The Dead Girl

ruby red sheets, three girls lay laughing hysterically. All in their pajamas, eating popcorn, and playing silly games. Truly an 11-year-old girl’s dream. I watch them from outside very assiduously, hiding strategically behind the window curtain so as for me to see them, but not them to see me. The color outside is fading, turning slowly from color to shade. Just as those girls will be too. I know them well. Being a neighbor and a teacher, you have to. I adore the young girls. Anyone would. Smart

from sneaking around with Abby, to denying it to her face. Also John changes from being a God loving man, to ¨denouncing” his name. Abigail starts out as being a whoreand changes to being the voice of witchcraft. The girl that everyone listens to as she accuses everybody, the leader, girl with the most power. At first, John is seen as the married man fooling around with Abigail. Everyone knew kind of knew it, but no one said anything about it. Then when they are alone together in the woods, Abby still

earliest example of this, is when George discovers the mouse that Lennie has been holding, “Lennie held his hand away from George’s direction ‘It’s on’y a mouse, George.’ … ‘Uh-uh. Jus’ a dead mouse, George. I didn’t kill it. Honestly! I found it dead. “‘ (Steinbeck 5), though Lennie state that the mouse was dead when he found it, later on, it’s discovered Lennie “‘broke it pettin’ it’’ (Steinbeck 9). Another example of Lennie killing a vulnerable creature, was when Lennie killed one of the puppies

place called Pete’s Pizza. A girl named Kayla and a guy named Drew work there like many teenagers who work part-time jobs that are fairly routine. Little did either Kayla or Drew know that letting another girl named Gabie and Kayla switch shifts would be a mistake. They didn’t know that this routine switch would actually result in the kidnapping of Kayla. It is only after this tragic event that Gabie realizes that the person ordering on the phone had asked if the girl in the Mini Cooper would be

to honor the dead. This holiday was made for people struggle with losing loved ones, and celebrating it was found to be a good way to help them cope. Families can be seen in the cemetery bringing festive gifts to memorialize lost members. The camera pans into a city with brightly colored banners. Two skeletons pop up dancing, dressed vibrantly. The title “Dia de los Muertos” fades in from the back to the foreground. Balloons carry the picture to another scene where we see a young girl kneeling near

so great a piece” (Miller 186). Putnam wanted Jacob dead so he can have his land. Another character that falls into the theme greed, is Abagail. Abagail uses greed to pursue john after he called off the affair because Abagail wants Elizabeth dead so she can have john all

possess that object you get the feeling of wanting it back due to people envying over obtaining that object. In Meg Cabot’s novel, Shadowland the Mediator, Susannah, a teenage girl who just moved from new york to california to live with her step family, has the ability to see and speak with the dead and her job is to try to get the dead to pass on to the afterlife. Throughout the novel, Cabot uses jealousy to show that the characters aren’t appreciative for all that they have because they soon say and do

education in Iran are emotional, which implicitly reflect on the destruction of childhood is caused by a totalitarian regime. For instance, the teachers force the girls to wear veils on page1 and tells the parents that “either [girls] obey the law, or [they are] expelled” (Satrapi, 98) later on. Also, the background of these oppressive

Choices define who we are, good or bad they should be meaningful. Carpe diem is a method of thinking that represents seizing the day. How people seize the day can be very different. it can be having the courage to say something to a girl, standing up for a kid being bullied or following your dreams and participating in a play. Mr. Keating is as a very flamboyant English teacher at the Welton Academy. He is very enthusiastic about teaching English and very passionate about ensuring that his students

Although James Joyce’s “The Dead” and Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” were written in two completely different eras, and each narrative sets out to accomplish its own doing, we can draw clear parallel’s, as well as contrasts that undoubtedly accompany those. We are able to find similarities in underlying themes employed by both James Joyce, as well as Tony Morrison. One of the most evident parallels we are able to draw between the two texts lies in the recognition of reflection and sentiment, paired