where the coal barges put in. The larger the town, the more goons were on the roads seen from the river. Passing under the Ambridge to Aliquippa bridge, three bodies splashed into the water near the boat. The convict didn't think they had actually jumped, more like their balance shifted leaning over the railing and over they went. The startled passengers were guns up until they had cleared the bridge. Coraoplis was the next town and Trey only saw the dark line across the water in the distance because he was looking for it. Murphy was the next to see the obstruction, the alerted Illion and Barton stared up river unable to figure it out. The bank robber had an explanation ready when the officers entered the pilot house. "It's a …show more content…
He used the binoculars from a cubby hole to inspect the lock, they had lucked out, the lower gate was open. The power to the propellers was throttled back, since they were now out of the current. Joker appeared in the doorway to find out what was going when he felt the boat slow down. "It's a lock and dam. Keep an eye out for goons." The smaller convict snatched the glasses, without a word, to scan for any hostiles. The ten foot, low head dam was almost impossible to see coming down river. Rarely a summer went by that this fact was not discovered by novice, pleasure boaters until it was too late. Most boats were trapped against the dam, although a few had gone over. There had been some deaths over the years, the back wash below the dam trapped both boats and bodies. "The area looks clear Captain Crunch" Joker said with a laugh. He enjoyed watching his friend sweat bullets, trying to line the rig up with the gates. It was an anticlimax when the pair saw how wide the lock was. The tug barely made headway past the open gates, reversing the props once they were centered in the container. The propellers were used to walk the boat sideways, against the wood beam protected concrete side. The criminals climbed one of the metal ladders, to see about closing the …show more content…
Joker's turn was shorter than the other's. The smaller man had difficulty at the peak of the revolution. Just short of two hours later the gates were fully closed. The thief had found a valve, that once opened, would permit the higher water from above the dam to flow into the lock. The soldiers sat with their feet dangling above the boat, taking a well deserved break. The water level inched up until the level was equal to the outside of the upstream gate. The first of the dead arrived at the fence, at the same time the ordeal of opening the gate commenced. Drawn by the sound of the tug, the goons were walking to where they last heard engine. Joker greeted the zombies that reached the fence single or in pairs. His spear darted through the fence links, piercing the eye sockets. Ripping the tip free before his target collapsed outside the wire. The lady who had taken the trash out, after her husband had forgot on his way to work. The homeless man who sat on a grate, with a blanket around himself to trap the warm air. The teenager that had been dropped of two blocks from his house, after riding around with his friends, who he wasn't supposed to associate with because they were a bad influence. The home owner who had survived the first weeks, the weapon that had run out of ammo when his retreat was breached, still slung around his
By the second torpedo, all the men on The USS Indianapolis were wide awake. Things were starting to go wrong on the USS “Indy.” Flames were venting and all the power h...
A soundtrack is a key role in any movie and subsequently positions viewers to emotionally react, provoking a deeper thought of what is transpiring in the scene, targeting the mood portrayed. Good morning, I’d like to thank you for having me here today, being given the opportunity to provide an Australian musical composition, which is best effective in the selected scene. Sung by the outstanding Australian artist, Sia Furler’s, Breathe Me is a worldwide selling single that alludes to many themes explored in the film, Jasper Jones, such as relationships, and identity. The scene that best fits this song and connects with the viewers on an emotional level, is of Laura running to the woods, where she ultimately ends her life. While the musical composition was originally penned about a drug addiction, the lyrics can be interpreted in many ways, linking impeccably to those in Jasper Jones. I will discuss this through the poetic devices of repetition and symbolism, which I feel are the most powerful in conveying the themes.
The four defendants are members of the Speluncean Society, an organization of people interested in exploring caves. While they were in a position remote from the entrance to the cave, a landslide occurred. Heavy boulders fell in such a manner as to block completely the only known opening to the cave. When the men discovered their predicament they settled themselves near the obstructed entrance to wait until a rescue party should remove the rubbish that prevented them from leaving their underground prison. On the failure of Whetmore and the defendants to return to their homes, the Secretary of the Society was notified by their families. It appears that the explorers had left indications at the headquarters of the Society concerning the location of the cave they proposed to visit. A rescue party was quickly called to the spot.
