Forced A Horrific Decision

Brian Doyle passage, “Leap”, shows humans have a strong union, demonstrating how we all came together during a tragic time in the country during 9/11. People should have a positive aspect in times like these that can be relied on and built off. From the beginning the author was explaining to us people kept on leaping from the Twin Towers while the attacked occurred and there were several witnesses that saw this devastating incident. Witnesses that were standing by just kept on seeing people jumping out with someone else while holding hands. Doyle used, metaphor, imagery, symbol, simile, pathos, and allusion throughout the passage.

In conclusion, the story of “ An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” relates better to perception and consciousness than the film version of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Bierce takes the reader from reality to one man’s perception of reality and plays each idea off the other. Meanwhile, Enrico takes the audience through the actions of this man’s reality. Both the short story and film show their views on the stage of the dying man through their own unique

For this essay, I am going to be discussing the short story “Swimming” found on the New Yorker, and written by T. Cooper. I have chosen this story for many reasons, and among those reasons is the personal sadness I felt when I first read the story, almost as if the universe was placing a certain theme in my life, that only the main character could possibly understand. I am talking about running, the god given instinct felt by all men, inherent in the nature of fear, and brought out in all who feel sadness in its full intensity. Though in my short life I can not compare the sadness I have felt with that of losing a child at my own hand, but if I had been placed in that situation, if fate had tempted my soul with such a sequence of events, I would like to think I could find the strength to endure and the courage to not abandon all I had previously known. Yet I am able to reconcile the themes of grief, the mode of recovery, and the longing to escape such a terrible tale. I think in this piece, as I will discuss in later parts, the author was able to put into words a transformation we rarely get to observe in closeness, the kind of transformation that turns a kind man into a “just man” the kind of death that turns this world from a beautiful and happy place into a world that is closing in on our main character, that is forcing him to surface temporarily and gasp for air, much like he does when he finds peace in the water, wading breath after air, after sea. I firmly believe that

“Connecticut, pine trees in back” by Alex DuBois is a personal narrative that goes through his hardships. He goes deep within his memories and pulls the readers attention by using a special choice of words, these words being explicit as you would not normally see in other writings. This is why his personal narrative is so special. In my creative writing, I rewrote his piece and put it in my own memories. I chose to write in this genre like DuBois to express my life like he did. He was very clear and precise on his memories of his life and I tried to act the same. Here is the analytical statement of “the escape” by Trevor Folts.

Smoke and flames were spewing out of gaping holes bored by American Airlines’ Boeing 767 that crashed between the 93 and 99 floors on the North face of the 110- story building. Each of the North Tower floors were roughly an acre. The top 20 floors engulfed in flames, he was staring at a 20- acre fire raging 90 stories above. He thought in his head that, This is the most unbelievable sight I’ve ever seen. Meldrum parked the fire truck on the West Street in front of the

The World Trade Center (WTC) held fairly high regard throughout New York as a structurally sound building, but the authors of 102 Minutes beg to differ on this opinion. They use various diagrams and statistics of the incredible impact and destruction the planes caused to the building, arguments against the poor architectural design and support of the towers, and periodic timestamps to make claims and factual statements about the events that occurred. The timestamps serve as a means of the authors building suspense in their audience, deepening uncertainty in the audience which intends to move them to read further and discover the office laborers’ fates. Moments like “At 9:19… we’re trapped… there’s smoke coming in. I don’t know what’s happening”(102 Minutes 186) and when Assistant Chief Callan“stood

Fighting for justice in “Revolutionary Suicide” presents two conflicts between suicide and salvation. In Oakland California around 1970, African Americans were being so mistreated that a movement was created to fight for black power which is known as Black Panther Party. African Americans were going up against the police and government of the racist south. This was a time Jim Crow laws had just ending along with segregation ,but that dosen’t mean that the whites of the south still didn’t have the same intentions they used to have about blacks. Which lead to many confrontations that resulted in death or injury causing revolutionary suicide. In poem “Revolutionary Suicide,” The style of the poem is built of a cause and effect. First, the speaker addresses that having nothing causes him to have everything .“By having no family I inherited the family of humanity …By having surrendering my life to the revolution I found internal life.” Readers can get an impression that the speaker would make a great leader. Especially when he tells the audience that he is willing to sacrifice himself in order to gain revolution. The speaker is confronting the opposition letting them know he is not afraid of death nor them. He also writes this in the poem

