“Why are you obsessing over it so much?! He’s dead to us and to this city! Going beyond the city limits is certain death. God knows what’s out there, just waiting to kill you.” “As long as he lives, I will never truly be alive.” That night, after curfew, Hazel roamed beyond the border of the new city of Oculus. As she climbed down its wall, she glanced over the city’s motto: “LIGHT TO ALL.” Reinforced by these words, she ran out into the dark night sky of the farlands. Many hours later, Hazel came face to face with President Richard at last. She looked at him with cold eyes and fury in her heart. “The tables really have turned, haven't they, president?” Hazel sneered. She looked at President Richard on the floor, looking pathetic as he lay there …show more content…
injured. His leg had been shot during the attack, and he lay alone in a stone building outside of the city walls. “Hazel.” started President Richard. “You killed my parents,” started Hazel angrily. “You're the reason they're dead!” “This world needs order, Hazel!
And your parents were anomalies. They didn't fit in our society,” President Richard said passionately, as if it was his first day in office. “You can't have a perfect society. It's impossible to turn people into numbers!” Hazel replied. “Like I said, Hazel, your parents were different,” President Richard argued. “They didn't belong in our society! Can't you see? They are inferior to others! The city had perfect order! All other hazel eyed people are ruining our order, and that includes you, Hazel. You and your kind will never be accepted.” President Richard's face was turning bright red with fury as his heartless words spilled out of his mouth. “Look where your efforts brought you,” said Hazel, looking at him with disgust. And with that, Hazel, with trembling hands, pulled out her gun. David had given it to her for safety, but she hadn't used it. That had quickly changed as the man who was the root of all inequality kneeled beneath her with hate filled eyes. Hazel pulled the gun and aimed it at President Richards head. She trembled as she stared at him with fury, and at the last moment, she moved the gun slightly down and to the left. The bullet went clean through President Richards
eye. With one pull of the trigger, the city of Iris was forever left to the history books. After five years of rebuilding, the city of Oculus’ goal was finally complete. Light now shone on people of all eye colors, mixed, non-mixed, blue, brown, green, hazel, purple, and any other color perceptible to the human pupil. The only place for mathematical equality was now in the classroom. No longer were people tabulated, controlled, or suppressed by their government. Hazel and David now lived in peaceful times, free from the darkness that once stood for fear and treachery. They saw they had a following of genuine citizens, as they had destroyed a government that most were afraid to mess with, for good reason. With this being said, it should come as no surprise that David and Hazel had been co-elected by the city of Oculus to lead their new and hopeful city. It had all paid off for Hazel, she no longer lived in the midst of a hurricane of inequality and fear, but now lived in the peaceful eye of a hurricane that had no intentions of causing further damage.
The government hated the fact that George was so strong. They had to put 47 pounds of birdshot in a canvas bag, padlocked around his neck to weigh him down. “ Go on and rest the bag for a little while,” hazel said. “ I don’t care if you’re not equal to me for a while”. George responded saying, “ I don’t mind it, I don’t notice it anymore. It’s just a part of me.” Because of the laws, everyone was equal, no one was better than anyone, not him, not Hazel, not anyone.
Looking out across the stone-paved road, she watched the neighborhood inside the coffee colored fence. It was very similar to hers, containing multiple cookie-cutter homes and an assortment of businesses, except no one was there was her color and no one in her neighborhood was their color. All of them had chocolate skin with eyes and hair that were all equally dark. Across the road to her right, a yellow fence contained honey colored people. She enjoyed seeing all the little, squinted almond eyes, much smaller then her own, which were wide set and round. One little, sunshine colored boy with dark straight hair raised his arm and waved his hand, but before she could do the same back her father called her into the house. His lips were pressed and his body was rigid, the blue of his eyes making direct contact with her
Discrimination still exists in our society today and we have an obligation to fight against it. In the past, the south was a place where horrible things such as discrimination and racism mostly took place. The problem was that African American did not have access to an education and they were badly mistreated by their owners. They were not permitted to touch books or look at white people in a mean way because they would get beaten. Richard Wright is a young man who grew up in the Deep South when the Jim Crow laws of the early twentieth century were in place. From an early age, Richard Wright was aware of the differences in two races: the black and the white. His rebelliousness against Jim Crow south made him successful in life. Although Richard wright lived in the Jim Crow south and struggled, he managed to become rebellious against his family, religion and authority.
