The Pillow Book

is a necessity to one of the soldiers. The Bible appears again after Lavender’s death, “He wanted to say more, just to lighten up his sleep, but instead he opened his New Testament and arranged it beneath his head as a pillow” (O'Brien 573). You can interpret its use not as a pillow but as his spiritual relief, because each man carried softer items that could have been used as a

in the pillow. It will just explode. How will you get it in there?” •While Max did decide that the amounts were equal before being put in the pillowcases, he did felt the amounts had been changed by being put in and out of the pillowcase. He perceived that the amount was not conserved after the equal pieces were cut. His thought process saw more pieces and for him that meant more batting and a fluffier pillow. “It is all crinkly. They are not the same amount now. What’s inside the pillow now?” “The

introduced in Part I of the collection within the poem “Graveyard Blues”. The final stanza of the poem says, “I wander now among the names of the dead: My mother’s name, stone pillow for my head” (8). First, while the word grave does not appear within this line, it is heavily implied by the speaker using her mother’s name as a stone pillow. The reader can deduce that this line is referring to a gravestone as when one thinks of a gravestone they usually picture an upright slab of rock with the name of the

gothic stories and a book written by Ransom Riggs called Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Essentially about naive children with superpowers who are in a time loop and are obliged to fight ravage monsters called hollowgast collateral elements, that were exemplified in both Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and gothic stories abide isolation, monsters and violence. Violence was exhibited in “The Black Cat”, monsters were demonstrated in “The Feather Pillow” and isolation was shown

even more relieved when I’m back in the room; I woke up in. I actually look around this time and realize there are five beds, three messy with blankets and pillows and two untouched along with a few old dressers. I do remember my bed is in the far corner next to the blacked out window. I pace over to it and collapse; face first into the pillow. My body is drained and my stomach is still sick from whatever drug

In the book, “ Fahrenheit 451”, the character Captain Beatty gives a speech to the main character Montag. In the book, they believe that books are the reason bad things happen throughout history. So, all books are banned and they have firemen start fires to burn the houses of people who are caught owning books. In this speech Captain Beatty convinces Montag of his position on how books are pointless and why exactly they should and continue to be burned. Captain Beatty conveys his attitude towards

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag is a fireman that’s unlike our own firemen. Montag is usually covered in the smell of Kerosene. After a while Montag discovers the love of books, which gets him into danger. Montag changes his beliefs and actions in the beginning to the end because of the influences from the people around

four or five. There are 18 students in the room, 3 are absent in first period. The room has three separate places to do reading, one with just a cluster of pillows, another in the corner of the room with book shelves, drapes to create a warm and fun environment, with more pillows, and another underneath a paper made tree, with a seat and more pillows. There are no other adults in the classroom, other than the teacher. There are no students with obvious physical impairments of mobility issues. There are

The train Most Indian trains have 5 categories: General: this is the wagon that enters who wants and sits who can. It is the cheapest option and usually tickets are sold more than numbers of seats. The guys can even sleep in the space that is reserved for backpacking. Sleeper Class: you buy the ticket and have your seat guaranteed. You can sleep and the accommodation has 6 beds. Of course, there is no luxury, it is a bit dirt, but nothing that a moister toilet, with the scent of flowers, can’t

aforementioned is evident in the following literary classics: "The Black Cat," "Prey,"and "The Feather Pillow." Paranoia subsequently comes into place during a time of danger, illustrating an individual's true colors when faced with the choices of life and death, which in most cases is putting one's own welfare prior to others. The literary works of "The Black Cat," "Prey," and "The Feather Pillow" all share the gothic element of violence/revenge and how it alters the fear in each individual. "The