The speaker’s tendency to overthink his choices and his inability to move on after a dissatisfactory outcome in “Prelude to Jumping in the River” by Katia Grubisic can be likened to the anxieties we often feel before and after making important decisions in our own lives. The missed opportunities that come as a by-product of the choices we make often cause us to overthink them, just as the speaker stood “at the edge of the bank [for] centuries” (9-10) unable to come to a coherent conclusion about whether or not to make the jump. It is crucial to weigh the costs and benefits while making an important decision. Nevertheless, spending too much time doing so will result in the opportunity passing you by. This is reflected in the regretful tone of

"If it's satire, it has to bite somebody, has to have teeth in it, otherwise it's useless," says T.C. Boyle, a reputable American writer, on his use of blunt sarcasm in his writing. Satire is the use of irony or exaggeration to make a point. The use of satire in a play, novel, or film is a somewhat subtle way to expose and criticize people’s views. Throughout T.C. Boyle’s Tortilla Curtain, satire is used for this purpose strongly and effectively. He uses it to attack the portentousness displayed by the Americans Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher towards illegal immigrants, most notably including Candido and America Rincon.

The poem Suicide Note, written by Janice Mirikitani (1987), talks about a young lady, who has studied in an Asian-American female college. The lady, unfortunately, committed suicide by jumping through her dormitory’s window. She left behind a note, citing reasons that led to her actions. After a critical analysis of the note, her parents were held responsible for her actions; they were pressurizing her to perform better in her exams. The poem, thus, describes the real feelings and the emotions of this young lady, who believes that committing suicide is the only option left to please her parents and to escape the enormous pressure placed on her. The persona uses voice in the poem to bring our attention to the sufferings she was going through, and that led to the devastating event. Voice in poetry is the strong words of a line, stanza or a page that creates a relationship between the audience and the persona. Voice can, therefore, be categorized as imagery, patterns of sounds created, rhythm, tone, and diction (Gahern 166). The following is a description of how the voice in Mirikitani’s suicide note helps the reader understand the persona’s reasoning.

John James Audubon and Annie Dillard, both established writers, expertly describe their experiences observing a flock of birds. Their evaluations go in depth in the form of both a physical description of events and well as the emotions exposed from those events. Although both of the authors use rhetorical strategies to enhance their writing, they convey their message making different stylistic choices.

He begins with a mistake, a horrible mistake, a mistake that he appears to revel in. Killing a young innocent girl with a life left unlived, killing a mother with an unborn child who would have been full of joy and life, a father, daughter, son, even killing a loved one. Walking through the pews of what they believe to be a sacred, safe place, looking at their frightened faces, not knowing that he will soon be the frightened one. An 18 month old baby never to learn how to walk, never to learn how to talk, never to make it to the age of three. A 14- year old girl, daughter of a pastor, will never grow up to be an adult, will never find out who she really is, or where her path in life would have taken her. Innocent children who died in a place

Therefore we have two poems which are deliberately changing their structure from the norm in order to create effect. However, these effects have totally different intentions, which lead to the end of the similarities and the first of many differences between the two poems.

In this literary analysis it is essential to compare and contrast Cathy Song’s poem “Heaven” and Bryan Thao Worra’s poem “Pen/Sword” to give the reader a better understanding of what the authors’ are conveying to their readers. The similarities in the style, word choice, and theme will be compared, along with the differences of style, word choice, and theme reflected throughout each poem. Furthermore, I will determine the meaning behind the broken up and/or the way the lines of each poem while describing why the lines are strategically placed throughout the pieces. This will allow me to identify the meaning that the authors’ are explaining to the reader. Each poet specifically writes to give the reader(s) a picture of what they are feeling and defining their emotion through their writing.

and emotional turmoil of the people on the ground. They see people jumping from the building to