Melody Song, Sara Coleman, and Jack McCarthy all lived together in a rundown apartment. Despite all three of them working, they still struggled to pay the bills. This is why Melody tried to get as many hours at work as possible. Sometimes, she would work for up to 60 hours a week! The problem with Melody working so many hours is that it has taken time away from her girlfriend, Sara. One day, Melody called Sara from work. "Hello?" Sara said over the phone. "Hey baby", Melody said. "Listen, I have to work late tonight." "Again?! We were suppose to catch a movie tonight!" "I'm sorry, I'll make it up to you. I promise." "You said that yesterday and the day before that and the day before that! Anyway, I'll you get back to work." Sara hung up the phone. "Sara!" Melody yelled. "Damn it!" Out of …show more content…
"In most cases, yes", Merton said. "When a genie commits a crime, he or she is imprisoned into an everyday object. Whoever finds the object becomes the genie's master. The genie has to grant their master a certain number of wishes, depending on the crime. In my case, I have to grant Melody unlimited wishes for a year." "So, what happens a year from now?" Sara asked. "Then I can do whatever I want", Merton said. "Mel, do you know what this means?" Jack asked. "You could wish for all of us to live in a mansion!" "I don't know" Melody said. "Why not?" Sara asked. "We deserve better than to live in this dump, and we have the opportunity to do so." "How much is the rent?" Merton asked. "About $1,300 a month", Jack said. "Plus $250 for utilities. Basically, the economy is crap." "Don't wishes usually go awry?" Melody asked. "Sometimes", Merton said. "That's why you need to be careful what you wish for", "Okay, how's this for a wish? I wish that Sara, Jack, and I had a million dollars into our bank accounts." "I'm not allowed to do that", Merton said. "Why not?" "It's a rule that was written by the Genie High
Most wishes will fall into the categories of “I wish to have…,” “I wish to be…,” “I wish go…,” and “I wish to meet…,” however, some may fall into the “I wish to give…” category. The people who work with Make-A-Wish believe that “a wish experience can be a game-changer,” meaning that a wish can help the kids keep fighting. Make-A-Wish makes the wishes of kids with life-threatening diseases come true.
The 1950s was a chaotic time for the United States. China had just fallen to communist forces, Russia was in an arms race, and national security was at an all-time high. Accusations were flying against anyone thought to be a security risk, and throughout it all, Joseph McCarthy trumped the blame card more than anyone else. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller alludes to this period of time by using Abigail Williams to represent Joseph McCarthy and by using the General Court of Salem to represent the Division of Security.
Cormac McCarthy has an unmistakable prose style. What do you see as the most distinctive features of that style? How is the writing in The Road in some way more like poetry than a narrative prose?
ONE: Richard Rovere, in his book, Senator Joe McCarthy, explains why he considers the senator a “demagogue.” Please discuss his reasons for saying this, and (b) some of the methods that, according to Rovere, are often used by demagogues.
"What would you say if I told you I would run off and buy that house me and Lennie were always dreaming of?"
“I knew you were trouble the first day I saw you walk into my office boy,” he chuckled repeating his earlier statement. “Oh, that’s right, it was today.”
Your affiants followed KEHLER out of the Gold Star plaza and observed a faulty brake light which did not illuminate. KEHLER turned left on State Route 924 North. He then signaled right indicating to move into the driving lane and when doing so his passenger side turn signal was not illuminating. Captain O'Neill activated the emergency lights, conducting a vehicle stop on the vehicle on State Route 924 in the area of Furnace
“I’ll clear my off time with work. It’s a good time because I have a couple of weeks before the end of the month billing.”
“Me! Hah! Well at least I won’t be stuck in this fucking town for the rest of my life! At least I have a plan, at least I won’t turn up like our parents! Amy you’re so-”
- Hazel tells her mother to call the wish granting genies and tell them to cancel the trip since she cannot go
In Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and Michael Punke’s The Revenant, violence and death become the constants of two characters amongst the rigid, natural landscape of the United States of America in the 1800s. In both of these novels, the natural order of the United States is harshly stripped away by settlers trying to dominate the land that thrived perfectly well without their presence. Those who are unnatural to the land seek to punish those who are natural to it. In this environment, violence brings “order” where there wasn’t before. To maim or to paralyze, is to remove the innate violence that is needed to survive in this lawless land. In this brutal developing of a western society, death becomes the one of the few respected acts. Death is something that is cultureless; something that everyone understands on some level.
“I cannot give you much, Lucy, but I can help you in any way I can. I promise you that I will, and I do not seek anything in return. Just your happiness.”
McCarthy’s novel and Hillcoat’s film adaptation of The Road portray a father and son’s arduous journey for survival, through key scenes, themes and flashbacks.
"It's a wish that has been handed down from other generations. When we said, 'I wish you enough,' we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with enough good things to sustain them." Turning toward me, he shared the following as if he were reciting it from memory.
Her wish for the elderly would be that relatives, and children of the elderly or whoever could care a little more, “but you can’t make people care about their parents I