I rushed down the hallway, as if I were pressed for time. Like usual, I wasn't, but I didn't want to keep anyone waiting. It was fifth period, my off hour. Unfortunately, that didn't apply to everyone. Stovall had told me he wanted to talk to me before class about my most recent writing. He made me swear to come down during my off hour, even though it wasn't his. I didn't want to hold his class up. I picked up the pace. The bell echoed above me; the corridor was completely empty. Or so I thought
Trapped in the Darkness It's dark, indescribably dark. Usually there's moonlight, artificial light, starlight, something, but not here; there's nothing. I try to move, but I am restrained. I listen, but I hear nothing. I smell but I smell only something clinical. If it wasn't for my heart pounding and my lungs racing to catch up, I might imagine I am dreaming, but I'm not. I'm not! I fearfully reach out with my right hand and, afraid of what I might find, I try
Born in the beautiful, wet and green country of England in 1818, Emily Jane Brontë would grow up and write one of the literary world’s most acclaimed work of literature. Before she wrote Wuthering Heights in 1847, Emily Brontë came from a very creative household as both of her sisters, Charlotte and Anne Brontë, were also writers with whom Emily would enjoy spending time with writing prose and poetry. Because the Brontë sisters lived a strongly patriarchal society where the ideal Victorian woman
The “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass, holds the same message that people are trapped in ignorance as Socrates tries to explain in “Allegory of the cave” by Plato. In the “Allegory of the Cave,” Socrates argues that the way people perceive the world around us and the way they lead our lives is actually not “truth.” Socrates describes people in a cave, their legs and necks are chained so that they cannot turn around. The only light is a fire burning behind them, and all prisoners
out of the house, but we couldn’t. We were trapped inside. Scotty, one of the kids stuck at Tattawa Regional High School, has this same problem, but worse. Scotty is one of seven students that are stuck at Tattawa Regional High School during a massive snowstorm. After the power shuts off and heat begins to seep out of the building, the students begin a race against time to escape the school which could soon become their icy grave. In the story Trapped, Michael Northrop uses descriptive language
“You think you know everything you,well you don’t. Do you know how hard it is to be trapped here,your the last one of your kin that can free this poor soul. Oh so pretty,oh so beautiful,you can free me,I know you can.” The eyes at the end of the hallway squinted at me,the voice laughed,and these white circles at the end of the dark hallway were no longer in my sight. And it ended in that one house. Again I explained in a rush to my friend as we were driving,to this house I kept seeing
Trapped in America For an American citizen my freedom is determined by the government, making me question if I am truly free. Arguably many Americans have a political dispute over our free, if our country is free or not. No doubt, I am by the side that thinks we aren’t free. We aren’t even close to being free, we aren’t a country who based our idea of being free and let people come into our country to feel safe and to feel at home. “The land of the free and the home of the brave” (Francis Scott
communicate to each other. In the story Trapped by Michael Northrop, the author uses dialogue to set up the problem. Without the characters communicating to each other, really there would be no story. I mean, yes a story doesn’t have to have dialogue, but it won’t keep moving. We won’t hear from other characters at all. And for setting up the problem in Trapped the characters communicate a lot about what to do, since there’s seven teenages with no adults trapped in a school. They speak a lot to each
She almost floated across the empty, box-like room. A cold shiver relentlessly weaved its way down Emma’s spine as she ran her bony hand down the bleak wall. The fireplace glared at her – its mouth opened wide. The unfamiliar surroundings struck her as if forcing themselves against her weak body –engulfing her. A soft breeze seething its way into the room from the uneven cracks underneath the door meant that the desolate room of openness had become filled with the sigh of
worsening conditions, school will be dismissed at one o’clock this afternoon,” (Northrop, p.15). Nobody wants to be captive. In “Trapped” by Michael Northrop, seven students are left at Tattawa High School because of their decision to wait for a parent instead of taking a bus. They will later regret their decisions as they lose, light, power, food, running water, and heat. In “Trapped” by Michael Northrop, snow symbolizes being captive in order to create a setting, build suspense, and set up a problem.