Vultures

of some grotesque skinless atrocity ready to jump at a viewer in a horror film. The vulture, I never looked for its name, was busy when I arrived. Busy with its white field mouse, holding the carcass down with its claws, while snipping at its fur with dull scissor beak. I watched it find the tail of the mouse and apply a series of deliberate pecks at its base. Once the tail was separated from the body, the vulture slurped it up like a spaghetti noodle. This disgusted me, but I kept watching. Spirit

where he had gone that night but for the next six nights he had repeated the process, on the seventh night I got up as well. I trotted to his desk; the mass of all his secrets, I found six letters.. one from each night. Each letter talked about a “vulture eye”, I had no clue what my father was talking about so I went back to the very first letter and tried to make out all the adult vocabulary but some words I couldn’t quite understand. The letter

single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye…and every morning,… I went boldly into his chamber, and spoke

Tell Tale Heart was written by Edgar Allen Poe and is about a sociopathic psychopath who murders an old man that has a red eye because it makes him angry when the old man looks at him. This short story is written in first person so that you can imagine what the narrator is explaining instead of being told exactly what is happening. Poe uses attention grabbing syntax and devices to create a mysterious and dark tone. Poe utilizes imagery and symbolism to create a dark and mysterious tone. Imagery is

second paragraph of "The Tell-Tale Heart," Poe establishes the young man's obsession with that blind eye when he writes: "He had the eye of the vulture--a pale blue eye, with a film over it." 3This "vulture eye" is evoked over and over again in the story until the reader becomes as obsessed with it as does the young man. 4His use of the vivid, concrete word "vulture" establishes a specific image in the mind of the reader that is inescapable. In the first sentence of the fourth paragraph (third paragraph

Romulus and Remus are characters created by Rome, for their origin story, when they adopted Greece's gods and goddesses. Romulus and Remus are twins, who their mother, Rhea Silvia, claimed the god of war, Mars (Greek counterpart: Ares), as their father. Although Mars is claimed as their father, and the two are considered legendary figures, Romulus and Remus do not have any notable powers. Alba Longa is a city on the coast of Italy, which the ruler eventually became a king named Numitor. But the

will you say that I am mad?”(Poe). The narrator believes that he is nervous, but not mad. He says that he likes the old man, but he does not like the old man’s vulture looking eye, and he gets mad when he sees it. All he wants to do is get rid of the old man’s eyes. The only way the narrator thinks he can get rid of the old man’s vulture looking eyes is by killing him. He admits that he did not want to kill the old man, but he does not see any other way to get rid of them; so he chooses to kill the

as he states, "The disease had sharpened my senses-not destroyed-not dulled them," it tells the reader that most of the information was transmitted by his senses. For instance, on page 92 the narrator describes how the old man's eye resembled of a vulture-through sight-and this creates a situation where the reader shifts into the narrator's shoes. Through the mind of the narrator shows how the eye triggers a negative feeling and it might be the fear of death as vulture's prey on the sick and dead.

Introduction: Kevin Carter, the south African photographer, is famous for a photograph named Struggling Girl. In 1993, while on a trip to Sudan, Carter found a Sudanese toddler stalked by a vulture. The vulture is waiting for the girl to die and to eat her but Carter stopped and took a picture instead of helping the girl. Hundreds of people feel mad about the photograph because Carter only used the girl to take photograph, and left her away. Ironically, the photograph won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature

of his eyes resembled that of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with a film over it" (1206). The narrator sees the man with this ghastly eye as a threat to his well being, but it is he who is a menace to his own being. He kills the man with pride only to concede to his horrific crime due to his guilt-ridden heart. His heart is empty, except for the evil that exists inside which ultimately destroys him. The narrator insists that it his duty to kill the man