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In the articles "Whispers from the Grave" by Katia Bachko and "The Haunted House" by Valerie Worth it mentions how even before scary horror movies where made, people where almost addicted to scary stories, scary movies, and scary things in general. In the article "Whispers from the Grave," it talks about how back in the day people would love to have a medium come to their house, it was like having a celebrity in your house, and when a medan was in the state word spread very quickly. The article says “In Sarah's day—before movies or television—visiting a medium was an extremely popular form of entertainment. Many Americans thought it was possible to communicate vdth the spirits of those who had died. Mediums like Adam Coons were thought to be bridges to the "other side"—that is, the unknown world beyond the grave.

The power of the story has been very much a part of the lives of humans throughout time. The story is able to bring the past to the present and the dead to the living. The story can make the blind see. The story is able to make others feel for events in time that they have never experienced. The story has a profound effect on both the teller and the audience. As the audience is thought to be the beneficiary or the storytelling process, the teller is able to relive the times of old, or even teach a valuable lesson to his or her audience. Thus, allowing both parties to gain something intangible throughout this process. In “The Lives of the Dead,” O’Brien conveys the importance of storytelling and imagination by suggesting that the dead can be brought back to life in the minds of the people who hear it.

    In his short story The Dead, James Joyce creates a strong contrast between Gabriel, who is emotionally lifeless, and the other guests, who are physically aging and near death. Though physical mortality is inevitable, Joyce shows that emotional sterility is not, and Gabriel ultimately realizes this and decides that he must follow his passions. Throughout the story, a strong focus on death and mortality, a focus that serves as a constant reminder of our inevitable end of physical life, is prevalent in Joyce's selection of details. In the story, the unconquerable death ultimately triumphs over life, but it brings a triumph for the central character, not a loss. Despite the presence of death, the

The title of the book I read is "Dead Is Not An Option". The book is written by Marlene Perez. It's spring in Night Shade and senior year for Daisy Giordano. It's time to say goodbye, but she has not received any college acceptance letters. But that's not Daisy's only problem to deal with. Rumors going around about vamps versus weres which is causing some trouble in the Giordano home. Daisy and Rose are both dating werewolves, but Poppy is dating a vampire. New and mysterious faces start appearing in Night Shade who are involved with the Scourge. But an old and familiar face comes back to town, Circe Silvertongue. Will Daisy be able to convince Circe to free the spirit she trapped in a jukebox and change

James Joyce emerged as a radical new narrative writer in modern times. Joyce conveyed this new writing style through his stylistic devices such as the stream of consciousness, and a complex set of mythic parallels and literary parodies. This mythic parallel is called an epiphany. “The Dead” by Joyce was written as a part of Joyce’s collection called “The Dubliners”. Joyce’s influence behind writing the short story was all around him. The growing nationalist Irish movement around Dublin, Ireland greatly influences Joyce’s inspiration for writing “The Dubliners”. Joyce attempted to create an original portrayal of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. The historical

As his eyes traced down her body, he savored them. Round. Shapely. Beautiful. She wasn't like the average woman his eyes had learned to glaze over on the streets, and in her difference there was beauty. A whole lot of beauty. Bennett couldn't help but stare, and he could see her fidgeting and twisting beneath his gaze. The dominant animal inside had that effect on people; it was why he was so effective at breaking grown men.

If you don’t like blood and are easily grossed out, then Mary Roach’s “How to Know If You’re Dead” is not the book for you. In “How to Know if You’re Dead” Roach touches on what defines on what makes us living and what makes us dead. This is very important because we often believe that because someone’s heart is beating then they are alive. But Roach makes us question this belief.

