Charles Blevins: A Short Story

“I am going to get the kids meal though because I am not that hungry. I won’t eat it if we take it go.”

The general idea at the time was that the human existence was cyclical; their existence would be repeated eternally. Everything that happened in life was merely a series of changes. Death, being one of these changes was just leading to another existence, “death was a transitional state that led to a better world” (Johnston, 471). After death, the weighing of the heart would take place. This painting was important because it shows the process in which the Egyptians determine whether or not a person is worthy of moving on to the afterlife. Before this procedure, the person being adjudicated must swear to each of the deities seen overhead that they had not sinned in their lifetime. As seen in The Last Judgment of Hunefer, Anubis weighs the heart against the feather of Maat while Thoth records the verdict. If the heart and the feather are of equal weight, the person under judgment is deemed justified of voice, or in other words that they told the truth when they promised they hadn’t sinned. Depending on the result of the weighing of the heart, people were separated into two groups in the netherworld; the blessed who would go on to the afterlife, and the sinners who would not. The sinners would be condemned to punishments such as decapitation or burning. This was called a second death, or in other words total extinction. A being that had to go through this would not move on to the next existence. For those that did move on, “the afterlife contained an agricultural

“He had a bad chi or personal god, and evil fortune followed him to the grave , or rather to his death for he had no grave.”

“Many, many a poor soul hath given its confidence to me, not only on the death-bed, but while strong in life, and fair in reputation. And ever, after such an outpouring, O, what a relief have I witnessed in those sinful brethren! even as in one who at last draws free air, after long stifling with his own polluted breath. How can it be otherwise? Why should a wretched man, guilty, we will say, of murder, prefer to keep the dead corpse buried in his own heart, rather than fling it forth at once, and let the universe take care of it!”

While Phaedrus, the Bhagavad Gita, Epicurus’ Letters to Menoeceus, and the story of “The Priest Walchelin and the Hellequin’s Hunt” all offer slightly different theories on what happens after death, they all agree that the death of the body is inevitable. However, the texts fail to give explicit instruction on how mortals should best live their life so as to be best situated for existence after death. Identifying how the texts instruct people to live life in a way that’s meaningful despite its temporary nature will help identify methods for benefitting humanity and thus retroactively reveal our shortcomings. According to these texts, the only way to live a meaningful life is to focus on the betterment of the soul. Because the soul will

she takes pleasure in physiological control. She also thinks that the only thing that separates her

The Monomyth firstly begins with the departure, which states when the hero receives his call to adventure. John‘s call to adventure occurs at the passing of his beloved grandfather.John saw “his father at funeral”(4).However, to avoid his call to adventure he attempted to save the ranch by trying to convince Mr. Franklin the lawyer of the family not to sell it.Mr. Franklin replies negatively, “Son, not everybody thinks that life on a cattle ranch in west Texas is the second best thing to dyin and goin to heaven. . . . If it was a paying proposition that’d be one thing but it ain't” (McCarthy 17). That is what really pushes John to start his quest to a new life . Blevins, their companion, serves as John’s supernatural aid. Blevins serves as

“Don’t worry. The police will be here shortly.” The person said with a sadistic smirk.

"I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is, And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud..."

“you have thrust [...] a living soul in the grave but keep in this world one who belongs to the gods

In the short story “Charles,” foreshadowing convinces us that Laurie is Charles. For example, Laurie has to think before he tells his mom about the first day of kindergarten. Laurie’s mom states, “Laurie thought, ‘It was Charles’ … (11) Charles is the same person as Laurie. The author foreshadows text in there. Something that convinces us that Laurie is Charles, is when Laurie came home late and told his mom that Charles got detention and everyone stayed with Charles but when a child gets detention no one stays with that child. convinces us because Laurie tells his parents everything that Charles does and how does Laurie know everything about Charles. Laurie knew the bad word that Charles told the little girl to say because in the story it

“You sound like you were expecting to have me killed,” Chandler the Fair muttered in a sarcastic tone.

“Ouch!— you’re a mean one, why do I inspired you so much contempt? Have I disrespect you?” He asked as he kept his cold stare.

[Socrates], “ For if you put me to death, you will not easily find such another, really like something stuck on the state by the god,

A bright future… With Devlin Chastain's wedding to the Honorable Braden Tracey a mere two weeks away, she has everything to look forward to. That is until her scapegrace childhood nemesis, Lord Myles Farringdon, returns home to announce that he has joined Bonnie Prince Charlie’s cause. Devlin will do anything to get him to leave—especially after the blackguard kisses her—even if it means helping him escape as the dragoons arrive to arrest him. A dark lord… Myles Farringdon hadn’t intended on branding Devlin a traitor, but in her haste to be rid of him, she was seen by the king’s soldiers.