The Secret Messages Sometime in the 1930s, Claire Blackwell and her toddler, Elizabeth Blackwell just moved into a nice but old house in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Blackwell’s moved from Richmond, Virginia and in their old house they lived like a normal family, going to church, having fun, and living life. Until Claire got a new job and had to move to Pennsylvania. Their new house wasn’t the house they were expecting. In the evening Claire’s daughter, Elizabeth likes to play in this one corner, so one day Claire looks to see what Elizabeth is doing and notices that Elizabeth is doing something she wouldn’t expect. Claire noticed that she was chewing on the wallpaper and says, “ Stop Elizabeth! Stop chewing on that wallpaper!” A couple of days go by and Claire is tired of her toddler chewing on the wallpaper and decides to go outside to get some fresh air. When she goes outside she sees her neighbor doing yard work. …show more content…
Scott, I’ve been here since the First World War and your very house used to be a barrack for the soldiers during the war and no one knows what happened to the owner.” “ Ok, see you later,” Claire said. Claire goes back inside her house and goes back to the mysterious wallpaper and finds writing on the wall. Claire pulls back the wallpaper and she notices that there are stories with riddles. She can barely see a name written after one of the story and it reads, Peter Jackson. She reads one of the riddles and it reads: Underground lies a dead You will find your next clue under a bed Claire suddenly rushes downstairs to the basement. She begins to look under the bed and feels a paper and grabs it and it reads: Go outside to find your next riddle, On the rock there is an
Joey is only five years old, and yet the racial boundaries set by her society are already fixed in her mind. When she looks at a white angel and compares it to her dark skin, she sees a clear and unsettling difference, because society has already taught her that black and white are two entirely different, separate things.
Dialectical Journal Chapters 12-18 Vocabulary 1. Contemptuously- Showing or expressing disdain or scorn. 2. What is the difference between a'smart' and a Prerogative- An exclusive right or privilege.
The sword represents destruction and can signify war. The torch stands for the expansion and the pure light it
These chapters focus mainly on Victor Frankenstein's back-story as he was growing up. He describes his cousin Elizabeth, who he later becomes married to, and about how they came about finding her. Later we are introduced to Victors best friend, Henry Clerval. We also learn that Frankenstein became fascinated with the sciences by the 16th century author Cornelius Agrippa. This along with many of the other philosophers of that time inspired him to become a scientist. Later he also witnesses the power of electricity when a bolt of lightning strikes a tree nearby where he is staying. At the start of chapter three we learn that Victor is in the process of leaving for college when Elizabeth gets sick. In an effort to save her Victors mother nurses Elizabeth back to health yet manages to contract her disease. As she dies she continues her dream about Victor and Elizabeth getting married and passes that on to Victor just before she dies. Victor then goes about leaving to his college and after spending his last days hanging out with his friends finally departs. In his first days there however he meets the teacher of Natural Philosophy at the school M. Krempe, who informs him that all that Frankenstein had learned from his 16th century hero's was rubbish and should be thrown out the window. Although saddened by this information he attends a lecture of chemistry and decides to become a scientist. Yet throughout these chapters we see the seeds of Victors downfall. His unwillingness to take others opinion and experience into account becomes evident when he call Mr. Krempe a "little squat man with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance; the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his pursuits." (...
The New York Times article, Editorial Observer; Jay Gatsby, Dreamer, Criminal, Jazz Age Rogue, Is a Man for Our Times, highlights the actions of characters such as Jay Gatsby, Atticus Finch, and Holden Caulfield to the 21st Century. The article discusses how all three characters were listed by Book magazine to be names the Top 100 fictional characters since 1900. The character, Gatsby, was selected because of his trait to be the “cynical idealist, who embodies America in all of its messy glory.” The article continues on by stating how Gatsby would relate to a current American in today’s day in age. Many believe that Gatsby would be able to survive, and thrive, in today’s age knowing what readers know of his life in the 1920s. The author begins by
Frankenstein was born in the family of the most eminent citizens of Geneva. His father married the daughter of his friend Carolina Beaufort, and became the father "in his old age." Victor was their favorite and long-awaited first-born, but Carolina would like to have a daughter. One day relaxing on the shores of Lake Como, the woman went to the poor hut and saw a lovely blonde girl, is very different from the other kids, black-eyed and dark-haired. She was a child of the Italian patriot and Germans. Her mother died in childbirth, his father was sent to prison, and she remained in the family nurse. Frankenstein persuaded farmers to give them the girl and adopted her. In the future, Elizabeth was to become the wife of Victor.