In the novel, As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner, two characters ,Darl and Jewel Bundren, each cope with their mother’s death and deal with their isolation from their family by expressing their feelings in deeply emotional behavior. Darl, the second eldest sibling out of five, questions his existence because of his isolation and the lack of love he received from his mother growing up. Jewel, on the other hand, was his mother’s favorite of all five of her children. Jewel was the bastard son of Addie Bundren and the minister she had an affair with, Whitfeld. Due to the violent situation by which he was conceived, Jewel expresses all of his actions, including love, through violence and hatred. Both Darl and Jewel Bundren, convey their

The common theme that I found throughout these three articles was our ability to handle the topic of death. People (at least I know I personally do this) tend to side step the topic of death. We use terms such as “passed away” or “aren’t with us anymore” in order to sugarcoat the true reality of the situation. “Die” to us just sounds so harsh and terrifying. Not only do we phrase death in certain ways, but we also tend to ignore the facts. Wolff talks about how we all know how we are going to end up: we all have subconsciously acknowledged that it is highly likely that we will end up in a hospital bed somewhere unable to remember our closest friends and family. However, we put this in the back of our mind and do not think about it. This is

When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead by Jerry Weintraub showed me that one of the most valuable things in the world are the relationships that I possess with the people close to me. It helped me recognize that some of the greatest investments in life are the ones that you invest in other people. It drastically changed the way I saw my relationships with other people, I started viewing them as more than just friends and family, I began to see them as extensions of my being. I started to invest more and more into their lives and found myself genuinely invested in their happiness. This book has helped me build relationships that will last for an eternity as well as the tools that I need to build more of

When Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente begins, Marya Morevna is a child at the window, watching as birds fall miraculously out of a tree only to turn into husbands for her sisters and carry them off on the eve of revolution. When Deathless ends, Marya Morevna has given birth to a child of her own, whose entry cracks open the egg of safety she has been concealed in and foreshadows the onset of another impossible war, an age where “‘we are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive’” (Valente 343). Deathless, however, is not simply the story of one woman’s suffering and survival—indeed, Valente portrays Marya as Russia itself, a nation whose historical and cultural cycle and identity is paralleled by Marya’s own journey.

The article, “Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died” was an enjoyable read. Tom Wolfe article was quite amusing, and filled with details. Yet, Wolfe was able to connect and draw out the soul, moral code, and justice within the “neuroscience” discipline. It encapsulated the aggressive materialism of some new-age scientists. Furthermore, to these self-assured scientific investigators—the concept that the spirit may occur separately from the body is just absurd. Alternatively, everything is on the “threshold of a unified theory,” and a human’s “temperament,” “role preferences,” “emotional responses,” “levels of aggression,” and “moral choices” are genetically determined. And some established theories about “the mind,” “the self,” “the soul,” and “free will” are nothing but an illusion. In other words, humans’ beings are “wired” this way, and religion was probably a mishap. The article was difficult to follow at times, however, I think Wolfe anticipated the “neuroscience revolution” would start a public debate of whether god actually existed (I guess Wolfe understood these central claims carried in thinking like this).

In The Dead, James Joyce lets symbolism flow freely throughout his short story. James Joyce utilizes his main characters and objects in The Dead to impress upon his readers his view of Dublin’s crippled condition. Not only does this apply to just The Dead, Joyce’s symbolic themes also exude from his fourteen other short stories that make up the rest of Joyce’s book, Dubliners, to describe his hometown’s other issues of corruption and death that fuel Dublin’s paralysis. After painting this grim picture of Dublin, James Joyce uses it to express his frustration and to explain his realistic view that the only solution to the issues with Dublin depends on a move to the West and towards a new life, rather than

Before my death I must tell you something, I know you will not be happy with me but it had to be done. One night your father came home and he was acting rude and odd, I thought it was because of something at work so I just ignored it, after about 5 minutes of him ignoring me I asked him “what’s wrong?”. He said he that he was “leaving me for another girl”. I was shocked, I told him to “stay for supper and talk about it”, he ignored me and tried to run out of the door, so I grabbed what I was making for supper (a lamb leg) and smashed him on the top of the head with it, I ended up killing him. I was scared, I knew I couldn't raise you all by myself, a house mom with no job and you would end up being shipped to your father and I would have lost

With no further warning, Aida jerked the thong down to her thigh and quickly stepped out of it. Jenny attempted to do the same but lost her balance and fell back, her bottom bare, onto her chair. Aida twirled her thong in victory before letting it go in the direction of Keith’s head. He caught them as the silk hit his cheek. Keith surprised no one by bunching them up in his hand as he inhaled the heady scent of Aida’s pussy. Keith leaned toward me, whispering yet still loud enough for all to hear, “They’re still wet.”