Ugly Tricks In 'Pretty Little Liars' By Sara Shepard

comes near his daughter. After living like this for so many years, Emily is left with

The novel that I chose was Spoiled by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan. The main characters include Molly, Brooke, and Brick Berlin. This book is about a sixteen year old girl named Molly Dix, who, after the death of her mother, moves to Los Angeles, California to live with her biological father, Hollywood movie star, Brick Berlin and her half-sister Brooke. Molly isn’t used to living the life of a rich girl, so when she arrives, she is both excited and terrified; not only that, she’s meeting her dad for the very first time. Brooke welcomes Molly to high fashion and fame with an overwhelming dose of “sisterly love”. But in this town, no one is ever what they seem. I think that Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan built the story in a way that would

The narrator seems unable to establish direct contact with Emily, either in the recovery center or their home life. The narrator notes how Emily grew slowly more distant and emotionally unresponsive. Emily returned home frail, distant, and rigid, with little appetite. Each time Emily returned, she was forced to reintegrate into the changing fabric of the household. Clearly, Emily and the narrator have been absent from each other’s lives during significant portions of Emily’s development. After so much absence, the narrator intensifies her attempts to show Emily affection, but these attempts are rebuffed, coming too late to prevent Emily’s withdrawal from her family and the world. Although Emily is now at home with the narrator, the sense of absence continues even in the present moment of the story. Emily, the narrator’s central

Truth is possibly one of the most powerful forces in humanity. Truth has the power to set people free, change lives and end them. Because of this, the truth is usually feared and often concealed. In Susan Griffin’s “Our Secret”, the concealing of the truth become a major theme in the advancement of the plot, and also carries the meaning to the work’s title. The title of “Our Secret” refers to the secrets that the individual characters in the story keep from others reference to the fact that humanity is keeping secrets from itself.

She, Emily, is physically living but not in the present; she is stuck living in her past. We first see this when her father dies, “She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body.” (Faulkner). This depicts that she is enamored of the dead which is why she resists in letting them bury her father. Emily did not want to kept denying her father’s death so she decided to hold onto him. By the description Faulkner gives, one may say Emily just did not know how to adapt to change. With that being said, she feared change so she did not want to let go because she was so dependent on her father and now he was gone. Once Emily passed on and was buried, people from her town go into her house and discover a decomposed corpse along with the strand of gray hair on the pillow next to what was formerly Homer Barron. Faulkner explains in detail yet again what was found, “…What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt…Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head…we saw a long strand of iron-grey hair”. With this being said it is discovered that she, Emily, had been sleeping next to his dead body for years. These two examples are prime reasons one could conclude that she had an issue letting go of her past. Throughout the short story Emily seemed to not want to

The other guests ask Emily if the accusations were true. She says nothing. For the first few days on the island, Emily Brent stays away from the others. She spends most of her time in her room reading horrific bible verses. Emily decides to confide in Vera. She tells Vera that a twenty-year-old girl named Beatrice Taylor came to live with her. Emily and Beatrice got along good. Beatrice got pregnant, and Emily kicked her out of her house. Beatrice later committed suicide. “Naturally I did not keep her an hour under my roof. No one shall ever say that I condoned immorality...she threw herself into the river...Her own action her own sin that was what drove her to it . If she had behaved like a decent, modest young woman none of this would have happened,” (111). Emily blamed Beatrice's sins for her suicide. As more and more people die, Emily starts to go crazy. Emily writes in her journal, “THE MURDERER'S NAME IS BEATRICE TAYLOR…” (175). The guilt finally takes over

Stephen King uses a boundless amount of literary elements to describe his personal situations to his journey to the author career. On page 17-18, King explains his experience reading Mary Karr’s memoir The Liars’ Club. He begins to explain his childhood and how it is an “odd, herky-jerky childhood.” In addition to, he goes to tell how Karr presents her childhood. He compares his younger days to hers by proposing his childhood as “a fogged-out landscape from which occasional memories appear like isolated trees . . . the kind that look as if they might like to grab and eat you.” In that statement it includes three literary elements, one which includes a simile. He compares his memories to isolated trees using the word like. The other literary element presented is personification. King portrays his memories as isolated trees that want to grab and eat you. However, trees can’t actually perform those types of activities. The final literary element is imagery. King made me as a reader legitimately picture the fogged-out landscape and the grabbing and eating of the isolated trees.

