Sleep: A Narrative Fiction

-” Come, I need to show you something!”-she yelled to make sure I heard her.

In the books The Big Sleep and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, both authors, Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) and Simon Armitage (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), create the protagonist of each story into archetypal knights. The protagonist of The Big Sleep is named Phillip Marlowe and in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the protagonist is named Sir Gawain. The 3 knightly qualities that we will be focusing on in this essay are self-sacrifice, loyalty and courage. These qualities are displayed throughout each story in different and similar ways throughout each book.

“The bad sleep well.” This quote is actually the name of a 1960’s Japanese film directed by the world renowned director Akira Kurosawa. There isn’t much to say about the movie, but it has a key role in the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama play Doubt: A Parable. Out of all of the places that the author John Patrick Shanley puts this quote is right at the first page before chapter one and after the preface with two other quotes. The location of the quote and what the quotes say give the reader questions and what happened and maybe foreshadowing what will come in the book.

There are a few factors that are essential for life such as breathing or eating, but one of the most essential factor is sleep. Even though the amount of sleep people need differs from one individual to another, the fact is that eventually everyone needs to sleep. People know the importance of sleep, but due to the increased workload and the pressure of society people are getting less sleep. As a result, there has been an increase interest on the effects lack of sleep has on the mind especially the memory of a person. Many questions arose about the relationship between sleep and memory due to the fact most high school and college students have become sleep deprived. For example, does more sleep mean higher grades?

“Madeline,” I hear through my endless solitude. It was quiet enough that I could have imagined it. I must have wanted to hear it so bad that I thought it was there. Thwarted by my realization, I close my eyes and try to fall asleep. “Madeline” it says again. I open my eyes to find that same sunny ceiling, in an entirely empty room. “Madeline.” It

I did not sleep well as a child. When I closed my eyes, I was not inundated with calming thoughts, nor fantastical images, but rather assaulted by existential anxieties which coaxed me into undesired ruminations about my being. I believed falling asleep was tantamount to relinquishing control over my ephemeral existence, as there was no guarantee of awakening. I found myself clinging to the present to the detriment of the future, desperately eschewing its hastened arrival for fear that it would not include me in its progression. And yet, every night, hour by hour, I would find myself succumbing to the physical and mental manifestations of sleep deprivation. I would come to plead for the very loss of control that I so viscerally feared, as

Sleep was terrifying. Ever since Allie and her mother, Eva, had ran off from her murderous father, Allie had been avoiding falling into the darkness called sleep. Her father was a madman, he convinced Allie from a young age that everything he was doing was for her. Every week, Allie saw another man go into their basement, and never come out. What her father did to these men was left to question.

“ you guys over sleep ? any day. ” sometimes that’s why he finds himself awake so late into the night. though the vice of his own stresses and daily struggles squeeze him mercilessly, he always wants to be there for one of them. zack would skip a nap or cut off an hour of sleep if they needed company. typically, at least one other person is on at night. there isn’t always a reason. they’re TEENAGERS, a sleep schedule is almost unheard of, but the burden on their shoulders further worsen the issue. he damn near POUTS as jason finds amusement in the WORRY. “ you reeeeally had me worried there for a second, jace. ” an obnoxious sigh os relief escapes, body seemingly RELAXING. “ yeah, we have been doing good

I wake up from a nap, hot and dizzy, to read a message from Mercedes,

Noir genre is the style of film or fiction that is mysterious and gloomy, and the themes usually are crime and emphasize cynical attitudes. This genre came from and deeply influenced by the German Expressionism. The golden Era of film noir is between 1946 and 1951, which is also the time between and after the World War II in America. The stories of the noir genre are always take place in a city like Los Angeles because of The Golden West in the middle of 19 century. Raymond Chandler is a prominent practitioner of noir genre, and his novel The Big Sleep is widely considered to be one of the most significant novels of noir genre, which narrates a case that the main character Phillip Marlowe is investigating on.

Before I could actually read well I remember sitting on the couch in my grandparent’s living room trying to read a Judy B. Jones book but I was holding the book upside down. My mom came in the house to pick me up and asked what I was doing; I simply replied “I am reading my new book mom duh”. She busted out laughing and gave me a huge hug. Throughout elementary school my mother still read to me. We had a book that was called “I’ll Read to You and You’ll Read to Me” which I loved. As I hit

Most people do not get enough sleep. We have created an all natural solution. Elite Sleep is a wristband that uses all natural ingredients that will improve the quality of your sleep. After I came up with the idea for this product I researched if this product already existed or not and it did not. Since this product did not exist, no one knew anything about it. Based on this, I reasoned that the first advertisement endorsing anything should be informative, so I ended up with a logos centered ad with some pathos and ethos appeal thrown in. As far as demographics of my audience are concerned, I tried to open the door to as many people as possible by not stating a specific group of people that would benefit from this product. Truly anyone could

Thud! A shrill, piercing cry came from my mother's bedroom. I raced in to a cloud of dust but to my astonishment when the dust cleared all that was left was my mother's tattered bedspread and a giant paw print on the aged dirt floor.

 The goal is to avoid, "clocks on collision," and to allow internal clocks to match external clocks, this is why night shifts are often on weekly rotation.

“Ava make a sound, so I know where you are.” I can 't breathe how is my mommy going to hear me. Then all of the sudden I scream. My mom came running, and crying, “Are you okay?”