The Flicker

As I'm walking into this creep hotel I see this very nice old lady knitting. She walks up to me with her cane. She asks me what my name is and I say Billy, what's your name? My name is Dianna now come this way ill give you a room. She gives me a room and all that's in it is a bed and a sink nothing else. She says you can do your own laundry down the hall, but go to bed we leave a curfew. As I change into my pajamas I go to sleep. It is the next morning and I'm going to go do my laundry. As I'm walking

My little brother’s name is Martez. Martez got his name from his dad. He just turned 2 years old. He is very clumsy, and is still learning how to talk. He just says dad all the time. They're chairs in my house, and he loves to climb them to mess with stuff on the table. There are also stairs that he fell down a couple of times. Martez was very small and skinny when he was born. He didn't have any problems as a baby. He is very athletic at his current age. He cries very loud now and when he was

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In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he writes about New York City, and he describes it as “thrilling and exciting”. New York City is a place where you can be whoever you want. In order to emphasize an adventurous mood, Fitzgerald employs figurative language and imagery in his descriptions of New York; the adventurous atmosphere gives the readers an exciting feeling of what happens next. On an early morning, Nick walks down the street and goes into a restaurant. Nick observes, “In

men tell strange stories she's never heard before within the camp. According to the laws of the tribe, it was forbidden for the women to hear the sacred stories and see the Shaman's magic. She looked up abruptly from her hiding spot to watch the flickers of light and bursts of energy come from the Shaman. This was a nightly ritual before hunting, as they believed the Shaman helped increase their chance of catching a creature to feast upon. The Shaman’s light illuminated Ayita’s face. Then he saw

marionette show.” Obviously she wasn’t watching a marionette show right then and there, but Bradbury metaphorically wrote that she observed little details often. Usually people don’t really pay attention or care much about each of the marionette’s eye flicker or finger flick

she thinks she always has to be brave. As the sun starts to set, the figure unfurls, stretching into the night. A dark figure crawls, suspiciously advancing as she walked hesitantly down the abandoned alley, reflecting her every faint movement. A flicker of the street lamp and she briefly loses it. In her relief, it rises out of the murky depths of the puddle beneath her feet, breathing life into the cold cobblestone.

falling, mixture and separation, clarity of sound melding to muffled words. Silence is tainted by the incessant rapture and rupture, the throb of a life source echoing echoing, filling the ear, deafening sound. There is no sight, merely a distant flicker of recognition in an impartial eye, a flash of turquoise and then darkness. Even the darkness pulsates with a gentle glow— light beneath a scale of skin, the faculty of sight protected by blindness— resounding in the hollow frame of a fleshly form

reader to gain deeper understanding of the father’s poignant feeling. The use of alliteration and consonance can be found throughout the poem. The letters “g” and “f” are repeatedly deployed as in “finishing, family, figure, fall, face, forever, flicker, faces, gluing, googly, glass, grown, and glint”. The repeated sounds of the letters resemble the grieving and melancholic feeling the father is suffering. Lastly, the use of consonance adds colour to the musical quality of the poem. The last stanza

surroundings because he is about to start his lengthy allegory. Basically, Marlow begins by telling the other sailors that every place was at one point unexplored and uninhabited.     2. “We live in the flicker…may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling.” This quote was spoken by Marlow. The “flicker” that Marlow mentions refers to the “light of imperialism” and the development of new land. Marlow continuously uses the contrast of light and dark to represent the condition of the land