Short Story : The Shadowy Beasts

“The gentle green hills which on either hand enclosed the village, tufted here and there with magnificent trees, the village itself, straggling and wide, each cottage being far apart from its neighbors and each ornamented with flower beds and shrubberies; these with a lovely stream which would through the valley, formed, as far as my memory may be trusted, one of the most exquisite panoramas, on which it has ever been my good fortune to

In the short story “The Thing in the Forest” by A.S Byatt, the author introduces the thing as dark, ominous and has a very putrid smell that is almost like a representation of death. The thing in the forest lurks and wanders around the forest next to a house filled with children that have been sent there because they have been evacuated from their town. I believe that the thing represents or would symbolize many things, and also considering the time frame the story was written in pre-world war era I would say that the story probably represent the death or the decay of the men that fought in the war. Also I believe that the thing symbolizes something literal like an injured soldier that tried to get the attention of the girls that wandered the forest. Lastly, In parts of the story I gives you some indication of the thing and it makes the thing sound like it might be any army closing in on a country or city cause the thing came in “waves”. So the thing might be a wave of scary putrid smelling soldiers that sound and looks like death.

Jason glanced through the car window as his father pulled into the driveway of their new house, dirty and plain. Their family had moved from Texas into a house in the misty woods with the nearest city, Flora, half a mile away. I don’t like this place thought Jason.

Sited in the northeast corner of Nocatee, the Twenty Mile neighborhoods contain the largest lots, the most natural views and the (mostly) undisturbed settings of any Nocatee neighborhoods. Your skyline won’t be broken by surrounding power poles, other homes jammed side-by-side or the noise of nearby commercial corridors. Although you will spot neighbors’ roofs or yards — hey, it’s a neighborhood, right? — your primary views will be blue Sunshine State skies, the cool canopy of old live oaks and the shimmering surfaces of ponds and lakes.

“There were orchards, heavy leafed in their prime, and vineyards with the long green crawlers carpeting the ground between the rows. There were melon patches and grain fields. White houses stood in the greenery, roses growing over them. And the sun was gold and warm.

In the essay, The Loss of the Creature, written by Walter Percy, he discusses multiple stories relating to an unknown “creature” in our lives. Life is about our experiences. It is important to explore the world whenever we get the opportunity, but we must look at the world through a new perspective in order to truly see it. Walter Percy indirectly tells us, the most worthwhile kinds of experiences are not the ones we plan, but the ones we don’t quite expect to happen. My mother planned a vacation for my family and I looking for that once in a lifetime experience. She decided that experience would take place in Hawaii, the Aloha State. Unfortunately, that once and a live time experience she was searching for, would not be the highlight of our vacation. It would be something simple, yet surprisingly beautiful and euphoric. It was my “true experience”, my “creature”.

In the essay, The Loss of the Creature, written by Walter Percy, he discusses multiple stories relating to an unknown “creature” in our lives. Life is about our experiences. It is important to explore the world whenever we get the opportunity, but we must look at the world through a new perspective in order to truly see it. Walter Percy indirectly tells us, the most worthwhile kinds of experiences are not the ones we plan, but the ones we don’t quite expect to happen. My mother planned a vacation for my family and I looking for that once in a lifetime experience. She decided that the experience would take place in Hawaii, the Aloha State. Unfortunately, that once and a life time experience she was searching for, would not be the highlight

The American west, was at one point a vast landscape untainted and undisturbed by the heavy footprint of American growth and development. Her rolling his, deep valleys and fields

Brodie thought about everything they were saying. They were right, his friends had been there for each other through thick and thin. So why couldn’t he count on them to help him overcome his fear of the dark?

In the end of the book, it tells how Chris Kyle loses his life, the movie does not make this scene. Chris and his friend Chad Littlefield were shot by a fellow veteran, Eddie Routh, suffering from PTSD at a shooting range in Texas. Eddie would take Chris’s truck and flee, eventually to be found and put in

Putting everything into a metaphorical big picture, the town, his life, it all looked like a small pond, still, serene, and shimmering. It was ungrateful, he knew, but he couldn't help but yearn for the pebble that would someday shatter the calm and cause chaos with the ripples it created.

Harry gripped the sides of the toilet bowl trying to catch his breath. He had some chopped meat for dinner along with potatoes and a dinner roll. He hardly even ate much but now his stomach was empty. It was the middle of the night so he didn’t want to wake anyone up. He didn’t understand why he was so sick.

By then, there was nothing left to do, let alone lessen the pain. She’d done all she could: bath him, and try to feed him solid foods, but he barely kept fluids down. More so, a sickly odor arose and lingered as the days went by with his condition worsening.

In the way, I saw large acres of natural land right in the middle of the city. High and numerous bridges was the

It took weeks of convincing and reassuring that everything was going to be just fine before I budged. I did not agree because I suddenly was not scared, I felt guilty that we would not go on my accord. So here I was, hours away from hopping on the thing I promised myself I would never get on.I closed my eyes and to my surprise fell asleep. I was asleep for what felt like all of five minutes.I was woke up by a distant car horn, I looked ahead and saw the blurry light turned from red to green, we hung a left. I read the big blue print on the concrete sign,” Roanoke Airport,” We were finally here. I heard a low roar that seemed distant, but it grew louder with the passing seconds.Then a huge plane soared over top of us! The fear gather back inside