The Dead Girl

curiosity questions floating in your head like, “do they miss me, or have they moved on already?” In “Is my Team Plowing”, by A.E. Housman, the emotional speaker discusses how life goes on after death. The speaker, who is thought to be the friend of a dead man, is guilty for moving on in life and having relations with his deceased friend’s wife, so he is having a moment of guilt in his head or else that’s how I

“Freak of Nature”, written by Margaret Atwood, describes the event of a young, ill-fated girl diagnosed with an incurable genetic disorder, who is forced by society and its extreme pressure to mature all by herself while progressively turning into more of a monster figure day by day. Eventually, it escalates to her family planning her death in order to save the rest of the family’s future. Although the little girl is continuously being put down for her appearance along with persistent chatters discussing

The Moths by Helena Maria Viramontes is a short story about a relationship between a teenage girl and her abuelita. Although, the title seems unfitting for a story about a loving relationship between family members the significance of the moths, in this story, has a much deeper meaning than one would think. Like many other aspects of the piece, the insects have a symbolic meaning in order to convey the author’s feelings during the time of her grandmother’s death. Throughout the story we see the use

narrator is trying to show that the overall theme of this song is about scaring the girl so she could trust him. This is so he can get closer to her. The theme is shown by alliteration, personification, hyperbole, and imagery. Many of the literary devices are revealing the theme of the song. To start off, Michael Jackson writes “under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart.” This lyric talks about the girl being frightened of all the creatures that she sees in the night. Second, Michael

man said he knew nothing about he noble samurai. Tokoyo asked this question several times, getting the same answer. She thought he was dead. Then Tokoyo came to someone tying up a little girl. The person tying the girl up explained that that an evil god that lived at the bottom of the lake named Yofune-Nushi, who haunted them said if they didn’t send a little girl to feed it every

bury the dead may have been one of the biggest decisions for the Anglo-Saxons (Williams, H. 2002). But also, that we should take into consideration that cremation was a show and helped define social distinctions within the living society, as the inclusion in the rite would define your social distinction (Williams, H. 2002). Cremation also enhanced relationships between the living and the dead, as a rite of passage served to dissolve and reconstitute not only the identities of the dead but also those

In “The Crucible”, the girls were obviously hysterical and lying. They thought they were interacting with supernatural forces, but just ended up destroying people’s lives. First, Betty didn’t want to wake up from an unnatural cause, but when she woke up she started saying “ I want my mama”, then when Abigail told her that her mom was gone she started saying that Abigail had drank blood. Abigail didn’t want anyone to know what had happened. Abigail had to say what they were doing she said they had

simplicity, self-trust/confidence, and nonconformity. The movie Dead Poets Society is about a teacher who teaches his group of students how to live transcendental. The movie shows great acts of transcendentalism through each of the characters using the different tenets. Mr. Keating and Knox Overstreet in dead poets society shows that living transcentally is worth the consequences. Mr. Keating's actions of nonconformity in the movie Dead Poets Society benefitted his character in many ways. Mr.Keating

John Hubner’s Last Chance in Texas focuses on the boys and girls who go to Giddings State School to establish that they aren’t just criminals. The story doesn’t just focus on the students’ lives, but students who are trying to reform by transitioning from an unstable environment to a stable one. Giddings State School has two sections based on gender roles that demonstrate the students properly transitioning into a citizen. In the first section of the book, boys are not supposed to express their feelings

poem, Dead Butterfly, is to let go of the past because life keeps going on. The poem starts off in the first stanza by the mother of the girl explaining how her daughter seems to “gone” lately. “For months my daughter carried/ a dead monarch in a quart mason jar” (Bass 1.1-2). So far, the tone is neutral those 2 starting lines don’t have much emotion when its first read. By doing research on the meaning of a dead butterfly it can find that the meaning of a dead butterfly regards to dead soul, which