The scream will forever haunt me. I hear “EMILYYYYY” on replay all day in my head. I can still make out the despair and sorrow in her voice. I later found out that Emily Roland, a twenty year old student at the University of Minnesota, had fallen to her death at a place I had been just ten minutes before the fall. It makes me think about if times had changed, and I would have been the one to fall. This haunts me. It all started with the desire to feel the adrenaline rush of urban explorations. Going into the unknown was not only thrilling, but it made you feel “cool”. All of the teens and young adults were doing it to seek adventure. On June 6, 2015 the abandoned structure I explored was the Bunge Midway Elevator in Minneapolis. …show more content…
There were holes about two feet in diameter across the whole surface of each floor. The stairs were rusted and bent. The building was clearly not meant for people to be exploring in. About halfway up, another group of three entered the building. That group included Emily Roland. They were a bit obnoxious when they came in, so I assumed that they might be drinking. The group that was leading my friend and I just ignored them, and kept going up. We stopped at a balcony type area that was connected to the building, but outside. It was a gorgeous view of downtown Minneapolis. Suddenly, Emily and her two friends caught up with our group at the balcony. They started climbing on things that were not meant to be climbed, so we left and continued our journey upwards. We finally made it to the roof. It was about ten floors up. In order to get to the roof you had to climb two different ladders. The first ladder led to an elevated platform, that had the second ladder leading to the roof. When I was on the roof, I had the best view of the city I have ever had in my life. Since the building was so high you could see the entire part of downtown Minneapolis. Eventually, Emily’s group and her made it to the roof. Everything was perfectly fine, until Emily and her two friends decided to start smoking pot on the roof. Their recklessness made us feel unsafe. We left shortly after. On my way down the ladders I noticed
A seemingly ordinary young boy named Herman Mudgett was wandering the woods that surrounded Gilmanton, New Hampshire, when he discovered a house. He had not come across it before, so he decided to explore what was inside. The door was already open, and the condition of outside convinced him that no one was living in it. Herman first noticed an upstairs landing that overlooked most of the common area. The home looked as if no one had ever occupied it; the walls were white, but looked grey due to the overwhelming amount of dust, and it was almost empty. Herman decided to continue his tour upstairs. When he finally reached the second floor, he carefully looked over the unstable railing to observe the space from above, although it did not look much different from the lower view. Herman continued to wander the halls until he heard a loud thump in one of the bedrooms.
That night I toss and turn on my new, obscenely comfortable mattress. My thoughts center on a girl's body falling through space, on a chute that opens a split second too late to slow her fall. Her body breaks on rocks and stone, the canopy drifting delicately down upon her. People crowd around, and when that shroud is pulled away, the face I see is Mabel's. My stomach hurts, a cramping I haven't felt since I first went cold turkey, four years ago, (Pizzolatto “Ghost Birds”).
The stars were gleaming in the night sky. Emily, Luke and Tim were eating cold tomato soup in the living area. It was horrid. The groundskeeper began to speak abruptly. “Now, I’m gonna tell you about an incident that happened right here in this building about 8 years ago. Kids just like you were sent here. It was night fall, and the atmosphere was eerie and uncalm. Something was about to go down. Something big! So, as I was saying, every child was heading off to bed when there was harsh sounding scream that came from upstairs. And then there was another after that. A girl and boy had been slaughtered. I looked up towards the staircase and saw a dark black figure with fiery red eyes. For one moment, the hideous looking creature was there, staring at me. The next, vanished!”
It was a long but narrow building, with multiple sections in the inside. There's plenty of petrified people every where, coming in full body, top torso, and other bits. The petrified people, we can’t confirm if its actual petrified flesh or plastic, either way it's still creepy. Next to those chambers there a section with multiple rooms that represent auditoriums, with plenty of chairs and a tattered cloth in front. Then down further in the black market there's a section for speculated footwear.For being old I will admit they’re stylish, but they don’t beat my specialized boots. From that this excavation, was very productive, and we obtained various results. After those days we think we got a deeper understanding of how people lived back in the early
The building had been abandoned for a long time. It was four storeys and overlooked a deadly set of stairs that ran alongside a cliff. It was a rich building: rich in culture, rich in beauty, but richest of all in its history.
