Angle of Repose - Summary

They ended up spending the night. At 4:30 AM, Josephine woke Linteau up informing him Jimmy still was not home. Linteau and Green then went back to their office. Later that morning, Linteau went to the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox to look for Jimmy.

The first motif of the story is Gravestones. Gravestones symbolize the literal and metaphorical silence in the story. Gravestones represent the literal silence as “for years that quiet company had mocked his restlessness,” and that “his desire for change and freedom... But now all desire for change had vanished,

Mark’s psychological problems become more and more clear to the reader throughout the book. Eventually Susan McConnell can’t take the guilt feelings and decides to tell the whole story to the cops, but Mark is not okay with this and decides to tie up Susan and burn down the house with Susan and Mark inside. This part of the book is most likely the climax of the book; at this point, the reader finally is certain that Mark has some psychological problems. After this suspenseful scene the next chapter immediately starts back at the house of Susan, she is still alive and does not want to talk about what happened. Her mother tries to convince her to speak up and tell what happened, her mom eventually reads her something about a certain personality:

If her abusive step-father, Ritchie were to find out he would be furious. However, Eleanor develops a relationship with Park. It first bloomed on the bus and he would share his music and comics with her. One day, Park shows up to give Eleanor a comic, but Ritchie becomes angry. She hides her relationship and whenever she goes to Park’s house, she tells her mom she’s going to her friend Tina’s house. Ritchie finds out while Eleanor is out with Park. She decides to run away to her uncle’s house and does it with the help of

The deaths of his parents, sister and brother, all taken by tuberculosis, lead to Edgar Allan Poe’s obsession around the subject of death. This obsession enterprises historically ingenious writings, that did not just scare the reading population by inducing a death at the climax or tying in a death to create a gasp worthy ending. Poe’s historic greatness was his ability to use death as a catalyst, not an end. His stories, specifically short stories, strengthened the idea that the end of a life, has so much more meaning, than just the end. This precision was formed by how Poe ingeniously used the knowledge to not only comprise stories involving the subject of death, but used the stories to create deep ideas of the phantom of fatality. The short stories “The Black Cat,” “The Facts in the Case of M.Valdemar,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” all feature the inventive writing skills of Poe, that have enthralled populations since their publications.

One of the many reasons Poe is still famous today is his unusual topic choices for his writing. He chose to write about such morbid subjects that usually we would not prefer to write about. One of his writings,”The Tell-Tale Heart,” describes a murder told from the killer’s point of view. Since it’s the murderer’s point of view, the reader

“The Masque of the Red death”, “The House of the Fall of Usher”, “The Cask of Amontillado” and “Murders in the Rue Morgue” are all similar. All these stories have dark setting, dark moods, and insane characters. These short stories and poems also have false sense of securities, death, and irony of all types. Edgar Allan Poe was an American author who was born 1809. His mother died when he was only two years old, and he was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Allan. He grew up in a great surrounding. Poe went to school in England and later returned to America to continue his studies. He went to college at 17, but ended up dropping out and went to the army. After Ms. Allan died, Mr. Allan signed Poe’s application to West Point, but Poe did not stay long

In her essay “Nine Days of Ruth,” Angela Morales eloquently yet humorously narrates the final nine days of her grandmother’s life. Initially, Morales reminisces about the day her grandmother Ruth passed away projecting a gothic, murky and vacant atmosphere. However, Morales shifts from a leaden tone to a more gratifying voice revealing her grandmother’s life trajectory: betrayal, death, and struggles. The author ends with a eulogy expressing to her grandmother that while other will bury with a different image or perspective in mind, she will bury her as a luminary. Make-believe, fantasy, and imagination play an important role in the essay because it conveys the beauty of death.

In Emily Dickinson’s “Slant Of Light,” Dickinson looks upon the world from the standpoint of death. In the first lines of the poem, the sounds of the cathedral combine with a saddening feeling of winter afternoons. Going into the second verse, this image is further developed with the phrase “Heavenly Hurt.” The use of this phrase depicts the hurt being felt may not be bad, but joyous which is referred to as the “Seal Despair” in the third stanza. This can be interpreted as the seal awaiting a person between the stages of life and death when read within the context of the third stanza. The third stanza reads “None may teach it- Any-/ ‘Tis the Seal Despair/ An imperial affliction/ Sent us of the Air-.” This stanza represents being promised an afterlife when the time comes. The seal is a promise of some sort that comes from a place on high. The poem also references the “Slant of Light” as “it” in the poem. The use of “it” in the poem

She and her brothers were cared for by her grandparents. Her relationship with her father started falling apart as a result from his drinking habits. They worsened after his wife passed away. Susan had to take on a job and her younger brother because her father left them.

Milkman goes back to Susan’s house and he asked about jake and she told Milkman that Jake and Sing got married and may have went to Boston together. Milkman asked her why asked her why did she tell him something different and she said it was because Grace was there. Susan told Milkman that jake was one of the flying African children. Then Milkman asked about Heddy and he was Susan’s grandma, she took care of Jake after his father went missing.

While on the way to California the Joads stumble upon the Wilson’s, a couple from Kansas with a broken car. The Joads fix the Wilson’s car and they travel together thinking that they would work better together. When the two families reach California they find themselves splitting apart, with Granma and Granpa dead, the Wilsons staying behind, and Noah going his own way ‘“I’m sad, but I can’t he’p it. I got to go’” (209).

They had five kids all five were grown up. Jennie says “we had five kids but they all died.” The five kids all died before their parents. They lived in a log cabin all by themselves but they had a understanding they knew what the other one needed. The house was hand made as well as the garage. They were good parents to their kids and good neighbors and good

“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1839, can be compared to Poe’s later work “The Tell-Tale Heart”, published in 1843. In both gothic stories, there are physical deformities, mental illness, and despicable crimes. In “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Roderick Usher, the main character, and one of the last of the Usher blood line, had a twin sister, Madeline, who suffered from a mysterious illness. After believing she had died, Roderick learned that was not the case --Madeline was still alive-- yet he buried her anyway. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, an unnamed narrator lived with an old man, whom he was plotting to murder because he wanted to help rid the world of the old man’s evil eye. In both Poe’s stories death is a very prominent theme (Davis).

Many of Robert Frost’s poems and short stories are a reflection of his personal life and events. Frost’s short story “Home Burial” emulates his experience living on a farm and the death of two of his sons. Frost gives an intimate view into the life and mind of a married couples’ struggle with grief and the strain it causes to their marriage. The characters Frost describes are synonymous, physically and emotionally, to his own life events.