Gray Clouded Day During The Civil War

1. He warned him of a bad ending and his life's in danger. It relates to the story that he is really going to die

The tribe has come to the conclusion that it is best for the survival of the group to leave the sick and elderly behind. The man has flashbacks of his life as he awaits death. His flashbacks illustrate people growing old and reaching death. In the end, the man hears wolves coming for him and accepts the law of life: death.

In both films, this short story focuses on one mans preoccupation with an older man for whom he cares. It is presented in the first person as a narrative from the perspective of the man who has

mind and severed him from the reality of the real life he was living with his family in the small

Another part of this is at the end of the story when he does not believe in him anymore and his is the quote that i have got for when his dad has passed away that it says that ‘ “there were no more prayers at his grave no candles that were lit to his memory his last word was my name” (wiesel 106) as this continues on he does not believe in him anymore.

Suddenly, he raises his head. There is an old man walks with an umbrella came to a bench and sits behind him. They are sitting quietly together, watching people on the street in front of them until all stores are closed and nobody walking on the street. The old man breaks the silence, he says, I saw you in the coffee shop across the street, for a long time. You sat here and saw people. You look very confused. I think maybe you can tell me your problem and I help you to solve it. Jackson shakes his head slowly. “No, you cannot help me. But I want to be for individuals to talk.” The old man She gives him no answer, but nods with his head.

A man who seems to be a schizophrenic hitchhikes with three different drivers before he gets in an accident with his final driver. The narrator, also the main character, is given drugs from his previous drivers. This influences the way the narrator's views towards his surroundings and actions. Later on he gets in a sudden car accident with his final driver along with the driver’s wife, daughter, and baby boy. In Denis Johnson’s “Car Crash While Hitchhiking,” he illustrates his story in a explicit and forthright way to describe the narrator’s character and the narrator's reactions before, during and after the accident.

While in the room where the old man was is buried, the narrator is sitting on a chair, which is above where the old man’s body parts are. He engages in conversation with the policemen. In the narrators mind, he starts to feel guilty his anxiety rises. He believes he starts to hear the old

This is represented through several main characters in the story such as: the lion, who represents the ignorant government; the bear and the giraffe, the media failing to report these stories; and the rodents, or the victims. With these allegorical figures embedded, the story starts out simple with the introduction of the animal kingdom with the bigger animals as the rulers. The kingdom represents the world and the animals represent the governments of wealthy nations in charge of taking care of poorer nations. Then, the rodents are introduced; their conditions being a “dump” which is exactly where the children of the poorer nations are suffering through. And because of these conditions, the children are catching nasty diseases that would’ve been otherwise preventable had the conditions been more safer. Next, the contract between God and the lion is made. This part mainly represents the many world meetings leaders have between them and the promises they make every year on how they would alleviate world hunger. And just like the reality, the promise made between them is soon forgotten and the world’s attention turn to newer, more eye-catching stuff that are almost worthless compared to the “real” problem. However, one knows that the all the hungers in the world keeps continuing and ignoring the situation for too long would have not millions, but billions of deaths that might’ve been preventable if one hadn’t ignored it for so long. This is represented by the massive death of the rodents shown to the lion. Finally, the last part of the story, where the lion grieves and suffers through a nasty thunderstorm, represents all the potential geniuses, minds, and workers lost through this tragedy. Similar to the imagery of a light-bulb going off when the mind shuts down, the lightning strikes represents the lost of a bright, strong light that was once a

When the narrator arrives late on the eighth night, though, the old man wakes up and cries out. The narrator remains still, stalking the old man as he sits awake and frightened. The narrator understands how frightened the old man is, having also experienced the lonely terrors of the night. Soon, the narrator hears a dull pounding that he interprets as the old man’s terrified heartbeat. Worried that a neighbor might hear the loud thumping, he attacks and kills the old man.

However, as the story unfolds the narrator’s lack of mental prowess becomes plausible. This is how the themes of the tale become known. The unnamed narrator thinks he is the protagonist even though he brutally kills the old man. As the narrator’s psychosis spirals out of control the reader begins to see the reasons for his psychosis. The narrator kill the man, not for his eye, but rather what he sees in the eye.

After the death of the old man, the reader is introduced to a new side of the narrator when his human-like emotions are shown. For example, when the narrator is questioned by the officers, at first he is calm and collected. He then becomes more anxious once they begin to stay awhile at the crime scene where the narrator placed chairs out of his assurance that he would not be caught in his act of madness. On page 8 of the short story, he states, “Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer!

Without overwhelming emotion, the boy asked what time does the man “think [he is] going to die” (334).

implores him to stay because she knows he is fated to die, but because he could not sit idle by he knew

Lastly, The stranger has became that he didn’t see the true meaning of human life just like in the last words of the novel he was giving up on life “