The Ghost Road

character-- Macbeth, as you probably guessed. Various supernatural factors alter Macbeth’s morals until he is consumed by the evil that was formerly contained within himself. Powers of darkness such as witches, prophecies, and ghosts all push Macbeth onto and along the road to destruction. The chaos begins when three witches appear to Macbeth and his buddy Banquo, and they proclaim, “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! ...that shalt be king hereafter!” (I, iii, 50-51), which confuses

Marley and Scrooge - the firm was known as Scrooge and Marley - although the sign had not been changed since Marley’s death, based on the information in the text, Scrooge was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! On page 2, I noticed the author says Scrooge has an insufficient fire, but the clerk’s fire (Bob Cratchit) was so indubitable small that it looked like one coal. Scrooge was known throughout the community as an

merited him heaven, and he is confused as to why the murderer got into heaven. He believed that he could earn his way into heaven through his works: through justice. This ghost saw the offer of salvation through repentance as charity. Since he believed salvation came through his works, he refused to accept salvation as a gift. This ghost prided himself on his own works, and this led him to damnation. He cried, “I came here to get my rights, see? Not to go sniveling along on charity tied onto you apron-strings”

“Good morning,” Ruth said entering the room at the Mountaineer Nursing Home to see her ninety-year old grandfather before going to work as she often did. “How is my little girl this beautiful morning?” He asked happy to see her. “I’m great. Did you sleep well?” She kissed him on the forehead and hugged him before she sat in the chair by his bedside. “Once I got my medication, I went to sleep and slept until daylight. How is it going down at the newspaper? Did anyone retire this week?”He asked with

influence is shown in Wilson’s use of magic to reflect the racial and even universal experience in the individual lives in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and The Piano Lesson. The magical elements of the mystic ritual, spiritual songs, haunted piano and ghosts combine with

A soft blanket of snow fills the road like an artist preparing a fresh canvas waiting for imagination to flow from his paint brush. Laughter fills the path as a group of children walk home from school. One of the children’s names was Catherine. She was basking in all the wonderful wintry-wonderland scenery. Instantly her feelings of awe and amazement were replaced by fear, replaced by petrifying fear, they were replaced by really, really, really petrifying fear. In the woods, a dark figure loomed

taking a car trip to the mountains. One passenger records the trip with a video camera. While driving along the road, the travelers spot a strange female hitchhiker, whom they pick up. The passenger with the camera focuses on the hitchhiker, who seems strangely quiet, but says her name is Teresa, and states that she has not been the same since her accident. She then points out a spot on the road where she says she died. She suddenly turns to the camera and screams,

However, the narrator claims this is a gift which only humanity can achieve, and to do so they must awaken. Christ the giver can only give so much. The next line is the key as it reads, “Don’t ask for a name/ you can surrender, for there are more ghosts to placate.” (lines 20-21). The father instructs his son not to provide an explanation which will allow humans to completely understand. It is also in the nature of God to be in harmony with humans, but as this relationship is predicated upon their

Robert Desmarais is no ordinary caretaker, living as he does in a ghost town 8200 feet above sea level. He is also an historian, story teller, geologist, chemist and licensed blaster. He speaks of the people who inhabited this place as if he’d known them all personally, which due to the eerie nature of this town, he might well have. Robert is in the process of putting together a book on the history of the town. Hopefully it will be available before long, as just the few stories he told us made me

different genres of literature as well; in the ghost stories genre, authors attempt to scare, teach moral lessons or entertain through their writings. Even each ghost story has its own significant purpose. In the ghost story, “The Open Window”, Saki deliberately replaces ghosts with a human character who manipulates truths in order to prove the ultimate danger of the unpredictability of human behavior. In a ghost story, readers would expect the presence of a ghost. According to Cox and Gilbert, the dead