Short Story Hope By Hilbun

“You don't understand the power of loss when it first hits you like a baseball coming fast from an out-of-control pitcher. You reel back stinging from the blow.” (Bauer,162). Throughout the novel Hope Was Here we see characters go through struggles and gain strength to overcome them. In our everyday lives we have struggles that we also have to overcome. In the novel Hope Was Here, one of the characters Braverman has to choose his family or education. The character Addie, faces the struggle of miscarrying three babies. In my life I have struggles and so do the people around me. For instance, my grandma went through the struggle of losing her husband. From this novel it is learned that if there's no struggle there's no strength.

A basic thunderstorm, goes through three phases during its lifetime: cumulus, mature, and dissipating. These storms can last between 30 minutes to an hour. When we see a thunderstorm coming, knowing the stage of the storm, can help us determine how much impact it will have on the area around you. (Life Cycle of a Thunderstorm) Although we can see a storm coming in the distance we don’t realize the damage or the impact that the storm is going to have. Sometimes we are hit with thunderstorms in life that we do not see coming, and when it comes we don’t realize the impact that it will have on us. Sometimes if we are prepared for them, we can handle the situation much better. In “The Storm”, Calixta has a storm that’s brewing in her personal life, and she too does not realize what is

Although John knew that they “could expect a storm,” he left Ann to go help his father. The storm is representing that alienation physically “isolating her”. Ann wants a more affectionate and passionate relationship with her husband, but he is too “simple minded” to notice what she wants, John thinks he’s giving her everything she need in life by working so hard.Which adds to Ann’s sense of isolation.Ann was eager and hopeful at first that her marriage may turn around then she became bitter, resentful, and lonely.“I knew we were going to have a storm - I told him so - but it doesn’t matter what I say. Big stubborn fool - he goes his own way anyway. It doesn’t matter what becomes of me. In a storm like this he’ll never get home. He won’t even

The author’s frightening story, “The Storm” has all the expected things that a good scary story should have. It has a story line that gains suspense throughout the story, there is irony, and there is lots of

Isaac’s Storm, is a tale of self- confidence. This Hurricane in 1900 in Galveston was the worst and deadliest hurricane this country has ever seen. About 6,000 people lost their lives and among those who died was Isaac Cline’s wife. I can tell how guilty he must have felt and how horrific this time was for Cline, especially because he thought a massive storm could never devastate his amazing city. The horrific events of what happened in Galveston is only partially told in this book. Erik Larson’s use of Cline’s own letters and reports show Cline’s own self confidence or pride and falsifies facts that Cline was the hero he believed himself to be after the Storm surfaced. Isaac's Storm clearly shows what can happen when human arrogance takes priority over anything else.

The Hurricane and flood in the novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston illuminates the similarity between the novel and the natural disaster that occurred in south Florida in 1992. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the protagonist Janie marries and remarries three times in hope of finding the right man who can help her find her voice. As can be seen, Hurricane Andrew and the hurricane in the novel are similar in that they both correlate with one another. Janie walks through a hurricane that symbolizes of all the troubles she faced in life which is similar to Hurricane Andrew and the hardships it caused for many people living in south Florida at the time. The hurricane being a metaphor for her other struggles, helps us get a clear understanding of the hardships she faced in life. Once the storm ends, all these troubles Janie had to face in life come to an end as well because now she gets to live a new life back in Eatonville without any of these marriages or anything else that caused her troubles in life previously. The claims made by Steinberg help analyze the similarities between Janie and Hurricane Andrew which gives us a clear understanding of how Hurricane Andrew is a representation of Janie’s hardships in life.

In William Shakespeare's The Tempest, A storm is responsible for creating an epoch in Prospero’s life. Likewise, the hurricane in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God also represents a watershed in Janie’s life. Both Shakespeare and Hurston use the storm to symbolize creation and regeneration among their protagonists. Hurston, however, uses figurative language to enhance features of the storm, creating a mood for the reader. Hurston uses imagery and personifications to establish varying moods throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God.

In the Novel “Isaac’s Storm”, the reader is told the tragic story of a hurricane that devastated the very prosperous city of Galveston in 1900. Throughout the book you are told the events leading up to the hurricane as well as an in depth look at the actions of certain individuals that greatly impacted the devastation of this horrific storm.

People with injuries were stable, sleeping conditions were organized, and rations of food were set. But in time, they ran out of food. A council was made to form decisions to not only benefit themselves as individuals but as a group. The leaders of the council struggled deciding upon certain decisions but ended up doing whatever they had to do to survive. The only awful thing they had as an option was each the meat on the people who were already dead. So many people disagreed with putrid disgust but the leaders did everything in their power to convince the others that that was there only option of survival. “Canessa took it upon himself to prove his resolution. He prayed to God to help him do what he knew to be right and then took a piece of meat in his hand and ate it. Later that evening, small groups of boys came out of the plane to follow his example” (Read 81,82). Canessa became the leader and did the horrifying act, and saved all their lives by doing so. They told themselves that it was God’s plan for them to survive and the others to die so that they could eat the dead bodies. Things started to become awfully normally. They all would have jobs. Some would take care of the food, some would take care of the injured, and some would take care of where they slept. They would live day-by-day hoping for a rescue. Until the avalanche hit. The Plane was almost entirely filled with snow, burying almost all the sleeping survivors. The wall at the entrance had been toppled and buried, and the blankets and cushions disappeared. Roy was the only one who was awake after the avalanche who could help the others. He was forced to be the hero and he was petrified. “He found himself standing buried up to his waist and when he took the shirt from his eyes what he saw appalled him. He felt desperate; he alone seemed to be free to help” (Read 121). Even though he was mortified, he took the responsibility of being the leader and saving

“The Storm” is not only the title of the short story, but it is also part of the main setting that

THESIS STATEMENT: One of nature’s most powerful and destructive storms are hurricanes. Although they can be deadly to humans and animals and have been known to cause extensive destruction, they also play a very important and beneficial role on Earth.

“Storm Country” by Paul Crenshaw is about his own childhood growing up in Arkansas which is in the heart of tornado alley (Crenshaw, 2004, pg. 203). He explains his encounters with tornadoes and the memories that this remarkable but destructive storm left. Paul Crenshaw explained his story about a tornado in a descriptive way which gave life and meaning with every sentence. After I was done reading I started to think about my own experiences with storm watching during the day and even at night. I agreed with every point he made about the mesmerizing moment of when a storm hits by relating it with my own points about storms.

The short story, “The Storm” by Kate Chopin is about a love that could never be until it briefly was. The point that Chopin was trying to get across was that Calixta and Alcee had a strong passion for one-another, and perhaps loved each other, but they could never have been married because of their social differences. It is a passionate, but brief affair between two married people from different social classes that takes place during a cyclone in Louisiana around 1898. The story symbolizes the freedom that a woman felt inside after the rain during a time when women had no freedom. (Firtha lesson 2 page 1)

Usually a storm creeps upon us, hits a luminous climax, and then fades away into nothingness.  In The Storm, Kate Chopin develops a parallel between a rainstorm and an emotional storm in a woman’s life.  Chopin uses symbolism to depict the feelings of relationships that are as unpredictable as that of a raging storm.

No storm is experienced the same. Seeing a storm on the horizon has the power to stir up gripping memories, introspective thoughts, and convoluted emotions. The poem “Storm Warnings”, by Adrienne Rich, applies a predictable structure paired with flowing syntax, and ambiguous diction- speaking both of weather and emotions- to illustrate that one cannot avoid the tribulations of life, embodied as the approaching storm, but instead prepare for their arrival.