Life does not always work out the way it should. Sometimes good loses, and the better man is the one begging. The Water is Wide is the story of injustice abounding. While the story may have been more appealing if Pat were able to stay on at Yamacraw Island, and I would certainly have enjoyed it more if the superintendent had been beaten, that story would have been a false picture of reality, worthy only of a children's bedtime collection. I...
As one plank board was removed he fell into this disillusion like a dream or a flashback one could say. Having this foreshadowing, he plunges in the stream and miraculously gets out of the tight ropes cowling his body. It is almost near impossible to get out of the tightly tied rope but then to miss all the gun fire. The gun fire was by a hand full of skilled soldiers on the embankment of the river. After reading this part, something on the extremes is going to happen; from breaking free or to being killed one stays
... the bridge to convince Johnny to get back down. “I’m afraid of the Klan,” he said. Then he surprisingly… just jumped.
In a passage from his book, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, author John M. Barry makes an attempt use different rhetorical techniques to transmit his purpose. While to most, the Mississippi River is only some brown water in the middle of the state of Mississippi, to author John M. Barry, the lower Mississippi is an extremely complex and turbulent river. John M. Barry builds his ethos, uses elevated diction, several forms of figurative language, and different styles of syntax and sentence structure to communicate his fascination with the Mississippi River to a possible audience of students, teachers, and scientists.
Sergeant Walls placed himself behind the motel room as a precaution, while Shanks knocked on the door of room 114 with the other officers. Shanks noticed a woman looking through the blinds from inside the room and he asked if she would open the door and speak with them, she nodded and closed the blinds. For about two minutes, the officers heard things moving around inside...
...wly dropping from the gallows, as the townspeople raised their arms in celebration. Audible drumbeats were played as the bodies went limp, emphasizing the finality of death.
Wes Moore Paper Richelle Goodrich once said, “To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.” In a world submerged in diversity, racism and prejudice it is hard for minorities to get ahead. The novel “The Other Wes Moore” is a depiction of the differences that encouragement and support can make in the life of a child. This novel is about two men, with the same name, from the same neighborhood, that endured very similar adversities in their lives, but their paths were vastly different. In the following paragraphs, their lives will be compared, and analyzed from a sociological perspective.
Jasper Jones is a coming of age novel that the author Craig Silvey has set in 1965, in the small town of Corrigan; thick with secrecy and mistrust. Charlie Bucktin, an innocent boy at the young age of thirteen, has been forced to mature and grow up over a life changing, challenging summer. With a little help from Jasper Jones, Charlie discovers new knowledge about the society and the seemingly perfect town that he is living in, as well as the people that are closest to him. The most important ideas and issues that Craig Silvey portrays in Jasper Jones are: coming of age and identity, injustice and racism. These themes have a great impact on the reader. While discovering and facing these new issues, Charlie and his best friend Jeffrey Lu gain a greater awareness of human nature and how to deal with the challenges that life can throw at you.
Rushing as fast as they can, all of the Gotham Police Department goes for the bomb and they investigate the bomb, but they can’t find it that’s when they know it is a trap. What the officers don’t know is that the joker has put bombs at each end of the railroad tracks where the cops are at. The chief of the department yells as loud as he can “Run its a trap.” Right before anyone could leave the Joker blows up both of the bombs and the police department gets stuck underground.
The crew prepares to invade the ship and take all of it’s gold. It would be weeks before anyone notices that the gold didn’t make it to it’s destitation; being out in the middle of the Pacific.
Most of the men who survived the collapse, who were not injured didn’t go home, instead they joined fireman and police, and men from neighbouring factories who’d raced down to the Bridge to help. Picking up shovels and crowbars, and sledgehammers, digging through rocks and rumble, cutting through steel beams with oxygen torches, they tried to untangle the mess. They went out on the police dinghies to search the river. They dived under the fallen concrete and iron. The sludge and mud clung to them, coating their skin, weighing them down, making it difficult for them to breathe, to keep their eyes open, to find the bodies of their mates and pull them out of the river.
When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This man was not dying, he was alive just as we were alive. (Orwell, 108)