Dead By Sunset

the Southern Pacific locomotive and cries while looking at the sunset over the “box house hills.” He is sat next to his friend, Jack Kerouac, where “gnarled steel roots of trees of machinery surround them.” The water is described to be oily with no life living in it. Ginsberg uses several images to portray the industrial waste that surrounds the narrator and his friend and how it is disappointing to the narrator. Jack points out a dead sunflower sitting on a pile of ancient sawdust and the narrator

“It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and, the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset,” (Hinton 35). This quote by Ponyboy, the main character of S.E Hinton's The Outsiders, combines the main two themes that S.E Hinton's tries to show the readers all throughout her book. That there is honor even among the most lawless of social groups and that just because two groups of people

The Outsiders is the first book that the author S.E Hinton wrote. The story follows a group of people called the greasers since they live on the east side of town in Oklahoma, and they dress like your typical 1960’s gang with the slicked back hair and leather jackets the main character Ponyboy’s gang consists of his brothers Darry and Sodapop. The rest of the gang consists of Steve, Two-bit, Johnny and Dally. Their enemy in the story is the Socs or their full name the socials. The Socs are the rich

"Because I could not stop for Death" is one of the most puzzling poems Emily Dickinson wrote. “Scholars who stress these subversive qualities note that this poet appropriated conventional language, images, and themes and twisted them, disrupting their usual meaning.” (Dunlap, 2) In this poem, she describes death in hindsight. She commentates the experience play by play, chronicling her actions and vision from the time he arrived to pick her up in his carriage to her final resting place. In the

stay true to oneself. Not everything in life is a simple as it seems, just like Socs aren’t always what they are perceived to be. When Ponyboy was talking to Cherry, he thinks, “Maybe the two worlds we live in, weren’t so different. We see the same sunset” (Hinton

I used to love sunsets. I adored the drifting of the sun back beyond the horizon, vibrant colors dancing across the sky, giving off the last bit of light before disappearing into darkness beautiful, but not anymore. The way the shadows elongate on the ground, as the sun slowly lowers herself below the landscape and day turns into night brings memories of the worst moments of my life, the terrifying escape from the people who thought we knew too much, the people who wanted us dead. My father was

band, lies asleep in the silvery moonlight. I fly right up to her and land on her chest, where a scarlet black rose lies dead upon her breast. I wake up. I don’t know where I am. My vision is blurred. I can just make out that it’s dark and that I am lying on my back among the late autumn leaves. As I blink again a little bit more comes in to my view, laying on my chest is a dead rose of blackened rouge; just lying on top of one of the petals was a little

Marriage is a long lasting relationship. This eternity love cannot break or torn apart from hash weather, budget… but what about an abusive husband? The short story “runaways" describes a young female suffers from her spousal relationship. The abusive husband shatters the family apart leaving an unstable life for the mother and kids. Through her adventure abscond from her husband, she regains hopes and dream; hope: a place to settle, dream: where she could be loved again. The author Karen Brennan’s

Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s “The Portable Phonograph,” In Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s “The Portable Phonograph,” the author makes setting play a major role in understanding the action of the characters within the story. Clark, a writer and an English Professor, lived from 1909 to 1971. During that time, he lived through both World Wars at a relatively young age, which may have influenced this story. Clark has excellent use of setting to make the atmosphere needed and set the proper mood, so this

container. When she reached the top, she felt bliss, being able to see the sunset from the best seat on the ship. Then the ship suddenly jerked. Little chameleon always thought the captain to be high. But a chameleon was a land animal, she didn’t know about the rough waves and the currents of the sea. Anyhow, little chameleon didn’t mind it, she continued drinking in the view. She coloured herself the many hues of the sunset because she felt happy. She wanted to be a part of it. That night, the sea