Essay On The Devils

Truc Vy Ho Coach Bevins American Literature Honors 9 December 2016 Alternative Essay on The Devil and Tom Walker In the short story of The Devil and Tom Walker written by Washington Irving, religion played some parts throughout the story but didn’t have a very huge impact on the protagonist, Tom himself. Tom’s character only turned to religion near the end of the story to ask for help from God in reverse for what he has done to the innocent people of Boston.

However, on one day filled of discord at the workplace, Tom blew a fuse while arguing with customers. Tom yelled blatant and angrily, “May the devil take me if I’ve made even a penny of you people!” Suddenly, there were 3 heartbreaking knocks on the door and a black silhouette of man slowly walks in. Tom, in a panic, reaches for his Bible that is within his desk but freezes in place as the devil had already grabbed his shoulder. He turned around to see the devil in front of him, curved black horns were emerged from his head and his eyes were fiery. “Today is your resignation day, Tom” the devil said with a deep and ominous voice. He forced Tom out of the shop and into his black Rolls Royce with an all red interior. Tom’s belongings all turned to soot after the devil’s car drove out of sight. Tom was never to be heard of

The Devil and Daniel Webster Movie In the movie and the short story, "The Devil and Daniel Webster", written by Stephen Vincent Benet, there is illustrated the battle between the forces of good and evil. Although the story allows the reader to mentally picture the scenes and the movie does the depicting for the viewer, there are several similarities in each script. Some of these similarities are the way the characters are depicted and the final scene. There are several incongruous scenes between the short story and the way the movie unfolds. The differences are the amount of time that is spent on the character development, also there are some scenes added into the movie such as the harvest dance and the reminder of the

Andy Stanley once said, “Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a heart issue,” (Brainyquote). Washington Irving was an american short story writer who wrote many stories. In “The Devil and Tom Walker” Irving tells about a poor man named Tom Walker who is offered the greatest riches in the world if he sells his soul to the devil. Throughout the short story Tom Walker is stuck between a rock and a hard place. This results in him making hard decisions and dealing with the consequences. Irving does an amazing job of writing Tom’s emotions into a very believable character. All that Tom goes through opens up this new type of character that is not usually seen, and helps to show a different worldview. Having the different worldview portrayed even affected how I saw the story and now how I see my life. Irving’s bluntness to how greed can cause people to do terrible things and not think twice about it really helped to change the way I viewed the world. Knowing that greed drives people to crazy lengths was never really something I believed, but seeing it in such a realistic manner really brought to light the truth of that idea.

“The Devil and Tom Walker” and the “The Devil and Daniel Webster” have many differences along with several similarities. A few examples would be the different depiction of the Devil and the similarities of the role of religion. Some points may be larger than others, but one can see the relationship between both of the books in many different aspects of he was dressed in a “rude, half Indian garb, and had a red belt or sash swathed round his body, but his face was neither black nor copper color, but swarthy and dingy and begrimed with soot, as if he had been accustomed to toil among fires and forges.” (Irving, p. 2-3)

The Legend of the Jersey Devil is the most prominent legend that is told to citizens of New Jersey; it is mainly told to elementary school aged children. There are a variety of settings that the story has; however, the most common location that is used when retelling the tale is Leeds Point, NJ, which is in the Pine Barrens region of the state. This tale of the Jersey Devil recounts the existence of a supernatural creature that is said to have terrorized the New Jersey Pine Barrens and surrounding areas for the last 260 years. The teller of this version of the legend is a Caucasian female who is eighteen years of age and attends the University of Maryland. She comes from a middle class family and believes in the

Washington Irving is an American writer in the era of Romanticism who mainly focused on dark romantics. One of his popular works, The Devil and Tom Walker, written in 1824, is a short story based on the legend of Tom Walker , the main character, who exchanged their soul to the devil for Pirate Kidd’s treasure. Irving depicts the main character as a miserly and greedy person who cares for nothing more, but himself, the tone of the story is dark and gloomy, which portrays the daunting and bone-chilling imagery of the story.

The play "The Devil and Daniel Webster" was written by Stephen Vincent Benét in 1938. Stephen Vincent Benét was born in 1898 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His education came from Yale University and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. "The Devil and Daniel Webster" has a wide array of characters, each with a distinguished personality, yet an overall temperment that would be fitting of a New England community. The main character is Jabez Stone, a wealthy New England statesman whose possition was the state senator of New Hampshire. He had started out as a farmer though, but moved up in life and, when he was about thirty years of age, married the fair woman, Mary Stone- who was in her early twenties.

In Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, the author employ’s several different themes to suggest a tone of tragedy. Those include abandonment, tragic flaw, and the punishment exceeds the crime. The two main characters, Victor Frankenstein and his monster, are deemed as tragic heroes in Shelly’s novel. Webster defines a hero as “a person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life.” Frankenstein and his monster each have their own levels of tragedy. Shelly also supplies each character with flaws and imperfections. The punishments for creating the monster are greatly harsher than the crime of creating it.

In the novel Devil in a Blue Dress, the reader is introduced to the character of Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins who is an African American man in the late 1940’s. The novel, which was published 1990, was made into a film adaptation in 1995. The scene that made the difference between the novel and the film would be the scene of Easy’s house and how the neighborhood is portrayed. In terms of the historical aspect in both the novel and the film the historical interpretation could be questioned, but when put together it should be questioned.

Most citizens have never thought about the devil who captures the souls of the dead. In the short story, “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, by Stephen Vincent Benet is about a devil who captures the souls of the dead. Jabez Stones is a male who lived in Cross Corners, New Hampshire. Throughout Jabez Stone’s life, Jabez Stone was an unfortunate man. If Jabez planted corn, he would get borers; if Jabez planted potatoes on his land, he would get blight. Since Jabez Stone was an unfortunate man, Jabez had good enough land that did not prosper him. When Jabez Stone has enough of his unfortunate life, Jabez sold his soul to the devil. When the day got darker, Jabez Stone saw a stranger with bright white teeth. Jabez Stone, later on, encounters the

Evil, chaos, and mass destruction are words that surface the mind when Satan is mentioned. An expression of pure evil, Satan is often looked at as one to steer afar from. Yet, there is a time and place of everything and even the character of Satan serves a purpose. For there is no good without its opposing force evil.

Every year the streets fill with debris and body's of the people who turn 25 in this dark and hostile place known as "The Devils Den". This place is controlled by Death Corp. who has corrupted everyone's mind making them dangerous, paranoid, and crazy. There has been only a few people who have stood up to them to end this nonsense, but they have all failed. People can live past 25 if they have enough money, but nobody can make the amount it would cost in 25 years. You can never leave this place and if you do they will shoot you on the spot.

Well I can certainly see why this book was rated with five stars. I found Sagan’s book, “A demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark” one of the most eye-opening books that I have read in a very long time. I must admit that when this book was first presented to me I doubted just how great this would be. Here in my head I was thinking “Okay I don’t want to read a book about engineering I want to do engineering.” But the thought process went on and I must admit it was well worth reading this book. Although the book was slow to begin, as most books are, the pace picked up and took me right along for the ride.

Recently we watched “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” in English class. A few of the social issues addressed were: poverty, peace and women’s rights. The women were so fed up with how their president has been treating everyone. He got young children to run around with guns and hurt innocent people. Everyone was so below poverty that children were starving to death and there was nothing the parents could do because they themselves were starving. The women wanted so badly to have peace to stop the war, the fighting, and the poverty. The women just wanted a say in what was happening around them, to get a chance to stop it all.