The Shadows : A Short Story

Richard Wright’s short story entitled, “The Man Who Killed A Shadow” showed the reality and truth of a black man’s life and how quickly it can be jeopardized when race and sex are mixed together. When I began reading the story I felt heartbroken for the main character because he just seemed like a good human being. Saul basically grew up with no role models to guide him in his life and his parents and grandmother died when he was a young boy. Saul quickly had to adapt to these changes and began working to support himself. When Saul began working at a young age he did not understand why “the shadows” or white people saw him as inferior. This was something that he noticed that black people just seemed to accept and he began to accept it as well even though he had no idea why. Saul had to continue to work for the white shadows became increasingly unhappy with the way his life was going. The narrator states, “At the age of fifteen Saul knew that the life he was living was to be his lot, that there no way to rid himself of his plaguing sense of unreality, no way to relax and forget” (187). It was extremely depressing to me that Saul knew at the age of fifteen that this was the reality of the rest of his life. He knew he would never be happy and that he would have to work for the white shadows in order to feed himself.

The Long Shadow is a book written by three research sociologists; Karl Alexander, Doris R. Entwisle, and Linda Olson. Karl Alexander is John Dewey Professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at the John Hopkins University. The late Doris R. Entwisle was a research professor of Sociology at the John Hopkins University. Linda Olson is an associate research scientist with the Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC) and the Center for Social Organization of Schools at the John Hopkins University. This book was originally published on April 14, 2014 and in this book, these professors followed the lives of 790 children growing up in various neighborhoods throughout Baltimore, Maryland. I would consider this book a case study because it took over twenty-five years of research, interviews and surveys to finally get it done and then later on published. The three main subjects researched in this book are a family’s background, disadvantaged urban youth, and the transition to adulthood. And in this paper, I will present my central findings of this book.

To most, when asked to define what Gothic is, they will state that it is similar to any other story, just with more “darkness.” This is because Gothic stories all have a classic story line. First, there is the main character’s back story, if any is then told. Next, there are events that lead up to a horrible incident that is the climax of the story. Lastly, the character finds some way to fix the situation or free him- or herself from it. They might go insane, commit suicide, run away, or watch other characters perish. However, readers would be greatly mistaken if they thought that this was all that there is to a Gothic story; there is much more to the Gothic than meets the

A mental disorder, or mental illness, can be a very serious issue in the world today. Not only today but even back many years ago. There have been many complications with studying mental illnesses, but with the basic knowledge and research of these topics, we can then understand the result of answering the question: How are mental illnesses viewed in Ireland compared to the United States? Looking at examples of mental illnesses around the world including examples from the book Reading in the Dark, written by Seamus Deane will help provide a good understanding of want a mental illness can look like in the life of a child. Although mental illness seems like a broad topic, there is a lot that can be taken away from it. Knowing a basic definition and background, and how mental illnesses were viewed in both Ireland and the United States, in the 1900’s and today, can help one understand how mental illnesses are caused in different countries around the world.

Even though Mr. Malter knew Reuven would want to know about Danny. He kept this unspoken promise to Danny.

She went to her room and put on her sleepwear and asked Robert if he wanted to go to sleep. But he told her that he would stay with her husband for a while longer. After this the narrator changed the channel on the television and there was

It all started one normal afternoon after a school day. She was in her room doing her math homework when she heard, “CLANK, CLANK” on the door. It was her mom and dad knocking on the door to her bedroom. She answered, “Come in”, and her mom and dad slowly closed the door and sat on her double sized bed. Ellie then noticed that they were being awfully quiet so she decided to go join them. She sat on her bed and her mom started to whisper to her dad like they had something to tell

