The Invisible Field

Casey realized how ridiculous she sounded, talking to the walls. “Really, walk into the light? You watch way too much television. Evil ghosts don’t go to the light. They go to the dark place. I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that.”

The story “In the Field” by Tim O’Brien, is about a platoon of eighteen soldiers in the Vietnam war who are searching a shit field looking for a dead solider by the name of Kiowa. Throughout the story we as readers can see that the author uses the thoughts and actions of the soldiers to show that the Vietnam war was an unnecessary war. In addition, Tim O’Brien uses their thoughts to also show how soldiers felt about fighting the Vietnam War.

In this primary document, Cotton Mather, a Puritan theologian, writes about his fears of losing the entire country to the devil and his minions as the Christian religion, in his mind, is being slowly eradicated from the entire country due to witchcraft. In 1693 Cotton Mather wrote a literary piece called The Wonders of the Invisible World a year after questionable events in defense of the persecutions of those accused and convicted in Salem for witchcraft.

In Cotton Mather’s The Wonders of the Invisible World, he explores the evidence presented at the Salem witch trial of Martha Carrier. Mather explains the spectral evidence presented at the trial as strange phenomena worked by the devil, when in reality it is simply the exploitation and fear that brewed underneath the surface colonial America.

“I heard what you said, fool. Wherever this assassin is, I want you and an army of twenty other guards to hunt him down. Do whatever you can.” Her voice was not delicate anymore, as anger rose from her.

In fitful sleep, she dreamt dreams of Indians, palmettos, cotton, tobacco, rice, indigo, and eagles flying through the skies calling to her, telling her to take this trail or that, and her reaching up, trying to catch them before they flew away. The next morning, she helped Nancy build a fire under the big, black iron pot out back of the cabin and then fill it with water so they could wash clothes. About an hour later, as they hung the first of the wash on the line, they heard a rider coming up the back trail; the trail that led down to Fort Charlotte.

“All the roads you took came back to me. So I’m following the path that leads to you.”

He told her that in the middle of June they were sent to a place called Gettysburg where they were involved in a large campaign and took part in a battle that took place the first few days of July. He said that in all the campaigns and battles he’d been involved in, Gettysburg was by far the most intense- thousands lost their lives there… He also told her that he and John knew about their father’s death and that he was sorry she had to go through the loss without her entire family around her. He did not want her to worry about him and John; he said that they would make it through. Charity was glad that Charles sounded so positive. She often wondered why she could see some things and not others. Her ability to foresee events close to her had never been keen; however, it seemed that Charles had inherited that ability along with his ability to walk the winds… and, whatever other abilities he had… She would have to ask her grandfather, about this… Realizing just how little she knew of Charles’ abilities caused her a pang of guilt; it had been years since the two of them had had a real heart to heart

Her eyes fluttered open and rested upon the figure in front of her, her bloodstained hand opened to welcome them. Hesitantly they reached out to grasp her hand, the blood seeping into their white linen glove. She gave them a smile and proceeded to lead them further into the temple.

John White’s daughter, Eleanor Dare, and her husband her among the colonists that came with him.

Opening her heart, Charity listened with her soul’s ears. One of the singing voices, rose mournfully above all the others. And as she listened, she heard her say, "All the memories I have, they are beautiful within my mind, but they do not feed this hunger, deep inside my soul. "

Before the trio landed in New Orleans, Louisa and her soldier husband convinced Johannes to stay with them on her grandfather’s plantation when they arrived in New Orleans.

On May 13, 1917 these three shepherd children were at Cova da Iria, where all the apparitions took place. When Our Lady appeared the children were afraid, but when she spoke their fear was gone. During that first apparition, she asked them to go to the cova for six months, at the same hour, on the thirteenth day of the month. While trying to keep this a secret, the

“Thomas?” asked the white-haired old woman, stepping out of the conjuring circle etched into her dirt floor. “Can you speak?”

Have you ever wondered what the actual meaning of life is and why we are here? Evidently, there is a reason for the existence of things and we are no exception. Every day we observe people struggle to survive in the world, but no one seems to be interested in creating an exceptional and safer world. But, what if we could procreate a difference? What if we were offered the opportunity to have the abilities that we only observe in movies, the ability only super heroes are forenamed to have? What would you do with a superpower? The privilege of having any kind of super power contains its responsibilities and can easily be used for either exceptional or unpleasant deeds. Having a super power, such as invisibility would not just be astonishing, but it would increase your ability to perform activities and help people.