Dreams The sunlight flooded the runway and the grass was the colour of emeralds: "It looks nice, much Better than everyone said England would be. No torrential rain, and no ugly grey skies! What a blessing, the sun has come out for me!" Louisa thought to herself as she stared excitedly out of the aeroplane window and she smiled a warm smile to the seat in front of her, and then looked up at the red seatbelt sign above her head. The writing made no sense to her, but she could understand the picture. She pulled apart the seat belt clasp and yawned. It had been a very long and boring trip in which Louisa had slept the majority of the journey. As well as fatigue, Louisa was also aware that she was hungry. She hadn't eaten for hours and her stomach kept rumbling. "I wish you would be quiet" Louisa whispered to her stomach, "People will think that I have swallowed a lion!" She had woken up in a very happy mood. Maybe this had been a great idea all along, just like Yarik had told her. "Yarik" Louisa sighed under her breath. She wondered if he were missing her as much as she missed him, already after only twelve hours. From beneath her seat, Louisa pulled out a blue velvet handbag, neatly embroidered with gold stitching. She reached inside and searched about the bag clumsily. Seconds later she produced a photograph. On it were the figures of two people, a man and a woman. Dressed for winter in thick gloves and scarves, woollen hats and big boots. They were standing side by side, on a blanket of crisp white snow, in front of The Towers of Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. The girl in the photo was Louisa, a... ... middle of paper ... ... Mr Sorokin arrested, and his house searched. Louisa was allowed outside for the first time since she had been held prisoner. She was put in a hotel room close to Sean for a couple of nights until the police had taken a formal statement. Days later, Louisa was given back her passport, her purse and her official papers, and only now could she begin to think about going home. Louisa owed a lot to Sean. She was very lucky. He rescued her, and that is something she will never forget. At last, her horrific ordeal was over. Sean got her the money to fly home, and it was he who saw her off at the airport, and waved her goodbye as she stepped onto the aeroplane. * Louisa stared out of the cabin window, The sunlight flooded the runway and the grass was the colour of emeralds. It felt good to be going home.
While in the prison like room, the narrator’s husband first places the idea in her head she is in a mental state and needs to be sent away for a while to recover. After a while she does not want to be in the house any longer. When she states her desire to leave her husband’s responds by giving her “such a stern, reproachful look that [she] wished, and have it whitewashed into the bargain.” The husband, John, refuses to let her make her own decisions. She is trapped by her husband in the prison of her room with nowhere to go (MacFarlane,
In one of the chapters, Shelby is walking home from a party and Jason Puckett came running up to her and was trying to walk her home. When they were walking, Shelby caught a familiar scent that was on her cat Ernie earlier in the book. That’s when Shelby realized that the stalker was Jason Puckett and he was walking right beside her. Another exciting event that happened was when Shelby tried to make a run for it when Jason was walking with her. She made it a little bit up the street but was soon knocked to the ground because Jason caught up and jumped at her feet. After that he tied her up and locked her in a shed. Near the end of the book, Shelby was smart enough to use the batteries from the Walkman and put them in the mini alarm her dad gave her. When she was under the floor boards, Shelby heard some kids coming so she turned on the alarm hoping that they would hear it and save her. The kids heard the alarm because they ran off to go and get help. There was soon a loud crash of the door being knocked to the ground. Shelby started to kick the floor boards so that they would know that she was under the floor. Some shuffling was happening above her as the table was being moved out of the way and the floor board was lifted up. The police officer reached down and helped Shelby out from under the floor board. They drove Shelby home and her family was so excited to see her. When she was inside, to her surprise, Greg was standing there relived that Shelby was ok. Her and Greg made up, said their apologies and got back
she was drunk and called another man to help wake her up and get her
Her windows are barred, the door is locked, and there is even a locked gate at the top of the stairs. While this much is obvious, in my opinion, there is another prison that she is trapped in: her own mind. She is unable to overcome her own seriously disturbed mind. It started out as depression and kept growing until she eventually lost her sanity and her sense of reality. She tried to escape this prison through the writings in her journal but in truth, this just progressed her mental
The story of bodega dreams, written by Ernesto quinonez, shows the theme used by Willie bodega; do the ends justify the means? Even though the out come of the means were a positive result does that really make the means that the outcome was secured by the right way to go? Even the ethical issues of this problem are very great. In history many people’s lives have been taken or destroyed to improve others. Willie bodega sold drugs to fund his little community y to send children to college and help people pay bill. That might extreme but, things like seeing a coworker getting fired that could be some ones way of getting a promotion that they really deserve. The novel seems to suggest that to be successful you will at one point have the step on
Throughout history people have moved to cities where there is promise of a better life. During the Gold Rush people moved westward to become rich from mining, families from all over the United States moved to California to attain this wealth that they were promised. During the roaring twenties people moved to the eastern cities, where there was promise of obtaining wealth really quickly and a promise of happiness. In Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby Nick, the unreliable narrator moves eastward from the Midwest for the promise of a better life. Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s also move eastward from Chicago for the promise of excitement in the eastern cities. Gatsby also moves eastward from Minnesota to achieve a better life style where he could become rich enough to achieve his American Dream. The people in The Great Gatsby try to achieve all of the components of the American Dream, which include; achieving materialistic wealth and emotional happiness. People everywhere from all classes want to achieve the American Dream and are willing to do anything to achieve it even when they are told that they cannot achieve it, Fitzgerald uses setting to show how the characters in his novel are willing to lie and cheat to achieve their American Dream, the setting also exposes the corruption of the people who are trying to achieve the American Dream.
