The Torment of a Lifetime - Original Writing The dining room door was left ajar; he could smell all the different aromas spilling through. He wasn't hungry, he settled for a cup of coffee. The coffee awoke his taste buds and realised that he could eat a breakfast. Unexpectedly he heard his name being called out over the tannoy, to go to the medical wing without delay. He thought it was just another routine medical examination, which all other staff dread. He stood before the door. He let out a loud sigh entered the room and marched his way to the grubby desk and announced himself. He was asked to sit down and wait for someone to call his name to proceed with his examination. The chairs were all stained and torn; they were in need of urgent replacement. His attention was fixated on a magazine about the Ancient Romans; he picked it up and began to read it. The noise suddenly ceased, leaving the tick-tocking of the clock not difficult to hear. He nervously waited, as he knew what was about to come. He began to hear faint footsteps gradually getting louder and closer being stomped in a rhythmic, ridiculed taunt. He felt like he was being harassed. This reminded him of a part in Jurassic Park. His eyes widened, a million and one thoughts running through his head. He knows what happens next. He has to get out. Within seconds the door that had a placard saying 'Medical Staff Only' burst open ricocheting off the adjacent wall. He flew back his chair in anticipation of what was about to happen, out emerged six examiners, accompanied by clipboards that were placed officiously against their chest. His nerves are at rock bottom, ticking away with each tick of the clock. The door slammed shut as he stumbled back through. Once strength and power surged throughout his veins, his body was completely drained, like air sucked out from a balloon. His body has encountered the extreme in the past but nothing to the torturing treatment that he had
Marilyn Frye, a feminist philosopher, discusses the idea of oppression and how it conforms people into gender roles. She claims that it is based upon membership in a group which leads to shaping, pressing, and molding individuals, both women and men.
In the article, “The Joy of Watching Others Suffer”, author Andrew Shaffer discusses the horrible trait, schadenfreude, we humans often experience. Schadenfreude is a German word meaning the enjoyment of watching others suffer. The people in the Capitol thrive on watching others fight to the death, suffer in horrific conditions, and watch as friends become enemies – for it is every man for himself. In this article, Shaffer discusses how much society enjoys watching others fail, how propaganda is used to dehumanize the tributes, and that we humans .
What does it take to frighten an author of best-selling horror novels? In Misery, Stephen King embodies a writer's fears about himself as a writer and about the continuation of his creativity in a richly elaborated and horrifi-cally psychotic woman, Annie Wilkes. In the novel, Annie represents a mother figure, a goddess, and a "constant reader". In reality, however, An-nie merely represents a creative part of King's mind.
She took the key out of the lock and turned the door knob hesitantly and opened the door.
It is often the dismal and gloomy poems that compel us as readers to wonder what
The men and women of "The Hours" view death as an escape from an ordinary lifestyle which lacks anything truly extraordinary or exhilarating. Laura Brown considers death as an alternative to the constraints of her role as a mother and a wife. Both Richard Brown and Virginia Woolf ultimately commit suicide in order to escape their illnesses and their failures to live up to society's expectations. Though Laura does not end her life, she does die symbolically to her family.
hinge and slowly opened the window and quietly snuck out. Gabriela felt the breeze of the
Two words. Pet abandonment. How do you help prevent it? Only some people know. Pet abandonment is where human beings leave their animals out on the street so they starve to death or get killed by something. When the animal is found, it is usually found by a person who works at a pet shelter.The person takes them to a shelter where they can be taken care of until someone either adopts them or they reunite with their owner. Bu there are many problems with pet abandonment and many solutions for those problems. For example, Faye Carey is one person who helps prevent pet abandonment, but there are other ways to prevent it too.
He let out a breath with a sigh as he got into the car, and couldn't wait to go to his room.
In the “Unbearable lightness of being” by Milan Kundera the relationship between Tomas and Tereza is unproportional – one is direct opposite of the other. As explained in the book through Friedrich Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence and the explanation of the opposition between lightness and weight. Tomas, who is a surgeon based in Prague was married to a woman who bore him a son. But, after two years they divorced, he was denied custody of the son and they parted ways. The divorce had some psychological effects on him because he started treating women differently. He becomes womanizer with certain basic rules of three, “Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart”. Tomas was later married to a young lady called Tereza. She is quite opposite of Tomas humble, respective and faithful but many would consider her naive. Even after marrying her he continues practicing adultery. Again, trying to be philosophical about sex, Tomas argues sex and love are two separate and unrelated entities. In the book the author says, “Making love with a woman and slee...
Sylvia Plath, born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts was famously known for her effect on the literary world. Her parents, Aurelia and Otto Plath, played a major role when it came to encouraging her to listen in school and learn the English language but it was not until after Plath’s father died suddenly when she was eight years old that she really began to keep diaries and begin writing (McKenna). Her father’s death sparked a sad and depressing lifestyle for Plath, and this was seen in her writing as a well. She was very successful as a writer of only eight years old when it came to her poetry, novels and short stories. Plath may have not loved her life at times and she continued to show that in
“How Much Longer Should I Endure All of this?” Describing the Theme of Suffering through Three Young Adult Novels that are based on True Stories
The Nightmare begins with Saidi pitting his protagonist, Ben Chadiza, against his antagonist, the witchdoctor. A group of seven witchdoctors, is described as they encircle Chadiza: “It was a macabre scene, which in other circumstances the sophisticated Mr. Benjamin Chadiza would have carelessly attributed to his rather flamboyant imagination” (Saidi 421). The definitions of the specific words in this quote speak volumes as to its underlying meaning. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary macabre means: “comprising or including a personalized representation of death”. Mr. Chadiza is described as sophisticated: “having a refined knowledge of the ways of the world cultivated especially through wide experience.” In using these words Saidi gives Chadiza the identity of personified worldly knowledge and foreshadows the character’s courtship with death that continues through the story in the person of the witchdoctor. Saidi further identifies Chadiza and his wife as the “children” in this allegory by saying that Chadiza had “Cried like a small child” during his nightmare and upon awakening, was comforted by his wife in a way that resembles a mother comforting her child: “His wife put her arms around him and soothed him with her warmth, pressing her breasts to his chest and whispering comfort close to his ear” (422). The witchdoctor also refers to Chadiza as “my son” in paragraph 39 (425). Toward the end of the story it is revealed that Chadiza’s wife, Maria, is the biological granddaughter of the witchdoctor and that her mother had forsaken the witchdoctor “because of his sorcery” (427). Mr. Chadiza and his wife are therefore identified as the children of this sorcerer in figurative and literal ways. But they are more than that. The...
Pain and death: all major themes in Emily Dickinson’s writing. Dickinson’s poems usually revolved around themes that involve anguish, grief, guilt, suffering, and illness. These somewhat morbid topics were found frequently, and consequently must be fueled from something. Emily Dickinson’s deteriorated mental state influenced the themes of internal pain and suffering found in her particularly morbid poetry.
Eavan Boland’s poem “Amber” was published in the Atlantic Monthly in December of 2005. This poem starts off sad, talking about a death of a friend and how grieving seemed to last forever. Boland shows us this through lines one through five. It then goes on saying that if you think of all the good memories that the grieving process will pass and you can be happy when thinking about the lost friend. Boland’s poem “Amber” is showing us that grieving shouldn’t last forever and that memories can take away the horrible feelings and bring happiness when thinking about a lost loved one.