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Unsure of his future, Richie Perry goes to Vietnam at seventeen years old to fight in the U.S. Army. His medical profile for his knee is not put in yet, so Perry is forced to go out on the battlefield with his company alongside friends that he has made like Peewee. He experiences terrifying moments where he has fortunately escaped from, but encountered deaths of fellow squad members and witnessed extreme levels of destruction and brutality. Perry ponders on going back to “The World” due to these horrific and life-threatening events but knows he won’t be able to take care of his brother and mother since he doesn’t have a good education. After getting injured badly in a battle, he returns from the

Stand By Me is a movie based on a novel by Stephen King. It tells the story of four preteens, who during a boring summer day, embark on a journey to find the body of a dead twelve year old, who has been missing by news accounts, but known to them, to be lying in the woods near a river bank. The story is told as an historical narrative about the lives and relationships of the four main characters in this movie, Gordy, Chris, Teddy, and Vern. In this essay, I will discuss how communication, and self-concept, affects the characters, and their interactions.

After Paul’s wife suicide, his life dramatically changes and he finds himself lost in a foreign, yet known, city. The despair drives Paul to find a shelter to comfort himself, far away from everything that could remind him of Rose, his now-deceased wife.

June 19, 1975, began a killing spree in Colorado Springs when a soldier from Ft.Carson and his friend who worked on base shot a cook in the head. He only had fifty cents. The next week they stabbed a Fort Carson soldier with a bayonet. On July 1, 1975, they killed Kelsey Grammer’s sister. After raping her, they stabbed her throat and left her out in a trailer park to die. That night they went to Fort Carson and called a cab from a club. That pick up would be Dad’s last. Knowing he was in trouble, Dad called dispatch to ask the distance and the fare to Butts Field, a strange request for a seasoned cabbie on such a small military base. All the fares were thirty five cents except the one to their airport. One of the guys grabbed my dad and slashed his throat from ear to ear, leaving him for dead on the side of the road. They drove the cab through the housing area, across one of its inhabitants front lawns. He had driven a taxi in New York and had his money taken before, but never harmed. Mom laughed hysterically when she told me that even with witnesses, their attorney argued it was too dark to adequately identify them.The local police investigated Karen’s murder, but my dad’s killing had taken place on a military base, putting the federal agents in charge. The murderers were given the death sentence for Karen and the other murders, so the feds decided not to investigate my dad’s case.

After taking a canoe ride on an icy lake, 21-year-old McQuillen had vanished in southern Wisconsin. He slipped through their fingers like water, and it happened so suddenly. There is no mistaking, however, that McQuillen was dearly loved. The grief had been only multiplied when they learned that not just McQuillen but all four of the young men involved had been killed in the accident.

Through its contrasting reality and dreamlike scenes, Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” uses details from a true American horror story to convey a message about society, youth and a loss of innocence. Arizona native Charles Schmid murdered Alleen Rowe on May 31, 1964. Schmid was considered a serial killer and was subsequently arrested and convicted of the heinous crimes that he was accused of. The profile of Schmid as a short man who wore makeup, wigs and altered boots to make

Tim O' Brien, a soldier affected by the Vietnam War, reflects on his experiences when his daughter asks herself if he has ever taken a life. When she is nine years old, nearly 20 years after the Vietnam War is over, Kathleen asks her a question. Has he ever killed someone, she wants to know. O’Brien decides to tell her that he hasn’t. It felt like the “right thing to do”; he thinks when she is a grown-up she will understand better. Maybe then O’Brien will tell her about the slim young man who still obsesses him, whom he still thinks about when reading the newspaper.

Moreover in “Away”, Gow explores how personal connections of individuals’ and their self-discovery can influence and challenge each other’s perspective of themselves and the world. This is shown through the relationship of Tom and Coral as Tom’s acknowledgement of his impending death enables healing for Coral who is emotionally disconnected from reality due to her son’s premature death. The play ‘Stranger on The Shore’ acts as an analogy of the healing of the soul where Coral is afraid to walk; metaphorically she is unable to accept her son’s death and advance further, however, Tom helps her to return to the real world. This is apparent in the stage direction: “he lifts her and holds her as she takes a step forward, then another, then another”. The stage direction makes it apparent to the audience how Tom is leading Coral towards her self-discovery by familiarising her to the nature of mortality, which

Paul watched his entire high school class die in war. When Albert got shot he sweared “If they take off my leg, I'll put an end to it” to Paul (Remarque,242). Paul try's his hardest to keep them together, but in the end Paul get sent off to the front knowing once he leaves Albert will end his own life. When Paul is back at the front his father figure Kat gets shot. He carries Kat to the matic and thinks “Kat is saved” (Remarque,290). But “it'll never be over, until” he “tell me it's over” (Fiasco). Paul is told by a matic “he is dead”, he tried to prove he was alive, but to Paul's dismay he found his last friend was dead (Remarque,290). Paul has lost everyone he has ever loved and then lost all hope and strength to live on. Out of physical wounds and mental wounds the loss of a loved one and loss of hope is the worst part of

The story begins with Peyton being held hostage by soldiers of the Union troops. They were preparing to hang him off of the Owl Creek Bridge. They inched him closer and closer to the edge of the bridge with the noose around his neck. His heart was pounding louder and faster each minute. His senses had enhanced so much that he could hear a small pocketwatch that was in an officers pocket. The closer he got to the edge of the bridge, the louder the ticking of the clock. Peyton tried his hardest to only think about his family in his final moments.

This particular film followed the life of Carroll Pickett, a former presbyterian minister in Huntsville Texas. Once he retired from the church, Pickett would become a prison chaplain for 15 years where he would witness 95 executions. After each execution Pickett made a tape on each inmate he personally walked to the death chamber. Within the film, he said “I knew I had to talk to someone, and the only thing in my house at the time was a tape recorder.”

Paul finally escaped the hostile world he lived in, but his money-bought romance did not last long. When he discovers that his theft has been made known in the new papers, and all the stolen money has ran out, he knew he had to go back to his real life. After a week of having the glamorized life he was longing for, Paul refused to go back to face the reality that he left behind in Pittsburgh. Paul knew he couldn’t go on forever in the City with no money in his pockets so he decided to give up on his own life. While going to get on his train that would bring him back to reality, Paul stepped out in front of it and killed himself.

After Andy is stabbed he try's to call for help but know one here's him. Then a bunch of people walked by him but no one stops to help. Evan Hunter uses mood and tone in his story “On the Sidewalk Bleeding” to convey the theme of murder can sometimes be prevented by strangers

She grieves for her beloved brother, Clifford, who was framed and imprisoned. She had a boarder

Stand by Me explores the groups’ transition from “care-free” children to young adults. As the group of four journeys to find the dead body, they also make a personal journey in their individual identity. They break away from their parents care by saying that they are camping out in one of the boys’ backyard, while also breaking away from their parents support and discovering who they are as individuals. Dacey states that “peer influence serves important social and psychological functions. When adolescents do not have the chance to be part of a peer group, they miss out on important learning experiences” (2008: 328). With their parents removed, the boys rely on the friendship they have with one-another