It is now a category 5 storm with wind gusts up to 200km hr Severe flooding is expecting as it heads directly towards us The weatherman warned grimly It is expected to hit the Callahn area in the early hours of tomorrow morning with severe and devastating force Catastrophic damages are to be expected Hush fell over the three adults and four children as they all silently watched the TV in the cramped living room Grim faces watched mesmerised as the weatherman began to speak once more The storms
Liam OFlahertys The Sniper conveys the distressed images of a sniper during the civil war on a dark June night in Dublin Ireland The authors effective use of setting imagery and characterization suggests that war creates chaos and turns brothers into enemies Nothing good comes out of a war and morally nobody wins The main character a sniper lies beneath the support that war not only demoralizes human beings to simple objects but has no boundaries and turns one brother against another OFlaherty
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is a story about self discovery and the rite of passage for young Jody Baxter The Yearling is a 1938 novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings She wrote the novel about what she knew best she lived in north central Florida where the novel is set The Yearling won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939 The story outlines the life of the Baxter family The story is told over the course of a year in the Baxters life The story is based on young Jody growing
In Never Let Me Go a fictional story focusing on three classmates from a unique boarding school author Kazuo Ishiguro deals with questions of loss and mortality that each of must eventually confront As we get older as we lose our friends and family as the environment around us changes and things once familiar to us disappear or become unfamiliar as we cling to our memories of how things used to be how do we come to accept the fact that our lives are finite and attach some meaning to our limited
Giving an informed explanation of the dramatic monologue Compare and Contrast Alfred Lord Tennysons Ulysses With Tithonus Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote Ulysses and Tithonus as dramatic monologues A dramatic monologue involves a single character giving an extended speech at a critical moment to a silent listener and is used to characterise the speaker Indeed this form of poetry was favoured by many of the poets in the Victorian period including Matthew Arnold 24 December 1822 15 April 1888 who wrot
A Report on New Moon Stephanie Meyer wrote the romance New Moon Meyer graduated with a bachelors degree in English from Brigham Young University Meyer was a most promising new author in 2005 Her book Twilight was number one on The New York Times best seller list Meyer wrote Twilight New Moon Eclipse Breaking Dawn and The Host The story takes place in Forks Washington present time Forks is a rainy foggy and cold place Because all of the rain everything is really green Many plants grow here all t
The Stranger Essay Albert Camus novels The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus are based to define the meaning of existentialism In The Stranger the main character Meursault is portrayed to show no emotions and judgments towards others While The Myth of Sisyphus shows who lives his life in a stubbornly and arrogant behavior as if hes out to get someone in life In both stories the readers that they have taken life and for granted and come to sort of realize their wrongs at the end of the story Nei
A Chilling Transformation Chillingworth the name alone evokes ideas of coldness darkness wickedness loneliness and this idea is no different from the man who carries this name Roger Chillingworth a man incapable of human love Yet he had not always been this evil or wicked and in fact he seemed to be quite the opposite The reader learns that Chillingworth was an intelligent physician a man dedicated to helping others who would spend hours alone studying diligently and one cannot feel sorry for h
The Outsiders This poem has two meanings the first about good things never last forever and the second about youth and innocence Robert Frosts poem relates to the novel the Outsiders in many ways The first meaning is that good things do not last That life may seem perfect when everything is going right but this will not stay forever Everything living is beautiful and every beautiful thing will eventually die Robert Frost is saying good things will never stay forever Many times in a persons life
The Old Man and the Sea recounts an epic battle between an old experienced fisherman and a giant marlin said to be the largest catch of his life It opens by explaining that the fisherman who is named Santiago but only directly referred to outside of dialogue as the old man has gone 84 days without catching any fish at all He is apparently so unlucky that his young apprentice Manolin has been forbidden by his parents to sail with the old man and been ordered to fish with more successful fisherme