This is a story that starts out with a normal kid, who’s name is Rian, and who is walking on the street in the city after school. Rian trips and falls into a manhole down to an abandoned Subway station. When Rian regains consciousness, he hears footsteps and quickly hides underneath a subway car. As the mysterious people in robes go into the subway car that Rian is hiding under, he tries to make a break for it but is wondering what is going on in the subway car. Through a musty window, he looks through and sees strange symbols, candles, and a person with a bag over their head in the middle and the mysterious people are chanting something he doesn't know but now he wants to leave. As soon as he turns his head away from the window, a mysterious red light shines behind him …show more content…
As he steps back, he trips and falls on the railroad track and the people inside are now aware of his presence. When he tries to go up the ditch he fell in, a gate closes off that entrance and now he's trapped. Now there are mysterious people in cloaks surrounding Rian. Suddenly, a giant portal, like the one which engulfed the person in the chair, sucks up the subway car including Rian. In the portal he sees weird images like land made out of blocks and other things. When he exits the portal he tries to go back in but it collapses as soon as he gets on his feet. As Rian looks around his surroundings he sees unusual structures and strange looking people that do not look like the people from his world. They look like human elephant hybrids and the buildings are cubicle shaped and have no round edges. He then looks at himself and finds out that he is squarish in nature as well and there are nine boxes in front of him. Rian is new to this strange world but tries to get accustomed to it. He tries to start off with basics like lifting things off the ground and cutting down a tree and finds out he can cut down a tree with his
Napoleon Dynamite is one of the best movies portraying loneliness and nerds. It is the story of Napoleon in high school and his lonely adventures. All the main characters feel separated, misunderstood, and have nobody to relate to. Napoleon has no friends and lives in his own fantasy land. He is avoided by everybody. His brother seems to be mislead, wanting to be a cage fighter but staying home all the time hopelessly trying to find love and attention on the internet. Their grandmother is never there for them, though she lives her own life right beside them. They live next to a huge field, reinforcing their isolation. Practically every home in the film is
In conclusion, the poem “On the Subway” by Sharon Olds discusses the insights of a woman on a subway. The woman feels somewhat threatened by the boy sitting across her. The author of the poem utilizes tone, metaphor, and imagery to give prominence to the contrasts between the man and
In “on the Subway” the author Sharon Olds talks about two characters on a subway, by using similes and imagery.
Jared Scot Fogle became known as the “The Subway Guy” in the year 2000. Fogle was able to lose two hundred and forty pounds and attributed it mostly to eating Subway. For fifteen years Fogle was a friendly face of the company (Levey, 2003). Jared not only lost weight but he gained wealth and notoriety. Gaining all of these things in a short time could have led to his demise at the same time. Today his friendly face of Subway is overshadowed by the fact he is a sex offender. He will be required to register as one until the day he dies. Not all individuals can handle drastic life-style changes, especially when these changes are both physical and mental. The forensic psychologist, John Bradford testified in Fogle’s defense. He claimed he suffered from a compulsive eating disorder years before losing weight. The psychologist also claimed Fogle replaced the
He also finds a cliff like place that the grievers are entering and leaving the maze which he calls the griever
Gender and Race play the most prominent role in the criminal justice system. As seen in the movie Central Park 5, five African American boys were charged with the rape of the a white women. In class decision we’ve discussed how the media explodes when it reports cross-racial crimes. The Central Park 5 were known everywhere and even terms were being made up during the process such as wilding. Also, during one of the class discussions it was brought up that victims of crime are of the same race of the perpetrator. However, the media likes to sensationalize crime of the victim being of a different race, because it makes for a good story. By doing this, the media does create more of a division of race. As seen in the video Donald Trump was trying
The story begins with the narrator on the subway heading to work. He works as
J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye depicts a short span in the life of a
bathroom, he sees a tiger lying in the corner, and it looks hungry. He goes
As Little Big Man, directed by Arthur Penn opens up and introduces the Main character Jack Crabb, the sole survivor of General Custer’s last stand, tells the modern day historian about his multiple experiences in life. I felt as if the plot of the movie was a bit intricate , Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman)multiple professions or hobbies are a bit too outlandish for one individual. But these different hobbies added some humor to the plot which balanced out the complexity of the plot. It was amusing that Jack had many different lives all encompassed into one life.
America during the 1940s and into the 1950s saw post-war prosperity, the introduction of household conveniences such the modern CPI and the washing machine, and an increase of enrollment into prep schools. Novelist J.D. Salinger uses his own experiences and the emotional impact they had as major influences on his work. Salinger’s life of solitude, military service in WWII and the childhood he spent as a prep school student is reflected directly through the actions and thoughts of Salinger’s most recognized character, Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in the Rye.
Railroads can be referred to as the first big business, and the first industry to develop management bureaucracy (Ogburn 39). Railroads were a vital part of early American history during the 1800s-1860. The development of Railroads was one of the most important phenomena of the Industrial Revolution. Railroads brought social, economic, and political change to the country (Stover 26). In the United States a turnpike era and then a canal era had immediately preceded the coming of the railroads, which proved to be fast, direct, and reliable in all weather. After 1830 the railroads grew so quickly that within a decade their mileage surpassed that of the canals (Hollingsworth 28).
story starts with an obscure scene, both outside and inside of the characters, reflecting the darkness, and
In today’s society, Technology is the main player in the way we communicate. Cell phones and social media made the communication easier for people to contact each other. It extends time less to connect between long distance friends. Also, it helps people to spread and enlarge circle of friendships around the world. However, people are losing the way of face-to-face conversation. Sherry Turkle is an expert on culture and therapy, mobile technology, social networking, and sociable robotics argued in her article “the flight from conversation” how using technology can affect our behavior in conversation.
The story “I Am The Doorway” is about a man named Arthur who was a former astronaut, living in Miami Florida, he left the job because he had a huge accident that left his body handicapped while he was on mission to space doing a research and examination for one of the planets called Venus, he was with the co-pilot named Corey, who exited the space shuttle and didn’t make it out a live. After the tragedy happened Arthur was wrapped with bandages while going home he had a terrible itching, reaching home he grabbed the book before opening the book, he felt something weird going on, he saw and understood the book in a different way, he looked at his hands their were small eye ball implanted in his finger tips 21 eyeball to be specific, they were staring at him in a creepy way, after that later on he found out that those eyes were implanted by aliens who are trying to control and manipulate him to do horrible crime , so he quickly covered his hand with a bandage but that didn’t work, he tried to destroy his hands because of the eyes, but was only successful for 7 years only,