p. 2113). In her past, light used to represent love, but now it represents. something destructive for her to do. Allan’s suicide erases the light. love, and thus she now does not believe in it any longer and tries to escape from the light and therefore escape reality.
and tries to protect them. In the classic novel, The Turn of the Screw, the governess and the
I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton’s Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. “(Barack Obama pg.2). This is important, because it shows that Obama is able to relate to both black and white people. This in return gives reassurance to the readers that Obama would be fair and understands both of their perspective. Barack Obama starts to give his own experience of racism and stereotypes, Obama expresses “At various states in the campaign, some commentators have deemed me either “too black” or “not black enough”. We saw racial tensions bubble to the surface during the week before the South Carolina primary” (Barack Obama pg.2). Barack Obama being able to share his own experience makes his speech
An enduring monument to his inadequacy to which he would employ a slumbering retreat. He would wrestle with his body for a brief respite from the perpetual torture that was his insomnia, tossing and turning over every inch of his bed west of the fissure that was once full of love, but never would he attempt to traverse it’s curves and corners for fear of falling into it’s deep, depressive vicinity. He lay there, awake again. His mind a highway of thoughts, only this highway had no lights, no exits, and no colour. He was stood resolute, immovable in the vast sea of movement. Surveying the surroundings that lay before him, he saw only mountainous regions of terrain, casting even more monstrous shadows over him. Each one taller than the last and twice as dark. Some would have the carved faces of past friends, frozen in a state of lament, both in time, and stone. The only solace in the midnight world was a single patch of firm, fresh grass, with a tasteful tartan picnic basket - ribbons and all. Entirely devoid of food, yet still somehow quenching his desires. A single ray of light in an otherwise nefarious expanse, shrouded in atrocities unfit even for the infernal realms of hell. The lighthouse in treacherous waters, guiding him to the reliable shores that are his most vivid and treasured
In the story “Wise Blood”, Hazel Motes conveys to the reader and his audience that he is preaching to, that he knows what he believes in, but when a strange policeman stops Hazel. The policeman orders Hazel to move his car nearby a cliff and to get out. He then tells Hazel that without a license he doesn’t need a car, so the policeman pushes Hazel’s car off the cliff. “Haze shook his head.
Located in the popular Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Falls is the tallest waterfall in California. Every year, mother nature’s breathtaking beauty attracts millions of people from around the world. People hike for three long and fatiguing hours in anticipation of witnessing forceful water rushing down the steep mountain from 2,425 feet above. Last summer, my family and I backpacked through the Yosemite Falls Trail and I came to learn what a truly exhausting experience it is.
…Light came out of this river since- you say Knights? Yes; but it was like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in a flicker-may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
Louis still had a relationship with his brother. People involved in Louis upbringing did not have college degrees. “This decision brings a need to recalculate and reorganize one’s trajectory for the transition into adulthood” (Newman & Newman, 2015, p. 422). The display of racism adds to conflicting thoughts (Newman & Newman, 2015).
It has been a long day of researching and I believe I deserve a break. Tiredly, I manage to make it to the couch where I just let my body sink and fall. I begin to doze off. Just as my muscles begin to relax and my vision starts to blur, I begin to hear my son, George, yell “Hey Dad! Dad!
The night was as clear as the day, darkness never fell on Blessed Island. I peek out my window and look at the never ending fields of orchids. The sun was blazing down in the distance, and it blinded me but I didn’t mind. The tall wild grasses were swaying in the light breeze and it was calm; outside and inside my mind.
It felt like hours that she was crying, but it was only minutes. The planchette hadn’t moved one little bit since she started this experiment. Sleet and rain still pelted the windows but it was definitely slackening. The chill in the room was diminishing and she could feel warmth returning to her skin. None of the incantations Viviana had given her worked.
“Who do you think she is?” they kept asking one another. But no one knew how could