Karis started darting to a field by the house that got robbed. When she got to the field she put her noes on the ground beside a picture of a family. Mother picked it up and went over to the man that owned the house.
According to the author’s memory, she had lived on Loomis, Keeler and Paulina. “We don’t have to pay rent to anybody, or share the yard with the people, downstairs, or be careful not to make too much noise, and there isn’t a landlord banging on the ceiling with a broom.” The authors experience with living in an apartment or sharing space is similar to mine. When my family lived in an apartment I was use to banging on the celling with a broom every night and not only that, the landlord also called the cops on us on many occasions. As a kid I had always wanted to move to a place where we didn’t have any neighbors living above or ...
The thought of her brothers still being in her former home environment in Maine hurt her. She tried to think of a way to get at least one of her brothers, the sickly one, to come and be with her. She knew that her extended family was financially able to take in another child, and if she showed responsibility, there would be no problem (Wilson, 40). She found a vacant store, furnished it, and turned it into a school for children (Thinkquest, 5). At the age of seventeen, her grandmother sent her a correspondence, and requested her to come back to Boston with her brother (Thinkquest, 6).
“GET MOVING! There is no time to waste! He wants us there soon!” screamed the slave catcher in a way that made him sound like a guard.
Peering through the door, I saw a dark room lit by but one candle illuminating my master bent, slaving over what seemed to be a body draped in a pure white veil, while crimson liquid and dead corpses were scattered on the ground. As he moved to grab another butcher knife, I caught a glimpse of this body and the memories of my creation, the most wretched thing, came at me. The “strange multiplicity of sensations seized me” as the darkness of the night contrasted with the light from the candle next to my corpse (Shelley 68). These memories festered within me as well as the disgust of the action to yet be performed, yet I continued gazing towards my master. Step after careful step, I creeped closer to the veil and suddenly the realization dawned on me as a rush of emotions came upon me, he was trying to make a creature just like me. Will he complete this creature or will he just throw it away like he did with my beloved? He promised me one thing that a master ought to give to his creature, “to bestow on me the only benefit that [could] soften my heart” and “deliver into [my] hands a female who would accompany [me] into [my] exile” (Shelley 101).
Marie’s grandparent’s had an old farm house, which was one of many homes in which she lived, that she remembers most. The house was huge, she learned to walk, climb stairs, and find hiding places in it. The house had a wide wrap around porch with several wide sets of stairs both in front and in back. She remembers sitting on the steps and playing with one of the cats, with which there was a lot of cats living on the farm...
4. At that moment I couldn’t feel any more cynical about the way my friend was acting out.
Two cheerful children ran down the hallways of the (Insert Last Name Of Isamu's Family) family home.A fire red haired girl slammed the door behind her and it was open again by her best friend.Without looking back the girl loaded her vow with a regular arrow and shot it backwards towards her unsuspecting friend.A quick slice later and the arrow was cut in half by Isamu's sword.Daylight danced around them as the true neck wearing boy pulled ahead and ran full speed to the door of their school.
After school, Chloe went to Sam’s house to see if she was okay. When she arrived at Sam’s house, she saw that Sam wasn’t there.There was only one other place she could be. Chloe ran deep into the woods behind her neighborhood, to where the abandoned tree house stood. Chloe climbed the wooden ladder and opened the trapdoor, to find an empty room. There was nothing in the room except for some old board games and a crisp red envelope with her name on it. She checks her phone and finds that it is almost time for dinner. Chloe