The Dead Girl

mysterium tremendum, or an overwhelming mystery to others that can not be easily explained. The snakeman in the book is a belief the girls have of a man that dresses in all black and sneaks around the school. The girls scare themselves into thinking that he throws “ evil dust” at them and that he has a silver bracelet that when looked at will paralyze you. The girls have a sense of spiritual being about the man claiming that he moves too fast to be a human and that he corrupts them. A similar essay

The movie Drop Dead Gorgeous is a satire, meaning that is mocks a certain issue to bring about awareness and change, however, in the case this film mocks many things ranging from anorexia to trailer trash. This type of exaggeration can often be misconstrued as rude or even insensitive although due to the fact this this film mocks a wide range of things it is pretty clear that it is not a serious film. The film focuses on a beauty pageant hosted in Minnesota and the girls who are competing in it.

Would you marry two teens from feuding families who had just met the previous day? Would you give a thirteen year old girl a potion to fake her death so she didn’t have to marry the man her father wanted to be with the murderer she loved? Would you leave a young girl alone in a grave with her dead lover’s body not knowing what she would do? If you answered no to all of those questions, you are a normal person with solid decision making skills. If you answered yes to all of the questions, you are

Elizabeth Bishop’s poem First Death in Nova Scotia follows a small girl who is introduced to the concept of death for the first time through her cousin, Arthur. Even though the narrator is just a child who is experiencing death for this first time, she is extremely perceptive of her surroundings. The details and language the girl uses to describe the situation illustrates the difficulty the girl is having coming to terms with the idea of death, while also confusing her throughout the poem. The important

of the girl having the “operation.” Hemingway uses the landscape, the white elephant, and the term “elephant in the room” to represent different aspects of the pregnancy and abortion. The landscape in the story represents choosing the abortion or choosing to keep the baby. The setting of the story is at a train station. On one side of the train track the landscape is “brown and dry” (Hemingway 123) and the other side is green and has rivers and mountains. The discussion that the man and girl are having

hanging over him; an evil genius or spirit seeking to ensnare his perdition”(Washington) . There was already evil over him watching him and wanting to take some control over his mind Satan was starting to trick his mind . Wolfgang would dream of a girl it had such a strong impression that he dreamt of it over and over again . One night he was walking

cheeks. Then he fell clumsily to the ground, silent, still. Dead. In a puddle of red liquid. On looking closer, a passer by may have seen the deep scars in the man's face and the dried blood under his nails. Two people went walking by, a girl and her boyfriend; at first they thought it was a homeless person but as they got closer they realised there was something seriously wrong. When the girl saw his face the first thing she did was let out a tremendous

The book I am currently reading is called “As Dead As It Gets” by Katie Alender. This book is the last book in the trilogy and the “Bad Girls Don’t Die” series. The genre of this book is Horror and Survival. In the first book, “Bad Girls Don’t Die” is about how Alexis’ sister Kasey becomes possessed by an antique doll. Kasey is a twelve-year-old girl who has an anti-social and anti-cheerleader attitude, who is obsessed by her antique doll. She then gets possessed by it, and strange things start

power to those who live in city and suburban settings. With that being said, I believe it can be observed that small-town America is satirized in Drop Dead Gorgeous. The main plot surrounding Drop Dead Gorgeous is a pageant set in a small town of Minnesota called Mount Rose. It is mentioned many times that the pageant is the only way out for a girl in Mount Rose. This is a very typical saying for small towns that there are few ways to actually leave the town. Throughout the film, not only does it

the dead man makes the audience almost feel like they know him, despite the author never knowing him. The ability to create the image of something makes the difference between feeling distant or enveloped in a novel. Whereas, Tim O’Brien states, “His jaw was in his throat, his upper lip and teeth were gone...He lay face-up in the center of the trail, a slim, dead, almost dainty young man” (O’Brien 118). These physical features of the dead man are bringing to the forefront that the now dead man