A powerful beast, living in the tops of the castle, looked over the city, searching for his next victim to make his appetizer for the night. From the tops of his castle he could see the whole town. All the people’s lights in the towns houses and hall were shining bright. Their voices echoing off of the walls of his tower. Brenmek, the beast, stood looking out his window with the best view of the town, at the tip of his home, waiting for the people to turn out their lights so he could attack and destroy the town once again. Twenty after eleven the lights faded and the town turned black and silent. Brenmek climbed down from his castle and went to his first feast of the night. Snatching up a little girl by her hair, with his fingertips, …show more content…
Brenmek came in and tried choking Newcomb. To Brenmek’s surprise, Newcomb woke up and stabbed Brenmek in the throat with his shark’s tooth. But for the first time in all his battles, the tooth broke in half as soon as he jabbed him with it. Brenmek’s skin was so tough the tooth didnt even puncture him. Newcomb had to comb up with a new plan and fast. The two fought so hard the walls began to shake. Newcomb was wearing out and beginning to lose strength. He wasn't sure how much longer he could go on fighting. Just as he gave up a chandelier broke off from the ceiling and fell. The sharp metal rod split right in half, making the chandelier sharp. It fell right on Brenmek. Going right through his heart and killing him instantly. At this point the whole town heard all of the ruckus and came to watch. Newcomb received a great amount of recognition from the townspeople that night. Hrego decided after that night he was no longer the best person for the job as king. He realized he was getting older and it was time for a new, honorable person on the throne. And from that day on Newcomb was the king of the town. All of the town was at peace again and everyone could sleep at night without
lived in Maycomb all his life and at the start of the book, before the
The book notably opens with an immediate instance of self-delusion: tricking the reader into believing that Maycomb is just an old, ordinary, and quiet town through description of the town’s history, when in reality, it was teeming with prejudice and racism. The reader immediately leans about this sleepy southern town where “a day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was
while treating the Negroes that live in and around Maycomb with very little respect. Later
her in the face with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders, and
Jill McCorkle's Ferris Beach, a contemporary novel, shares numerous characteristics with Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel written in the 1960's. Like To Kill a Mockingbird, McCorkle's novel documents the life of a young girl in a small southern town. The two narrators, Kate Burns and Scout Finch, endure difficult encounters. A study of these main characters reveals the parallels and differences of the two novels. Jill McCorkle duplicates character similarities and rape from Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird to show the reader how young girls think and develop.
We are introduced to Ishmael, the main character and narrator of the story. He is a bored sailor about to go on a new adventure on a whaling ship. He packs his bags and leaves home. He stops at The Spouter Inn, owned by Peter Coffin, because he likes the name of the inn, and learns that he will have to share a bed with a harpooner if he wants to stay the night. Ishmael seems to be a bit too scared to be an experienced sailor and tries to fall asleep. As he is drifting off , he hears footsteps. He learns that the harpooner he is sharing a room with is a little different. He sees Queequeg, a native of the Pacific Islands with purplish-yellow skin that is covered in tattoos, the harpooner that he is sharing a room with for the first time. They scare each other. The Innkeeper explains to Queequeg that Ishmael is going to be sharing a room with him.
Fortunate was I, to grow up in a rural community where almost everybody was the same. I blended in, was like almost all others. I have always felt I received a good education that prepared me fairly well for college and later family life. However, I had no idea how others in the world lived. I grew up in a nice part of town, where everybody I knew was married, middle-class, went to either the “big Lutheran” or Catholic church in town, and the vast majority had occupations relating to agriculture. Fast forward, I’m now a junior high social studies and science teacher living in that same small town. Here, a few ideals guide my teaching practice. The first is to instill a quality work ethic in the students; the second, to teach them to do
As the book came to an end Bromden realized what had happened throughout the story was unavoidable. Bromden could not watch McMurphy being lobotomized; therefore, he suffucated him with a pillow to put him out of his misery. Bromden is then told to leave, so he removes the contol panel and smashes it through the window.
To Kill a Mockingbird "I simply want to tell you that there are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them." – Miss Maudie The quote above states that Atticus Finch was a man who did unpleasant things, but this quote is false. Miss Maudie had every good intention when she told Jem and Scout this and her point was taken in the way she intended it to be taken by the children. Her point could have been better worded if the portion that reads "our unpleasant jobs" were replaced with "what is right." Atticus did unpleasant things only because he knew that they were the right thing to do. Miss Maudie told the children about their father in this way only to avoid saying that the rest of the town was wrong.
Bryon is the oldest of the three children. In his town, he is known as a trouble maker. Skipping school, picking on other kids, including his brother and always getting into troubling situations. Initially, his parents decided that he should stay down in Birmingham for the summer because of his
leave the throne to, but his wife Jeanne was pregnant. When she gave birth though she
To Kill A Mockingbird deals with many primal and basic lessons in human nature. The book exposes many issues that affect most people throughout their lives. Scout, the main character was one of the most affected by these lessons. During the book she was exposed to many profound experiences, which no doubt will leave a lasting impression. In the three years that the book took place, she may have learned the most important things she will learn over her entire life.
"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square."(Lee 9). This environment, as Scout Finch accurately describes, is not conducive to young children, loud noises, and games. But, the Finch children and Dill must occupy themselves in order to avoid boredom. Their surroundings are their boundaries, but in their minds, they have no physical confines. Although the physical "boundaries were Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose's house two doors to the north..., and the Radley Place three doors to the south,"(Lee 11) Jem, Scout, and Dill find ways to use the limits, in conjunction with their imaginations, to amuse themselves. The children are the ones who change the old town and make it full of unexpected events. In the same way as the children, the adults of the novel play games that come from their imaginations and, they themselves are the ones who provide the fear for everyone in the county to fear. "Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself"(10). The adults and the children share the fact that they both play games, but a difference also exists between them. The children enact their entertainment, knowing that the games could get violent, but in the end, when the games are over, all the players are able to return home. On the other hand, the adults play their adult games, hurting anyone who does not play by the given rules, and not everyone is fortunate enough to return home. The children pretend to be violent at times but the adults actually are violent. As the children move through the novel, they use these games to develop from their innocence to a level of experience by actualizing the realities of their games through the lives of the adults. Through their own games and through the games of the adults, the children learn values of respect, courage, and understanding.
The big yellow round sun blazed in the clear blue sky with not a cloud in sight. A steady constant stream of cars begins to enter through the small rusty gates, filling up the parking lot like a cup filling up with water along with the numerous big yellow school busses. Anxious, nervous, and excited runners were filing off the buses and wandering off to find their teammates and tents. The fans also come slowly trickling in like bees attracted to a honeycomb. A concession stand, smelling of buttery popcorn, stood off to the side bustling with life as a little green eyed, ginger colored hair girl in her mother’s arms could be seen begging pleadingly for a big bright red lollipop. The med tent mostly empty with the exception of a few runners who
.... Maycomb started off to be a small town where nothing exciting happened, until all the kids matured and learned over time from the adults setting examples. Its just like when you are doing something that might not be appropriate in front of little kids and you hear teachers or parents tell you to set a good example for the little ones. This is because all the little kids like to fallow in the foot steps of the big kids and will do any thing some one else does. So I have a question, for all of you that have little brothers and sisters or younger neighbours around. Do you set a good example around them? Are you a role model to them and do you help them overcome and mature? If not give it a try, don’t get embarrassed by hanging out with little ones because in the end your setting a good example for others and your self.