Neely Crenshaw Quotes

Creon is a strong headed guy who will not listen to anybody but himself because he’s the king. When he speaks to everyone he always ends up insulting them and saying stuff that he ends up regretting like; “They did not want to obey me! And, I know this very well, whoever did this, did it because he was paid money by these malcontents.” Creon thinks that everyone has to listen to him that he’s the best Creon is very arrogant he is full of himself he thinks that no one is more powerful than him. Another quote is “Me nothing, with that i have everything.” He is the kind he controls everything but not anyone. Creon thinks everyone is like a slave to them because he’s the king his “power” goes to his head and he won’t listen to anyone.Creon is full of power in his head he is selfish and stubborn. He doesn’t deserve to be a king. Creon is prideful, he won’t let anyone speak up to him or tell him what to do. He also says “Am i to rule this land at someone else’s whim or myself?”

The Past, an ever growing pool of time, is always biting at the heels of a person. It reminds him of what they have done wrong, done right, or when he did nothing. For most people, recalling the past leads to loose ends and blanks where memories should be. No matter how much a person may want to return to the past, it is not possible. It is lost forever. These forgotten moment lead to uncertainties and confusion in the present, and chaos in the future. Forgetting the past leads to spirals, spinning downwards as people look to what they have lost. They retrace their steps hoping to find a sliver of who they are and what may become of them. In the poem, Itinerary, Eamon Grennan shows how an individual searches through his past, but can never return to it. Through the poem and with a personal experience I will explain how individuals deal with uncertainties in their pasts.

The police thought his influential personality is what raised him in the ranks of the Rollin’ 60 Crips gang of Chattanooga. When he graduated in 2012 a private investor paid for him to be sent to Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama (Wiseman, 2015). He was kicked out after one semester and came right back to Chattanooga where he got involved in a cocaine conspiracy that landed him in federal prison (Wiseman, 2015). Wiseman (2015) writes he was sentenced to sixty-five months with four years supervised release, and ordered to complete 500 hours of alcohol and drug treatment. In 2017, Jumoke Johnson escaped from a federal halfway house on McCallie Avenue and disabled his GPS monitor (Bradbury). Less than a week later, he was shot and killed in a gang related incident on January 20, 2017.

Time remains a universal continuation of the past into the present and bears a strong hold on the future. The destruction of satisfaction in history withholds the contentment of the future with an impeding sense of unalterable guilt. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates “the past is forever in the present” through numerous literary and narrative techniques, suggesting that memories serve as crucial components in the development of individuals.

comes up with various ideas that see him out of the jail. Andy sacrificed to be detained for life

A man by the name of Andy Dufresne was convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in Shawshank prison. He was an obvious black sheep among the prisoners, but as time went on he grew relationships with the crooks and realized the injustice in the justice system. In the creation of friendship between Red and Andy, hope was spread throughout the prison. While many themes are present in the film The Shawshank Redemption, hope, friendship, and injustice are also relevant in the world today.

Jesse grew up a normal kid, living with a rare disease. He went to school, he held a part time job, he had friends and a family that loved him. He was sick, but it was manageable with diet and medication. At the age of 18, Jesse entered a clinical trial that, although it wouldn't help him, might help those most in need, the infants that are born with this, or one of 25 other liver disorders. Jesse and his family were given assurances of safety and promising results from other participants. Jesse fell into a coma on

In her poem I go back to May 1937 she talks about the day her parents graduated from college, decided they wanted to get married, and how two young kids didn’t know any better. Sharon Olds wrote “ I want to go up to them and say Stop, don’t do it – she’s the wrong woman, he’s the wrong man, you are going to do things you cannot imagine you would ever do, you are going to do bad things to children, you are going to suffer in ways you have not heard of, you are going to want to die” ( Olds 864 line 14). This could be complicated to understand but she wrote this wishing that she could go back in time and change her future and that of her parents as well. She wanted to get rid of her pain, and suffering, the bad memories she has of her father touching and sexually abusing her. Even if it meant she wouldn’t have been born or if she wouldn’t have existed at all. But she also wanted better for her parents. She believed that if maybe they wouldn’t have gotten married and been together. Both of them could have been different, they could have had normal and decent lives. Maybe they would have had kids that they actually loved and cared for.

