ipl-logo

Killian Mcavery: A Fictional Narrative

156 Words1 Pages
It was a cold, stormy night in Eversdale. Killian Mcavery ran up the steps of his cottage where he lived with his parents. He had just won a fight with his old rival, Sam Dillinger. However, Sam had sliced Killian 's face with his sword that blood pored from the cuts on his face. Killian sighed as he knew what his mother would say if she saw him like this. Nonetheless He flung open the cottage door. Killian saw his mother standing in front of him. "Killian", she sighed, "when will you ever learn, to stop fighting". She grabbed a pan of boiling water,towel, and salt, and began cleansing his cuts. Jerking his head back from the sting, he clenched his fist. When the cuts were cleaned, Mrs. Mcavery,fixed her son a cup of tea. "twenty-three and my
Show More
Related
372 Words | 2 Pages

Visual Evidence: Schweiger Case The bone chilling cold of a January night in Leipsic Delaware, standing under a dark bridge waiting for the text that will guarantee a warm bed for the night. Finally a text comes through urging the need to hurry. Leaving the safety of the bridge heading to the home where the warm bed is waiting, open the door to find the woman who had been sending the texts, the love of one’s life knife in hand on top of her father’s lifeless body. This is the scene that Jerry Schweiger says he walked in on that fateful night that would change his life forever.

Read More
482 Words | 2 Pages

In Tim O’Brien’s story “Notes,” he discusses his fellow soldier “Norman Bowker […] [who hung] himself in the locker room of the YMCA” (149). Bowker symbolizes the pain that many veterans experienced, and how they sadly found their only escape through suicide. Yet, veterans potentially could have survived and even thrived if they had access to resources such as therapy, psychiatrists, and psychologists. When organizations supporting the idea that veterans should have opportunity to obtain these assets proposed this concept to The House Committee members, “members repeatedly balked at the notion that Vietnam Veterans required special counseling programs to help readjust” (Scott 38).

Read More
203 Words | 1 Pages

Facts William E. Story, Sr. (uncle) promised to pay his nephew, William E. Story II $5,000 if he refrained from drinking, smoking, swearing, and playing cards or billiards for money until he reached 21 years old. Although, it was legal to drinking and play cards for money during the late 1860 's; the nephew agreed and completed his part of the bargain. The nephew also wrote a letter to his uncle about the agreement. The uncle replied and told him the money would include interest under the terms and conditions of the letter. Twelve years later, the uncle died without paying his nephew any of the $5,000 with interest.

Read More
1095 Words | 5 Pages

In Janet Malcolm’s book the Journalist and the Murderer uses element of nonfiction where it gives an observation of the relationship between writer Joe McGinnis and convicted murder Jeffery Macdonald. The elements that Malcolm focuses on through out the paper include the characterization on how McGinnis acted towards MacDonald to earn his trust and change his view of the story; as well as MacDonald as a character himself and McGinnis character no longer having a connection to his subject. Malcolm also focuses on the element, scene versus exposition through out the piece to help give her analysis between the two people as she becomes more involved with the journalist and the Murderer. The characters of MacDonald and McGinnis as told

Read More
856 Words | 4 Pages

Evelyn 's maid had told her that starr knights murder was no accident. She was beaten to death. Her arms, legs, back, and neck were broken, “must of been a madman” said the maid. Another death was ms.

Read More
187 Words | 1 Pages

The short story “The Knife” utilizes various forms of diction to strengthen the quality of the text. He uses imagery in order to draw the audience into the story. Vivid phrases, such as “the tight click of clamps” and “the tough fibrous sheet” create a description that resonates with the audience. Selzer uses diction to create the tone and mood of the story. In the opening paragraph, his word choice suggests that the speaker is a murderer; in later paragraphs, it is implied that the speaker is a surgeon trying to save a patient.

Read More
349 Words | 2 Pages

During Simon’s murder, Golding says that “There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.” The imagery created here is brutal and monstrous, particularly because of the way Golding

Read More
782 Words | 4 Pages

Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” “Leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit in tore.” “That was murder.” “It was dark,

Read More
1575 Words | 7 Pages

She looked weary. She spoke, her voice was flat. ‘I can’t say I approve of everything he does, Maudie, but he’s my brother, and I just want to know when this will ever end.’ Her voice rose: ‘It tears him to pieces. He doesn’t show it much, but it tears him to pieces.

Read More
1455 Words | 6 Pages

John Steinbeck tells the story of two migrant workers, George and Lennie, in his novel, Of Mice and Men. George and Lennie are two men who travel together and find themselves working on a ranch in Salinas Valley, California. On the ranch they meet Slim, Candy, Crooks, Carlson, and Curley who are all workers that live in the bunkhouse with George and Lennie. As they make new friends and work through their struggles they stick together. Throughout the book Steinbeck uses figurative language to compare Lennie to an animal.

Read More
965 Words | 4 Pages

"Come read the rest of this, honey. " His mother had joined him on the porch. "It's a trip. " The torture chair looked normal in the hours before tea. M​adame poured a second cup of tea for herself, and offered to do the same for the visiting luminary.

Read More
665 Words | 3 Pages

The victim had no shirt or pants on, and there was a slice on the back of his neck and the back of his left leg. There was also the rope used to tie him up, which could not be identified by trace analysts because they had never seen it before. He wiped his knife clean on Eberle’s shirt, and left the

Read More
1214 Words | 5 Pages

“OW!” He exclaims, snatching his hand away from her face- moments after it moves away, she feels a small trickle of blood slide down her neck. She opens her mouth again to scream but stops dead in her tracks. A very cold and sharp object pokes lightly into the skin under her ear- and she realises that blood she felt wasn’t Rhett’s, it was her’s. “ I don’t want to hurt you Peony-

Read More
633 Words | 3 Pages

Plot: The short story "The Utterly Perfect Murder" by Ray Bradbury tells the tale of 48-year-old Doug Spalding as he journeys into his grievances and grudges held against Ralph Underhill, his former childhood bully. The day of his forty-eighth birthday, he is struck with the idea to murder his past childhood persecutor for his transgressions and sins against him. Therefore, he abruptly makes the decision to leave in the middle of the night to travel to Green Town, Ralph's and Doug's hometown and the former's city of current residence. During his train ride, Doug flashbacks to specific incidents that remind him of his motivation and reasons behind this attempted murder, the strongest one being his realization that their friendship was one-sided.

Read More
1169 Words | 5 Pages

He reluctantly set the table as his dad burst through the door. Logan tried to ask his dad about his day but he just waved him off and asked his mom when the food would be ready. She replied, “I haven’t started yet dear.”

Read More

More about Killian Mcavery: A Fictional Narrative

Related Topics

Open Document