The abandoned Woodgate church is somewhere I’d heard about from friends, but I’d never been. Everyone talked about how spooky and beautiful is was at night; they’d say you can see the stars better than anywhere in town from the churchyard. It had closed down eleven years prior due to not meeting building code, something about cold weather concrete or whatever. After that, it became the number one place for kids to get in trouble in my town, because the cops never roll
I went back inside, and I went into my sister’s room to get my bb gun out of her closet. When I looked up I saw a little opening in the roof. I went up there to see if I could find anything cool. When I got in there I noticed a glimmer on the other side. I went over there I noticed that there was, what looked like, a little boarded up window leading to the outside. Though in the two years of me being here I never notice anything such
Considering the theme of the power of death, it prevails over the single attempt to understand it. The narrator begins the book with the death of Emily thus creating a unique
I took some time to inspect the external faces of the building. Noting that every visible window had screwed into it thin but densely packed bars that were all painted gloss white. Only the second floor seemed spared of this less than inviting treatment. Once done with casting my eye over the the guttering and double glazing. I went inside making use of the key. The door closed behind me with a slightly weighted thud. I could no longer hear the drone of traffic outside, I may as well have been in the depths of the ocean
The next day I went to Lilac Lake for the first time in a month. I was looking for clues of Mackney. When I arrived the place looked like a tornado had swept through. There was empty beer bottles,food, and all types of trash thrown about. My life slowly became more of a nightmare than a dream. I cried pathetic tears of what my life was becoming. Everyone I loved was gone. People looked at me as if I were a freak, Mackney was gone leaving me with the fall. I stayed there for hours before I was interrupted by a voice.
Old, shiny, wooden handrails are freshly polished on brass hangers leading the way to a landing, they divide the walk up. Once reaching the second floor you’re greeted with two closed doors. The doors are a brown stained oak wood with an opaque piece of frosted glass in the center of them. Shockingly, there were no indications on what door to enter; reluctant to open one I glanced down the hall to my left. I noticed a beautifully polished handcrafted oak door with the same embossed brass Image Management sign as the side of the building affixed to it. The sign was a clear indication this was the entrance to the
The Scream by Edvard Munch relates to three short stories through the notion of fear. This relates to The Guest as the main character is made to fear for his future and The Lottery relates to fear as the whole point of this lottery is to show order through fear. Finally, it connects to Owl Creek Bridge because Peyton Farquhar is afraid so he thinks about a positive situation to relieve his fear. Fear is one central theme across these three short stories and The Scream. The first short story this painting relates to is The Guest by Albert Camus.
She came back and walked the streets as a demon killing everyone she saw. The first stop she made was at her small house. She remembered that she wished for money so that way they can live in a bigger house and not struggle of paying the bills, but that was before now Emily doesn't care. As she walked in the house and she saw the husband that she wished for that didn’t save her. She taught Why don’t I kill him first because he was supposed to save me from the hole, but all he did was look in it. So Emily killed Kyle (her husband) first. After she killed him she saw her family standing there wondering what happened to her. She saw her mom, dad, her 2 sisters and her 4 month baby cousin, but she still attacked them. She realized that her older brother was not there and thought that he was just at work. Emily decided just to wait. Three hours passed by and he still wasn’t home. Emily was about to give up and she heard a gunshot and then her brother came in the door with a fully loaded gun. She hears it again and then everything turned white in her
Through analysis of Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream”, the mood is portrayed as tense and frightful. This mood is achieved through facial expressions, bold and contrasting colors, body language, and the elements of lines. In the painting the facial expressions and body language convey a negative mood. In “The Scream” a distorted skeletal figure with a ghastly face is drawn with his hands over his ears and mouth agape. The terrified being conveys a frightful mood due to the contortions of his face and hand positions.
The Scream is one of the paintings of Edvard Munch, Norwegian artist. The painting depicts a moment of distress and suffering in a desperate existence. The painting The Scream is regarded as one of the most important works of the Expressionist movement.