The classic American novel, The Great Gatsby, presents a major theme of passing time. Losing Daisy meant losing Gatsby’s entire world, which he only kept alive through his hope of repeating the past. Daisy is a symbol of everything he values and therefore became the entity of his dream: his dream of spending the rest of his life with Daisy, the woman he loves undeniably. But Gatsby doesn’t realize his dream is unattainable because unfortunately, he cannot go back in time or recreate the past. Gatsby is stuck in the past, longing for the relationship between him and Daisy, and can’t accept the future, resulting in his own death. This is depicted in

After fifteen long years of discontent and feeling unfulfilled, Neely confronts the demons that have haunted him for so long. Cameron Lane has forgiven him and given him a sense of closure he has needed for a long time. Neely has begun to put the past behind him and allow people to see him as more than just a nineteen year old All-American quarterback leading his team to victory. He has forgiven Coach Eddie Rake and re-allowed him to occupy a special place in his heart. Neely even thinks “And when the name of Eddie Rake was mentioned, he would smile and maybe life and tell a story of his own. One with a happy ending” (Grisham 229). Most of all, Neely has forgiven himself not only for the pain he caused others, but for the pain he caused

It was stated that he had been addicted to drugs by the age of eight years old. In prison, there is no opportunity for drugs, he had to be clean. Within his 12 years in prison, he knew he wasn’t getting out, and he knew there was no way out of his death sentence. While in prison, he was a prisoner just like the rest. But, if he were to be put back out into society, he would’ve been Jonathan Noble’s the murderer. In prison, he didn’t have to deal with society’s ways, and society’s views that were against him. He had escaped the negative view of Jonathan Noble’s, which is what he wanted all along. Prison has its own society and way of life. He was given orders that became routine, he had everything he needed, food, people around him, and the respect he longed for. Outside of prison would of gave him too many options, people disrespecting him and the prison not keeping him safe, the rejection that he had dealt with for a life time. Why not accept life in prison, it was better than life with

How much of one’s past can determine their future? One’s experiences from early in life can greatly affect them later on. This is especially evident in writers, such as Hannibal Hamlin Garland. He opened the eyes of many to the hardships faced in the Western farms, known to him from a young age (although totally abandoned later in life), just by writing of it. (Britannica; The Garland Society; World Biography) Garland’s early life was what first exposed him to the setting of many of his books; he was born in West Salem, Wisconsin on September 14, 1860. (The Garland Society; Britannica) His family continually moved farther west, despite being poor prairie farmers. (Britannica; The Garland Society) After he graduated high school, he visited New

Tanner travels further and further away from his own time, all the while struggling with a crushing sense of loneliness and powerlessness. As he arrives in future New York, NO TIME TO SAY GOODBYE offers tantalizing glimpses of societal changes and advancements in technology. And yet, for the most part, this future remains largely unexplored even after Tanner briefly meets beautiful Leah, a New York resident and his guide to the world of the year 2300.

“The orgastic future [...] year by year recedes before us” and the past consumes us with its “moments of hope and promise and wonder” (Fitzgerald 180; Parr 76). To be human is to be unfulfilled and to long for the unreachable, but such aspirations often prevent one from fully living in the present. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, an obsession with the inaccessible past characterizes the lives of many of those inhabiting a “universe of ineffable gaudiness” (Fitzgerald 99). Using a motif of water, Fitzgerald traces character Jay Gatsby’s relationship with the past, to reveal that those who reside in an acquisitive world and try to escape the past will remain there if they mistake it for a viable future. In the short term, they often recognize and attempt to overcome the shortcomings of their past lives. Should they confuse the past with the future, however, they will cease to make progress on their temporal voyage into the future. Ultimately, these individuals will come to believe in their capability of living in the past, becoming so delusional that they actually end up lingering there forever.

They say that it is hard to get away from the past in the short story “Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Is about a men named Charlie Wales who is troubled by his past however, he tries to escape away form America, but comes to realize that no mater where Charlie goes he cannot avoid his past. The reason being because in his recent move to Paris Charlie can only go to certain parts of Paris where they are do not serve alcohol or are open late. The main part of this is that Duncan and Lorraine are always inviting him to have a drink or go out and eat. Almost like the good old day’s. The main theme of the short story is that the past will always be the past, and it is virtually impossible to escape due to the fact that Charlie is bombarded