Have you ever wondered why you dream and how you can sometimes direct it? Maybe you have wondered if your dream has any true meaning to it. You are not the only person who has these questions. These questions come up a lot when psychologists discuss the topic of dreaming. The topic of dreams and lucid dreaming has been around for hundreds of years. There have been many books and journals solely devoted to dreams and how they affect people today. The goal for this paper is to answer and explain the questions (Why do you dream? Can you direct your dreams? And do dreams have meanings?) using journals, books, and other resources written by widely known psychologists such as Sigmund Freud.
Dreams have long been a topic of intrigue for artists of all forms. In the literary sense, authors have explored the world of dreams in a plethora of manners, ranging from depicting nonsensical, imaginary worlds to crafting scenes that depict the inner workings of the subconscious mind. In both Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Artist of the Beautiful, the world of dreams is explored through the eyes and thoughts of two curious characters. While Carroll exposes the illogical, absurd elements present in dreams, Hawthorne focuses on the personal, meaningful aspects existing in subconscious thoughts.
Dreams are series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. Dreams occur during a certain stage of sleep known as REM. Several different psychologists, including Freud and Hobson, have studied dreams. Psychologists have provided many theories as to what dreams are and the meanings behind them.
In this paper I hope to open a window to the vast and mysterious world of dreaming. To most people, information about dreams isn’t common knowledge. In researching this subject though, I found that everybody has and reacts to dreams, which are vital to your mental health. You will also find how you can affect your dreams and how they affect you.
In the novel, Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M Coetzee, the magistrate’s progressive, non-linear dreams are a parallel to his growing involvement with the barbarians and his growing distaste for the empire. The great psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud said, “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious.” In every dream there is a hidden meaning and when the reader starts analyzing the magistrate’s dreams he reveals that he is oddly attracted to the barbarians and knows he should not get involved and it will be a trial to get close to them.
For thousands of years humans have experienced a phenomenon which we describe today as dreaming. It has puzzled and sparked interest to all whom experience it. For as long as people have been dreaming, there have been people trying to understand and interpret them. This research paper examines the causation and deeper meaning of dreams. It will compare and contrast the differentiating ideas on the subject by famous psychologists and also examine first-hand accounts from real individuals. The objective of paper is to shed some light on this complex and bizarre behavior.
Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to understand the different functions of the human body, how we move, talk, act, and for the most part many of these physiological behaviors have been explained on some level. However, one area of the human body that has had researchers and scientist confused for a long time is the mind. Many things go on inside the mind that don’t make sense and so far have no tangible explanation of why it occurs and how. One of the most fascinating and mysterious sections of psychology is that of dreaming. We dream thousands of dreams every night, but why and what do they mean?
We go to sleep every night and wake up every morning. I’m sure we can all remember having some sort of dream and wondering about it’s meaning. We can’t really explain what went on in our minds but we still search for some meaning. Some times these dreams bring good sensations, and sometimes bad ones. I’ve heard many things about dreams. My friend once told me about a television show she saw. It was about dreams. I immediately became intrigued because they always amazed me. She told me that there are four stages of sleep. She said that you begin to have dreams when you get to the fourth stage, and at that time you are in the deepest state of sleep. Once during the summer while at the mall my friend and I were walking around and checking out all the cool stores. Suddenly I glanced at a shelf of books, journals, and dictionaries of dreams. I picked up a dictionary, and began to flip through the pages. Soon I realized that I had a dream that boggled my mind a couple days ago. The dream was mainly about snakes, so I looked up snakes in the dictionary. It said that some one I’m very close to would betray me, so I glanced at my friend and told her that she was going to betray me, but she told me that wasn’t the case. We went on with our rampage through the stores, but in the back of my mind I still remembered what I read about my dream. A few days later I got in a fight with my mom because she criticized how I looked, and that looked like betrayal to me. From that point on I began to wonder if dreams could predict the future, but I wasn’t exactly sure. Are dreams really prophecies from the mind, or just some thing going on in your head that’s completely unexplained.
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it”. As the saying goes by William A. Ward. I am sure that you have understood the topic, the topic is, DREAMS. Dreams are nothing but the thoughts and ideas of ones mind. They predict the character of the person. If ones thoughts are good they he/she will see good dreams and if someone’s thoughts are bad they he/she will se bad dreams. From the above line it is clear that dreams are good or bad, intentions of people.