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Today I was called to go to my house. When I got there my mother tells me, "someone is here to see you." A man told me to go in. When I went in it smelled like blood and roses, and also there was a little white haired man in the chair. When he turned around looking at me with those snakelike eyes. The person was President Snow. I was speechless and I couldn't believe that he is here. He told me to sit down. Then he told me what is going on, "I have a problem, and it all started when you pulled out

In the small southern town of Macomb, there are different citizens and personalities that make it up. There are the Finches, Cunninghams, Ewells, Hecks and many others that add to the unpredictable town itself. They bring songs to the musical of Macomb County whether they’re light and positive or dark and dangerous. The main character and narrator Scout is all about not caring what others think, doing what she feels comfortable with, and unapologetically being herself. I think she would sing the

There are so many people changing their names, whether it’s because they just don’t like it or because they’re becoming a new person. Associations play a huge part in whether or not someone likes not only their name but someone else’s. For example, if someone were to associate themselves with being transgender it’s important for the people around them to respect their pronoun

“Thief” shows the reader what happens to Babe after the fire but also introduces new characters, Billy and his mother. As the story begins, Billy and his mother arrive at their house being robbed. Very quickly, Billy’s mother finds a woman and it emerges to be Babe. Although, robbery was committed, Babe was given a second chance. Once

In The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, by Kathi Appelt, a pair of raccoons, Bingo and J’miah, become the Official Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp (Appelt 3). Bingo and J’miah go on special missions to serve the Sugar Man, a creature that rules over the swamp, and heed to the “Voice of Intelligence” that comes from a junky old DeSoto car abandoned in the swamp (Appelt 3-4). One day, Bingo and J’miah hear a rumble in the swamp and figure out that it is a herd of wild hogs, who are trying to eat all

The Rachel Maddow Show and The Philip DeFranco Show. I had chosen to compare the two because they are both personality driven news shows, with the similar format of one presenter and a skew towards a liberal political stance. These similarities will allow me to more clearly see a difference in how I consume the content. The format of the show hosted by Maddow, a cable news show on MSNBC, has remained for the most part, static, it could have been produced 30 years ago to the same effect through television

The short story, "A Dead Woman 's Secret," is about a mother who just passed away. Her children, who became successful adults because of mother 's love and nurture, kneeled down beside her bed. The thought of letting her go was terrifying, so they decided to read her old letters. The first few stocks of letters brought a lot of positive emotions and brightened up their mood. As they dug further down through the letters, they learned the truth that absolutely destroyed the image of a perfect mother

Total Opposites In the short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte, the author uses characters in the story that have very similar characteristics, except for one, "Uncle Billy." John Oakhurst is a big time gambler in Poker Flat. He took large sums of money from many people in town. The residents of Poker Flat were very upset with him always winning bets and all of their money. Out of all the people that are banned from Poker Flat, Oakhurst possesses the best qualities out of the group

In Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow, a girl from the Andes named Fausta has an odd disease contracted from her mother’s milk. Because her mother was raped and tortured during the Peruvian Civil War with Fausta in her womb, the mother’s milk is contaminated with the disease, according to the local people. This condition causes symptoms such as rarely leaving one’s home by will, avoiding men, rarely speaking, and walking close to the walls of houses for fear of having one’s soul stolen. In the film

A Relationship Left in the Cold “Let It Snow” by David Sedaris is a short story that magnifies the extent to which children might go in order to grab the attention of their parents. It is full imaginative details that would help the reader understand what it feels like to be a child. Sedaris starts with these imaginative details from the beginning of the story to the end and this keeps the interest of the reader. After the reader begins to read he/she might get the assumption that the story will