The Masked Gunman - Original Writing
Brandishing a gun he shouted “Give me the money!” at the little shaken
old lady at the band checkout desk. Alarms were screaming like babies
everywhere. Everyone in the bank was scrambling for refuge behind
chairs, desks or whatever they could get their hands on. A small boy
was crying and holding onto his mother as this sick, twisted criminal
put lives in danger for some money. The lady gave him the money and he
fled quickly. Ten seconds later everyone stood up, shaken and the old
lady was trembling behind the desk. The police arrived shortly
afterwards but were too late to trail “the masked gunman" the name by
which he was known to the authority after targeting several local
shops and terrorizing their neighborhoods. “We can’t do anything mam,”
a policeman exclaimed, “We’ll get him next time boys,” he then
announced to his fellow officers before they sped off in their orange
yellow and white patrol cars. Everyone looked at each other in dismay
and couldn’t believe that the police had just left so abruptly.
Perhaps they didn’t understand that if he were approached he would
probably have no mercy of killing an innocent pedestrian or
authoritarian.
“This is the man we need to catch if we want to make this community
safe,” the constable told his fellow officers the next morning. They
all knew that this man was unreachable and no-one knew his identity as
he always wore a black, flame stricken mask whenever he carried out
these brutal robberies he was drawn to. To catch the thief you had to
catch the mask. People’s lives are in danger while he is on the loose
after he escaped from prison last year, after committing an amount of
felonies around England. He has many contacts and could get a man
killed within hours. He was about 6 foot 1” and built like a bulldog,
but that is all they knew of him and he was practically untouchable.
He had a range wide of houses and unregistered cars to his name which
the investigation indicates that the man caught the bait scammers from Lagos who implored him to save the life of a
demand a ransom. The money was to be thrown off a moving train at a
had cash on him and a lot of it. Anytime he needed or wanted something, for example more Jews
revenge on the rebels who had taken everything from him by taking part in the fight against
thing that he could do to people was to, from gaining their trust and making
The poem We Wear the Mask by Paul Dunbar is filled with many powerful statements. Dunbar talks writes about how there is so much hurt behind people’s smiles and so much pain in their past. He also asks why society should be “over-wise;” it tries to act like it knows what is best for people. The play An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has a lot in common with this poem. Nataki Garrett who was the director of this play at the Mixed Blood Theatre saw how well this poem went with the play, and she added it into the program. Both the poem and the play talk about how it was like for African Americans to live in a white dominated society.
The story “A Man Who Was Almost a Man” impacted me the most out of all the stories we’ve read. Dave the "boy" in this story uses a gun to symbolize his becoming of a mature man. Although almost everything Dave did as a seventeen-year-old boy was controlled and monitored by his parents he wanted to prove to them and his surrounding adults that he was a man. The gun to Dave was the easiest way of proving "The type of man he has become". The fact that he ends up buying the gun and shows his maturity of using the gun at a young age shows that everyone should not be judged by their age or looks. Later in the story Dave ends up buying the gun for two dollars to show the significance of how mature he can be, and that he is capable of holding a gun and the power to do so. The symbol of the gun speaks power, manliness,
either a very evil man or he was a pawn under the control of the women
everything he owned. He took refuge in criminal activity, and was sent to prison. His
“Sometimes it’s not the people who change, it is the mask that falls off ” (Unknown). This quote shows that in real life people try to hide imperfections they have by putting on a “mask” that will make them seem flawless. This quote shows that eventually the masks of perfection that people put on, fall off and they are exposed for who they really are. In the the short story, “The Devil and Tom Walker” and the episode of the Twilight Zone, “The Masks” it shows that you can not hide your true self with a mask because eventually that mask will crack and your true self will be shown. This proves that no matter how hard you try to conceal your darker traits, the truth always comes out in the end.
What could he offer to someone to earn a living? Finally, he came to a small
with the criminal and decided to go on a personal crusade to restore individualism to his world.
Top Gun is a 1986 American action drama film, that follows the life of Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. who is an expert United States Naval Aviator. When he encounters a pair of MiGs (russians) over the Persian Gulf, his wingman is clearly outflown and freaks. On almost no fuel, Maverick is able to talk him back down to the carrier. When his wingman turns in his wings, Maverick is moved up in the standings and sent to the Top Gun Naval Flying School. There he fights the attitudes of the other pilots and an old story of his father's death in combat that killed others due to his father's error. Maverick struggles to be the best pilot, stepping on the toes of the other students and in another way to Charlie Blackwood, a civilian instructor
money. Later on he lies to his family saying that he spent his savings and
kill the enemy and be a hero), but he didn't know the reality of it