The sound of crunchy leaves and twigs breaking. Whitney grabbed his rifle and held it in the direction from where the noise was coming from. Then the noise had stopped but they still couldn’t see whom or what it was. After a few in silence they began to do what they were doing before the noises started to happen. They walked off into the woods after they’ve gotten done finishing cooking.
She stumbled onto the back porch, opened the screen door a crack, and fumbled for the milk carton on the stoop. Not until she straightened did her China-blue eyes begin to discern movement in the hushed grey world around her. (Frank
In the article “The Trouble With Disney’s Teeny, Tiny Princesses” by Philip Cohen examines the reason why Disney princesses are so tiny compared to their male counterparts, and what impression it put on the general population who watch many disney movies. Disney has been known to show stereotypical women and men. The damsel in distress, and her knight in shining armor. Some people have called them out on this and they responded with some female empowerment movies. Like Frozen and Brave that do not focus on romance.
The speaker of the poem walks through a reaping setting, alone. Lee uses the image of a bird who flies quickly away before the speaker can catch glimpse of it: “I turn, a cardinal vanishes”. This matches the memory that the speaker rekindles from earlier that morning, when his deceased father’s image seems to appear within the trees, and disappear again just as his child draws near. Lee beautifully uses concrete language to portray the picture, specifically the throbbing emptiness when the vision is substituted by a “shovel…in the flickering, deep green shade” (18-19). The sad, uncanny sensation showed by the event creates the lonely, sorrowful mood of the
She sat up, looked around and saw only a door and a piece of paper on the floor by her hand. She didn’t know how or why she was in this room or where she even was. She was terrified and wanted to scream, but decided that was not her best option. She snatched the paper off the floor and read it. It said, “You are now my prisoner along with nine other people of your town.
She drove away from the party. She made some quick stops she stopped in Churches Chicken for some food and True Value to buy a shovel. Then she went to the woods. Then got off with the shovel that she had just bought in True Value. She started digging up a hoe in the middle of the woods.
She was sixteen...Where were the singing bees for her? Nothing on the place nor in her grandma's house answered her. She searched... looking, waiting, breathing short with impatience. Waiting for the world to be made”(11).
She gazed at a marsh rabbit and a deer running away. She asked them why they
In her essay, “Representation of Disney princesses in the media”, Isabelle further infers that the media misrepresents Disney princesses by failing to celebrate their feminine and masculine qualities.
His story might have finished tragically, however it was the story he was composing. He arranged for a long time to "stroll into nature." He brought with him an aide of the neighborhood widely varied vegetation, to support himself when amusement wasn't copious. Above all, he wanted to exit. He attempted to take off.
While many young girls love the princesses and look up to them, others view these characters as negative role models. Disney Princesses have always appeared in movies as young women who dress in elegant gowns, have sexy bodies and perfect hair. They are always paired with a prince who lives in a castle, meaning that he has a lot of money. This description of what the Disney Princess is like; give us a big concern in the influence this image is giving to the little girls. Unfortunately, what girls learn as children carries on into adulthood.
Her parents adored her and each time that she fell, they would give her a little chuckle. She would hop right back up, brush the sand off of her bright pink sundress and start all over again. Her hunt for seashells never ceased, and each one, no matter how cracked or fragile, became a treasure to her. She would never let them go. Ellie had a yearning to be tall and big like her parents.
Alice Walker uses imagery and diction throughout her short story to tell the reader the meaning of “The Flowers”. The meaning of innocence lost and people growing up being changed by the harshness of reality. The author is able to use the imagery to show the difference between innocence and the loss of it. The setting is also used to show this as well.
“The girl was running. Running for her life, in the hope of finding a safe haven for her and her family. She never looks back, the only indication her father was still behind her was his ragged breathing above her head, forming puffs of air in this cold morning. She suddenly stumbles on a root, but her mother secures her fall with a small wisp of air. They lock hands, all three of them, and continue pushing themselves, desperately trying to find the others they lost on the way.
She would be 80 years old or even a little older and in the hospital with our whole family there to see her and help out with things. Then, she would die because of old age. I didn’t imagine her dying at the age of 65, in her own house alone, struggling by herself with a heart attack happing. My cousins Marissa and April were too late to save her. They went to go check on her, but they were too late.