Myths said that inside the house of the Radleys lived a malevolent phantom, people said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in the windows. The name of this phantom was Boo Radley, but his actual name is Arthur and in reality it’s just a myth and know one knows for sure. Other myths say that he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that would explain why his hands were bloodstained, he was also known to have a huge jagged scar across his face. However these are rumors made up from kids probably and couldn’t be more farther than the truth. Another myth comes from Miss Stephanie Crawford, she said she woke up in the middle of the night one time and saw him looking through the window at her, this one can be true

When we look at the character of Emily, we discover a women who had been sheltered most of her life. She never had a real sense of reality due to her father, and the previous mayor

Tells her that he is meeting his fiancee for the first time tonight, and he had to see her one last time. At this point he probably is confused about his feelings for her. They talk and this leads to them kissing, it seemed like it was his first. Still confused he still seems compelled to go to his fiancee, to further his future. When done talking and smooching, they figure out who was behind the murder and it turns out to be the victim's fiancee. When Emily is injured Ariel and his family visit her in the hospital. Ariel says to Emily that, basically, that he is grateful that he had got to know her and that she is a very special person. It ends with him saying his goodbyes and going on to marry his fiancee, never to see Emily again. But the memories of his brief encounter of her will always be with him.

The narrator in “A Rose for Emily” states, “Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up” (Faulkner 734). This quote is an explanation of the reaction Emily has when the druggist asks what she needs to buy the arsenic for. She chooses to keep her reasoning quietly to herself, leaving his mind in a state of looming curiosity. Then the narrator adds, “Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows- she had evidently shut up the top floor of the house…” (Faulkner 734). Emily stays in her home, letting no one know of her reasoning or of her sickness. Also, she closes-up the upstairs, which is another secretive action that the towns people do not understand. Similarly, in A Doll House, Doctor Rank is concerned with Nora’s well-being, and she replies, “It’s only some- it’s my new dress” (Ibsen 1476). She lies to Doctor Rank, adding that she is bothered by her new dress. She is truly thinking about the calling card that the maid had just handed her. Additionally, Nora tells Kristine Linde, “…I’m telling you: nobody else has known about this…” (Ibsen ). She talks to her about the secret she has kept from every person she is acquainted with. This secret is about forging her father’s name on the loan she received from Krogstad. This secrecy builds suspense on what each character will

Emily concealed many aspects of her life from the eyes of the public. She was much like a recluse in her home and could easily have planned all of her deeds in that solitude. The townspeople were aware that, for some reason, Miss Emily had locked up the entire upper floor of her house (326). Having found the body in the upper floor of her house, witnesses believe that Emily had locked that part of her

The townspeople felt bad for Emily and thought the reason for her craziness was because her family had a history of it. Emily also waits three days before revealing the death of her father. Emily allows the dead body of her father to lie in her home rotting away. Another crazy action that Emily does is when she goes to the pharmacy to purchase “rat poison”. When Emily goes to buy the arsenic she doesn’t tell the druggist what exactly she is going to use it for, but stares him down making him feel uncomfortable. “Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up” (213). One of the most extreme actions Emily performs is being responsible for Homer Barron’s death. But, after fully reading the story the reader understands that Emily not only kills Homer but sleeps with his corpse. “What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay… Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair” (215) There the reader’s thought of Emily sleeping with the dead body and her psychotic tendencies is confirmed.

Throughout the childhood of David Small, he had to face with difficult realities. These difficulties came from many sources: his family, his illness, his society, … However, David still managed to survived through. All of the struggles are depicted successfully in Stitches which are overwhelmed with silences and secrets via an interesting form of literature: comic book.

Being away from her family and friends in Alabama, Emily takes out her frustration of her new environment on her family(100). Many flaws exist within this family;however, the family still seeks comfort in one another.