vibe to him, and Dee (his sister) instantly hits it off with the protagonist. A friendship was forged on many levels between the three characters. For example, Daemon is very against Dee and Katy being friends due to their differences, he states "You don't need to be friends with someone...someone like her." although there is a void between Daemon and Katy the chemistry between them is undeniable even though their personalities seem to be incompatible. Strange

“They killed my son in cold blood,” lamented Eloise Armstead. Her husband, Add Armstead, was traveling to work with a companion on Saturday evening in the early 1970s. Thomas Shea and Walter Scott, responding to a call about a cabby that was robbed earlier that day, used this opportunity to rid the world of the wicked and gain a victory for the righteous. Walking along New York Blvd. in South Jamaica, Queens, Shea and his partner pulled alongside the two. Armstead says, as he recalls the incident, “We were walking, not saying anything to each other, and this car pulls up, and this white fella opens the door with a gun.” To him and his companion it looked like they were going to be robbed, so they ran. As the gunshots