Jacob's Short Story: Sudden Terror

As a child, Jacob Portman loved to listen to his grandfather Abraham’s stories about his life in wars, his performances in circuses, and his life in a supposedly peculiar children's home run by a wise old hawk who smoked a pipe. As he grew older, though, he began to doubt his grandfather’s stories, until one day he went to visit his grandfather, and instead found him dying in the woods near his home. His dying grandfather tells him to go to the old children’s home and to “‘Find the bird. In the loop. On the other side of the old man’s grave…’” (page 37). Jacob feels something watching him, and raises his flashlight to reveal a beast that seemed to have been translated directly from his childhood nightmares. After his grandfather’s death, no one seems to believe Jacob’s story and his parents decide to send him to a psychiatrist, named Dr. Golan. Dr. Golan believes it would be best for Jacob to do as his late grandfather said and to visit the old children's’ home. Jacob and his father decide to go to the island, but later Jacob finds the house long deserted, covered in vines and trees.

As he begins to understand the people in his life and their actions, Jack learns that one can rarely make sense of an event until that event has become a part of the past, to be

Then he went limp. He head fell to the side, his eyes half open. Then he was still… He killed it! My father killed it! Jonas said to himself, stunned at what he was realizing. He continued to stare at the screen numbly…” (Lowery 150).

The sun has risen and a young boy jumps out of bed with excitement, as he knows today he gets to go to his first professional baseball game. His father had bought him the tickets for his birthday months ago, and the boy had been counting down the days ever since. He put on his favorite ‘Cleveland Indians’ shirt, and ran downstairs to eat his yogurt and waffles for breakfast. As he ate, his mother saw him happily drawing Jacob’s Field, using his brown crayon to put the finishing touches on the base paths. The boy had a penchant attitude for baseball, as it was the first game his father ever taught him to play, and because of that, he would play whenever he could; with rocks and a stick, with his friends in the yard, and in his head when he

The rapture of the church, will be an event that will attract the attention of the people of Israel. That day will be the end of the Church age and the beginning of the Tribulation. God had put Jacob’s offspring in zealous when gave a place into His kingdom to the Gentile-Christian world, because Israel had rejected the Messiah, the own Son of God, (John 1.11-12; Romans 11.11). Thus, the time of Jacob’s trouble will be a day, according to the prophet Jeremiah, in which still God deals with the people of Israel, allowing them to feel pain, as the result of His punishment over them. God allowed the suffering over them because they sought to fulfill the law, going behind the works of the law, rather than by faith. Then, Israel will call out to

To try to deal with his memory of his parents and sister Bella, Jacob develops ways to repress his memories of losing his family during the Holocaust. His painful memories of losing his parents haunt him throughout his life. Memories that are so vivid, he has a difficult time letting go of his past most importantly his sister Bella whom he admires and loves unconditionally. His growing affection toward his sister and trying to recreate his memories leads him to create his view

Defending Jacob is a courtroom drama that also examines the family dynamic and how it can shift or crack under pressure. It’s ending stirred up a lot of mixed feelings. The trial concludes with a suicide note written by Patz confessing to the murder of Ben Rifkin, causing Jacob to be acquitted. After the trial, the Barbers decide to go on vacation, so that they can get the feeling back of being a “normal” family. They are having an ideal vacation, until Hope, Jacob’s “girlfriend” that he met on the holiday, goes missing. Her body washes up on the beach several weeks after her disappearance, and while many believe that there were signs that pointed to her windpipe being crushed, her death is ultimately ruled an accident because of the body deterioration in the water.

I looked up at the black sky. I hadn't intended to be out this late. The sun had set, and the empty road ahead had no streetlights. I knew I was in for a dark journey home. I had decided that by traveling through the forest would be the quickest way home. Minutes passed, yet it seemed like hours and days. The farther I traveled into the forest, the darker it seemed to get. I was very had to even take a breath due to the stifling air. The only sound familiar to me was the quickening beat of my own heart, which felt as though it was about to come through my chest. I began to whistled to take my mind off the eerie noises I was hearing. In this kind of darkness I was in, it was hard for me to believe that I could be

Jacob knew he needed to remove Anette from his life like his wisdom teeth because he knows it is dangerous to keep her in his life. Even though Jacob desires Anette he knows he should not so he tries to drown that desire by leaving her. However this does not work because Jacob becomes jealous when he finds out Anette has married another man, but he knew taking Anette from her husband was dangerous so he tried to drown his desire for her. “He thought of Anette and the ocean; he thought of them as the same frightening, enticing thing (Yanique 267). The thought of Anette frightened Jacob because he knew if he tried to take her from her husband their relationship would be dangerous and infectious. Jacob knew he must drown his desire for Anette so their relationship would not turn infectious like his wisdom teeth would, had he not had them removed. Jacob wanted his desire for Anette to go away, but he knew their connection was too strong. When Jacob screams "I am real!” he is asserting that even though he is trying to dull down his desire for Anette that desire is real and will not go away. Jacob wants the toothache to not be real and his desire for Anette, but he knows they both are real and he cannot drown his desire for Anette.

In Riggs’ utilization of the theme, it is readily apparent that the situation Jacob went through caused his subconscious psyche to become brittle in fear causing the perpetrator of the traumatic event to haunt both Jacob’s dreams as well as daydreams turning them into

Horror Stories are a very popular genre of books. Some can be exceptionally malicious and gruesome in nature while others are tamer and rely on suspense. People tend to read these stories for the adrenaline rush, to explore the unknown, and to conquer their own adversities. Studies show that us as humans like to experience fear. We read and view scary stories so we can experience artificial situations of “fight or flight.” These scenarios, whether real or imagined, get your body ready for action by giving you an extra dose of adrenaline. The thrill and suspense that hangs over us while reading, is a welcomed feeling. Scary stories also allow us to explore the unknown. In books there are boundless supernatural realms, where wonder and horror walk side by side- realms were people rise from the dead, and fight their own

As God molds and guides Jacob over the course of the Jacob Cycle, God interacts with Jacob in increasingly personal ways.

Listless is the air in an empty room, just swelling the curtain; the flowers in the jar shift.

God interacts with the world in a very unique way. He works by using people as conduits with whom He will ultimately achieve His goal of the Divine Plan. Throughout the Book of Genesis, many cycles of protagonists appear with whom God chooses to interact. In one such cycle, the Jacob Cycle, God influences, molds, and guides Jacob in increasingly personal ways. God influences Jacob throughout his childhood, his journey to Haran, his journey from Haran, and finally, with one last test of will. Throughout the guidance, God’s increasing trust in Jacob allows for an eventual transformation of the relationship, where Jacob morphs into God’s Israel.

Adrian Flynn’s playwright “The Valley of the Fear”, adapted from the novel by Conan Doyle, demonstrates how the writer uses techniques to convey an impression of suspense and mystery through scenes with a high level of anticipation and uncertainty. Suspense is achieved through the use of literary devices and events that stimulate the viewer’s moods. Readers wait with anticipation for the next secret to be revealed in strong, sudden scenes. Furthermore, Doyle creates a sense of tension by never giving the reader an entire answer so they can make up their own mind about what’s happening.