After a few more minutes of waiting Anna decided to get out of bed and walk down to the food court to see if her father was there. After getting out of bed, Anna found a note taped to her father’s chair that she hadn’t seen before scripted in scribbly letters saying Based on your actions he might come back don’t tell anyone about this and he will come back unharmed. Anna hurriedly found the bag of her clothes that her mother had delivered overnight and pulled on a hot pink mini skirt and a white long sleeve crop top. After getting dressed Anna opened her door and stepped outside, there was no one anywhere to be seen. She continued to walk down the hall and there was still no noise and no one in sight. She walked straight to the elevator and went down to the first floor where the food court should be, but there was no one there either, the hospital had been abandoned and she was sure that the songbook and the object that played her melody the night before were somehow behind it all. She ran back up to her room as carefully as she could trying not to hurt her arm, and once she arrived at the door she grabbed the music book off the desk beside of her bed, tried to flush it down the toilet, and stuffed her cell phone in her bag of clothes that her mom had bought. She was about to pick up her bag when she heard a new melody right outside of her door. La, La, La, La, La, La. La, La, La, La, La. La, La, La, La, La. La, La, La, La, La, La, La. She wanted to see what was making the noise so she carefully opened her door and peeked through the opened crack. There nothing was there! She grabbed her bag of clothes and ran down the steps as quickly as she could but then she heard a voice behind her, “Aaaaannnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaa!!!!” the voice moaned “Aaaaannnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaa it isn’t safe at your house!!!!” said the voice. She spun around and saw a scrawny old man

In the next few chapters of Secrets in the Shadows, I hope to learn a lot. I wish the main character Roylin Bailey realizes that his crush, Korie Archer, doesn’t like him for who he really is. I also hope that he realizes that he is turning into the very person he hates.

Suena was walking home and she felt like she was being followed, but she thought it was because of the horror movie she watched the night before. It was about a twenty minute walk for Surena to get home and she often enjoyed but that day she didn’t enjoy it. When she got home there was a note on her fridge from her mother saying she’ll be back in a couple of hours and that there was leftovers in the fridge. She still had that icky feeling that someone was watching her, she kept saying in her head that it was just the horror movie scaring her. Her dog Belle was eating the couch again, when her mom got home she’d be mad. Surena went up stairs to her bedroom and forgot to lock the door that day, when her mother warned her many times before to

“Between Shadows” is a fiction standalone book written by Kathleen Cook Waldron. Ari is a 12-year-old boy. His grandfather recently passed away after promising Ari they would spend the summer at his cabin together. Ari, his aunt, and his dad go up to the cabin to clean it out and figure out what to do with it. Ari soon finds out that in his grandfather's will, the cabin is left to him. He can do whatever he wants with it. Ari learns that his aunt and dad both want to sell the cabin and he has no say in it. Ari will do anything to save his cabin.

Shadows in Mildred Pierce add depth not only to the cinmetophgray but also to the characters as their intentions and motives throughout the film are revealed in a series of flashbacks. In opening the film with a shootout the audience’s perception of what happened thus becomes shaped through the characters interactions with the lead character, Mildred. The shadows however help add not only depth but also an air of mystery to the scenes, as they are most promonlty scenes in the house where the murder takes place. In understanding the intentions behind shadows in this film how do they contradict with the scenes in the daytime that take on just as much tension as the scenes performed at night?

She walks sneakily back inside, trying her hardest not to let her mom notice her. She knows that her mom would never let her keep Oscar and Alphonse. While she was tiptoeing across the house, she unknowingly left a trail of dirt behind her. As she was placing the leaf and dirt mixture into the jar, the door suddenly began opening. It was her

In the movie, “A Game of Shadows”, every so often Sherlock Holmes has these split seconds in which he is foreseeing what will happen in the moments to come. These moments are shown in slow motion to add emphasis on what Holmes is visualizing, and predicting what will possibly happen next. In the beginning of the movie Holmes finds himself in an unfair predicament in which he is being ganged up on in an alley. He quickly analyzes the situation he is in, the other men’s next moves, and what he can do to quickly, but not necessarily safely, get out of that predicament. Holmes’ analyzation worked out for him that time, he fought off the men who were attacking him, and escaped with only a diminutive cut on his cheek.

She ran to the middle of whatever was still standing in her house and started to cry. She got on her knees and thought that everything that was once hers was gone in an instant. She cried and cried, until she found no more use. Then, once her eyes started to clear up, she spotted something.