Short Story: The Hour Of Torture

She began to scream into the phone, into the roaring. She cried out, she cried for her mother, she felt her breath start jerking back and forth in her lungs as if it were something Arnold Friend was stabbing her with again and again with no tenderness. A noisy sorrowful wailing rose all about her and she was locked inside it the way she was locked inside this house. After a while she could hear again. She was sitting on the floor with her wet back against the wall. Here we finally realize that all her fears were coming true and he life was coming to an end and there was no way of her stopping it. In these moments Connie realized all that these were her last moment and the first thought was of her family and how she thought of all the time she wished. "My sweet little blue-eyed girl," he said in a half-sung sigh that had nothing to do with her brown eyes but was taken up just the same by the vast sunlit reaches of the land behind him and on all sides of him—so much land that Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was

Later the narrator tells of how he follows her to school and how he thinks about her constantly, much like an adolescent in “love” would do.  This feeling is not foreign to any reader; during the youth of our lives, we too have desired someone at a point beyond normality.

“He wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted to her to be a virgin and not a virgin, all at once. He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets-why poetry? Why so Sad? Why the grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone-riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria. Even dancing, she danced alone-and it was aloneness that filled him with love. (O’Brien 435).”

During the next few weeks Donny had been talking on the phone with this girl Miriam for hours upon hours. She had invited Her over for dinner but Donny said no, Cal let Miriam over for one for the “studying” sessions, They were both always with cal and it started to seem weird to daisy. She “This Miriam was an unappealing girl with blurry lipstick and masses of rough red hair. She wore a short, Bulky jacket that would not have been out of place on a motorcycle. During this trip to Cals she was silent, but coming back, she was more talkative. “What a neat guy and what house. All those kids hanging out, like a club. And the stern playing rock… gosh, he's not like a grown up at all! Married and divorced and everything, but you'd think he was our age.” Miriam had said.” This is the daisy has gotten to think it was all bad and weird for Donny, It had all gone down hill Cal wasn't helping and they were just partying and this girlfriend wasn't the best for him she has thought. She didn't know what to do she didn't think any of this was helping. She should have come out and mentioned it too him about her not loving this girl and not thinking she was the best influence to keep him on track and get his grades up. With them always at Cals partying nothing was getting better, The girl didn't seem like she was all this serious and Daisy knows

shows that her misery stem from internally oppose to external emotions, The freedom that she nearly

This is the beginning of a new, yet complicated life for Oscar. It is not going to be as easy as it was for him to get girl’s attention when he was seven years old. He met a girl who was weird just like him. They began to do things together and that’s when Oscar was starting to have feelings the girl named Ana. When they would go out to hang out “they headed out to either a

No sleep could pass the governess's eyes without continually casting thought to the mere beauty of the child she had met only days earlier. The meeting with the young master Miles only stringed the governess's infatuation with the physical features of the young children. After receiving by letter that Miles was expelled from school, the governess herself found malcontent for the boy, but her first glance at the boy on meeting him cast away all previous distaste.

Torture, (n.), the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain. After reading “Torture” by Holocaust survivor, Jean Amery, it is clear that the above definition of torture does not provide an honest connotative definition for the act and effects of torture. Amery speaks about torture from his own personal experiences in both Auschwitz and Buchenwald, providing witness to the dehumanization of Jews. In “Torture”, Jean Amery truthfully depicts torture as an unimaginable terror, in which one loses sense of self, human dignity, and trust in the world, while gaining a haunted future.

Another conflict that La Vaughn faced was that she had a very passionate crush on a childhood friend, Jody, and wanted desperately for him to ask her to the school dance. La Vaughn admired everything about Jody, from his fresh chlorine smell (he was a swimmer), to his cheerful attitude. She admired most Jody’s desire and determination to attend college. La Vaughn waited anxiously for Jody to invite her to the dance as his date, but he never had the courage to. Finally, La Vaughn gathered the courage to ask Jody to the dance. To her delight, he agreed to her invitation. Jody and La Vaughn had a wonderful time together at the dance, and La Vaughn cherished the pictures they had taken together on that special night.

Slowly but surely, more pieces of his story came to light and I was able to arrange the chaotic amalgamation of information into coherent order. The conclusion was not satisfying, and he became half the man I once thought he was. After days of blithering disappointment, I realized that the innocent girl inside of me clinging onto hope let go and let herself fall into

She had never had much freedom. She was grateful for the opportunity to be involved as she was now in the realm of humans. However, she hadn't the slightest clue what to do in this exact moment. She had been found out. To what extend, she wasn't sure at the moment nor did she have time to think. And now? Her focus shifted to the man she yanked herself from. Red eyes flashed maliciously, swirling with dark promises of pain.

Her whole world was crashing down. It what seemed like only a split second, her best friend’s father had been condemned to death. Someone who she considered to be like a father was going to be taken away, ripped away from her.

After the US lead invasion of Iraq many priests were kidnaped, tortured and killed. In November 2006, Father Douglas Joseph, an Iraqi Catholic priest was kidnapped and a high ransom was demanded by his abductors. For several days he was tortured as the church tried to negotiate payment of a ransom with his captors. He suffered multiple injuries including two broken vertebrae from his spinal cord, and his face and knees were smashed using a hammer.

Torture (Latin torquere, “to twist”), in law, infliction of severe bodily pain either as punishment, or to compel a person to confess to a crime, or to give evidence in a judicial proceeding. Among primitive peoples, torture has been used as a means of ordeal and to punish captured enemies. Examination by torture, often called the “question,” has been used in many countries as a judicial method. It involves using instruments to extort evidence from unwilling witnesses.

Ronald D. Cretlinsten contends that torturers acquire the ability to cope with the moral dilemmas of inflicting pain upon and murdering their fellow humans primarily through the processes of “routinization” and “dehumanization”, and also through the notion of “authorization” (191). With such as the case, an individual adept in the art of torture would necessarily have learned to be cruel, however, that argument neglects the very reality that many engaged in such activities are intrinsically perverse, and in fact willingly and happily do harm to others.