Pocket Bomb: A Short Story

food? And what about the other crazy things the dead man wrote? Like the three other bombs and the Norreach Program? Are those bombs real? Is this place really going to go nuclear? Or is it all just a dead man’s nightmare?

The short stories of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Destructors by Graham Greene” both had very interesting plots and unexpected endings. The plots of both stories are different but the meaning are the same. The climax of the two stories are built to keep you in suspense and as you get to the end and its reveals the irony of the stories. The characters in the stories set the presence, pace and tone, the characters environments reveal the difficulty within the plots of the stories and why

Because of the narrator’s alcoholic obsession in “The Black Cat,” this leads to his despicable actions. The story begins with the main character being a compassionate and sympathetic person who cared for his wife and his animals. However, as he experienced the “instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance,” the narrator grew “more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others.” He even starts “maltreating the rabbits, monkeys, or even the dog.” It appears the more he became obsessed

day to drop this bomb? "There's nothing to say." He didn't want to be in the same city as Callaghan, let alone the same room. Who knows how the man would react in a face-to-face encounter with Hiro now? The professor was one of the only people outside the group to knew who Hero 6 really were. Why he hadn't spilled the beans yet was a mystery that kept everyone on edge. "When do we have to go?" He asked when the resounding silence had become deafening. "Monday. Extremely short notice. Shows the

During 1948, the United States used the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; it was devastating and killed many people. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson tells a story about how cruel people can be without feeling any remorse. The story is about a small town who has a yearly lottery and the winner gets stoned to death by their neighbors. The thought is that if you have a lottery, then you will have good crops that season. Written in 1948, the story tells the tale of poor Tessie Hutchinson, who

dreadfully. With a look of great triumph on his face he continued. “Over tze past 2 years my team and I have been developing a Fusion bomb”. All the blood rushed away from my face as he finished and I was sitting there in shock. My mission was to infiltrate the research facility and gather as much information as possible. I never thought that they actually developed a Fusion bomb. After mustering enough courage to reply, I asked him “what do you plan to do with it”? He bellowed with a nefarious laugh and

moved to Munich so that Albert could attend the school there. Albert's father started a factory there in Munich. The most charming story was told about the young Albert Einstein when he was 5. He was late to dinner because he was sitting out in the garden thinking under a tree, when he was brought to his father he noticed a small compass on Hermman Einstein's pocket watch. He was fascinated with the little compass and why it always pointed north. School for Einstein was a trying experience. For

outlook on society was heavily influenced by her personal life experiences. On a clear early-summer day, citizens in a small village gather in the town square. The children arrive first, running about and playing while collecting stones in their pockets. The men and women of the town trickle in, talking amongst themselves and observing the children’s growing pile of rocks. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Summers, the town’s main civic activity leader, enters the town square with a large black box and a three-legged

The novella Hearts and the four stories together signify a shift from an age of innocence when three friends from a Connecticut neighborhood enjoyed a simple childhood, free of violence, heartbreak, and protest through a ferocious era of change during the Vietnam War, and the pains of growing up, to a period where Carol, Sully-John and Willie try to live their lives with the mistakes they’ve made and with the heavy burden of looking back at the war and those lives and events that have impacted their

A gloved hand shut the stereo off upon hearing the news, “Dang cops!” The red eye heroine said aloud sitting on the edge of the five story apartment. “I gotta do EVERYTHING!” Growling in frustration, she threw the stereo behind her as she stood up and jumped off the edge with a loud… THUD! The mad heroine screamed into the empty air, “I’M GONNA SAVE YOU PEOPLE!” Then, she took off in